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Just Going to Leave This Here

September 26, 2018June 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

GraniteGrok reports: Annual Belknap County GOP Lake Winnipesaukee Cruise – Eddie Edwards

September 26, 2018June 2, 2018 Skip

Every year the Belknap County GOP has their annual fundraiser on the M/S Mt. Washington that cruises Lake Winnipesaukee. People talk, they eat dinner, they talk some more, candidates for various offices get a chance to speak, political activists are still talking, more candidates, political activists still talk….you get the picture. This year, the candidates … Read more

Arm Yourself With ‘Common Sense’

September 26, 2018June 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

From Greg Camp at Ammoland. There is no correlation between gun ownership and gun homicide rates, nor is there any between how many are murdered by gunfire and the “strength” of the gun laws. Similarly, the suicide rate of a nation shows no effect from the regulations related to what weapons the people living there are allowed to … Read more

Eric Holder: Out-Of-State Students Should Get a NH Driver’s License

September 26, 2018June 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Speaking to Democrats at Saint Anselm College on Friday, Former US Attorney General Eric Holder said Students who want to vote in New Hampshire get a NH Driver’ License and register their cars.

“If you are gonna be considered a resident of this state so you can vote, that means that you have to follow all the other residency requirements that any other citizen would have to comply with,” Holder told reporters. “If you are a New Hampshire resident you have to do a variety of things, and if you’re a college student and a resident, you should have to do the same things.”

New York Times “Runs Out Of Words” to Describe May Jobs Numbers

September 26, 2018June 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

I couldn’t tell you if the cable networks or the alphabets are in on this but The New York Times offered up a glowing report of May’s job’s numbers the same day I wrote this. So here’s the credit where it is due.

The real question in analyzing the May jobs numbers released Friday is whether there are enough synonyms for “good” in an online thesaurus to describe them adequately.

Quick Thought: At least Landrigan gets our name right!

September 26, 2018June 1, 2018 Skip

Actually, two quick thoughts. Many people don’t get our name right – it shows that Kevin Landrigan is paying attention. We thank him for not typing “Granite Grok”; there’s no space there that many put in. Just a bit of a nit, but it’s nice to see he cares about us!

State Rep. Steve Negron, R-Nashua, continues to steadily gain support among the very conservative base of the Republican Party for his 2nd Congressional District candidacy.

GraniteGrok, the conservative political blog, has chosen sides and went with Negron over former Manchester Veteran Affairs Medical Center whistleblower Dr. Stewart Levenson of Hopkinton and former Army officer and ex-Concord state representative Lynne Blackenbeker

“We not only unearthed every stone — we threw a few at him too! Did he answer ALL of our questions in a satisfactory manner? Honestly, no, but then again, very few politicians can. However, in the end, we believe that he earned our votes for an endorsement — we now ask you for your vote come September for Steve Negron,” GraniteGrok posted Tuesday.

The other quick thought: I wonder – where does that “very conservative base”

No, Google isn’t biased against conservatives. It just calls the GOP Nazis

September 26, 2018June 1, 2018 Skip

To be precise, it was the California GOP (not exactly the MOST conservative of state-level GOP organizations) that Google labeled as Nazis:

Less than a week before the California primary, Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party.

In the “knowledge panel” that provides easy access to information next to search results, Google was showing “Nazism” as an “ideology” of the party as of Thursday morning. The word “Nazism” was hyperlinked to a secondary page that shows “Nazism” alongside other “ideologies” of California Republicans like “Conservatism,” “Market liberalism,” “Fiscal conservatism,” and “Green conservatism.”

Senate, House urge Supreme Court opinion on voter residency legislation

September 26, 2018June 1, 2018 Op-Ed

Press Release

Senate, House urge Supreme Court opinion on voter residency legislation

Concord, NH — Following Governor Chris Sununu and the Executive Council’s request that the Supreme Court give their opinion on the constitutionality of HB 1264, AN ACT relative to construction of the terms “resident,” “inhabitant,” “residence,” and “residency,” the New Hampshire Senate and House of Representatives submitted memos to the Supreme Court today urging the court to issue an advisory opinion in support of the legislation’s constitutionality.

Erick Erickson: The Media’s Double Standards

September 26, 2018June 1, 2018 Steve MacDonald

I had some thoughts on this yesterday but there’s room for more.

No television network has ever cancelled the number one network television show in America over a star’s behavior until this happened. Roseanne Barr has a history of making awful comments. She said people who eat at Chick-Fil-A should get cancer. She believed 9/11 conspiracy theories. She ran for President as a far left candidate for office. By the end of last week, the very same people who had been defending the honor of the MS-13 gang were attacking the honor of all Trump voters everywhere as if they were just as bad as Roseanne.

Bet You Didn’t Know – Black Unemployment Hit a Record Low In May

September 26, 2018June 1, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Last Month, in April of 2018, the unemployment rate for black Americans hit a record low. You probably didn’t know that for the same reason you didn’t know this.

