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While the media advertises drought and towns take steps to address local water usage we should take a moment to appreciate this chart. Courtesy of the NOAA, the image plots the 24-month average amount of precipitation in New Hampshire for the past 120 years.
Notice anything? Notice a few things?
First, after ten years of sometimes record-setting above average annual rainfall (2003 to 2013), we’ve taken a few years off. And it’s not the first time this has happened.
Lawrence Schonbrun joins me to discuss Class Action Lawsuit abuse in the form of massive payouts to law firms at the expense of those they claim were “injured.”
For Immediate Release – October 5, 2016
Contact: Greg Moore (603) 303-9297
Americans for Prosperity Notes September Business Tax Revenue Continues Major Spike After Business Tax Cuts
MANCHESTER – Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH) pointed to today’s release of September state tax revenue as ongoing evidence of the success of business tax relief that started January 1st. For the month, revenues were $22.7 million ahead of plan, with business tax receipts making up $21.3 million of that surplus.
H/T Susan Olsen via Powerline.
It’s not supposed to be Press Release Day, but this one caught my eye. Carol SEIU-Porter is the Democrat candidate for the US House in NH district one who many years ago, showed up everywhere for everything to get elected to office. Now, I guess, she and her party just assume she is entitled to it because she doesn’t show up to anything.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 6, 2016
Is Shea-Porter Running For Congress?
CONTACT: Team Guinta
Info@teamguinta.com
Yesterday, Carol Shea-Porter declined an opportunity to debate with Bernie Sanders-inspired Shawn O’Connor and Republican Frank Guinta on Jack Heath’s WGIR Radio program in Manchester.
This is the third time in 10 days the former congresswoman has refused an opportunity to tell Granite Staters where she stands on highly important topics. On Monday, Shea-Porter skipped the Bi-State Primary Care Association’s Forum, and last week refused to accept Guinta’s challenge to allow all candidates to participate in upcoming debates.
Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan, but when it comes to press and polling, they’ve got something in common. Dr. Matt Briggs (Ph.D. is statistics) and I discuss how the press treated Reagan in 1980 and how it may have affected polling before that election, then compare that to the press impact on potential Trump … Read more
Forty-Three Republican members of the New Hampshire House sent a letter to Speaker Jasper asking that he pledge his support for whoever the Republican caucus chooses to be their speaker on Organization Day. He has not, as of this writing, done so. The complete letter follows, listing all the signatories. [su_document url=”http://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/Republican-House-Members-Letter-to-Speaker-Jasper.pdf” width=”540″ height=”660″]pdf[/su_document]
Dr. Matt Briggs (PhD. is statistics) and I discuss how the press treated Reagan in 1980 and how it may have affected polling before that election, then compare that to the press impact on potential Trump voters and polling in 2016.
https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/783523010737299456
As I was tweeting in response to the above (because we all know that every Democrat wants the kind of laws that make Chicagoland one of the deadliest places on the planet) a hashtag popped into my head to describe the progressive gun control zombies.
Here ya go. Let’s take on a little project now that America is $20 trillion in the hole. Make America car accident fatality free! (Works with gun control, right?) I have a much more difficult project in mind for the Federal Government. How about we make the Federal Government fraud, waste, and corruption free in … Read more
Congress looks to pilfer $150 Billion from Social Security. Sen. Paul had something to say about that. They still voted to spend it, but at least he took a stand. H/T JP Marzullo – Facebook
Kelly Ayotte’s campaign gave away free condoms at UNH. I joked on Twitter that, Not sure I'd trust #KellyCondoms if they are as reliable as her voting record. https://t.co/PLcd9SGZG0 — Steve Mac Donald (@TheRealNHSteve) October 3, 2016 Planned Parenthood’s PAC has since called her a hypocrite, claiming she consistently obstructs access to birth control. They actually … Read more
This number called my house at least six times, maybe more, over the course of just a few hours last night. Anyone else plagued by this one? Did anyone pick up to see what it was and if so what?
Sylvia Kennedy, MD has been supporting Democrat campaigns with her cash for decades (she was part of Doctors for Dean in 2003) and from her soap box for almost as long. Today she has a letter to the editor in the Eagle Tribune apeing the”Maggie Hassan is the champion of family health care and Kelly Ayotte is not” because “Abortion” narrative.
And hey, Maggie supported a federal expansion of Medicaid in New Hampshire, so there. Huzzah!
In reality, Maggie’s record on “Health Care” (outside the left-wing Kool-Aid® drinking killing babies and creating dependency is compassion crowd) is a disaster.
One of Dem. Maggie Hassan’s PAC buddies have an attack Ad out against Sen. Ayotte claiming increased gun deaths in NH when there was only 4 gun related killings all year. The PAC includes suicides without saying so while claiming that Ayotte’s opposition to more pointless Democrat gun control legislation is to blame for their numbers. … Read more
The most formidable enemies of property rights are formidable precisely because they know better than to separate the issue of property rights from the issue of other freedoms, including freedom of conscience and religious liberty. They know better because they see that human beings are an odd integrity of souls and body. Marx is clear-sighted about … Read more
A slightly shorter show this week but no shortage of great content. Skip Murphy and I talk about a culture that goes after Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit), and Dr. Matt Briggs joins me to talk polling and similarities between Trump in 2016 and Reagan in 1980.