1 February 2016 - Granite Grok

February 1, 2016

Clinton Planned to Bypass State Department Security ‘From Day 1’

Plans For Hidden IT Network To Help Clinton Skirt Rules Uncovered by Judicial Watch Judicial Watch |In the email chain, Lewis Lukens, former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the secretariat, responds to a request from Mills by informing her, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and Kennedy that the new personal computer “in …

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Trump’s Kryptonite?

Washington Examiner By far, the most bothersome bit of information tested (by the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll) about either candidate (Trump or Cruz): “Donald Trump supports the use of eminent domain to take private property for public or private projects, with compensation to the landowners.” Presented with this information, 60 percent of Republican voters said …

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Sandown Separation Article Survives Town Meeting – Will Appear on Ballot

A warrant article question survived the deliberative process in the town of Sandown, New Hampshire this past Saturday. To paraphrase, “Do the Sandown voters want to begin the process of getting out from under the tyrannical boot of the Earl of Metzler to form a separate school district?” Or maybe you’d prefer this version.

Cruz Calms Farmer Angry About Proposed Ethanol Subsidy Rollback

Sooper Mexican |  You can sense how angry the farmer is, but Cruz employs his impressively deep knowledge of the subject to explain calmly why his policies will HELP farmers, even though he’ll phase out the government subsidy. Maybe the farmer was just being nice at the end, but he went from total anger to …

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Carter Will Beat Reagan 58 to 40

GOP doomsayers have not changed much in 36 years. Back in 1980 the “establishment” was convinced that only Gerry Ford could beat Carter, and that Ronald Reagan would lose.  

ICYMI – January 30th, 2016 Podcast

ICYMI – Chrissy Harbin from AFP joins us to talk EPA overreach, David McIntosh – President of Club for Growth on Trump vs. Conservatism, Aaron Day on the Medicaid Expansion, Sen. Bob Smith on Sen. Ted Cruz, and introducing the NH Income Tax Calculator.

Perverse Tax Incentives

In part II of our conversation with Emily Sandblade and Susan Olsen we discuss the perverse tax incentives behind expanding Medicaid in NH, like how it will favor residents who work outside the state over those who stay and work in New Hampshire. (Part I) (Full broadcast)

“Hospitals and insurers who benefit from the NHHPP have agreed to make voluntary contributions in order that the NHHPP be reauthorized.” – Jeb Bradley

That would be NH State Senator Jeb Bradley (and I wonder what NH State Rep Joe LaChance thinks of this?).  Boy, he’s turning into being the Poster Boy for Crony Capitalism – on the Government side.  Of COURSE they will give “voluntary” contributions.  He certainly can’t call them payoffs for his other bill that essentially …

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NH State Rep Joe LaChance: “I will EXPOSE YOU!”. Guess he wants to be the next

Al Litizio and Dennis Senibaldi.  Remember, they started whimpering like feral curs after they attacked fellow Grokster Kimberly (as well as threatening GraniteGrok with legal proceedings).  We don’t cotton to that much around here.  As the Knight Templar said in Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail: “He [they] chose poorly”.  Now someone else has made the …

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Blog Irony of the Day: forget the “a dollar short and a day late” schtick

We’re in the BEST of hands! New House Task Force Considers Push Against Presidential Overreach House Republicans have put together a team to address what they consider unauthorized expansion of presidential power. In coming months, the Task Force on Executive Overreach will explore how Congress can begin to reassert its legislative authority.  But it’s not …

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