Joseph E. Digenova, a former US Attorney, Independent Counsel, and Special Counsel of the US House of Representatives, was featured in Imprimis (Hillsdale College) in February. The transcript, titled “The politicization of the FBI” shared detailed evidence of political corruption and collusion between high ranking members of the FBI and DOJ, the Democrat Party, the Obama Administration, and the Clinton Campaign.
Tales from the SDGANH
Ah yes, another series like my Tales from the Budcomm. SDGANH (logo coming soon) is the School District Governance Association for NH; consider it the Conservative / Libertarian alternative to the Socialist / Collective leaning School Board Association of NH (who have already made it clear they will brook no dissent or competition from the Right). Today is their Annual meeting and I’ll have a few bon mots as it goes along. This is their second Annual meeting (at the Nackey Loeb School of Education).
If you are a Conservatarian (or leaning) and on a School Board or a Budget Committee dealing with a School Board, this is the place to be you need to be here. If you think that the School Board is supposed to represent the taxpayers instead of being boosters of the Superintendent, you need to be here. If you know that you are supposed to be representing your taxpayers and not just the school system / SAUs, you need to be here.
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Quick Thought: “Medicaid expansion passes NH House on voice vote”
That’s the headline at the Union Leader on the NH Republican elected officials continuing Obamacare in NH, one of the most contentious pieces of legislation over the last five years. What a weseal way of passing such legislature! Nice, easy way to keep your constituents from holding you accountable for a package that may well lead to … Read more
Data Point: Diversity on colleges only goes skin-deep
Emphasis mine: A new study shows liberal bias on campus by the numbers, revealing a startling gap between Democrats and Republicans among college faculty. Nearly 40 percent of the colleges surveyed had zero professors who identify as Republicans. Using a sample of 51 top-ranked liberal arts colleges, the study looked at 8,688 full-time, Ph.D.-holding professors and found that … Read more
Healthcare In New Hampshire: A Brief History
By Aaron Day
Today the Republicans lead the charge to re-authorize Obamacare Medicaid expansion. The budget for New Hampshire for the past 27 years is built on a funding mechanism that borrows billions from children and ignores making real structural changes. Our healthcare system would be better and less expensive if we didn’t rely on the Federal Government and opened up the state to free markets in healthcare.
Here is a brief history of how New Hampshire got here. We will have to deal with this eventually. It is up to us to decide if we will address proactively or from a position of absolute crisis.
May the 4th Be With You
Yes, it is Star Wars Day Again! Celebrate however you like, including not at all. Visit an official site or any number of fan sites (you know how to Google or Bing or Yahoo! or whatever you do). For my part, I’ll leave the latest Trailer for Solo – A Star Wars Story here for you. It … Read more
You Want to Talk About Cultural Appropriation? Let’s Do that!
With all This Talk about Cultural Appropriation when is someone going to start focusing on how the Democrat party has appropriated (or been appropriated) by secular-humanist-socialist-Marxism?
It’s not American. It contradicts most, if not all the cultural foundations or tenents of our nation. So, why does the modern Democrat party, its politicians, and their mouthpieces, get away with appropriating a late 18th-century Euro-Russian worldview and forcing it down our throats?
Update From Michelle Levell on Education Savings Account Legisaltion [Updated]
From Michelle Levell
HUGE NEWS — Late last night the Senate tacked on the original ESA bill version to HB 1636, a charter school bill. This is awesome news!! This means it goes to House Education for a recommendation to concur or reject, or Committee of Conference.
Our objective is to get all our YES reps there for when the House votes on that. I’ll get a list to you asap for who we need to target. But this is huge!
The original Senate version is much
better financial structured (easier and a huge savings to the state), has broader eligibility with no income limits, and is the most-liberty ESA bill ever!
We’ll share that list when it becomes available.
Tornado Watch Likely for Much of New Hampshire
Severe thunderstorms in parts of New York and Pennsylvania are expected to make their way to Vermont and New Hampshire later. The storms could come around 7 p.m.
Meanwhile, much of New Hampshire is under a wind advisory as heavy wind gusts threaten the state. Some of Southern New Hampshire avoids the wind advisory, but is under a hazardous weather outlook.
