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Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.

So, what do Obama, Hillary, and George Pataki have in common?

“Defeating Islamic terror, shrinking government, growing the economy. These are the issues that matter most.  Instead, we’re debating social issues like abortion and gay rights. They’re a distraction and only help to elect Hillary.  After 8 years of Obama style socialism, we need to shrink government, not let Big Government tell us how to live our lives.”

George PatakiThat’s from a George Pataki ad (if you don’t know, he thinks he can be the next Prez) – just ignore them, a nothing burger on the grander scheme of things.  And he’s completely oblivious that Big Government IS using those issues and demanding that we live our lives accordingly.  THAT is why she AND Obama are emphasizing them! Take a read

Religious beliefs – abortion, gay marriage. Change them, BANISH them,  they say.  Ignore them, he says – even as, for instance, gay marriage is being used to change the Law.  That’s a big deal, George!

And Pataki is right there

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A word of warning to the NH Choo-choo trainers that want to spend other peoples’s money to satisfy themselves

Heartless, Callous Train Wreck Picture
Heartless, Callous Train Wreck Picture

Yup, to me, Joe Taxpayer, they want to spend a whole lotta money for not a whole lot of paying riders – and NONE of them will be full-boat payers, either.  With all of the rail projects around the nation, be it subway, light rail, or regular rail, they just refuse to see the fiscal problems of them – especially that of the the MBTA – the system they want NH attached to.  Here’s the “Anti-Planner” with some stuff from California’s woe-in-progress for its “desperately needed” high speed rail.  I generally don’t repost an entire post, but I just couldn’t figure out what parts that could be left out without “losing the story” (emphasis mine):

California Representative Nancy Pelosi famously told Congress it would have to pass the Obamacare bill to find out what it said. Now California officials are telling residents they will have to spend tens of billions of dollars building the San Francisco-Los Angeles high-speed rail line to find out how much a ticket will cost. As one official says, “We will not know until late in the game [meaning after the line is built] how everything will turn out.”

Can you say “man-made disaster”?  Who the heck does that kind of thing without figuring out the costs??  No entrepreneur I know – but politicians, yes, those self-assured incompetents, certainly know “it’ll all work out in the end”.  Question is, whose “end” is going to get reamed?  Not theirs, I bet….

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Jettiness – whereby humans become their own jet planes

Yes, true human Jettiness.  Yes, I asked TMEW if I could try it.  Yes, with a bit of merriment shining out from my eyes. Yes, I got exactly what I thought I would from her – “the Look”.  She was not amused (but I was!). (H/T: C/NET)

Uber-Progressive Susan The Bruce confirms a Progressive meme: Free Staters are all child pornographers

Yeah, she certainly made it clear, this highly Progressive “activist” (who does troll here from time to time). Since there is a candidate in Poland who is vying for the Presidency on what I would call a very strange and disturbing platform:

Polish presidential candidate Janusz Korwin-Mikke explains his plans to scrap all benefits, legalise child pornography and stop women from voting, as Poland votes for a new president

Oh, I get it – she just believes that all Libertarians MUST be obscene because

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Data Point – Fossil Fuel reserves; so much for “Peak Oil” alarmists

“The green energy movement in America is dead. May it rest in peace. No, a majority of American energy over the next 20 years is not going to come from windmills and solar panels. One important lesson to be learned from the green energy fad’s rapid and expensive demise is that central planning doesn’t work. … Read more

GrokThought: I thought the Dems were ALL about “Community”

“I don’t think either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton have much time for my district.”

That being a rather interesting admission by rather elderly (in comparison) Democrat  Maureen Mann running against youthful & vigorous (hey, if the Dems can play this game (see below), well, so can I!) Republican Yvonne Dean-Baily in the special election coming up (Concord Monitor).  And haven’t I heard, over and over, that the Democrats are the “community of being communal” – an “all in and leave nobody behind?” and their legislation forces it.  But when it comes to voluntary actions, like in this, it seems like Mann is being hung out to dry and on her own.

