GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC TEA Party – Karen Testerman

Karen Testerman founded Cornerstone and also ran to be the Republican nominee for NH Governor this past election cycle.  She is now founding a new family oriented advocacy group – First Principles:

GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC TEA Party – The Patriot Pastor

The Patriot Pastor – just in his colonial garb topped by his tri-cornered hat, he’s a head turner.  Add in his height (6’7") and his personna (just as large), you cannot miss this gentleman in any room.  And yes, once he begins to speak, he gets your attention in his Black Robed Regiment style! Garrett … Read more

GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC TEA Party – Ovide Lamontagne

Ovide Lamontagne ran to be the Republican nominee to be the US Senator from NH during this last cycle.  He, like Rich Ashooh, is staying politically active and has formed the Granite Oath PAC.  There are also rumblings for the next cycle for him – Governor? Time will tell…

GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC TEA Party – Senator Rick Santorum

Former PA Senator Rick Santorum also spoke Saturday at the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC’s TEA Party.  As Jeff notes in his remarks, he had not been scheduled to speak originally; heck, he wasn’t even scheduled to be in State. Already up is the GrokTV Special Interview with the Senator.

Parental Notification: It’s Not Really About ‘Choice,’ Is it?

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House Bill 329. A law that will require the notification of parents for unemancipated minors prior to the performance of an abortion procedure, will get it’s public hearing tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary committee. Most certainly, that public hearing will segue the militant hit-parade decrying this often-called, “anti-choice” legislation.

Planned Parenthood, making quick use of our tax dollars to lobby against this piece of legislation, gives us indicia that should the bill pass the Judiciary and Senate, Planned Parenthood might sue to block its implementation as they did in Alaska. In fact, Planned Parenthood has made concerted efforts all over the Country to block such legislation with various court challenges. Planned Parenthood shows their resolve and that they will not be deterred. In 2005, for example, A Minnesota court ruled that St. Paul Planned Parenthood violated a parental notification law when an abortion was performed on a 17-year-old girl without prior notice to her parents. History instructs us that Planned Parenthood not only actively opposes these laws, but that they are willing to simply disregard them.

In today’s Union Leader story, Gary Rayno reports that opponents of the bill say, “(This bill) will needlessly put the lives and health of young women at risk…” Seriously? opponents all say this, but they never tell you exactly how. Or if opponents tell how, they give anecdotal examples of extreme abuse, rape or incest.  If one accepts that logic, one also has to first admit that all of the other systems and precious safety nets they so ardently champion and advocate for have failed. In cases of abuse, where was DCYF? and why did they not intervene?

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“The need for countries to maximize their take from their citizens”…Really? Is that all we are?

OK, this snippet is from the Economist of about a year ago (yeah, spending the last of my frequent flier miles on magazine subscriptions.  Hey, it allows me to sample some stuff for a short period of time that I wouldn’t ordinarily purchase).

It certainly is a Euro-centric philosophy expressed in its pages – and Big State to boot.  Oh certainly, from time to time, I’ve been surprised that they’ve agreed with my outlook on something.  That said, I could not say that their outlook other than Statist and almost always side with growing Govt.

Can you spot what caught my eye?  Oh, heck, I’ll make it easy for you:

High-tax European governments have complained in the past about competition from countries like Ireland; the current crisis may lead to more calls for co-ordination of tax policies.  Indeed, many countries will be raising taxes simultaneously, which may reduce the temptation for businesses to shift.  much depends on where countries start; it shouldd be easier for those iwth lower tax burdens to increase their take.

Higher earners can also be mobile.  So many French professionals moved to London in the past decade that Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, pleaded with them (and offered tax deals) to come back.  Britain is gradually losing its appeal to high-earning foreigners.  calculations by pricewaterhouseCoopers, an accounting firm, show that British authorities will take a bigger tax bite out of the pay packet of a married exutive earning 250K Sterling ($370K) than any other G20 nation except Italy.

