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This is what I said about it today, on behalf of the New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation (NHLRF):
Everyone, the New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation (NHLRF) put out a press release as of yesterday explaining why the Executive Council should refuse to confirm Mr. Jim Bassett as a NH Supreme Court Justice. That press release can be found online HERE. In the meantime, as the chairman of the NHLRF board of directors, I have been interviewed…
This week’s RLCNH Report is out, and there are lots of good bills still on the table on issues ranging from prohibiting the implementation of Obamacare exchanges, reigning in the judiciary, and pension reform to education tax credits, right to work, and smart meters. Full list of bills as well as information to take action is after the jump.
Once again, NJ Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) has exceeded expections. Since his campaign (and subsequent elevation to Governor), his YouTubes have become Internet sensations. Now I’m betting that as a surrogate for Mitt Romney, he will continue to keep Obama “in the dark room”; “This is a guy who literally is walking around in a … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tim Condon, (813) 251-2626 May 21, 2012 New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation Opposes Supreme Court Nomination of Jim Bassett CONCORD – The New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation (NHLRF) Monday released the following statement opposing the nomination of Attorney James P. Bassett to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The Executive Council is … Read more
On a post concerning the platform that has just created 6 new Billionaires and about a 1,000 new Millionaires, Facebook, I agree with Sidebar: I dryly note that Zuckerberg comes from the same learned institution as the 1/32 Indian / recipe plaigerizer / Scott Brown wannbe Elizabeth Warren. I’m wondering what she thinks about all … Read more
Last Thursday I was a guest/co-host on WSMN 1590, Smart Girl Politics Radio with Susan Olsen. We spoke about GrokWatch, some of what we’ve investigated so far, and what the goals are for this project. We also discussed some bureaucratic objections to photo ID laws for voting and my objections to their objection. If … Read more
“Sometimes, life throws you some curves.” That was the response “retiring” Portland Maine School District Superintendent Dr. James Morse gave to the press and the public after announcing that he had taken a job as the Superintendent of the Oyster River Cooperative district in New Hampshire.
“Sometimes, life throws you some curves.”
But we can read the stitches. One of those stitches indicates that Mr. Morse was one of 15 applicants for the job. (Applicant: A person who applies, as for a job.) So how much of a curve ball is it when you announce you are “retiring” (after 32 years in the public education industrial complex), and then get a job for which you applied?
He’s not just a blank palette upon which others project their (insert whatever it is they are projecting here), he was also a blank palette upon which he projected himself. So let’s just call it like it is. He’s Barack FauxBama. Video :PJ TV H/T Mike Rogers
…is that we had a GrokMeeting today. Every so often we Groksters get together and sling some political news and stories back and forth. What surprised me is that I thought today’s meeting would be a couple of hours like they have in the past; instead, it turned out to be an entire afternoon of … Read more
New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson is retiring. His successor was chosen from these three candidates.
William W. Rich, senior associate rector for Christian Formation at Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston; A Homosexual man married to a man.
Penelope Maud Bridges, rector of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls, Va.:A divorced woman.
Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld, 50, of Grace Church in Amherst (MA): A Heterosexual man.
Not your Fathers Episcopal Church anymore is it? Not even when they choose the heterosexual guy.
Thought: so, when do we see a reporter climbing INTO a pot to mock Obama’s EATING of a dog? If this Seattle based reporter wants to much to make fun of an old, old story of Romney’s Seamus the dog, let’s see her, in the vaunted spirit of bipartisanship that I keep hearing from Democrats … Read more
We’ve been reporting the theft of services by an SEIU Union Chapter VP and NH DES employee Richard de Seve for months as we struggle with the Department of Environmental Services and the State’s IT department, and their resistance to part with data, in response to our Right to Know Requests about state employees using … Read more
A new feature on GraniteGrok is that we’ve just become an affiliate of Amazon. That means that if you normally shop at Amazon and you go there by using the widget that’s now on our Right Sidebar (or below in this post) AND buy something, the ‘Grok gets a bit of a reward for directing … Read more
If you’ve recovered from the underwhelming Facebook IPO, perhaps you are ready for this?
Trayvon was beating George Zimmerma badly before the man finally shot him in self-defense. There is no doubt about that.
So here’s an observation for the anti-second amendment clowns who are always insisting that lawfully armed citizens run away from any conflict (the same folks who hung Zimmerman out to dry on day one). It’s not so easy to run away when your attacker is straddling you and pounding the crap out of you.
Next Up, the Global Warming denier deniers took another kick to the green chestnuts this week. Looks like more frequent and severe hurricanes were not in store for US coastlines due to the all-powerful invisible sky god known as Global warming; and we may have Al Gore to thank for that. (I guess it’s not just snow he can summon with his very presence.)
It also points out that the State has nothing except from what it takes from others. (H/T: The Hipster Libertarian)
…”Wouldn’t this look great on MY desk?” (even as she knows that I don’t play computer games). A pitiful “Please?” didn’t help either…. More nice setups at the link. (H/T: Caveman Circus)
The beginning of this extremely well done video lays out the call to Catholics to help protect their faith and their values:
In generations past, the Church has always been able to count on the faithful to stand up and protect her sacred rights and duties. This generation of Catholics must do the same.
Now I am an evangelical Protestant, not Catholic, so there are theological points on which we will never agree upon. That said, I believe that there is a message here for Bible believing Christians who take their faith seriously and personally (i.e., not a “back row Baptist” or a “country club Christian”) as well as to Catholics. I do believe that Obama, as with many Progressives, see a personal faith as being a hindrance to implementing Bigger Government -they realize that in order to have fealty to government, there must be no nothing “above” Government.
Public policies are determined and laws are made by small minorities playing upon the fears and imbecilities of the mob – sometimes minorities of intelligent and honest men, but usually minorities of rogues. – H.L Mencken No better summary of modern government has ever been penned. – Prof. Don Boudreaux, economics (H/T: Cafe Hayek)
Happy news that Amanda Merrill is not running again for the New Hampshire Senate. In her stead, former Merrill clone–or perhaps I have that reversed–Martha Fuller “brush” Clark, will run to fill the seat. Merrill and Clarke are both EMILY’s list support alums. They are hewed from the same bit of socialist flotsam, with Clark … Read more
Marriage is always a great topic to visit in New Hampshire. It irritates so many people on so many sides. But if we ever put it to a vote of citizens, New Hampshire would join the ranks of every other state to define “marriage” as a union between one man and one woman. Which is why the left would never want to allow that. And bigotry or inequality has nothing to do with it. And it certainly has nothing to do with love.
Love, as it turns out, is not a state’s interest. There is no ministry of love. No state department of love. No state director of love. And no one in their right mind would want the State organizing, defining, taxing or regulating it. Love is not a state’s interest.
And the idea that you “can’t help who you fall in love with” is total rubbish. Of course, you can. I haven’t fallen in love with anyone since I got married 18 years ago unless I count falling more in love with my wife. People fall in and out of love all the time. They can help it. So what the gay marriage lobby means to suggest by this is that sex is love and that you can’t help who whom you want to have sex. But neither of those things is true either.