Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.
One the first things the Democrat elected speaker Shawn Jasper, the RINO’s and the Democrats (is that redundant?) in the NH House have tried to do is to make it more difficult to be held accountable for their votes. They have proposed a rule requiring that at least 20 reps stand up to”second” every request … Read more
This week House Rep Guy Comtois gives us an update on the recent HRA caucus, and the leadership situation in the NH House. We discuss proposed rules changes, and how the Democrats and their House Speaker are working to make that legislative body less transparent. (And yes, we do call a few RINO’s along the … Read more
With as much as two-thirds of Republicans wondering why they bother, and no one in the media standing up to help, who will take the bit and lead them into battle against the crumbling principles of the GOP?
In segment four we explore the administrative state and how you can’t do anything anymore without violating a regulation or a law; you can’t even feed the homeless without permission from the state. It is the ongoing inversion of responsibility from the citizen to the government. And the administrative state doesn’t want you to interfere, … Read more
Drew Cline has a great editorial over at the Union Leader about RINO Hunting . Over-hunting, actually. It is ‘great’ because it is both creative and flawed. It is also funny but mostly because it is utter nonsense.
Synopsis? The arrogance of non-RINOs (Elephantus Egomanicus) leads to Democrat majorities.
With as much as two-thirds of Republicans wondering why they bother, and no one in the media standing up to help, who will take the bit and lead them into battle against the crumbling principles of the GOP? We’ve also got an idea to make being a legislator more accessible to more people in New … Read more
This week, the US District court in Massachusetts has signed off on an agreement between McCullen’s attorneys and the state of Massachusetts for the sum of $1.24 Million dollars to cover attorneys fees. (I hope Mass Taxpayers consider that money well spent.)
You know, NH has a very similar anti-free speech abortion buffer zone bill still on the books…
In segment four we explore the administrative state and how you can’t do anything anymore without violating a regulation or a law; you can’t even feed the homeless without permission from the state. You even need a sticker on your dinghy! It is the ongoing inversion of responsibility from the citizen to the government. And … Read more
A Letter from a reader to NH US Senator Kelly Ayotte
Senator Ayotte:
I’d like to remind you that the NH State motto, the state you purport to represent, is “Live Free Or Die”. Live Free from the tyranny of Government, not without government, but with the liberty of the people. Taking more and more of my hard earned income is a form of tyranny; it curtails my ability to provide for my family and makes it harder for me to secure my family’s liberty.
I wish that instead of being concerned about missing “The Nutcracker” you had been concerned enough to read the bill before you passed it; for that, I thank you for finally showing your true concerns. Your pattern of voting has made it clear to me that you do not stand for conservative principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. Your voting and rhetoric clearly indicates that you wish to consolidate more power in the Federal Government, taking it away from the individuals.
This Michelle Obama story about her interaction with a short person is all over the internet today. Short people, tall people, Target, racism something-something. And this was a hit song a few decades back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1NvgLkuEtkA Can I say ‘how far we have fallen’ or is that vertical racism as well?
Susan J. Douglas is a typical White Tower Democrat.
Susan J. Douglas is a prize-winning author, columnist, and cultural critic, and the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at The University of Michigan. Her book Where the Girls Are was widely praised, and chosen one of the top ten books of 1994 by National Public Radio, Entertainment Weekly and The McLaughlin Group. In her most recent book, Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism’s Work Is Done (Henry Holt, 2010) Douglas continues her analysis of the mixed messages surrounding women, and the struggle she sees in the media between embedded feminism on the one hand and enlightened sexism on the other.
The Republican establishment has become infected with a new viral epidemic of “Ted Cruz derangement syndrome” apparently brought on by being forced to actually work at the job of being a United States Senator.
“Patient Zero” in this epidemic may be New Hampshire Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte who complained bitterly before last weekend’s rare Saturday session to debate the Cruz – Lee constitutional point of order on the “CRomnibus” that it interfered with her plans to go home and watch a performance of the holiday classic the Nutcracker.
Ayotte, by the way, has an F score of 44% on Conservative Review’s Liberty Score, compared to Cruz’s score of 95% and Mike Lee’s score of 100%.
