What does that mean?  ‘Grok friend Warner Todd Huston has the news:

With the updating of the Smith-Mundt Act, some are criticizing the repeal of rules that banned certain government-sponsored news broadcasts–such as Voice of America–from being aired inside the USA.

John Hudson of Foreign Policy, for instance, calls the move a “repeal” of the ban on government propaganda and says it will unleash “thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption.”

“Until this month,” Hudson says, “a vast ocean of U.S. programming produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks could only be viewed or listened to at broadcast quality in foreign countries.”

But with new amendments to the Smith-Mundt Act, those broadcast outlets will for the first time be allowed to broadcast inside the USA programming meant to appeal to specific communities.

I agree with Warner with some of his observations – Big Deal?  When the Mainstream Media is not much more than a mouth-piece for the Obama Administration already and letting their own biases and Progressive advocacy fly, how much worse can it get?

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“Irony is the hygiene of the mind.”   —Elizabeth Bibesco

“Together Colorado“, an anti-gun group in Colorado had planned to host a gun buy back program whereby gift cards or tickets to sporting events would be exchanged for guns. The scheme intended to have people come, hand over their guns and get the gift cards or tickets….not so fast. With the recent passage of Colorado’s Strict Gun Laws, such a program would violate those very laws. Irony.

Colorado law, as passed by the legislature and signed by Hickenlooper states that all firearms transfers must go through a federally licensed firearms dealer. The dealer, according to law, then performs a background check for each transfer. Yes…every gun transferred.  If Together Colorado, had wanted the buyback to take place the group would have to host it at a gun shop, by law. Traditionally, dealers charge a transfer fee somewhere in the neighborhood of $25 to 35 per firearm.

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You never really know who your neighbors are do you?  And when your ‘neighbor’ is a high ranking member of the New Hampshire Democrat Party the idea of “neighbor” becomes such a moving target.  For all you know they could be running a home with a revolving door for stray professional campaign operatives.

When asked about such things, like hey, why did eight people vote from your single family home, Democrats say the darnedest things.  Take this statement from New Hampshire State Democrat Party Vice-Chair Martha Fuller Clark, who also happens to be a sitting NH state Senator.

When asked about the legitimacy of their domicile status–voting in NH from her very own home, Clark said:

“By and large, the young people who stayed with me were committed to New Hampshire, but given their age, whether they intended to stay is impossible to predict.”

Impossible to predict?  You had a paid professional Democrat Congressional staffer vote from your home in New Hampshire and her intention to stay was impossible to predict?

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Doris Hohensee shared this recently on Facebook and I think it relates a great deal to what is going on with Martha Fuller-Clark and the voter-motor-motel.  (I have added some links to the original.)

The New Hampshire State Board of Education’s newest member is Emma Rous from Durham.  There are four voters hailing from 50 Adams Point Road in Durham, where Emma lives;  Emma Rous, Walter Rous (Emma’s husband), Nahanni Rous (Emma’s 38 year old married daughter), and Ben Rous (Emma’s 38 year old married son).

Funny, how these twins never moved out.  Common in cases of voter fraud.

Ben Rous resides in Norfolk, Virginia. Check out his Facebook or Linkedin pages if you don’t believe me. He’s an associate conductor at the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and conductor at the Greenwood Music Camp in western MA. He’s married to Clara Lee, who also resides in Virginia.

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Still mad over Guinta’s failure to live up to his promise to cut spending when he was in the US House and did vote for the Continuing Resolutions that increased spending – and our debt.  He got cold feet – what, me voting in such a way that the Government might shutdown from a lack of increased debt?  And then losing my job here in Congress?  Enough people here in NH were infuriated over those votes so as to NOT vote for him this last time.  While all kinds of Establishment Republicans have excoriated me  for pointing that out over and over again, I don’t care.  I want Republicans that I can vote for that I can TRUST – that they will have the CONSISTENCY in their actions in DC that they said they’d have while they campaigned.  Mad?  Yeah, I spent a lot of “capital” fer nuttin.  Don’t lie to me – I don’t forget.

