New Hampshire

This Week on GrokTALK!

May 18, 2013

Dr. Julianne Cooper returns to discuss  ADHD and other coding of children, and we’ll discuss the drugs used to ‘dumb down’ our students. The Honorable Jenn Coffey  will visit to talk about stand your ground in NH, knife rights, up coming blade shows in Atlanta and more. And Ann Marie Banfield from Cornerstone Policy Research [ Read more ]

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Shaheening – 501(c)(4) For Me But Not For Thee?

May 17, 2013

Shaheening; to be Shaheend: Named after our soon to be former New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, defined as either applying political pressure against the same thing you are simultaneous hoping to take advantage of for yourself, or being the victim of the pressure applied. Ex: While New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen and her Senate allies [ Read more ]

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Guest Post: Ken Eyring – Will Senate Bill 11 Confiscate Control of ALL NH Waters?

May 15, 2013

On May 22nd, the NH House of Representatives will vote on Senate Bill 11.  It was written to enable Exeter and Stratham to jointly form a water/sewer district — but that capability already exists in State RSA Chapters 53-A, 33-B, 38, and 36.  These RSAs enabled the creation of the Merrimack Valley Regional Water District [ Read more ]

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A new Free State Project video explains all….

May 15, 2013

Send this around to all your friends: The following video is about the Free State Project, a movement filled with good people who will eventually move to New Hampshire. It also features an underlying theme of…

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US News.com Says Jeanne Shaheen Pressured IRS

May 15, 2013

Not exactly a bastion of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, US News connects the dots between public rhetoric and policy efforts by Democrat Senators that specifically mention right wing groups, with the ongoing partisan actions taken by the IRS against conservative and TEA party groups. From “Senate Democrats pushed for Tea party snooping before criticizing it…” [ Read more ]

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Boo Hoo Hamster Can Finally Write Something about the DOJ – AP Story

May 15, 2013

Last night Skip observed that the progressive mouthpiece for the Democrat blogosphere in New Hampshire (Bleu Hampshire) had been awfully quiet given all the newsy tid-bits peppering the interwebs.  Nothing to report on Benghazi, The IRS, HHS, DOJ seizing AP phone records, dead Americans, failed Middle East policy…nothing. But there is good news. Blue Hamster has leave to react [ Read more ]

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I wonder if…

May 15, 2013

I wonder if anyone in the New Hampshire Democrat Party Political Machine had unathorized access to illegally obtained IRS infromation during the 2012 campaign, or at any point after the 2010 election cycle? Just a question.

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NH US Senator Jeanne Shaheen: on Both Sides of the IRS “Targeting Tea Party Groups”

May 14, 2013

New Hampshire US Senator Jeanne Shaheen on Feb 16th, 2012 (In a letter she signed and sent to the head of the IRS requesting they investigate 501(c)(4)’s in the run up to the 2012 elections) “We write to inquire if the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is investigating or intends to investigate whether groups designated as “social welfare” organizations, and thus receiving [ Read more ]

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Guest Post: Vote NO on HB 664, a NH Vaccine Tax Assessment

May 14, 2013

From Laura Condon - Vote NO on HB 664, a NH Vaccine Tax Assessment  (via Facebook) There is a little-known vaccine tax assessment bill, HB 664 an act relative to the NH Vaccine Association working its way through the NH legislature that will impose a new, limitless tax assessment on every self-insured business and municipality in [ Read more ]

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Facebook Doodlings…How To Treat Your “Republicans”

May 14, 2013

If you are a Republican in New Hampshire the official party response to Stella Tremblay’s “opinion” (regardless of your opinion about her opinion) is a stark reminder of how you will be treated by them, regardless of your value to the parties so-called political goals (the platform). I mention it only because of a relatively recent [ Read more ]

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Whatever Happened to HB 330?

May 13, 2013

A reader wrote me and said 1) the only info he could find on HB 330 was my post from February and 2) whatever happened with the bill? HB 330 was (at that time) the latest effort from New Hampshire Democrats at a backdoor broad-based income tax.  Democrat Reps Burridge and Robertson, of Cheshire County, proposed [ Read more ]

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A New Hampshire Democrat Accounting Trick – Explained

May 13, 2013

In years past the New Hampshire Democrats have taken to all kinds of foolish ideas to hide the truth about their blinkered incompetence when it comes to managing other peoples money.  Here is but one example to give you some perspective. Let’s say my wife and I ran our budget like New Hampshire Democrats and [ Read more ]

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URGENT! HELP STOP COMMON CORE