Black unemployment fell precipitously to 5.9 percent after a record-setting low of 6.6 percent the previous month, while unemployment for white workers dropped from 3.6 to 3.5 percent.

Overall unemployment, according to the Department of labor, dropped to 3.8%, the lowest it’s been since Y2K.

I KNEW there had to be a reason – thanks, Chris “a tingle up my leg” Matthews!

September 26, 2018June 1, 2018 Skip

Ah yes, yet again the double standard: how DARE you extremist Righters sterotype “marginalized communities” – instead, let me show you how it’s done, GOPpers! “Republicans are told to ‘read the Wall Street Journal, play golf, and talk about pro sports.’ The men especially are all programmed a certain way. They don’t have too many … Read more

New Democrat Narrative on Spying

September 26, 2018June 1, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Data Point – “Staggering DOJ study: 83 percent of prisoners re-arrested within 9 years of release”

September 26, 2018June 1, 2018 Skip

Overall, 68 percent of released state prisoners were arrested within three years, 79 percent within six years and 83 percent within nine years. The 401,288 released state prisoners were arrested an estimated 2 million times during the nine years after their release, an average of five arrests per released prisoner. On an annual basis, 44 … Read more

No successful model of Socialism

September 26, 2018June 1, 2018 Skip

True. VERY true: (H/T: Susan)

It’s Still Voter Fraud – Like It Or Not

September 26, 2018May 31, 2018 Ed Naile

New Hampshire has about 980,000 registered voters.

At least 5,300 of those voters:

Can’t legally register their dog in New Hampshire.
May not legally obtain a NH hunting license.
None of those “voters” are qualified to be called for jury duty in the Granite State.
Are paying out-of-state college tuition at NH State Colleges because they cannot legally sign the domicile statement on the NH Resident Tuition Form.

The same number used an out-of-state driver’s license as identification to help NH elect candidates.

Sununu Signs Bill To Allow Families to Opt Out of Statewide Assesments

September 26, 2018May 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

HB1744, an ACT authorizing a parent to exempt his or her child from participating in the statewide assessment program, is now Law in New Hampshire. It does a few things. It allows parents or legal guardians to exclude their children from any statewide assessment. It prohibits local districts form punishing parents or students for choosing to opt out. And it excludes the names of student’s and parents from Right to Know requests, protecting them from intimidation tactics by third parties.

Iowa Supreme Court Rules Civil Forfeiture Laws Violate Fifth Amendment

September 26, 2018May 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

From Forbes.com care of Kevin Bloom, the Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s Civil Asset Forfeiture laws violate the Fifth Amendment to the constitution.

Under state law, property owners who want to reclaim their seized property must fully disclose “the nature and extent” of their interest in the property, as well as “the date, the identity of the transferor, the circumstances of the claimant’s acquisition.” Refusing to comply can result in the property forfeited to the state. Yet those forced disclosures may reveal information that could incriminate the owner or trigger a perjury trap, which would violate the Fifth Amendment.

They Like to Try to Weaponize Our Morality Against Us

September 26, 2018May 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Kurt Schlichter has invested some time to help the peeps deal with progressive mic-drop rubbish designed to prevent debate or silence dissent. He calls them obnoxious liberal argument cheats. And he’s got a reliable answer for each that I’ve advocated for years. So read them all. But I wanted to share at least one of his scenarios because this one comes at us from all sides.

They like to try to weaponize our morality against us, which is hilarious since they hate morality almost as much as they hate us. They create some sort of moral test, usually out of thin air, and then announce you have failed it. One of the best was the recent “Splitting up families of undocumented workers is not who we are!” Except it is who we are. We split up the families of criminals all the time and we should – there’s no nursery in San Quentin for a reason.

Proving Once Again How Right I Am

September 26, 2018May 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

If you’ve missed it, and to do that you’d have had never to read a word written here (which, don’t be surprised, is common among people passing judgment on my commentary), I’ve made the case that Democrats don’t actually care about women, children, blacks, Latinos, or any of the LGBTQ folks. Add to that teachers, single moms, cops, blue-collar backbones of America, working families, and even “immigrants” legal or otherwise whether white, black, gay, you get the picture? If you are not on Team Progressive, your tribal rights are revoked. Nothing about you entitles you for anything but derision if you dare to speak outside the approved narratives.

The latest example of this comes courtesy of Samantha Bee who is getting an award for ‘Social Change,’ after calling Ivanka Trump a, hang on. This needs to go after the jump.

Granite Grok Endorses Steve Negron in NH’s Second Congressional District

September 26, 2018May 30, 2018 Op-Ed

Steve Negron at WDL 2A Rally — Steve Negron at WDLNH 2A Rally (‘Grok image)

Every election in NH is really a race in three parts: 1) for political activists to serve on campaigns, endorsements, and donors, 2) to win the primary election, and 3) to win the general election. That first race is nearing its end. We at the ‘Grok have been studying the candidates, listening to their words, and reading their campaign materials to evaluate where they stand in OUR eyes.