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‘Grok Endorsement – NH Congressional District #2

The ‘Grok is a conservative blog – no doubt about it.  The philosophy that drives us includes individual responsibility, limited government, free markets,adherence to the Rule of Law and property rights, and an open and transparent government that is frugal with taxpayer money. Government can not, and should not, try to be all things to …

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Your tax dollars literally up in smoke!

Is this in the US? Nope! Over at CNSNews, I see that our lovely bureaucrats love our money that they are literally letting it go up in smoke – in foreign countries: U.S. Spends $1 Million Researching Syrians ‘Hooked on Hookahs’ ‘Hoookah,’ ‘nargile,’ ‘hubbly-bubbly’ — all names for the waterpipe, a smoking instrument typically found …

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Guest Post: Only one question need be asked of homosexual behavior…

Warning: Some of the supportive material in the following post is somewhat graphic, and definitely not for small children. Let this be a note of caution as to what medical conditions we’ll be enabling subsidizing paying for should we adopt universal healthcare as a nation… (although we probably already pay for much of it, now that I think about …

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Welfare Reform after Ten Years: New Hampshire Fails to “End Welfare as We Know it”

Our friend Karen Testerman at Cornerstone Policy Research sends the following sad news about opportunity lost here in the Granite State: New state-by-state survey ranks, grades states by the successof their anti-poverty efforts and by the reform policies they adopted When President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, …

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False hopes about energy. “The disconnect is really profound.”

  . ….. At one point during the last blogger conference call with representatives from the oil and gas industry (American Petroleum Institute-API), the conversation shifted to the amount of lead time needed from proposal to study, drill, and bring product to market and whether, in the face of promised new alternatives, it was even …

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Sounds like OUR kind of Republican – pointing fingers regardless of the party

There are times that Doug and I are not always all that welcome within Republican circles locally.  Why?  We act out of and on top of principles; simple – walk the talk.  If you SAY you are FOR limited government, just don’t talk about it – fight against legislation and regulations that grow it.  If …

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“Pig in a Poke”– Some facts about oil company leases from the US government

. As noted in this prior post, I recently participated in a bloggers’ conference call with oil and gas industry experts from the American Petroleum Institute (API). While I highly recommend listening to the entire podcast or reading the entire transcript here, I thought I’d post the section with the discussion about the existing oil …

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