New Hampshire Exceptionalism

The voters on this Granite island took a democrat majority government and turned it into a Republican super-majority, making the historical re-election of democrat John Lynch historical for it’s inability to stop anything the legislative super majority can agree is in the best interest of the people who elected them.

Voice of Democracy – Fellowship Christian Academy: Nate!

We still have a few more papers to put up – this one is from Nate! Previous papers were from  Peter, Maggie, Laura, Kathryn, Grace & Tim, Catherine, Ben, Tyler, Jillian, Michael, & Christie!  (Picture credit: Alan Glassman; FCA students interview with GraniteGrok)      Does my generation have a role in America’s future? I … Read more

On American Exceptionalism

From The Corner: It is appropriate to end this history of the American people on a note of success, because the story of American is essentially one of difficulties being overcome by intelligence and skill, by faith and strength of purpose, by courage and persistence. America today, with its 260 million people, its splendid cities, … Read more

Voice of Democracy – Fellowship Christian Academy: Hannah!

Second to last paper – this time from Hannah!

By the way, one of the folks that was at the event, Jeff Chidester, is also one of the principals at the General John Stark Liberty Award organization – while recognizing those who exemplify his famous phrase:

Live free or die; death be not the worst of all evils.

It will be offering scholarships to students as well. While but a fledgling organization (their website is rather sparse – a work in progress), he donated a small token of a prize – a small statue of General Stark.  Folks, I gather we are going to have a contest!

Remember – previous papers done by from  Peter, Maggie, Laura, Kathryn, Grace & Tim, Catherine, Ben, Tyler, Jillian, Michael, Christie, and Nate!

  (Picture credit: Alan Glassman; FCA students interview with GraniteGrok) 

Voice of Democracy:

Does my generation have a role in America’s future?

I believe that every generation has a role in America’s future whether it is for good or for bad.

The Pilgrims came to America in 1620, for religious freedom and to escape persecution. When America was founded, it was given the freedom of religion. People could come to America to worship however they wanted and whatever they wanted, but our country was founded by Christian leaders and on Christian principles. When President George Washington was inaugurated, he added to the end of the inauguration oath “so help me God.” In Washington’s farewell address, he said, “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.” With Christian principles, our country prospered for many years.

The present generation of Americans is slowly getting farther and farther away from…

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GrokTALK! – Podcast page for 11/13/10

Podcast – week of 11/13/10   GrokTALK! Streaming Live!from GraniteGrok To play (or "stream") a clip now, just click on it.  To download it to your PC, right click on it and tell the process where to save the file for you. (Click here for the promo page) Only "snippets" this week – no "Hours" … Read more

Did SB500 Work?

Correct me if I am wrong, like you wouldn’t anyway, but were we not told repeatedly that the best thing about SB500 was that it would allow the former inmates to work their way back into society under a more supervised regiment than if required to serve out their entire sentence.

The Biggest Special Interest Of All

Two Sheets PleaseThere’s something you might want to keep in mind about the state level Democrat wind machine as we move forward toward 2012.  It has been their practice to ignore their own out of state campaign dollars as they attack anyone or anything on the Republican side with even the most tenuous connection to influence from outside the state.  Even the governor has stood up and declared that he is against the influence of money from outside the state, while hundreds of thousands have poured into his pockets from places farther  and wider than the political borders of the Granite State.  But that’s all superficial by comparison to this.

How do governor Lynch, Chairman Buckley, presumptive democrat candidates for 2012 at every level, the whole of the democrat party, even their RINO sympathizers, explain why they embrace massive infusions of out of state money and all the disruptive influence it has at the state and local level…from the federal government?

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Oh yeah, I’m getting one of these…

Virgina wll soon offer a special Gadsden license plate option to its residents. Texas is talking about it as well. Now that we’ll have a sensible House and Senate on Concord, maybe New Hampshire can follow suit.

Contact your NEW State Representatives…

Wondering how to contact your new NH House Representatives? Well, if they were re-elected, you can easily find their contact info on nh.gov.  But if they are new to the House, you really have to dig to find their phone/email. The GraniteGrok has done that for you – see this spreadsheet.  We’ve found about 90% … Read more

To Spend And Protect

Image Courtesy of The Tizona GroupThe State Supreme court announced that is sees a conflict between current state law and spending cap initiatives approved by voters (Manchester in particular).  This is not unexpected but it is fortuitous, and to some degree ironic.  In their quest to defend any liberal-leaning municipalities desire to spend beyond the ability of their residents to pay for it, groups like Keep Manchester Moving have just financed the blueprint by which the now Republican super-majority state government can adroitly engineer a fix.

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The plot THICKENS! Is Chandler plotting with the Democrats to seize the Speakership?

In the latest twist in this fast-developing story, it turns out that Rep. Bill O’Brien, candidate for Speaker of the House, wanted to insert a new rule for GOP Caucus which will be held next week on the 18th. But the other main candidate for Speaker of the House, Gene Chandler, opposes the new rule. What is it? Read on….

 

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BREAKING: Gene Chandler asserts he 100% Republican and 100% loyal to his party

Just a few hours ago Union Leader political columnist John DiStaso came out with an apparent clarification of the intent of Republican Speaker of the House candidate Gene Chandler, after the GraniteGrok posting below created a political firestorm among the new majority Republicans. Chandler indicated that he will not run for Speaker with Democrat support if he loses … Read more

Are we INSANE?

The United States is BANKRUPT. WE. ARE. OUT. OF. MONEY. We are BROKE, you idiots! Yet…here it is: Just pure insanity. No, wait, it’s not "us." It’s our political/government/ruling class. THEY are insane. READ THIS, from Thomson Reuters:   U.S. gives [an ADDITIONAL] $150 MILLION to Palestinian Authority 10 Nov 2010 15:29:14 GMT Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Nov 10 … Read more

Why Bill O’Brien for Speaker: Reason #3

As promised, I now turn to the third reason—actually a "bundle of reasons"—why the new Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives should be Bill O’Brien.

But first, I must state that it is not my intent to launch a personal attack against Gene Chandler. He was the last "real" Republican Speaker of the House in 2003 and 2004, and is now running for that position again. He led his party honorably in the past, but unfortunately not ably. In addition, he fell victim to what can only charitably be called "glaring mistakes of judgment." Because of those mistakes, he was convicted of political corruption, fined $2,000, sentenced to community service in a court of law, driven out of the race for Speaker of the House in 2004, and in 2005 nearly driven from elective office itself. The result was chaos in the Republican Party, the election of a Democrat-supported turncoat Republican to Speaker of the House in 2006, and the eventual destruction of the Republican majority in 2006.

It is not pleasant to dredge up this past political history, but it is necessary. There is an unprecedentedly large freshman class of state representatives, almost all elected as New Republicans upon their promises to fix the damage wrought upon our state over the past four years of rule by the Democrats. Most of these freshmen Republican representatives—and many other Republicans—are unaware of this history. They are also unaware that it would be extremely unwise to elect Gene Chandler to be Speaker of the House of Representatives. Or why.

Accordingly, and unfortunately, all must be explained….

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