NH GOP AWOL (AT BEST) ON PARENTAL NOTIFICATION

Here is a front page editorial in the Union Leader on the expected repeal of the parental notification law, which is being championed by "Republican" Liz Hager.  Since I haven’t heard anything on the issue from the State GOP, I am left to assume that either the State GOP supports Hager or that it is … Read more

MEMO TO NH GOP — NO NEED TO “BE THE DEMOCRATS” TO “BEAT THE DEMOCRATS”

This follows up on my two posts below regarding parental notification and same-sex marriage.  I assume the NH GOP’s avoidance of these issues results from a fear of turning off independent voters.  I don’t think that accepting or adopting the Democrats’ far-left agenda is necessary to attract independents.  Most folks support parental notification and, regardless of their views on … Read more

Ann Coulter’s Britney Spears moment?

Sometimes a person can be too smart for their own good. There are times when, for some inexplicable reason, certain otherwise very intelligent individuals can say the stupidest things imaginable in some lame attempt at humor that in the end makes no sense to anyone else but them. Think John Kerry or George Allen for some recent examples you might recall making headlines. The medical term, I think is "SSS" ("Sudden Stupidity Syndrome"), or "triple-S".
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The latest public figure to become afflicted (some might say as a "relapse") with the scourge of "Triple-S" is, it pains me to say, Ann Coulter, who, giving a speech to CPAC, used the word "faggot" in reference to Democratic presidential wannabee John Edwards. (Click here to watch the video clip). I agree with RWN’s John Hawkins on this one:
the flip side of Ann grabbing headlines for herself is that she deliberately put the presidential contenders and the other people attending CPAC in a bad light (Left wing talking point: "See, that’s what Republicans really say when they’re together!") in order to draw attention to herself.

That makes her extremely selfish, especially since this is the second year in a row that she has said something particularly obnoxious and controversial at CPAC. What’s on tap for next year? Will she drop the N-bomb? Will she use the C-word to describe Hillary Clinton? Whatever her plans are, after being burned twice in a row, CPAC shouldn’t invite her back next year.

I really hate to do this, but for her stupid remark, there is no choice but to give Ann Coulter the GraniteGrok "Dope of the Week" award…

Even if she claims we’re all using the wrong definition of the word, she still shouldn’t have done it. Huh?

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BOOK REVIEW

I recently read Jan Crawford Greenburg’s Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court.  Greenburg, who is a graduate of the University of Chicago’s law school and a correspondent for ABC News’ Washington D.C. bureau, based the book on interviews with current and former Supreme Court justices and their law clerks, federal appeals court judges, current and former White House officials, and the papers of Justices Marshall and Blackmun.  The result is an entertaining “behind-the-scenes” account of Supreme Court nominations beginning with Sandra Day O’Connor’s and of the internal dynamics of the “Rehnquist Court.”

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Global warming. Fixing it’s as easy as… well, raising taxes.

This past Saturday during our radio program, “Meet the New Press” (podcasts here) I gave co-host Pat Hynes (AnkleBitingPundits) the needle about “his guy”, John McCain, the latest politician to climb aboard the “man is the cause of global warming” bandwagon. As someone who refuses to buy into that notion, I am becoming more distressed by the day … Read more

This is just too delicious…

Every once and a while, a story comes along that just makes you go, "Yes!" You know- the one that that will be immediately understood for what it is… and what it says, by anybody that reads it. Consider this from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research: Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own … Read more

Just say “No!” (to the United Way)

As if a person needed another reason to tell the United Way to "stick it" when they come calling… . Consider this little piece of news about United Way activities. Not content with bullying Boy Scouts, enticing companies to "shake down" their employees, paying exhorbitant executive salaries, and otherwise putting long-time charities out of business, now … Read more

More inconvenient truths for the global-warming crowd

I don’t know if it’s just me, but it sure seems like more and more scientists and weather & climate types are taking a more vocal, prolific stand against the notion that man’s activities are the primary cause of global warming. In a recent post, I noted a hurricane specialist that attributed the current more active … Read more

US taxpayers get rare piece of good news…

Regular readers might recall that some time back, I posted a lengthy piece (What, me worry? For some Republicans, it’s business as usual.) about how many Republicans, fresh off a stinging electoral defeat, didn’t understand why. It was (and still is) my contention that their big spending ways were a major cause. I wrote Missteps. Corruption. … Read more

Didn’t he get the memo?