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Listen up, Mark MacKenzie and James Andrews (head AFL-CIO in NH and NC) – Right To Work is all about choice.  From the Milwaukee Journal -Sentinel via Hot Air, it shows that when Union Members can still work without having to be part of anti-choice unions, they voted with their feet and no longer paying their dues:

Wisconsin’s public employees are leaving their unions in droves, which should be no surprise: With passage of Act 10 in 2011, public unions in the Badger State lost many of their reasons for being. The “budget-repair bill” pushed through the Legislature by Republicans and signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker limited bargaining to wages only, and then only up to the cost of living; it also required unions to recertify each year and barred the automatic collection of union dues. Relying on federal financial records, the Journal Sentinel’s Dan Bice found union membership has declined by 50% or more at some unions, including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 48, which represents Milwaukee city and county workers.

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One of my personal twitter lurkers, nhdogmom, is a liberal troll and progressive water-carrier.  A reliable progressive Kool-Aid® junkie.   I love those.  Which is why I love this…

http://twitter.com/nhdogmom/status/358293824382046208

Note the effort to tie the NHGOP to me using the same progressive tactic whose hypocrisy I actually expose in the linked article; Democrats not denouncing bad behavior from their own.  I’m talking about New Hampshire Democrats remaining silent while the Black Panthers are putting bounties on the heads of private citizens.

So I guess she must be OK with that then?

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As the sysadmin for GraniteGrok, that means I get (have ?) to review all the comments.  A relatively new commenter, Radical Moderate, has left a couple of serious questions for Steve on his post “The Public Unions vs. the Public — Prager University“.  I figured that even though Steve will have his own thoughts, they were certainly worth commenting on myself (e.g., GOOD questions!).  Don’t always get the chance to do so, but this is one of them:

Hi Steve,

This is where I take a different path from you guys at GG. Out of respect I will let you have at the unions unmolested. But I would just like to pose a couple of questions.

1. Prior to the massive influx of illegals and those that never put into the system taking out money we always had enough to pay for pensions of public workers. Why is the focus on public workers pensions and why have TPTB made only moves that take back public pensions and not the money illegals are sucking out of the system?

2. Is it possible that there has been an orchestrated global austerity movement and you are playing right into their hands by pushing the ‘blame the unions’ line?

My response:

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The race in January for the NH GOP Chairmanship was one between the Establishment and the Grassroots (go figure) with Andrew Hemingway being the hands down favorite of the latter group.  His platform consisted of:

• A promise to be able to Unite the different factions of the Party

• A promise to be able to Fill the Coffers so as to prepare for next election cycles with getting more boots on the ground for votes

• A promise to completely revamp the NH GOP’s technology platform so as to compete with the Democrat Data Machine

Promises are to be kept (especially when they were promptly copied) – else there is no Consistency and where there is no Consistency of results, there can be no Trust going forward.  So how is Jennifer Horn doing?

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Still waiting to hear from you, good buddy!  After all, who can be FOR that War On Women you folks were all babbling about around the election – something about Republicans wanted women to go without contraception and  women in binders, or some such nonsense?  Like this:

Mayor Bob Filner’s former communications director filed a sexual harassment lawsuit on Monday against the leader of the nation’s eighth-largest city, alleging he asked her to work without panties, demanded kisses and dragged her around in a headlock while whispering sexual advances.

Is going without panties on in the office the same as denying them contraception in the bedroom, Harrell?  Didn’t know that you Democrats had a “go commando” clause as part of your Platform (or is that some unwritten rule)?  I think that most folks would agree that a headlock is some kind of binder, eh?

Oh Wait!  Isn’t that YOUR Party’s Mayor?  In San Diego?  Bob Filner, right?

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The NHHRA final score card for the complete 2013 session also here NHHRA 2013 Scorecard_070513 is out and we’re as curious as ever to see who ran as a Republican then failed to vote like one.  Some of the names are very familiar…

Yes, we’ll get the usual flack, but before you start grousing consider this.  They could run as independents or moderates.  They could run as Democrats–there are Democrats with similar scores, and at least one or two with a better score.   What we need to ask ourselves is why are they running as Republicans?  Is it because they couldn’t get elected as anything else?  And if all we need is any Republican why are they the best we can do?

Or are they?

If you live in any of these districts these are things you should consider as 2014 approaches.

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