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Marilinda Garcia –NH Congressional district 2 candidate Marilinda Garcia joins us for a brief pre-show chat about the campaign to challenge Ann McLane Kuster and some events she has coming up.

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Groksters Assemble – Mike, Skip, and Steve talk about…what is constitutional and who is responsible for ensuring it is, and then visit Maggie Hassan’s SB 120 anti-free speech problem.

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Real Clear Politics has an interview with New Hampshire Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Hemingway.

With his ardent small-government views and outsider bona fides, Hemingway brings a distinctive perspective to the governor’s race here. And as a candidate born during the Reagan administration, he is offering a glimpse at how a new generation of political contenders may soon be campaigning with a different mindset than the one that often prevented their predecessors from saying much of anything interesting. (…)

He is running against fellow businessman and political novice Walt Havenstein, 65, in a two-candidate Republican primary. Christie — the chairman of the Republican Governors Association — recently traveled to the state to endorse Havenstein, who was recruited into the race by influential New Hampshire Republicans.

 And here’s why…

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The Contraceptive mandate was not in the bill congress passed that we now call ObamaCare.  HHS just made them up.

Obama later had Sibelius create exemptions (without congress) for non-profits on religious grounds that waived any responsibility for the non-profit to pay, and at the same time created rules that would require the insurers to cover those devices of medications without charging those costs to the nonprofit.  The Administration made it happen with a phone and a pen.

Obama still has a phone, and a pen.

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A Letter from a CNHT Member up North:

Dear editor,

Please print this article in your newspaper ASAP.

“All NH residents to pay for I – 93 widening, or so it seems!”

In northern NH, a region plagued with gas prices 15 to 20 cents per gallon consistently higher than southern NH, adding another deliberate tax is unthinkable. But in the infinite wisdom of NH politicians, a deliberate tax increase was imposed. Have you felt the “pain at the pump” yet, Northern NH ?!

North Country Democrat representatives as well as a majority of southern NH Democrat representatives decided that all NH residents should pay for the widening of I – 93 (Exits 1 – 5) from Salem through Derry. Or so it seems!

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Democrat Governor signs bill sponsored by prominent State Senate Republicans.  NHGOP Party Chair develops a public problem with it after it goes into effect.

This morning, gas taxes in New Hampshire are 23 percent higher, thanks to Governor Hassan.  23 percent.  In a time when working class families and small businesses are already struggling to make ends meet in the Obama-Hassan economy, a 23 percent gas tax increase is the last thing the Granite State needs.

So it follows that Republican State Senate Sponsors of this tax increase, Senators Stiles, Boutin, and Rausch, (add Bob Odell who did not sponsor it but voted for it) are also “the last thing the Granite State needs.” (Rausch and Odell retired.  That leaves Stiles and Boutin.)

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Kevin Williamson is one of my favorite authors and you can mostly find him over at National Review.  Here is a snippet

…The crude version of exchange — which is, unhappily, the common version — is inclined to suspect that there is an objectively correct price for a good, and that profit comes from duping somebody into paying more than the correct price for it. That error is fundamental to Marxism and other anti-capitalist philosophies, and it is implicit in such social phenomena as the anti-advertising movement, “Buy Nothing Day,” and similar political tendencies. But that bias does relatively little harm in the heads of greying Marxists, peddlers of “profit is a crime” banalities, and Occupy riff-raff. Where it is truly destructive is in the disorganized thoughts of the large majority of ordinary people with no particularly strong political commitments or economic orientation.

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Ah yes, Sandra Fluke – the gal that just keeps on giving…

Sidenote: and giving, and giving,  and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving, and giving….oh, you get the picture.  Not her, fer sure – but her Progressive attitude that screams “YOU OWE ME!!!”

…to us here at the ‘Grok – and we have yet to pay for her contraceptives (wonder if she’s ditched that stupendous free rider hubby of her’s that refused to provide for her himself).  Romney may have been wrong about the 47%, but when Sandra Fluke whines that she expects the Government to force others to provide for her most intimate moments, he had it G-spot on.  But the best summary has been given by Dr. Paul Rahe, on how radically Progressivism is changing the culture and the language:

The deepest source of our present discontents is the sexual revolution. Our abandonment of chastity as a norm has had dire political consequences.  Her right to be promiscuous trumps our right to the fruits of our own labor.

Given the US Supreme Court decisions of Saturday and the anticipated ruling tomorrow on Hobby Lobby / Conestoga vs HHS Contraceptive mandate that may well determine if there is Religious Liberty (enumerated in the First Amendment) or has it been replaced by Entitlement of Sexual Need, Sandra decided that she needed to weigh in once again.

Any day now, #SupremeCourt decides whether corporations can deny women access to contraception. http://t.co/xZ247dqtMf

— Sandra Fluke (@SandraFluke) June 27, 2014

Once again, 

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It looks like poor, penniless, pitiful Hillary will have something besides Rose Law Firm billing records in her trunk from now on – some hard to sell memoirs will be bouncing around in there if her car ever moves again.  (Remember, Hillary was thinking out loud to a reporter not long ago and mentioned she had not driven a car in some 16 years.) Penniless with a chauffeur, not a bad gig as long as you can hold onto it.

And Hillary intends to hold on as long as possible, even with poll numbers below 50% against RINO opponents. Why not? The Democrats have groomed and protected this lay-about for decades. It’s her turn.

But the hard left Democrats that see they can elect and re-elect a true Harvard Marxist as President do not want damaged goods such as a feeble, incompetent candidate – with a track record to prove it. They want the real thing.

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A rather astonishing remark by Obama’s Rasputin (the power behind the throne), Valerie Jarrett on today’s Meet The Press:

I think what the President said was “look, let’s start with the premise that every American should have paid leave and then let’s have a conversation on how to get there.”

The assumption left here is that this is no assumption at all; that she holds that this premise (that all Americans should have paid sick leave for themselves, paid leave to care for family members or other “important people in their lives” and paid leave for maternity / paternity leave) is reality, that the President has the authority to merely declare that this is set policy.  All that is left to the rest of us is how it is to be implemented – and with these communitarian / socialist / redistributionists, the only “discussion” that we in our formerly Constitutional Republic are now allowed amongst us formerly sovereign citizens is who is going to be gouged.

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 “A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.” —Larry Elder

There is never a time when gun-banning liberals cease to work to completely and totally remove firearms from our society…That is, to completely remove from law-abiding citizens the right to have and own firearms. On February 25, 1995 Senator Diane Feinstein told 60 Minutes, “If I could have banned them all – ‘Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns’ – I would have!”

“Who needs Machine guns anyway? There is no practical purpose for Machine Guns,” say those who fancy themselves as a moderate and

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