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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.

Notable Quote – Ann Coulter

“Only the Democratic Party could produce a string of presidential candidates who oppose school choice and vouchers while sending their own children to lily-white private schools. Only the Democratic Party could hysterically denounce a Supreme Court nominee for allegedly making unwanted sexual advances in the workplace and then applaud a president who was receiving oral … Read more

BlogQuestion of the Day: Fine for me but not for the unwashed and definately unwanted Deplorables and Clingers?

If it’s illegal for a family owned bakery to ban people from its property based on their religious beliefs, should it also be illegal for Facebook to ban conservatives based on their political beliefs?

Let me make sport of atheistic Progressives for a moment (see!  an Object Lesson like I learned in Sunday School).  Religious beliefs are protected under the First Amendment.  So is the Freedom of Association.  Most Democrats are “unchurched” to quite a large degree according to most polls.  Yet, we know that most Democrats approach politics with religious fervor all of its own. But aren’t they the ones that have been behind and created most of these “anti-discrimination” statutes and regulations.

So, are they going to political Hell for breaking their own dogma on discriminating according to belief systems?

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Facebook Doodlings – Justice? Which one?

Steve’s post on former NH State Senate Minority Leader  Jeff ‘The Bruiser’ Woodburn had an interesting comment left on it on Facebook:

Joanne Hack Again, ALLEGED abuser … are we not supposed to be the voice of reason and say that he’s not convicted of anything so, since this is America, he shouldn’t have to resign. I don’t know the guy and I don’t have any opinion of him, but still he hasn’t been convicted of anything.

– one I decided to answer (emphasis here):

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170 116 year olds and now 588 “new” ballots. What’s going on in Prez Wannabe John Kasich’s Ohio?

Steve’s post should make eyebrows grow in height.  This should make your head go side-to-side as we’ve seen this too many times before:

Ohio race just got closer after county finds hundreds of uncounted votes

The tight race between Democrat Danny O’Connor and Republican Troy Balderson just got tighter.  Election officials in Franklin County found 588 previously uncounted votes in a Columbus suburb. The result: O’Connor had a net gain of 190 votes, bringing the race’s margin down to 1,564. “The votes from a portion of one voting location had not been processed into the tabulation system,” according to a Franklin County Board of Elections news release.

Shades of the Minnesota race a few years back when now disgraced (and unfunny comic) Al Franken won his race due to three items:

  • George Soro’s S.O.S. (Secretary of State) Project that gave millions to Progressive Democrats to win those positions (MN SecState Dem won his before the Franken votes)

Sidenote: Is Colin Van Ostern getting money from a reconstituted / similar project here in NH  If so, how “fair” would close elections be?

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Taxes vs Personal Spending: shouldn’t this be flipped?

Is it moral to be paying more to Government than spending on your family? Reformatted, emphasis mine:

America spends more on taxes than on food, clothing, and housing combined. A LOT more.

  • Housing: $2.3 trillion
  • Clothing: $0.4 trillion
  • Food: $1.7 trillion
  • TOTAL: $4.4 trillion
  • Federal Taxes: $3.4 trillion
  • State and Local Taxes: $1.8 trillion
  • TOTAL: $5.2 trillion

Do you think, as a country, we’re getting our money’s worth from all that taxation?

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GraniteGrok – the next level

A lot is going on behind the scenes as we are ramping up in our goal to serve the Conservative and Conservatarian base better than we have in the past.  We are adding new writers and we are enhancing our ability to cover more events that matter to you folks – that’s what the above is all about (and there will be more announcements about that in a while).  I’ll be announcing the first GraniteGrok meetup next week – it will be held in either Concord or Manchester.

Sidenote: while I am familiar with some venues in both, I am open to suggestions!

So, what is that thing in that image?  It’s a Padcaster…

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Throwing the race card

I should do a post on it but it seems that the New York Times decided to hire an Asian lady (/sarc) that hates whites as part of their Editorial Board. Essentially, the NYT finally came clean and said that it was ok to be racist against whites, well, because by definition, only whites can be racists. OK, then!

Er, no – racist is racist no matter what amount of melanin you have in your skin.

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Didn’t Wiley E. Coyote used to jump off cliffs as well?

Go ahead, Socialists (there is no such thing as a “Democrat” Socialist just as there are no “Progressives” – they are just all Socialists now as Newsweek once said) feel free to jump off that cliff.  Just remember – we Normals don’t want to go with you.  Just leave us alone.  Go to Venezuela and … Read more

Blogline of the Day – so true, so true

The difference between Russians and Democrats is that Russians rejected socialism.

As seen at the latest Donald Trump rally:
Rather Be Russian than Democrats

Per usual, Democrats / Liberals / Progressives / Socialists show why comedy is dying –

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Bob Greene – candidate for NH State House, Hillsborough County District 37 (Hudson/Pelham)

bob_greene_portraitHello! I’m Bob Greene and I’m running for NH State Rep in Hillsborough District 37 (Hudson/Pelham). I’m a 13-year Hudson resident, married to Kathy for 29 years, and a 20-year Air Force veteran with assignments in Illinois, Germany and Hanscom AFB. I currently work as a communications specialist for the defense industry and am a member of the National Rifle Association and American Legion. I believe in smaller government, lower taxes, free markets, personal responsibility, and the Rule of Law.

