14 July 2014 - Granite Grok

July 14, 2014

It’s July So Yes, Someone Wants To Ban Fireworks in NH

Every year hundreds of thousands of ’rounds’ of fireworks are discharged in New Hampshire–or elsewhere after having been purchased in New Hampshire–by regular folk hoping to make their celebration special.  You can hear them in your neighborhoods, sometimes well past 10 or 11 pm, all through July, and quite often throughout the year. Fireworks can …

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Nothing interests me this morning.  That is not to say that there is nothing of interest.  I am simply unmoved to remark on any of it….yet. Have a funny instead…

Defund the Federal Highway Fund and return the responsibility (and costs) back to the States.

From Weekend Pundit: David Starr comments on the Federal Highway Trust Fund, its original purpose, and how it is now being used for anything but maintaining our highways. He also has some suggestions about dealing with it now that the money is running dry. Better, would be to shut down the Highway Trust Fund altogether.  Lay …

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GrokTALK! July 12th, 2014 – Senator Bob Smith

This week on GrokTALK! our first guest is Senator Bob Smith, candidate for US Senate in New Hampshire.  We talk about getting the message to the voters who aren’t ‘in the choir,’ principles, values, the stark differences on the left and right, being a platform Republican, out-of-control bureaucrats, and Senator Smith even weighs in on …

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