27 May 2015 - Granite Grok

May 27, 2015

Poll: 71 Percent of Granite Staters oppose pistol license law in NH

Yesterday the Women’s Defense League of New Hampshire (The League) released poll results that clearly show Granite Staters are not happy with the current pistol license law. Susan Olsen, Legislative Director for The League spoke at a press conference in the Legislative Office Building yesterday and explained the original intent of the law – discrimination. …

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“Immanentize the eschaton”

“For the secular leftist, the end state is social and necessarily political. It is all about getting everybody else on board and herding them into his imagined utopia. There are so many “problematic” aspects of life that need to be reengineered, so many vast social systems that need to be overthrown and replaced. But the …

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The University Diversity Scam

Watch this then go figure out a) how much the State University system is wasting while they cry about public support and tuition rate, and b) how much of that $11 million in additional dollars the State Senate just added to the UNH budget could go to this kind of nonsense.

What ‘Bottom’ Is Senator Jeff Woodburn Suggesting We “Pinch.”

The New Hampshire State Senate has proposed language to lower the Business Enterprise Tax and the Business profits Tax beginning in 2017.  The proposed change would reduce the BPT by 0.4% and the BET by 0.075% (in total) by the end of 2019, but can we even call this “flirting” with tax reform? Don’t get …

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“Corrupt. Ruinous. Unstable”

“Cooperative” federalism is supposed to come from Congress and federal statutes. However, practically nothing comes from Congress these days. The legislature is notoriously divided. It lacks the financial resources to rope recalcitrant states in new federalism bargains (witness the ACA), and it cannot even revisit the bargains embedded in old statutes (such as education programs or the …

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The “professional” NH press will not pee in its own soup

Awaiting arraignment at 8:30 AM, June 22, in Concord District Court, New Hampshire/Wisconsin voter Carl Robert Gibson is probably having a laugh at the expense of all of us lesser beings. Carl Robert Gibson is a smart guy. He gets away with all kinds of what the Concord Monitor call “pranks”. No “professional” news organization …

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