13 April 2016 - Granite Grok

April 13, 2016

Fight for 15 Still not About Wages. Not Exactly

California is at the forefront of government interfering with the value of labor. The Fight for 15 campaign, lead primarily by unions, has succeeded in pushing up wages for some but not because anyone really cares about wages. Unionized hotel employees, as but one example, don’t get the hike — but non-union hotel employees do. Owners of …

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Why Maggie Hassan Had to Know About The Sex Scandal

Maggie Hassan was “unemployed” in 2011 when the Phillips Exeter Academy Schubart sexual child-abuse scandal was at its peak. By that, I mean, between elected offices. She had a lot more free time. Time that could have included conversations about a teacher who had engaged in inappropriate sexual relationships with students on her husband’s campus. …

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Some Little-known Facts about Abortion in New Hampshire

Don’t you think collecting abortion statistics is matter of public health? NH is one of only three states that does not report abortion statistics to the CDC. In this segment guest-host Ellen Kolb leads a conversation about stalled efforts to change that, the Republican-lead legislature’s opposition to life, and some little-known facts about abortion in …

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“I Should Have Known Better”

They didn’t come here to assimilate. When it comes to querying the benefits to the west of semi-Islamization, Trevor Phillips packs more of a punch than most of us. First, he’s black, which shouldn’t matter but does. Second, he’s the former head of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, one of those identity-group grievance bodies …

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