May 13, 2013

From Doris Hohensee c/o Facebook URGENT! HELP STOP COMMON CORE Manchester Board of Education meets at 7pm this evening (Monday, May 13th) at City Hall.  NH DoE Chief of State and Director of Instruction, Heather Gage, will be making an emergency presentation to the school board on Common Core. Remember how it was inappropriate for [ Read more ]

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The Return of The Bride of The Son of SB 11 [Date of vote confirmed]

May 13, 2013

New Hampshire Senate Bill 11 will get a formal vote in the House this week, according to a post at CNHT.org.   The post states the full vote is May 22, but was sent to me with an update: the vote will be held this Wednesday, May 15th. (Note: We received confirmation.  The vote is Wednesday [ Read more ]

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May 11th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Kevin Bloom & NH House Rep George Lambert

May 12, 2013

Kevin Bloom returns to update us on HB 399 (Indefinite Detention), HB253 (The Nanobrewery Bill), Medical Marijuana, and other legislative news.  House Rep George Lambert joins Kevin with some thoughts on these bills and how the House and Senate could come to terms on these and other pieces of legisaltion as the session begins to [ Read more ]

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May 11th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Jack Kimball

May 12, 2013

Jack Kimball from the Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC, former NH-GOP Chairman and former candidate for Governor of New Hampshire, drops by to talk about Benghazi, cover-ups, the press conference held by the family of members of Seal Team Six, and the events surrounding the Seals combat deaths. Listen Here Download the segment with Jack [ Read more ]

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May 11th GrokTALK! Segment One – Steve, Mike, and Greg Moore Arrives Early…

May 12, 2013

Mike and Steve start the segment with the IRS admitting that they targeted Conservative and TEA Party groups but once Greg Moore, the state director for AFP-NH arrives early, they move on to the proposed 67% Gas Tax increase and some under-reported (un-reported?) issues with the New Hampshire State budget. Listen Here Download this segment here [ Read more ]

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GrokTALK! May 11th 2013

May 12, 2013

This week the award winning bloggers at GraniteGrok are joined by the New Hampshire state director for American’s for Prosperity-Greg Moore; Jack Kimball from the Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC; and Activist Kevin Bloom and NH House Rep George Lambert. What did we talk about? The New Hampshire state budget, the effort to pass a [ Read more ]

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From the Desk of Representative William O’Brien

May 10, 2013

From the Desk of Representative William O’Brien If you don’t think that State Government should grow at 5% a year while the economy is growing at 2% a year, resulting in a two-year 10.2% increase in state spending, $263 million in new taxes, $31 million in revenue overestimates, $7 million in cost downshifting to local [ Read more ]

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Questions Relating to SB 11

May 10, 2013

Senate Bill 11 made its way to the House consent Calendar without resistance.  It was there that it the bill was then pulled from consent and  briefly debated the following day, and put on probation for two weeks.  It will be back. But how did it get as far as it did given language so [ Read more ]

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A Green Game of Chess

May 9, 2013

New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan has written a letter to Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy, in objection to a legislative effort in the “Nut”-meg state, to redefine what Connecticut will view as ‘green energy’ for the purpose of meeting their renewable portfolio standard. The bill, which could be voted on this week by the Connecticut House of Representatives, [ Read more ]

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Deficit – What Deficit?

May 8, 2013

The party that is bringing civility ( see here, here, here, here, here, here (sigh) here, here, a big one right here,…) ran on the idea that the New Hampshire Republican House and Senate was leaving New Hampshire with a deficit, a presumption only “slightly” less dishonest than the notion that Democrats are civil, or half as [ Read more ]

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Who’s Talkin’ Crazy Now? NH Dem Lisa Whittemore – Gas Tax increase is a Good Deal for You!

May 7, 2013

This is New Hampshire House Democrat Lisa Whittemore who is expected to understand what every New Hampshire Democrat must know.  Your money is better off in the government’s hands than your own.  That is why, with little or slow growth projected in New Hampshire’s immediate future, she is not just supporting a 67% increase in your [ Read more ]

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How Much More Does The State Deserve Your Money Than You?

May 7, 2013

Keep in mind that New Hampshire Democrats want to spend your money to achieve  immediate government growth of about 9-10% Boston.com Dennis Delay of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies told the Senate Ways and Means Committee Tuesday that New Hampshire’s recovery from the Great Recession is lackluster. … Delay predicted the state’s [ Read more ]

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When It Rains it Pours

May 7, 2013

As an after-thought to my post on SB 11 yesterday–which has stirred up some interest around the Grokosphere and well beyond–I went looking for some details about the environmentalist/regionalist motivations with regard to water and sewer.   It is a huge subject many parts of which we’ve touched on at the Grok already; you might say the socialist/central [ Read more ]

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