Dan Itse’s updated book: The States have Powers (the Powers of the People)
We’ll be getting some excerpts from the newly updated 2nd Edition book soon – stay tuned! Dan is one of the smartest and most knowledgeable person on the issue of Constitutions that I know. And its from an engineer’s point of view (not a lawyer and he never plays at being one either)! I’m looking … Read more
Sen. Avard Commends Senate Passage of Constitutional Amendment Restoring Taxpayer Standing
Press Release
For Immediate Release:
May 3, 2018
Media Contact:
Kate Spiner
(603) 271-3043
Kate.Spiner@leg.state.nh.us<mailto:Kate.Spiner@leg.state.nh.us>
Avard commends Senate passage of constitutional amendment restoring taxpayer standing
Concord- NH — Senator Kevin Avard (R-Nashua) issued a statement following passage of CACR 15 Wednesday which would give taxpayers standing to bring actions against the government.
Some Voters Are More Equal Than Others
The old “loophole” argument is back at it again when it comes to voter fraud in NH. The “powers that be” who will not prosecute out-of-state voters have determined there is no law mandating a NH driver’s license to vote in NH. That is their current excuse.
This simpleton argument has no merit, but it does sound good – if you like out-of-state voters stealing a recent US Senate Seat election for Maggie Hassen.
Here is the specific language of RSA 654:1 regarding who can vote in NH.
Woman Celebrated for Killing 3.5 Million People
The Twitterverse murmured #ThankYouCecile the other day to mark the end of Cecile Richards’s tenure leading the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Hats off to the Babylon Bee for skewering that bit of social media hashtagging: “Woman Celebrated for Killing 3.5 Million People.”
That satirical bull’s eye came just a few days after another one from the same source: “Planned Parenthood Defends Bill Cosby: ‘Sexual Assault Is Only 3% Of What He Does,’” I wish I’d written that.
But in all seriousness, Richards is a consequential woman.
With constant reports coming in, it certainly does feel this way.
This is why we have our own “social media” here at GraniteGrok. You can thank the Left’s proclivity on constantly redefining what used to be our “common” language:
Why? Because the Left has redefined the word “tolerance”
…to mean that they only tolerate those that agree with them. Other people, certainly not so much; they’re vaunted “Anti-Bullying” program goes out the window (isn’t that right Dan Williams, when it comes to Libertarians?). This LtE (Letter to the Editor) caught my eye this morning:
To The Daily Sun,
Why do Democrats attack conservative women? Why do Democrats bully conservative women? Why do Democrats hate successful conservative women? An example of this was the attack by the so-called comedian on Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The so-called comedian attacked her looks not her beliefs, she embarrassed her in public, abused her and intimidated her. Democrats attacked Condoleezza Rice on her hairstyle and her choice of wearing black jackets. Conservative women have endured bullying remarks like:
— She is not a woman
— She is a little child
— She is not educated
— Let’s make fun of her accent
— Killing babies is a joke; you need to knock them outWe were in tears seeing a lovely person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders bullied, intimidated and embarrassed on TV. Jimmy Kimmel thought it was funny.
I do not understand why Democrats are bullies and mean to conservative women.
Jim Mayotte
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Data Point – NAEP scores show failure of government schools
“Sixty-five percent of the eighth graders in American public schools in 2017 were not proficient in reading and 67 percent were not proficient in mathematics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress test results released by the U.S. Department of Education.”
And yet, we continue to force children to go to those sub-standard, poorly performing
Sen. Cruz Issues Statement Regarding Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Presentation on Iran’s Nuclear Program
HOUSTON, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued a statement following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s revelations about Iran’s nuclear program:
“Today’s stunning revelations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu powerfully demonstrate why the Obama Iran nuclear deal is not just unfixable, but truly catastrophic. The Prime Minister’s presentation was remarkable—unprecedented—and worth watching in full. Through extraordinary intelligence operations, Israeli agents captured over 100,000 secret documents and files from Iran. These Iranian documents prove that (1) for two decades, Iran has conducted a clandestine nuclear weapons program; (2) Iran lied repeatedly, and brazenly, denying that secret program; (3) the Obama nuclear deal was predicated on that edifice of lies; and (4) Iran is today in violation of that deal.
23 Hours Without New Content – OMG!
Sorry. We get busy too, sometimes. We’ll try not to let it happen again.
420 Protesters Troll Gun Grabbers in Concord, New Hampshire
The Libertarians recently had the pleasure of sharing “protesting space” with Teacher’s Union organizers at the New Hampshire State House. The Big Money Union shindig was a shill for the Democrat-Socialist gun-grabbing narrative. The 420 folks were there to smoke weed and punk the Union hacks whose solution to just about everything is more government control over law-abiding citizens. Which is really weird in this context. Their motivation for applying more of that control is Parkland which only happened because of the epic failure of blessed government at every level.
You’d like to think that “teachers” have more capacity to learn but to the assembled, it seems that the progressive carapace prevents the penetration of any evidence that contradicts the agenda.