One of the State Senate primary races we are following is between JP Marzullo and Jerry Little.  JP is the Republican Candidate in the race.   Jerry is a guy the NHGOP found who has some money, a history of supporting Democrats, with support from people who have a history of supporting Democrats, but who is willing to run as a Republican.

As the campaign has progressed we’ve started hearing things.  Little is reported to be spreading some interesting rumors about his opponent, so we though it was time to air at least two of them out in public.

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From Hot Air  More or less the way they posted it…

Obama on Export Import Bank in 2008 – Fund for corporate Welfare

Obama on Export Import Bank in 2014 – Why have some Republicans taken my 2008 position on this?

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A good friend has been following GraniteGrok on the issue of the illegal alien kids invasion and sent this to me:

Skip – whatever happened to “suffer the little children to come“?  This isn’t a moment to score political points.  This is a moment to practice being a Christian.  Perhaps we should be sending troops to Hondoras instead of adding them to the unemployment lines.

He’s a good guy – a hard worker (former co-worker), a good family man, and takes his beliefs seriously. But he was offbase with this and I needed to gently tell him that:

“Suffer the little children to come” – use the whole quote in context, <redacted>.  It was never for us to call EVERY child in the world to come illegally into the US.  The full quote (Matthew 19) is:

13Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. 14But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” 15After laying His hands on them, He departed from there.

And notice that it was His choice of an individual action – not a governmental one.  He did not

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Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) decried the House GOP lawsuit as he addressed “all the white people in here” during the Rules Committee hearing — which was filled with battles between the Democrats and the newly unified Republicans like Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers, who both also commented to the Rules panel.

Forget about Hastings’ impeachable past.  What his statement represents is the increasingly open philosophy in Democrat Party circles that race explains everything, including the certain demise of the GOP in time.  Instead of acquiescing to this evil, instead of accepting the premise of this immoral racialism, the Republican Party must strike back.

We have blogged about this guy in the past (here, here, here, and hereThe first shows how this guy operates; knowing that HIS skin color protects him against widely being called a racist by the Left (as he throws the race card against Sarah Palin).  He is one of the more frequent throwers, but I have watched the Left use this more and more and more in what is now called “political discourse” as they use Alinsky’s Rule and attempting to demonize those that simply disagree with them.  Almost any issue, any topic, and the Left is going to throw

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“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”   – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

I really don’t think that just because they show up for work, that what happens then can be called “work”.  Our Federal Government’s “whether it works” on full display (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Federal paralegals had no work, so they surfed the Internet

Dozens of federal employees at an obscure agency that handles appeals of patent applications went years with so little work to do that they collected salaries — and even bonuses — while they surfed the Internet, did laundry, exercised and watched television, an investigation has found.  The employees, paralegals making $60,000 to $80,000 a year, were idle with full knowledge of their immediate bosses and multiple layers of managers and judges who “sat on their hands” waiting for work to give them, a year-long probe by the Commerce Department inspector general’s office uncovered.

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MANCHESTER — The federal government has released 13 undocumented children, who were part of a flood of 57,000 unaccompanied Central American children crossing the southwest border of the United States illegally since last October, to “sponsors” in New Hampshire since Jan. 1, according to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The revelation was a surprise to state and local officials who said the federal government placed the children without notifying state agencies.

“This is the first I’ve heard of it,” state Senate President Charles “Chuck” Morse, R-Salem, said Friday night. “I’m very concerned about it. We have 13 people show up in New Hampshire we don’t even know are here. It’s not right.”

“This is an issue that is infuriating people,” Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas said Friday night. “How do you just send them without telling anybody?”

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During our second segment of GrokTALK! this morning, we talked with Robin Eubanks:  “author of  Credentialed to Destroy — Robin S. Eubanks — calls in to update us on state and globally directed education”reform,” what they call competency based education.”   We discussed how the impending curriculum of Common Core and newest iteration of CBE really stems from the philosophy of Progressive John Dewey back around 1890s/1900s.  That people existed to be “cogs in the machine of society” and education was should to be designed to turn out compliant worker-bees.

Robin, and Grokster Mike, emphasized that such “education” will cut out the heart of the American economy – that “creative destruction” via innovation by those relative few that have the “bright ideas” that drive new products and industries (which history has shown has created a vastly higher standard of living than ever contemplated under planned economies).  The question that must be faced from the “new education” is this: if people are trained to be “compliant,” where will the striving be that is such a large component of innovation?  What happens to the “few strivers” when striving and risk taking is bred out of us?  The discussion of “the few” immediately brought this Robert Heinlein quote to mind (as GraniteGrok is, in part, named from a word from Heinlein best seller “Stranger in a Strange Land” – Grok):

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