March 2017 - Granite Grok

March 2017

Palate Cleanser: who doesn’t like a big BANG to end the week?

“What happens when a 200-ton boulder slides onto the road, completely blocking traffic? Well, absent Paul Bunyan, you have to blow that up, just to show Nature who’s boss. Which is precisely what the Oregon Department of Transportation did yesterday near the small town of Glide. The Oregonian posted video footage of the explosion on …

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Update From Cornerstone Action

Good News! HB 103 Passed In Senate; Next Stop: Governor Sununu! House Bill 103 is on its way to the Governor’s desk. The measure calls on school districts to develop policies to give parents advance notice of course material concerning human sexuality. You can call the Governor’s office at (603) 271-2121 and urge him to …

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“School Budgets: Getting Ahead of the Curve”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “School Budgets: Getting Ahead of the Curve” a school budgeting workshop April 22 hosted by the School District Governance Association of New Hampshire Featured Guest Speaker: Peter Bragdon Past President of the New Hampshire State Senate, past Executive Director of NH HealthTrust Concord, NH March 30, 2017 – Across the state, Budget …

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Notable Quote – Kurt Schlichter

From a column at Townhall: “Nuke’em til they glow” (emphasis mine): …But this is more than just about the filibuster getting filibusted. If we had a political culture that respected and expected a judge’s proper role, then we wouldn’t care so much what a nominee to the Supreme Court personally thought because we could be …

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Mexico building the Wall? These CongressCritters are too easy

President Trump has often said that Mexico would pay for the Wall where the purpose is to stop (or at least, slow down) illegal immigration on our Southern border.  He’s consistently held to this even as everyone else has either bashed the idea (the Open Borders addicts, “the establishment”, or the illegal alien apologists) or rolled …

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Peter Lemiska: A common sense analysis of sanctuary cities

By Peter Leminska The refugees and immigrants who come to America to escape poverty and oppression need safe haven.  The vast majority of them are good, hardworking people, and how they get here is unimportant.  Compassion for immigrants overrides federal immigration laws. That represents a basic tenet of the liberal mindset, the force behind sanctuary …

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BlogTweet of the Day – who to blame from a life-long Democrat

Heh! “In a message posted to his Twitter page Wednesday, Schneider illustrated how U.S. voters had been rejecting Democrats and voting them out of power long before the 2016 election.” https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/847121599564169216 (H/T: Big Hollywood)

NH Arts Advocates Losing NEA Money Should Ask The Clintons for Cash

Donald Trump’s budget removes taxpayers from mandatory tithing to the National Endowment for the Arts. Arts advocates in New Hampshire are preparing to mobilize to fight for the one million they stand to lose. But since it’s just a million, why not ask the Clinton’s for it instead? They were huge supporters of the often …

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