The Clintons are low-life, tag team crooks from a small state, and not very bright at that. But they are incredibly sneaky and ruthless – in a determined, diabolical way that has served them well. They survive only because of the gutless opponents they have come up against – Republicans.

When the person no one can remember hiring to be involved in Whitehouse security, the overfed campaign thug, Craig Livingstone, got his chubby hands on 900 FBI personnel files on behalf of Hillary, I assumed he used some sneaky security clearance to do the deed.

Maybe not.

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Remember when Facebook was super-giddy-helpful with announcing that the Russians were using Facebook Ads to influence the 2016 Elections? Hey, progressives look at us pimping the narrative du jour!

Well, someone in Seattle realized Facebook was collecting cash (probably a lot of cash) for political ads and failing to properly report who was buying those ads as required by law.

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Like Al Letizio and Dennis Senibaldi, here comes this MIT alum (or so says her email address). Out of the blue, I get this email from her (reformatted, emphasis mine):

From: “Donna Sawyer” <dls@alum.mit.edu>
To: skip@granitegrok.com; steve@granitegrok.com
Cc: “Donna Sawyer” <dls@alum.mit.edu>
Sent: 2/5/2018 6:08:59 PM
Subject: Granite Grok site and Windham School District image share from 2/1 article

Hi Skip and Op-Ed,

I hope all is well. I am a Windham, NH resident and I clicked on an article shared on social media bearing the Windham School District sign from 2/1, written by Op-Ed. I realize now this is not a WSD-endorsed article, but an article on your independent PoliGrok LLC site.

Your site shows signs of affiliate marketing. The Amazon links have a tag for “granitecom-20” which typically indicates the site will achieve a profit when folks use your links to purchase on Amazon.

A profit, she says.  That there’s right funny, I don’t care who you are.  Really, a profit?  Hahahaha!  No, that’s getting paid for getting eyeballs.

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The 603 Alliance Facebook page has a troll. Her name is Nanci Fletcher. According to her Facebook profile she lives in New Boston and most days she’s apt to hurl a bit of left-wing pablum our way. It is so devoid of substance it is not worth the trouble but yesterday she crossed a line so it’s time to give the troll credit where it is due.

Under a link to a story about the tragic death of former State Senator Sam Cataldo, Nanci Fletcher of New Boston wrote, “another seat for the Dems.”

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Yep, other kinds of trolls – back to Donna Sawyer from Windham NH. Again, it is not enough to have the discussions or arguments – they view us as “societal infidels” (just like militant Islam – just sideways) and must be silenced, put down, or destroyed.  Thus, her opening salvo about our affiliations and about “profits”. Yes, a SPECIAL kind of troll – one that sees herself as doing the [Progressive] Lord’s work, for any dissent from their orthodoxy cannot be tolerated (like  Windham School Board Approves Unconstitutional “BATHROOM BILL” Policy).  As I said before, the timing of the incoming trolls in the comment area and the timing of her email was exquisite.

So, I wrote back:

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While the recent release of the controversial FISA memo has shed more light on the genesis of the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign, it has unleashed a firestorm.

The battle lines have been drawn. On one side are the Republicans. They point to clear political bias by senior FBI investigators and indisputable irregularities in their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified emails, an investigation that somehow managed to absolve her and her staff from any criminal liability. And since those same officials played key roles in the investigation of her political opponent, an investigation apparently based on Democrat-provided research, Republicans allege clear abuse of FBI authority.

On the other side are the Democrats, standing with fired Director James Comey and his clique of supporters. They argue that the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is well-founded and that Republican allegations are not only politically-motivated but detrimental to the reputation of the FBI.

Each side can be better understood by considering possible motives.

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By Len Turcotte (Adapted from a letter to the chair of the Commerce Subcommittee on HB628)

I met with Richard Lavers (Department of Employment Security) briefly on Wednesday of this week to discuss the spreadsheets he handed out at the Commerce Committee hearing on January 16th (I am currently awaiting further updates). My questions were focused on the assumptions/estimates he utilized in creating the spreadsheets. As you will recall from Lavers’ testimony, my testimony, and multiple statements contained in the two handouts by the Carsey Institute’s Smith, and Institute for Women’s Policy Research Jeffery Hayes, there exists ZERO data regarding “opt-out, opt-in” FMLI programs since no State has ever attempted them.

My questions for Mr. Lavers:

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I was invited to North Carolina to attend a US Commission on Civil Rights hearing by Jay DeLancy of the Voter Integrity Project, a group CNHT has been associated with for quite some time.

I had three minutes, as one of 40 speakers who also got three minutes, to make New Hampshire’s case regarding the disenfranchisement of legal NH citizens by what I like to call a ‘super-enfranchised’ group of voters from out-of-state.

Super-enfranchised voters have more rights than legal NH voters.

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We are happy to announce a return to GrokTalk!, New Hampshire’s only Conservative podcast from New Hampshire’s leading conservative blog site. (etc.)

Segments will be posted Monday through Friday, and each audio file will be ten minutes or less. Today’s segment is as much an equipment and editing test as anything in which I talk about an election law complaint filed by Ray Buckley and the NH Democrat Party.

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Kurt Schlichter takes a much-deserved shot at the ruling class in his latest Townhall.com column and reminds us what we must never forget.

The most basic principle that has been dumped like a Kennedy’s girlfriend is the one the self-appointed establishment hates most. It is the notion that power derives from the consent of the governed, that those using that power answer to us Normals.

They hate that idea, and they reject it. Openly. Without apology.

The Trump election was a shift away from this ruling political class which has so much disdain for regular Americans.

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The Republican party in New Hampshire has a problem about which its hands are tied, but you can help. Within its ranks are individuals who have registered and run under their brand but either refuse or are incapable of living up to the ideals.

On issues of free association, life, speech, taxes, elections, transparency, regulation, and even worker’s freedom, these elected officials, while claiming to be Republican, vote more like Democrats. All of them from towns where a registered Democrat has little or no hope of achieving office if they run the way they vote.

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Over the weekend, New Hampshire Senator Jeff Woodburn, representing North Country in District 01, deleted a video of himself boasting about how proud he was to have pushed legislation that would ban bump stocks in the state. The video was posted on his Facebook page and only lasted a couple of minutes but it clearly showed Woodburn’s ignorance about bump stocks and his pretty horrific beliefs about his own constituents.

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OK, Fred Butler has another LtE in the local paper and, of course, he is off-point.  Not only off-point in the way that our own inimitable commenter Timothy (factual but of no real relevance in his own special Progressive way) but blames the BudComm for not cutting budgets.  To which I point out, he was part of that problem:

To the Editor,

Fred Butler complains, again, in his Letter of today, of how little the cuts have been to the Municipal and School District budget that the Gilford Budget Committee has made over the years. He knows why – during the time I was on the BuddComm while he was there, I can’t remember a single time he voted in favor of saving taxpayers some money. In fact, near one of the end of BudComm seasons, he argued in favor of more money for the town employees along the lines of “think of the economic impact that would have as they spend it on Christmas presents”.

Shades of Bastiat’s broken window – he failed to mention the economic impact if that money had simply been left in Gilford’s taxpayers wallets.

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