The need for…

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GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC TEA Party – Dr. Julianne Cooper (Dean, Liberty House Academy)

Many folks out there are disgusted with the results of public education – overpriced and underdelivering.  Scores are tailing downward, students aren’t well prepared for higher education or industry, and parents are noticing the emphasis on social issues over academic excellence; zooming growth rates in new charter schools, private schools, and homeschooling are the results … Read more

GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC TEA Party – The Honorable Dan Itse

Jeff Chidester has often called NH House Representative Dan Itse, not a Founding Father (being a few years down the line, now) but a "Defending Father" – one who having (and continuing to) actively studying the NH and US Constitutions, is putting that actively into practice in the NH Legislature.  Here he talks about his … Read more

Reverend Jackboot!?

UCCThe left always considers any comment by clergy, in the secular affairs of state, an affront to imagined Constitutional separations unless the remarks support their positions.  Such is the case with the Reverend Gary M. Schulte of the United Church of Christ (UCC).  With a fusion of left wing talking points and liturgical flair, he leapt the imagined Jeffersonian separation of State and Church, to express his objection to the budget passed by the New Hampshire House.

If taxpayers do not pony up to the government, in the form of a larger state budget, people will suffer.  The old, the weak, the children….But we’ve no idea just how much of your money Reverend Gary will need you to give to the Government to end the suffering, nor can we ever.  Distress always expands to meet the supply of publicly funded services available to reduce it. We just need more even though no amount is ever enough; just look at the failed states of California, Michigan and New York whose pursuit of social justice with taxpayer dollars has made them so bankrupt that they no longer have the money to care for much of anything at all.

But the UCC does not seem interested in that risk.  They are just another myopic Christian/Marxist fusion church that seems willing to advocate state power to achieve warm and fuzzy ends.  It is Social Justice, which is essentially communism.  And communism, being a godless secular faith all its own, has no issue with polluting and then subjugating institutions like the UCC to achieve its ends, even converting or subverting their purposes to advance the growth of statism.  They started with the language, which UCC has embraced, then moved on to policy, which they now advocate. And now we have Reverend Gary, who is probably a great guy who means well, rent seeking for the left wing agenda, with the full power and faith of the UCC behind him, asking politicians to spend more money on government, as if government is the answer.

But if you saw the UCC web site, you’d not be at all surprised.

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The Shrill Kathy and the Business Finance Authority

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The “Shrill Kathy” Sullivan has a bee in her bonnet over Executive Councilor’s St. Hillaire, Sununu and Wheeler’s “vote to table” the April 13 agenda items two, three and four regarding the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority request for a public guarantee for small business loans.

An in her normal, usual and customary fashion of pandering, demagoguery and straw politics, the Shrill Kathy pens her diatribe in the Union Leader Op-Ed section, grossly mischaracterizing the meeting vote as being anti-small business and anti-job creation.

The Shrill Kathy’s first shot is at District 5 Executive Councilor Dave Wheeler and she quips, “Wheeler’s votes often lack thoughtfulness…” Really? How thoughtless? Councilor Wheeler posited the following question, “What does the thirty-five million look like to the bonding companies regarding state debt? and Wheeler adds, “We increased state debt tremendously in the last four years…how does this fit into that picture?”  To which the response was given, “This is reflected as a ‘contingent liability.'”

In that context, we should define, “contingent liability“. A contingent liability is The possibility existent of an obligation to pay certain sums dependent on future events. Liability which is difficult to quantify, or which may or may not come to pass, such as an outstanding lawsuit or a guarantee such as this.

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GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC TEA Party – Jerry DeLemus, GSPLPAC Chair

If it is your organization throwing a TEA Party, one would expect that you would be speaking!  And yes, he did. Jerry is quite the character – a former Marine, there is no misunderstanding where he stands on anything.  You WILL understand, quickly, what his principles and more importantly, if you violate them.  Loud and … Read more

GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC TEA Party – Rich Ashooh

"Gentleman" Rich vied, on the Republican side, to be the candidate to run for Congress from NH’s First Congressional District this past cycle.  Although he did not gain the nomination in the primary, he always had a ready smile and a friendly demeanor.  Make no mistake, he campaigned on the facts that the State and … Read more

New Hampshire state employees are on average paid far more then private sector workers

Here’s a fascinating analysis by Rep. Dan McGuire (who, not incidentally, holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. and who sits on the State House Finance Committee, which is responsible for preparing the NH state budget). We owe Rep. McGuire a debt of gratitude for doing the necessary research; New Hampshire is indeed fortunate to have Republican Representatives like him … Read more

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