Yeah, but we got that sunscreen bill passed. FREEDOM!
GOP leadership gets fingered for playing at RINO King maker in the NH House. Was it all part of a plan to drive the grassroots out of the party? How does that affect elections? Does the establishment even care or are they content to hang on to enough power to horse trade for favors? We’ve … Read more
GOP leadership gets fingered for playing at RINO King maker in the NH House. Was it all part of a plan to drive the grassroots out of the party? How does that affect elections? Does the establishment even care or are they content to hang on to enough power to horse trade for favors? We’ve … Read more
Segment one was fun. We had Squirrels, Munchkins, questions about time zones in India, Sen. Scott Brown wins the WTF of the week, Fairpoint still sucks, Shawn Jasper’s NH House treason, double-crossing-double-crossers, Darth Vader, Sheep noises, satire at Jennifer Horn’s expense, and hey! is there anyone who can step up to rally conservatives and libertarians … Read more
Rumor has it that Republican National Committee-woman Julianna Bergeron has set a purity test for state committee party members in her County (and presumably the whole state). The test is simple. If you didn’t vote the entire Republican ticket, you should not serve on the NHGOP state committee. She did not mean if you voted for a registered Democrat, she means “if you left a box blank, because the candidate was not your cup of ‘tea,’ –you should not represent Republicans in NH.”
Think about that.
If you could not vote for the guy who helped advance the progressive agenda (Scott Brown) and whose voting record and policy positions violate many planks in the documented and agreed to NH state Republican party platform (voted for by the state delegates), then you are not the right sort to be a New Hampshire delegate says Julianna Bergeron.
No one who pays attention to politics is surprised to hear Democrat amnesty advocates admitting that this is really all about registering more Democrats to vote. Joshua Hoyt, the executive director of the National Partnership for New Americans, said groups gathered here were laying plans to sign up at least 500,000 immigrants for the president’s … Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s new plan to ease the threat of deportation for 4.7 million undocumented immigrants violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge found on Tuesday, handing down the first legal ruling against the plan. … Schwab ruled that the executive action violated the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of separation of powers and … Read more
Segment one was fun. We had Squirrels, Munchkins, questions about time zones in India, Sen. Scott Brown wins the WTF of the week, Fairpoint still sucks, some Shawn Jasper’s NH House treason, double-crossing-double-crossers, Darth Vader, Sheep noises, satire at Jennifer Horn’s expense, and hey! is there anyone who can step up to rally conservatives and … Read more
In just one day, we have two prime examples of how vitally important our Second Amendment is.
Protecting our natural rights to secure arms for personal or family defense, and to fight tyranny of any kind, the Second Amendment must be treasured and guarded with everything we have. If not, we’ll just become victims, like the people in these examples…
Why We Need our Second Amendment: Example #1 – The UN in Haiti
Today, UN troops in Haiti (who have been there in force since 2004) fired on unarmed civilians as they were protesting.
By now, Haitians have had enough of the UN occupying their country. In 2010, about 10 months after the devastating Earthquake that shook the island (which increased the UN presence), Haiti fell victim to a serious Cholera outbreak, which continues today. Haitians speculate that the outbreak started when UN troops allowed their sewage to flow into the island’s largest river. Many of these undisciplined troops were new arrivals to Haiti, fresh off a mission in Nepal, working to contain (of all things) a Cholera outbreak.
Ironically, the left-leaning, Democrat-fawning publication The New Republic squarely blames the UN in this article and chastises the Obama administration for interfering with legal proceedings against the UN, after the President insisted that they “enjoy absolute immunity” from such suits. Go figure.
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Susan J. Douglas is a typical White Tower Democrat.
Rumor has it that Republican National Committee-woman Julianna Bergeron has set a purity test for state committee party members in her County (and presumably the whole state). The test is simple. If you didn’t vote the entire Republican ticket, you should not serve on the NHGOP state committee. She did not mean if you voted for a registered Democrat, she means “if you left a box blank, because the candidate was not your cup of ‘tea,’ –you should not represent Republicans in NH.”
