6 October 2017 - Granite Grok

October 6, 2017

Breaking: Carol Shea Porter Will Retire After this Term (And there was much rejoicing…)

New Hampshire Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter will stop running for Congress at the end of this term. Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, the first woman elected to Congress from New Hampshire, said Friday she’s retiring at the end of her term. Shea-Porter, 64, said in a statement that “the time has come in my life to pause and …

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Trump Rolls Back Obama Contraceptive Mandate

The Trump Administration has just eliminated the ObamaCare contraceptive mandate. The Trump administration said Friday it will let a vast universe of employers duck Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate by claiming a religious or moral objection, a long-awaited move that will enthuse pro-life conservatives and enrage advocates who say women’s rights to birth control are being threatened.

Wolves Against Central Planning

Wolves make the case against central planning, that is against Socialism and pretty much all the -isms that leave Leftist priapistic. As is usually the case when the government, or anyone really, gets involved in something in which it has no business, but is arrogantly confident of its positive affects on things, the unforeseen and …

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Slide Fires and Slippery Slopes

“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.”  -Andrew Johnson Slide Fires and Slippery Slopes. And, the slippery slope is  at our door once again. About 96 hours ago, yet another maniac shot up a public …

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Data Point – The Letter networks really hate Trump

These six topics accounted for two-thirds of the administration’s TV news profile in September. While the North Korea crisis received the most attention, this was also the topic with the fewest evaluative comments — just 20 during nearly an hour of coverage — which translates into a large percentage of neutral coverage. I will agree …

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Data Point – headed south

Mexico, which takes in more remittances than any other Latin American country by a wide margin, will likely receive $30.5 billion from the Mexican diaspora living abroad — 6.5 percent more than it did in 2016. About 95 percent of Mexico’s annual remittance haul comes from the U.S., according to Mexican bank BBVA Bancomer. Build that …

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