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More Guns, Less Crime. Again…

April 30, 2008

Florida, like New Hampshire, allows citizens the right to carry concealed firearms. Would-be criminals never really know who’s packing and who is not. The Palm Peach Post reports on a recent incident at a West Palm Beach supermarket: Grant was a daily customer who’d never been a problem, said Hernandez, who manages the large supermarket at [ Read more ]

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How dare those voters take ability to pay into consideration when they vote!

April 30, 2008

"Communication breakdown?" Regular readers know that when it comes to funding government during tough fiscal times, we favor spending reductions over tax increases. (Heck, we feel that way even when the economy’s good…) With the advent of the Official Ballot form of government– or, as it’s better known, "SB2"– voters in NH towns that have [ Read more ]

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Doubleplus ungood? Or ….or…will they make up their minds?

April 29, 2008

Oy, here we go again.  What is up, is down. What is left is right.  What is right is wrong. And only the Eco-wackos are right.  All the snow we had this year (our local area broke the historical record for snow stretching back to 1873) is blamed on global warming (oy, again!). Well, at [ Read more ]

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Economics – explained plainly – and why government doesn’t care

April 29, 2008

Over at WhizBang is one of the best plain spoken treatises on economics that I have read.  While I have excerpted key parts, go and read the whole thing. It taught me one thing: I saw exactly why government should be allowed to take our money but ONLY uner our watchful eyes: First, let’s start [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Daniel Webster

April 28, 2008

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." – Daniel Webster

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Endangered species sighting: An elected Republican in the Granite State that actually seeks to implement core Republican principles.

April 27, 2008

As we face uncertain economic times here in New Hampshire, there is one politician that stands head and shoulders above all others: Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta. Unlike many of his fellow elected Republicans who have apparently hunkered down, not wishing to make too many "waves" headed into an election year, Guinta is providing the type of [ Read more ]

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Bloggers to get protection – if we support it!

April 26, 2008

GraniteGrok is obviously a political blog – we write a lot about a lot of things – but a lot of what we do relates to politics.  Much of what we do is is opinion; some of it is original investigative reporting, but a lot of politics. Why?  Politics is how society decides how government [ Read more ]

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Sign on the dotted line….for a gas tax moratorium!

April 26, 2008

As we discussed on Meet The New Press today with Tim Cameron, Senator McCain has opined that in light of the high gas prices, a moratorium on the collection of Federal gas taxes (currently about 18 cents a gallon, 24 cents on diesel) would be a great idea. Well, after the show, I ran across [ Read more ]

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NHAC Ramping up to spin spending down

April 26, 2008

Spending cap initiative A conservative group is coordinating efforts in four cities to cap municipal spending at the rate of the consumer price index beginning in 2010. The New Hampshire Advantage Coalition is working with activists in Manchester, Concord, Merrimack and Rochester to put proposed changes to those communities’ municipal charters on the ballot in [ Read more ]

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Sure, it’s OK when it’s somebody ELSE’S money!

April 26, 2008

I have put this under Culture rather than Plain Politics, because this story from Blue Hampshire shows that there IS a culture chasm between Liberals and Conservatives.  Once in a while, I go and take a look at the "the other side" – in this case, our "opposite number in the blogosphere here in NH [ Read more ]

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Glass Houses…..stones……

April 26, 2008

   Over at NH Insider was the following press release from the NH GOP Chair, Fergus Cullen:  CONCORD – Fergus Cullen, Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party issued the following statement today: “The wallets of Granite State residents are getting killed at the pump these days, but Barack Obama doesn’t seem to mind. Even [ Read more ]

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A couple of tid-bits for the DEVOUT global warmers!

April 25, 2008

    A very lucid entry – I’d suggest that you toodle on over and take a peek.  Main Points To Share: The world has been warming since approximately 1650 when it reached its latest low and almost dipped into a modern Ice Age.  This episode is well-recorded and notable for its misery as crop [ Read more ]

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Get over it….that’s what the Dems want us to do…

April 22, 2008

I keep hearing that Obama is all about change, all about a different kind of politics, of uniting us all and will bring a new way of doing business in Washington.  Sorry, Charlie, I’m not buying it.  Once the curtain has been stripped off the stage, all that is left is the same old Democratic [ Read more ]

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Biting the hands that feed. SEIU on the attack…

April 21, 2008

For the nearly two years that GraniteGrok has been open for business, we have written a fair amount about the ongoing union assault on successful American companies like Wal-Mart. We have covered both the philisophical questions raised by such tactics in a free-market society as well as exactly who comprises the instigators behind such ongoing attacks. [ Read more ]

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Why?

April 21, 2008

What WOULD Thomas Jefferson think? . What happens when a group of twenty US citizens celebrates the ideas of Jefferson by silently dancing by his memorial for ten minutes? Arrests. And we think we’re a liberty-loving people?  

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Notable Quotes – NOT! 4/20/08

April 20, 2008

Heh!  Dilbertisms! Methinks productivity is going to is going to experience a sharp downward trend for a while…. "As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday, and employees will receive their cards in two weeks."  (This was the winning quote from [ Read more ]

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President Bush on why free trade with Colombia matters

April 20, 2008

Given the potential for mischief in South America posed by  the anti-American strongman Hugo Chavez, we need to nurture our relationships with countries in the region that tend to lean in our direction. Included in that list is Colombia, which, unfortunately, the Democrats led by Speaker Pelosi, have decided is unworthy of enhanced free trade [ Read more ]

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NH Dems – death by a thousand (tax) cuts

April 19, 2008

Notice the following pattern – a death by a THOUSAND cuts (or dollar bills in this case)….just to show that NONE of it will be sufficient to put in a broad based tax.  Yup, we Dems have created a crisis for which the only answer is MORE of YOUR money! Sure, LET’S use the taxpayers [ Read more ]

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GOP Rising, Part 2: Taking a stand– It’s the spending!

April 18, 2008

In another example of Republicans showing some fight by stepping out front and center on issues at the local level that will hopefully resonate with regular folks the next time they vote for their leaders, the Manchester Republican Committee has weighed in on that city’s budget situation. As I noted in GOP Rising Part 1, there [ Read more ]

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Democrat’s view of the tax code? A club

April 17, 2008

I’ve said it before and will probably say it again – and Obama proved it last night EASILY!  THey do not use the tax code to merely bring revenues into the Federal Treasury.  They use it to manupulate our behavior, plain and simple. They also use it to PUNISH their citizens with which they deem [ Read more ]

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