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August 5, 2014

GrokTALK! Aug 2nd, 2014 With Ann Corcoran – Refugee Resettlement Watch

Next Up on GrokTALK! Ann Corcoron from Refugee Resettlement Watch joins us to tell us how she got involved in blogging about “non-profits” and contractors working quietly with the government to bring refugees into communities without alarming local taxpayers.  We touch on community and citizen rights with regard to transparency, and ultimately who or how …

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There’s a storm brewing in Manchester and again Common Core is the epicenter

As reported by Rich Girard on “Girard At Large” yesterday, the state battle over Common Core continues in Manchester.    Since the Curriculum and Instruction Committee (C&I) decided to approve what they claim to be “better standards” over Common Core and push forward to a vote by the Manchester School Board, there has been controversy about whether they are …

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CA Democrat Reaches Across the Aisle All The Way To Germany?

Something that is not mentioned often enough in the age of wait lists and ailing vets: New Hampshire Congressperson Ann Kuster sits on the Veterans Affairs Committee, and more specifically–on the subcommittee on health which has direct oversight of….the VA.  (cue Light bulb and ‘Ding’ noise) But I do not come here today, at this …

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NH-DOT Transportation Czar Defends Gas Tax Increase

The NH Department of Transportation Czar, Christopher Clement Sr., took some time (and taxpayer money) out of his otherwise busy day, to give us his thoughts on the 4.2 cent gas tax increase.  It is titled, Fueling the Gas Tax Discussion.  Minister Clement advises us to be wary of political ads bearing false witness–that is …

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DoS Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Permission – Apparently

During this last legislative session, bills antithetical to civilian firearms ownership were all killed. Some died before they were even drafted, some only at the last possible opportunity, but dead nevertheless. Either way, what’s important is that the gun control crowd led by Governor Hassan lost every bid to restrict our rights. We thought we …

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Data Point – homicides per 100,000 people

Hmmm, so WHERE are all those gun deaths in NH in that illustration that demands that Democrats keep on taking guns away from lawful people?  It’s like there’s hardly any there….just the ghost of an image… (H/T: Modern Survival Blog)  

Data Point – Most of the illegal alien kids are not “kids”; Democrats want them to stay

From HHS: On average between 7.000 and 8,000 children are served annually in this program.  In Fiscal Year 2012 (October 1, 2011 – Septmber 30, 2012), this number jumped dramatically, with a total of 13,625 children served by ORR that year.  Since that time, the overall increas has continued, resulting in 24,668 UAC referrals from …

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Democrats hate “Washington Redskins” but embrace Andrew Jackson – the real “Indian Killer”

Remember here, the Leftist activists and the hoi-polloi of the Democrat elite solons (e.g., Reid, Pelosi, and others of the Cultural Marxist (more the Marxist, notably)) that have decried their outrage they have (faux as it is) for any of those “racists” that believes that the Washington Redskins and Chief Wahoo mascot of the Cleveland Indians …

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