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

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Skip

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?”

Albuquerque Forfeiture Case Could Have National Implications

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire has made great strides at the state level with regard to Asset Forfeiture. But many states, and more importantly the federal government, still engage in the practice of seizing property for themselves. A federal judge in Albuquerque, New Mexico just wrote a decision that while limited to local seizures, makes a great case for why the practice should be prohibited from sea to shining sea.

Top NH Trump Supporters Join Steve Negron for Congress Team

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Op-Ed

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 2, 2018
Contact: Roger Wilkins
press@teamnegron.com, 603-864-8633

Trump New Hampshire Co-Chairman Fred Doucette & Prominent Trump Supporter Bruce Breton Join Team Negron

Nashua, NH – Political heavyweight Fred Doucette of Salem has put his full support behind candidate Steve Negron’s bid to secure New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District nomination.

As a trusted voice to the President, Doucette now seeks to reach his fellow “common sense approach” Trump supporters by letting them know: “Steve Negron has all the necessary tools in the toolbox. He will support our President, as well as make a difference in protecting the values we hold most important as Granite Staters.”

Dem Party Chair Asks NH Sen. Jeff Woodburn To Resign Over Charges of Assault

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Democrat party has been talking up a good game about their chances this fall, but I’m beginning to suspect they’re not that great. New Hampshire State Party Chair Ray Buckley has wasted no time in the wake of accusations of sexual assault in asking Sen. Jeff Woodburn to quit. Now.

CONCORD – The state Democratic Party called on their highest ranking member at the State House to resign immediately in the wake of criminal charges related to “sexual assault and sexual harassment,” according to the Chairman Ray Buckley.

GraniteGrok’s Top Ten Heavy Hitters for July 2018

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Steve MacDonald

It’s Already August, and you know what that means? There are only 145 Shopping Days ’till Christmas. It seems like a long time, so we’re here to help fill some of that in with the latest installment of Heavy Hitters!

It was an excellent month for blogging with another 200+ opportunities for you to get fresh content from the Grok. Among that multitude of news and opinion rose the ten posts for July 2018. The stories you viewed or read the most.

Here we go.

When a Group that Claims to Defend the 2nd Amendment Steps on the 1st

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The crossfire continues over the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition’s survey with the “fine print” declaration that failing to return that survey would brand you as anti-gun. Skip took them to the woodshed here, pointing out that it is both ridiculous and unproductive, and while Skip inferred it he never actually says it.

They are attempting to compel speech.

Trump Tells Sessions To End Mueller Investigation. Trump Must Have Something Big!

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Washington Times is reporting that President Trump has asked Jeff Sessions to put an end to the Mueller Probe.

The president’s comments came after he quoted Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, who suggested that Mueller is trying to protect his team at the expense of the investigation.

The left will go nuts, but what about Trump doesn’t make the left go nuts? The Democrats will come out and scream obstruction, and the water-carriers in the media will carry their water. And Trump knows that.

So what’s he got?

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

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Skip

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.

Data Point – “Worker pay and benefits climbing at fastest pace in 10 years, ECI finds”

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Skip

The numbers: American workers are finally reaping the benefits of the lowest unemployment rate and best jobs market in decades: Wages and benefits are rising at the fastest pace in a decade. The employment cost index rose 0.6% in the second quarter, a tick below the MarketWatch estimate of 0.7%. More important, the cost of worker compensation … Read more

Data Point – most trustworthy news networks

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Skip

Couldn’t help but take a shot at Trump, could they? (H/T: Media Post via The Hill)

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

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Skip

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:

RU-486 Adds to Clinton Body Count

September 26, 2018July 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Judicial Watch has released details obtained from a Right to Know request regarding the approval process for RU-486, the morning after pill or chemical abortion pill and thousands of pages of FDA documents.

Back in 2006 Judicial Watch published a special report based on thousands of pages of FDA and National Archives documents showing the Clinton administration’s aggressive drive to thrust the abortion pill to the market in the United States despite warnings of its hazards. Judicial Watch uncovered that the abortion pill was fast-tracked under the “Accelerated Approval of New Drugs for Serious or Life-threatening Illnesses,” a measure that was adopted for use in rare cases to encourage the manufacture and importation of drugs designed to treat life-threatening diseases such as cancer or heart disease.