I’ve steadily ramped up my activism over the past several years — from attending presidential candidate town halls and NH GOP summits, to participating in focus groups which have appeared on Fox News Channel, to attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) the past three years in a row. The next logical step for me is to get off the sidelines and run for NH State Rep, because although we currently have a Republican majority in the House, we have too many reps in our party who either 1) don’t represent the party’s interests by kowtowing to unions or political correctness or 2) have poor attendance/voting records in Concord, resulting in devastating GOP losses on the House floor on several critical issues. My goal will be 100% attendance in NH House sessions — no less, since I have the flexibility with my employer to be in Concord for all sessions and committee work. And I am making a solemn promise to my future House GOP colleagues and my constituents to have a voting record that truly represents my district’s and party’s values and supports the NH Advantage.

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If NH State Senate Minority Leader Jeff Woodburn Has Any Firearms, Will he Turn Them in – NOW?

Red Fag LawsIf New Hampshire State Senate Minority Leader Jeff Woodburn has any firearms, will he turn them in NOW? He is, after all, he’s in favor of “Red Flag” laws which empower the State to take firearms away from those deemed to be a danger to others or themselves (or both).

C’mon Jeff, show the courage of your convictions; if you got’em, turn ’em in as a show of faith because “dangerous people” should no longer be “entitled” to Due Process.  You’re supposedly a “Leader.” But are you a leader out in front or a “leader from behind” like Obama self-described?  C’mon, Jeff, resoundingly smash that old phrase “Fine for thee but not for me!” to smithereens?

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Email Doodlings – Conservatives should do Press Interviews – but watch the “how”

Kiddie TricycleBUMPED/UPDATED based on my attendance at a training session where I was helping a couple of nights ago: from 1/5/13: “Kiddie tricycle riding journalist met up against a tank with a laughing blogger at the wheel”.  Read the bottom of this post – it’s my description of Steve being interviewed by a cub reporter that thought she was hot stuff. Given that it is campaign season and a lot of NH folks may be running for the very first time, my “How To” words still hold true and they work.  It comes down to this – if a “journalist” want to interview, ALWAYS record it.  Always, always always.

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A good Conservative friend on an email list, well known in NH, refuses to do press interviews.  He’s had nothing but gotcha quotes / twisted quotes as a result, so he now leaves them twisting in the wind as they desperately try to get him to speak.  There are some that do try for the ensnaring quote simply because of their ideological outlook – after all, what Glen Reynolds of Instapundit says of them is often true:

Democrat operatives with bylines

Sidenote: Example?

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There’s a reason why NH ranks much higher than Maine

Income TaxReformatted, emphasis mine:

“…The compilation data is stunning.

In many of the selected reports, Maine lagged far behind New Hampshire for competitiveness for new industry, tax burden, cost of doing business, workforce education, infrastructure, regulatory environment and labor supply. New Hampshire came in, nationally, as the 15th best state in terms of business climate and taxation — the best in New England, by a long shot. Maine’s average score designated our state the 34th best for business climate, trailing every other New England state except Connecticut.

But the rub becomes apparent when one studies the data.

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RRftSotRP – I get stuff. Last lesson: “Unity! Voters!”. Yeah, “unity” – sure thing

RRftSotRP Missive - back - 600 Part 3

Oft time the NH GOP rails against folks like we Groksters because we “upset the apple cart”.  For instance, as Steve reminded us (recently), the current NH GOP Chair said this about we bloggers at GraniteGrok back in 2013:

He told me that he was not going to waste his time discussing the vote with me. Oh yeah … and he also said that people who blog are those who are “ruining” the party.

I riffed off his post soon after with this: “And his main point – why are bloggers out on point instead of the the NH GOP?”

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Let’s remind people why we split from King George and beat the Redcoats

Make taxation theft again

Only $15 (down from $22.95) – isn’t competition and Capitalism grand?

No, this is not an ad by Libertarian COuntry on the ‘Grok.  Rather, it’s a reminder of how far stalwart Liberty loving Americans (as opposed to the Berni-bros and Ocasio-Cortez’ers slouching to Socialism) were willing to stand up to abusers and oppressors.  Taxation for a limited Government is a necessary evil – having more taken from you just so that those in power believe you aren’t doing the right things with your money so they HAVE to take it from you is both insulting – and theft. The fact that our “public morality” has been so perverted by Progressives such as Steve Marchand, Mark Fernald, and Molly Kelly (just to name three Socialists running as Democrats – but I repeat myself) should be frightening.  You see, no matter HOW much they take from you, it is never enough.

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A brutal line and validating Steve MacDonald’s claims about a stealth Lefty group.

No labels new and improved
Now With Even More Bi-partisan BS!

Just a brutal takedown by Grant Bosse at the UL of hopeful Democrat Governor candidate Steve Marchand:

But Steve Marchand is doing his best to make Kelly look like Barry Goldwater.

Both balls into the Left’s pool table left side pockets – a two-fer in marking Marchand as a true extremist with his anti-traditional American Exceptionalism stances and given that Molly Kelly is just to his right on the political spectrum, being called Goldwater probably raised her blood pressure a decade or so.  Let’s face it, even the RINOs to her right have a cow being called such.  Well played!

Steve MacDonald began railing against the “No Labels” group when it appeared on the scene and correctly calling it out for being a group camouflage for RINOs that felt at home in “No Labels”because it validated their No Principles stances.  It served Democrats by allowing them to rub elbows with the RINOs laughing inside going “heh, these guys are giving me cover” until it was time for them to tell their Leftist brethren “here, hold my beer” and pop up showing the labels we put on them were genuinely earned as they shucked off that camo netting:

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