20 November 2014 - Granite Grok

November 20, 2014

#ShirtGate 2 – The Pavlich Provocation

#ShirtGate #ShirtStorm , whatever hashtag you prefer, columnist, author, and pundit Katie Pavlich is coming right back at you with her own ‘sexist’ print shirt tweet.   Okay, now that's an offensive shirt! #Shirtgate #Shirtstorm #breaktheinternet http://t.co/wF9bTYYkuv — Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) November 20, 2014

Data Point – the wealthy

From CNN (reformatted, emphasis mine): 211,275 people who have more than $30 million in net assets in 2014 – a 6% increase (12,040 ) 183,810 are men and just 27,465 are women. 68% of the men were self-made compared to 34% of women 13% of men fully inherited their wealth, whereas 48% of ultra wealthy women …

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Who is Jonathan Gruber and why this is important?

Right now at the national level, there are two things driving the Right blogosphere: Jonathan Gruber and Obama’s extra-Constitutional Amnesty granting.  Neither of which have we been commenting on – frankly, we’ve adopted the “screw DC – save NH” outlook and our posting with the elections here in NH has shown that.  But while NH …

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Minimum Wage? (Fixed Video)

The Gruberette’s in the Democrat party are constantly pushing a minimum wage increase which ill serves those they claim to care about (That’s the Grubering part), while advantaging unions from whom they reap so much politically.  So they lie outright and by exclusion. Government wage fixing harms low income workers while often driving up union …

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O’Brien Win Theory

Steve Vaillancourt has a few theories over at NH Insider about why Bill O’Brien won the vote for Speaker yesterday.  I found them interesting, figured I’d share a few.. Theory 2—An Republican Rep inside the caucus told me what I’ve suspected all along, that Shawn Jasper, R-Hudson, cost Chandler a handful of votes, certainly enough …

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