Wikileaks Revisited: How NH’s Gary Hirshberg Worked to Torpedo Bernie’s Campaign

September 26, 2018July 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

People don’t talk about the DNC leak and John Podesta Emails enough. Not in the proper context. Yes, we get that whole smoke-screen Russian hacking narrative but that’s falling apart before our eyes. What is not falling apart because it is real and tangible are the words of Clinton Campaign and Democrat Party operatives and donors busted for a wide range of schemes, scams, and collusion.

This includes emailing Podesta to get Clinton people and White House staffers to pressure Democrat Senators into stopping a piece of legislation that could give Bernie Sander’s several weeks of free earned media and more donations.

A View of Trump From China

September 26, 2018July 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Fiscal Times (FT) is no right-wing rag. They are as incorporated into the globalist world culture (and its narratives) as anyone. So this piece on how China views Mr. Trump and his choices is enlightening.

Donald Trump is leading a double life. In the west, most foreign policy experts see him as reckless, unpredictable and self-defeating. But though many in Asia dislike him as much as the Europeans do, they see him as a more substantial figure. I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by his skill as a strategist and tactician.

An Open Letter to Members of the Franklin, NH School Board

September 26, 2018July 31, 2018 Op-Ed

By Karen Testerman

Once again the taxpayers of Franklin are confronted with a request for an increase in funds. Oddly with a declining population of students, there is still a need for an increase in cost.

What concerns me is that the discussion regarding budgets centers around teacher pay or the number of personnel required or facility needs. There is no discussion about job performance. The results demonstrate to the taxpayer the return on their invested tax dollar.

J Bartlett: Janus Ruling Saves NH State Employees 1 Million A Year

September 26, 2018July 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire’s Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy Reports that based on a Right to Know request the annual calculated savings for State Employees forced to pay agency fees (Post Janus) is over one million dollars.

The state collected $37,913.60 per paycheck from these 2,161 non-union employees, diverting an annual total of $1,012,055.83 from their paychecks to the State Employees Association and the Teamsters.

Employees never saw this money. It was given directly to the unions, even though these employees opted not to become union members.

I’m looking for a word…

About that “Free Money” From Washington…

September 26, 2018July 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

You’ve heard it time and again. Some state or local official promotes a project or a legisaltive initiative because there’s a federal grant available. These sorts of “thinkers” will often implement long-term programs at great expense based on promises of “free money.” The Federal government is paying X percent of costs for Y number of years.

How can we pass that up?

Bodies With Vaginas More Susceptible to Certain Types of Head Injuries

September 26, 2018July 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The new world order goes to great lengths to convince people that Biology is irrelevant. That culture and society decide things like gender. So what are we to make of this?

“…according to a study published Tuesday in Radiology, female players are more sensitive to the impact (of ‘heading’ a soccer ball) than males.

The study authors found that female amateur soccer players who frequently head balls showed more white matter brain alterations than their male counterparts.

Why ‘Borders’ Matter

September 26, 2018July 30, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The elites, the ruling class as Angelo Codevilla called them, lost when the peoples of the several states chose Mr. Trump to be their next President.

Their political machine which includes most of the media has been out to dislodge him ever since. Its more radical elements have ramped up the intimidation and violence.

This has heightened the average American’s awareness of a battle they entered when they stepped away from the failed institution of the expanding super-state to choose someone over which it had little to no power.

A man who ran for office promising to Make America Great Again. A President who believes not just in the sovereignty of the nation-state but that ours provides something you can find no place else on earth.

Mueller Still has Nothing And Mueller is the Proof of That.

September 26, 2018July 30, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Robert Mueller’s mandate as special prosecutor is to investigate and prosecute legitimate cases of “collusion” between ‘Russians’ and the Trump Campaign. He has been at it for a few years now and despite the occasional media-friendly announcements of charges or indictments ‘Mueller’ still has nothing.

How do we know this?