Wait!  Isn’t that what the all the Democrat Socialists always saying about Conservatives and Libertarians?

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Concord Monitor – cherry picking public college data? What about Granite State College

Granite_State_College FlickrWell, they certainly were all over the goodness of NHTI in an editorial yesterday:

But the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, offered a ray of good news last month. In a report that attempted to quantify the value added by colleges – in other words, how much graduates of an institution outperformed their expected average salary – Concord’s own NHTI came in first among two-year schools. Not second, not third.

First.

And they rave about its 41% graduation rate.  Let me give a bit of “balance” to that – I present the #1 worst as assembled by Fiscal Times: Granite State College

10 Public Universities with the Worst Graduation Rates

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Blogline of the Day – Progressives: it’s on you, not us

But this isn’t the real issue, anyway. As usual, progressives are hard at work obliterating our most essential institutions, while insisting that the biggest problem isn’t what they’re doing, but how the rest of us react to what they’re doing. It’s always the switcheroo that they declare the rest of us to be guilty and force … Read more

A time for choosing – what will the NH GOP Exec Board, NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn, and NH GOP Committeeman Steve Duprey choose?

Steve Duprey Jeb BushYes, I do believe that the story that NH GOP Committeeman Steve Duprey supporting the Planned Parenthood Action Fund “has legs”.  Certainly here at GraniteGrok (where we hate it when we catch Establishment GOPpers being political hypocrites – because it shows they ARE hypocrites) it is But – Steve has a very good point:

And even if we abandon any conception of complicity with regard to the event or any like it (not that we’ll ever get any of them to admit that complicity begins at conception), the optics on this in a Republican Presidential primary year are awful. Duprey has become little more than ballast at this point and needs to realize that he can still support Republicans without being a dead weight in a Presidential election year.  (What campaign will dare embrace him for fear of losing all the conservatives and pro-life grassroots voters?). Given the predicament he presents to Republicans he should either step aside or the NHGOP must propose an amicable separation and move on.   The curtain has been pulled aside. You can’t just close it and hope everyone forgets what is behind it.

After all, the Establishment NH GOP MUST have learned SOME kind of lesson from November when it was clear that the Conservative, especially the Pro-life contingent, are no longer willing to lock-step with the Republican Party – we are rejecting the snickering thought of “WELL! Where else will they go?”.  They showed that by utterly punishing the top of the ticket holders – Walt Havenstein (waffling between pro-life personally and pro-choice semi-publicly) and Scott Brown (who was vehemently trying to out-abortion Jeanne Shaheen).

But neither is the NH Media letting go (even as they’ve dropped looking at the Dems malfeasance with the Federal Election Committee fining them); this from WMUR (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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Socialist Kshama Sawant being hypocritical on paying Staffers? Suprised?

 “circumvent minimum wage, overtime and anti-discrimination laws.”

Kshama SawantNot me!  Very few Socialists, when push comes to shove, will not walk the talk that they do with other peoples’ money with their own.  And Kshama Sawant is no different.  Remember, she was the Seattle politician that was absolutely adamant that companies, large and small, MUST be forced to pay their employees a minimum wage of $15/hour – or ELSE!  Well, karma for Kshama (reformatted, emphasis mine):

A Seattle City council member is in a bit of hot water over her handling of campaign staffers. Kshama Sawant has allegedly structured her employees in a way that allows her to avoid payroll taxes, overtime, and insurance. Now, none of what she’s accused of allegedly doing is illegal — in fact, it’s very standard and necessary. But her own supporters — the folks who join her in her fight to demonize big business as exploiting the work force — are upset.  We learned of this story over at Publicola — a progressive online offshoot of Seattle Met Magazine.

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When a Party acts contrary to its Principles…

From the Michigan GOP Principles: I BELIEVE government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the money they earn. Obviously, the citizens of Michigan decided that the Michigan Republican Establishment didn’t want them to keep more of the money they earn: On Tuesday, as I reported, the voters in Michigan went to the … Read more

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