7 October 2014 - Granite Grok

October 7, 2014

NH GOP – sending a Ransom Note about the unrevised NH GOP Platform ? Part 2

Subtitle choices: Some Work – Oh gosh, it is just SO hard to update about 50 or so words – stop fidgeting, children! Preoccupied – The gang that can’t chew gum and type straight? Understandable – Don’t you understand that YOUR changes will hurt OUR candidates so we aren’t gonna put it up before the …

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NH GOP – sending a Ransom Note about the unrevised Platform? Part 1

Trust.  Small word but with large implications and I’ve been writing about and around it for a few months now as it does matter.  Maybe not to our elected leaders much any more, or the Political Class of staffers, talking head pundits, and political operatives that make their livings all within the bubble of politics, …

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Middle Class First Bus Tour? More Like Middle Class Last.

Is there something wrong with your rhetoric when only your paid protesters manage to take any interest? NASHUA – A pre-election push for a pro-Democrat platform came to Nashua in a big way Monday with the arrival of a Middleclassfirst.com bus tour at the Nashua Public Library. The 45-foot-long bus began a 18- state tour …

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The Next ‘IRS Scandal’?

The next ‘IRS Scandal’? “…either Austan Goolsbee, a senior adviser to Obama, made up a smear of Koch Industries out of whole cloth, or else Obama’s IRS allowed the White House illegal access to confidential taxpayer data for political purposes. That’s a crime for which at least two people should go to jail.” Powerline H/T …

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“I think we have more to fear from excessive faith in Govt than from too little”

I watched this yesterday and George Will (his words above) absolutely nailed it – those that believe everywhere they look are nails for their Government hammer.  One entity cannot do everything, and it certainly can’t do everything well.  Look at the news that HP is about to split itself into two parts – far larger …

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Trust – and Progressives lament that people won’t Trust Big Govt. Yet Another Example why

From Bearing Arms, this story of how Govt uses its Power to Crush on a person that simply knew the Law – and they didn’t: Bullies have certain personality traits. Most are very insecure. They like to prey upon those that they feel are weaker than they are. They have long memories and thin skins, …

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Why Alton Nolen Is A Bad Poster Boy For Islamic Jihad

Watching the usual suspects (weaselly defense attorneys and Islamic sympathizers) arguing on Hannity this Friday, it struck me that Alton Nolen is the wrong guy to hang your hat on when discussing Islamic Terror/Jihad vs Workplace Violence. Despite the distraught pleas of his family that Alton was a gentle, well-mannered, boy, always polite, brought up …

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