3 March 2016 - Granite Grok

March 3, 2016

“The New Hampshire Health Protection Plan is the largest corporate welfare scheme in New Hampshire history”

There is a great Editorial in the Union Leader today on why Health Care giants support extending expanded Medicaid in New Hampshire: It’s a taxpayer-backed gold mine for them. We “subsidizes mediocre health insurance plans for low-income able-bodied adults without children” and the Health Care giants get paid. Plus, there’s no guarantee it will save people paying for …

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So whom will stonewall whom?

Shot: Stonewall: State Dept may not finish review of Top Secret Clinton emails until after election One of the last issues to be resolved after all of Hillary Clinton’s emails are released is what to do about the Top Secret ones which the public will never see. The obvious question for the FBI to deal …

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Blogline of the Day – yep, we’re a monotonous bunch

From the beginning, this vandalism and arson incident has seemed… odd. Open carry supporters are sometimes acerbic, and sometimes get arrested in incidents of civil disobedience, but with one notable exception, they are typically monotonously law-abiding. Actually, living here in NH, open carry is no big deal – if you can own a firearm, you …

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Data Point – Do tell – Primary exit polling vis-a-vis the Republican Party

Those voting in the Republican Party Primary dish (diss?) on the GOP: Angry Republicans turned out to vote in the South Large numbers of Republicans across the board said they felt “betrayed” by their party, with almost 6 in 10 feeling that way in Georgia and Alabama, and 1 in 2 feeling that way in …

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Dr. Ben Carson’s statement

Actually, we may see for the first time, a candidate’s “halfway pregnant”; below is the official statement from Dr. Ben Carson that Mike alluded to here.  The problem is that while he will not be in tomorrow night’s GOP debate and says that he can’t win, he HASN’T formally “suspended” his campaign.  So the resulting questions …

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