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“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.” – Alexander Hamilton
From over NH Watchdog, one can tell who Grant’s favorite economist / political philosopher is: One of mine too!
Yesterday was the first televised US Senatorial Debate here in NH. It was produced by John Burt of "NH Politics with John Burt" who was kind enough to invite GraniteGrok to cover the event. All four prospects (i.e., Kelly Ayotte, Jim Bender, Bill Binnie, and Ovide Lamontagne) on the Republican side participated. Debate was civil …
“NH Politics with John Burt” NH-US Senatorial Debate Summary Read More »
Here is the second part of the event from yesterday afternoon: Quick shout out to the Ovide Lamontagne campaign- thanks for the water folks! Just before the debate actually started, my thirst went through the roof. DJ Bettencourt overheard me asking TMEW if she’d be willing to see if there was a “tonic” machine (er, …
“NH Politics with John Burt” NH-US Senatorial Debate- Part 2 Read More »
Yesterday was the first televised US Senatorial Debate here in NH. It was produced by John Burt of "NH Politics with John Burt" who was kind enough to invite GraniteGrok to cover the event. All four prospects (i.e., Kelly Ayotte, Jim Bender, Bill Binnie, and Ovide Lamontagne) on the Republican side participated. Debate was civil …
“NH Politics with John Burt” NH-US Senatorial Debate- Part 1 Read More »
In every campaign, the public’s attention is almost always on the actual candidates – and with great reason: they are the ones that most people believe are responsible for what they see and what they hear. For the most part, that’s true – but it is not the whole story. Since starting this political blogging …
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson (1824)
(H/T: RedState) Go ahead, Google the laws of other countries and then see what is going on. Let’s see here: The Mexican drug cartels are amping up the fighting on our border A rancher in Arizona was just killed by illegal aliens from Mexico (illegal, as it still is against the law, be it criminal …
Immigration reform – Fergus “The Fringe” Cullen style Read More »
(H/T: William Warren)
“The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.” – Thomas Jefferson (, in a letter to Spencer Roane, March 9, 1821)
