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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.

GrokTV Event: NHCC’s seminar on NH Constitution-Article 73A “Judicial Tyranny?” – Rep. Gregory Sorg & Rep. Paul Ingbretson

National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:

Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.

And!  Continuing with our coverage of this event (Intro, Hon. Dan Itse & Hon. Paul Mirski), we had two more NH State Representatives speak to different aspects of this issue: is the NH Judiciary out of control, and if so, is there a remedy, and what can the Citizens do about it?

NH State Rep. Gregory Sorg:

NH State Rep. Paul Ingbretson:

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Observation of the Day – DaTechGuy

In his post on the TEA Party vs Occupy, DaTechGuy has it pretty well nailed down: OK you got one side cold cocking cops and the other side [is] beating sitting senators at the polls. Tell me which movement has a future again? Let’s also add in all the violence, the lawbreaking, and the defecating … Read more

Notable Quote – Dr. Arthur Brooks

What is free enterprise? It is the system of values and laws that respects private property and limits government, encourages competition and industry, celebrates achievement based on merit, and creates individual opportunity. Under free enterprise, people can pursue their own ends, and they reap the rewards and consequences, positive and negative, of their own actions. … Read more

Data Point – Long term unemployment

President Obama has blamed his predecessor, President Bush, for three and a half years on the economy “we inherited”.  Thoughts: I don’t remember President Reagan complaining suchly about his predecessor, President Jimmy Carter And for such a brilliant man (Punahoe, Columbia, Harvard), is this an admission that he is not a sufficiently good enough manager … Read more

GrokTV Event: NHCC’s seminar on NH Constitution-Article 73A “Judicial Tyranny?” – Question and Answer

At the end of the event sponsored by the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:

Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.

was a Question and Answer period moderated by the M.C. for the evening, Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear.  Questions were taken from the well attended crowd and it lasted about 45 minutes (which I have split into 3 parts, with parts 2 & 3 after the jump).

Part 1:

Previous posts:

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Yawn – Mainstream Media Reporter(s) lazily gets it wrong

Updated and bumped:  Well, another loyal reader caught another Union Leader reporter, Paul Feely, making the same lazy mistake (emphasis mine): The video shows what appears to be New Hampshire election officials handing ballots to unidentified men, who videotaped the exchanges with hidden cameras at polls in Manchester and Nashua. Plural: ballots, men.  I watched … Read more

GrokTV Event: Rye RepublicanTown Committee Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates – Intro Ceremonies

This afternoon, the Rye Republican Town Committee held their “Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates” at the Abenaqui Country Club in Rye, NH and GraniteGrok was there to livestream the event. Given such a name for an event, a number of NH GOP candidates vying for seats in 2012 did attend the sold-out crowd of about 250 – 300. The keynote speaker was James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, who Skyped in to give that address.

This video is the Intro Ceremonies (National Anthem, Invocation, Pledge).

The next clip is Jeff Chidester being introduce as Master of Ceremonies and Congressman Frank Guinta (R-NH, CD1) addressing the crowd at the top of the event:

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GrokTV Event: NHCC’s seminar on NH Constitution-Article 73A “Judicial Tyranny?” – Rep. Dan Itse & Rep. Paul Mirski

National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:

Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.

After the Intro Ceremonies conducted by M.C. Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear, NH State Representative Dan Itse took the podium to give his take on the NH Constitution, a history lesson, some comparisons with other state constitutions, and his general take on the relationship of the people to those that are stewards of the peoples’ power by election and appointment:

After the jump, NH State Rep. Paul Mirski continues the discussion:

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TEA Party – not dead but more like the political hit man the opposition never sees coming

Certainly it is a talking point of the Democrat, the Obama campaign, and the MSM that the TEA Party is “old news” and can be ignored.  However, as Steve pointed out, that “conventional political wisdom” is dead wrong.  Me?  I think that they JUST want people to think that – frankly, I do believe that they are terrified that events are slipping away from them. Oh, they know full well that the TEA Party is around – and not just kicking but simply like most middle class / working class folk do in flyover country – see a job to be done, not waiting for someone else to do the job, and putting their work ethic in gear to get that job done.

Most of us just quietly go about the job now – the emotional events are done as those were just the intentions.  Unlike Libs for whom “intentions” are the most important issue and raison d’etre, most Conservatives concentrate on the actual results.  And 2010 saw those intentions turned into concrete results in a big way.  Seeing Dick Lugar ousted by the TEA Party, a 35 year incumbent with tons of seniority, shows that there is steel in the TEA Party spine: Principle over Politics.  The Triple threat of the TEA Party principles – free markets, fiscal frugality, Constitutional governance – overrode any thoughts of keeping pure political power.

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See what happens when you let ‘the folk’ actually decide the big social issues?

Courts in multiple states have oft been the agency by which gay marriage has forced upon the residents of those states – the rest have been by Legislatures that oft have been bombarded by “gay money” advocacy groups as we saw here in NH.

Let the people vote?  All the people – where the votes cannot be bought?  They continue to reject it.  Tonite, North Carolina residents just passed an Amendment to their Constitution that legally declares that Marriage is the union of one man and one woman.  That would be 31 States that have enacted such an amendment.  That would be a majority of the States, if my math is still correct.

“Oh, that’s because it’s full of bigots in that Bible Belt state – those Conservative backward looking, knuckle dragging, rednecks that don’t get with the inevitable” will be the excuse.

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GrokTV Event: Project Veritas founder, James O’Keefe speaks on voter fraud / NH criminal grand jury subpoena issued yesterday.

This afternoon, the Rye Republican Town Committee held their “Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates” at the Abenaqui Country Club in Rye, NH and GraniteGrok was there to livestream the event. Given such a name, a number of NH GOP candidates for seats in 2012 did attend the sold-out crowd of about 250.  However, the … Read more

Hmm, seems like Kyle Stucker of Exeter Patch is minced at the ‘Grok (or something)

He wrote this post post about being denied the ability to record James’s speech:

Patch was almost kept from recording any of O’Keefe’s remarks Sunday. Partway through O’Keefe’s speech, Rye Republican Town Chairwoman Diane Bitter told Hampton-North Hampton Patch that O’Keefe’s speech could not be recorded.

She said conservative website Granite Grok would have video posted after the event. Patch stopped filming partway through the speech to ask Bitter for clarification, as O’Keefe’s speech was given before multiple media outlets and in front of a packed event to which Patch was invited.

Bitter replied that she normally doesn’t allow cameras to roll at a “private event” because her committee “want[s guests] to be able to say what they want” during private conversations without being recorded.

That would be correct – we are and I did here (YouTube is still processing the video as I type; it should go live soon). For the record, we had been asked weeks ago if we would do this for the Rye Republican event and I accepted.  Frankly, given the 2 hour drive and the time for equipment set up and scurrying to actually pull off the event technically, I thank Diane for allowing us exclusive recording of the event.

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GrokTV Event: Shades of Tyranny – Discussion on the NH Constitution

We are at the Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH. As you can see by the announcement post, some of the best minds in NH are here to talk about the NH Constitution and specifically, Article 73. We join the event in progress (technical network blockage (site? protocol?) are the reason) … Read more

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