Trees were killed unnecessarily to create Fergus Cullen’s doorstop, Granite Steps. It’s an ode to the politics of New Hampshire’s First in the Nation primary as told by the man who bankrupted his own State party and escorted it out of power and in to obscurity. No, I have not read it. If I found a copy at the dump I wouldn’t waste part of my life to pick it up, let alone read it.

Here’s the hard data from Amazon.com

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Former Department of Homeland Security investigator turned whistle-blower Phillip Haney sat down for an interview with Ginni Thomas. Haney describes his job, and what happened when Obama’s Civil Rights storm troopers came calling.

Back in 2012, seven officials from the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security’s Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Division (CRCL) found Haney’s work objectionable, leading to the 2012 effort to close his work down as the civil rights of foreign nationals could be violated.

“The administration was more concerns about the civil rights and liberties of foreign Islamic groups with terrorist ties than the safety and security of Americans,” Haney says.

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Real Science | Over the past month, there has been a large surge in Arctic ice growth, leading to the largest extent for the date since at least 2004. This went on all through #COP21 – where tens of thousands of criminals met in an effort to steal your money, freedom and energy security.

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The New York Post Headline put it this way. “Students at Lena Dunham’s college offended by lack of fried chicken.”

Students at an ultra-liberal Ohio college are in an uproar over the fried chicken, sushi and Vietnamese sandwiches served in the school cafeterias, complaining the dishes are “insensitive” and “culturally inappropriate.”

Gastronomically correct students at Oberlin College — alma mater of Lena Dunham — are filling the school newspaper with complaints and demanding meetings with campus dining officials and even the college president.

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Western Journalism.com is reporting on a White House cover up related to the recent terrorist attack in San Bernadino.

On Thursday, a whistleblower came forward. Phillip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security investigator, says he could have likely prevented the attacks in San Bernardino if the government had let him do his job. Three years ago, Haney had developed surveillance that revealed a global network of jihadists had infiltrated the United States.

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That’s what Steve and I yakked about during the GrokTALK! preshow this morning about this:

BREAKING. The DNC Goes To War Against Bernie Sanders And Vice Versa

Hillary Clinton disturbed to find information on an unsecured server can be stolen

Well, well – just like the hypocrites they are – it doesn’t matter if it is OTHER peoples wealth they hoover up to redistribute to others, but man oh man, they kick and scream if it is THEIR’S!   Heck, from my standpoint, all it was was a redistribution of data wealth – what’s the big deal?

Oh, it was YOUR’S, Hillary?  Reformatted, emphasis mine:

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Tonight Dan Innis, Republican candidate in NH District 01 tweeted a story I wrote when he ran last election.

#TBT#nhpolitics#NH01https://t.co/8EfPlNzLQhpic.twitter.com/hnCuIj0dVT

— Dan Innis 4 Congress (@daninnis) December 18, 2015

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The Boston Herald has a New Hampshire primary poll out this morning (post-debate). Trump 26, Cruz 12, Rubio 12, Christie 11, Bush 10,  Kasich 8, Fiorina 6, Carson 5, Paul 3, …

Observations on the NH numbers: Fiorina and Carson continue to slide while Donald Trump maintains a stranglehold on first.  The next position is a statistical tie in New Hampshire but as of this writing only Cruz, Trump, and Rubio stand to find some separation as a result of a bump coming out of Iowa.

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SeacoastOnline is reporting that Exeter High School will no longer hold dances. Why? Students were engaged in sexually suggestive grinding on the dance floor. Alcohol or drug use were also cited as issues but the thrust of the problem appears to be dirty dancing.

This is unfortunate for the kids who just wanted to dress up a bit, go to a dance, and be social, in person, in an A-social, plugged-in, digital world. The school, in their infinite wisdom, has chosen to abandon the practice rather than define and enforce matters of etiquette.

But what if this is the proper etiquette thanks to years of what passes for a modern public school education at SAU 16?

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On Tuesday, The Mises Institute reported on a study from Pew Research that looked at the homicide rate in the United States. Ironically this report comes out the day after out-of-state gun control lobbyist Mark Kelly was in New Hampshire pushing for more gun control laws.

The study looked at the homicide rate in the United States and finds that the homicide rate has increasingly fallen. New Hampshire’s homicide rate is incredibly low. From Mises:

In New Hampshire, the homicide rate in 2014 was 0.9 homicides per 100,000, making New Hampshire in 2014 one of the safest places (in terms of homicide) on planet earth.

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