Shades of Barbara (“Please call me Senator; I worked so hard for that title”) Boxer in browbeating a US Military General who used the honorific “Ma’am”:

Senator Kay Hagan (D., N.C.) is scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to finding ways to portray her Republican opponent, House speaker Thom Tillis, as anti-woman.  Following the two Senate candidates’ first debate, Hagan’s team is complaining thatTillis called his former colleague by her first name.  “We saw women on social media in particular who were bothered by his tone and more than anything they were bothered by his record,” Hagan spokeswoman Sadie Weiner told Politico.

Yeah, these nitwits wouldn’t stand a chance here in NH where I can walk down the street and either congratulate or berate my NH House rep.  The gubernatorial candidates know me by sight.  Ditto the congressional and senatorial candidates doing battle tomorrow in the Republican Primary.  My federal delegation?  Ditto.  We are that kind of a state – it IS about the retail politics.

And yes, I call them all by their FIRST names, and not

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Owner of Liberty Bell Cabs in New Orleans, Tony Makhoul, called Uber a “cyber terrorist organization.”

Liberty Bell – that artifact, that symbol, from our past – a symbol of our Independence and our Freedom.  Freedom for our lives and freedom in our marketplaces.  Or rather, the freedoms we used to have.  You see, Makhoul has a different idea about who gets to compete in which marketplace:

Makhoul previously showed his propensity for using words without regard for clarity or meaning in a statement made in July.“It’s hypocritical, preposterous and indeed disgusting that we are entertaining Uber in our market today.”

Uber, if you haven’t learned about it yet, is an app based taxi / ride sharing system – and a HUGE threat to Crony Capitalism.  In this case, it is the Crony Capitalism between city governments that restrict the taxi cab marketplace such that only so many taxis can service a given area – and keeps prices propped up for consumers.  Medallions, handed out by Government, can cost up (and over) a million dollars in an unregulated marketplace – per cab.  It is the ultimate collusion of politicians and the industry they “oversee” (in many cases, more like graft ridden) – for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.

If Mr. Makhoul truly believed in Liberty, he would accept the new competition and 

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Please take a few minutes to take the GraniteGrok New Hampshire Primary eve poll.

Choose whom you’d like to see win in each of these Republican primary races, and we’ll compare that to tomorrows actual results. Note: You can vote each poll- chose a candidate and hit the Vote button, and then move to the next race.  You only get one vote per race so choose wisely.

(And hey!, please do no ask me why I did not poll your race.  I simply picked a few we’ve been following closely at the Grok.)

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More polls on the jump

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And depending on how you vote, for whom you vote, this can change.  Who will be the man or woman of the status quo, who will be the person that will continue the same-o, same-o under the rubric that Government should manage things for the rest of us?  Or, who is the person that has said “We in government should not decide the winners and losers – you should”?  Who are the folks that believe in Government should take care of others – because you won’t so it is forced to take more from you?  And who says “I trust you to make the right decisions – we in government need to stay out of the way.

After all, the State will depend on them – after all, do you see New Hampshire in this top ten?

No, you don’t.  I think you will be disappointed in where we stand – a continual slide due to the calcification of both the labor and business marketplaces by “those who know better than those that labor and run those businesses”:

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Here is the NH GOP response to journalists asking for comment on the Jim Foley information THAT THE MSM SAT ON but GraniteGrok’s Kimberly Morin broke over at the Examiner:

The NH GOP released the following statement: “I understand the concern expressed by so many of our good activists across the state. Party bylaws prohibit officers of the Republican State Committee from intervening in contested primaries. We trust grassroots activists and Republican primary voters will consider this new information as they select our District 19 state senate nominee on Tuesday.”

To describe this, all I could come up with was “mealy-mouthed” when I first read it – a complete dereliction of protecting The Brand – no interest in it at all.  Typical insider politics (H/T: Kimberly).  Once again, the top NH GOPpers couldn’t muster ANY indignation to say “this is bad, bad, bad”

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Congress has a well-deserved 77% disapprove rating.  Congress’s members are irresponsible, wasteful, dishonest, and they don’t solve America’s problems.  Illegal immigration is tolerated and even rewarded, politicians spend future generations into debt to buy votes today, welfare keeps people poor rather than leading them to be successful, public education declines after forty years of Federal government “help”, etc.

So why do the American people keep sending the same people, or people like them, to Congress?  Because special interest groups, which get billions of dollars and special privileges from our corrupt and dysfunctional Congress, spend hundreds of millions of dollars to reward supporters and to fight against the election of anyone who might threaten their generous incomes and privileges.

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While Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders talks Marxist redistributionist theory to Unions who pay no taxes, Venezuela is showing us the end result of years of policies Senator Sanders pines for in the US.

Venezuela Set to Import Oil

Venezuela’s oil production, which accounts for 95 percent of the country’s export earnings, should be used in world classrooms as a textbook case of what happens when a populist government starts distributing a country’s wealth in cash subsidies, without investing in maintenance and innovation. Much like happened with Cuba’s once flourishing sugar industry, Venezuela’s Chávez-inspired populism has destroyed the goose that laid the golden eggs.

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