I’m sure this guy will be out of a job before too long… Expert disputes storms’ link to global warming By Zane WilsonThe Sun News COLUMBIA – As population continues to grow on the coast and people build more structures, losses from hurricanes will go up drastically but it isn’t because of global warming, one … Read more

THE LEFT IS PANICKING

2008 is supposed to be their year.  But the polls show that Rudy Giuliani would handily beat Hillary "Mistress-of-Evil" Clinton.  So the left-wing media is already throwing mud at  Rudy.  Pravda-on-the-Merrimack, aka the Concord Monitor, has an article criticizing Rudy’s lifestyle and expressing concern about his temper.  Funny, I don’t remember Pravda-on-the-Merrimack too concerned with Bill … Read more

LOSING THE NH ADVANTAGE

The State Senate yesterday passed a bill to ban smoking in bars and restaurants.  I find smoking disgusting, but what about the principle that private property is, well, private? 

Apparently, the seven Republicans who voted against  the bill offered several amendments designed to point out that the Democrats were being unprincipled.  "If we’re not prepared to protect seniors and children that are in foster homes, then we shouldn’t be worrying about a cocktail waitress who can get another job," said Senate Republican leader Ted Gatsas of Manchester.  Click here.  Of course, under the Democrats’ logic, why stop with nursing homes and foster homes.  How can we let any children be exposed to second-hand smoke?  To be sure, I think that parents that smoke in the presence of their children are selfish, idiots.  But once we start down this path, where do we stop?  Shouldn’t it also be illegal for parents to cook with trans-fat?  Shouldn’t there also be a limit on how much "fast-food" parents can serve their children?

Apparently, some Democrats are ready to head in that direction.  That bastion of bombast, Peter Burling, said he intends to bring back some of the Republican amendments as a separate bill.

The smoking ban apparently is supported by 79% of state residents.  Which shows how tempting it is to take away the liberty of others.  However, if you believe that it is legitimate for government to take away the liberties of others, then you have no principled basis for complaining, and only yourself to blame, when government takes away the liberties you value. 

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THE ACCIDENTAL CONGRESSWOMAN

Shea-Porter continues to stumble and bumble.  On the one hand she says that cutting funding for the armed forces in Iraq wouldn’t make them more vulnerable, while on the other she says that the armed forces in Iraq are "seriously strained."    If you say so, Carol. On another note, she wants to start a 10-year plan … Read more

JOE W. CAN’T ADD

An editorial in today’s Union Leader praises Governor Lynch because "he had the guts to cut education spending at a time when that was considered politically unthinkable." Lynch’s "plan," however, does no such thing.  It increases education spending across the board by five percent over last year’s spending.  Repeat after me, Joe. W., a reduction in … Read more

SHEA-PORTER SUPPORTS MORE TROOPS IN IRAQ?

According to Sea-Porter, she has the moral authority to opine on the Iraq war, but Fergus Cullen does not, because she is a "military spouse," but Fergus has not served either directly or through transitivity as Shea-Porter did. But wouldn’t that give George W. Bush, who served, albeit not in combat, more moral authority than Shea-Porter?  … Read more

“Murder Inc. dba Planned Parenthood”

Friend Bill Asbell of Dover forwarded the following note to me, reacting off the story getting widespread attention throughout the New Media this week: the premature baby born 21 weeks and 6 days after conception. He has agreed to share it with GraniteGrok readers. Science is making abortion "rights" or as some would euphemistically call … Read more

THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN

The "joint legislative task force" charged with developing a definition of an adeqaute education was in Manchester last night.  Here are some of the gems of wisdom the speakers provided: "Education cannot be "adequate" unless it considers the needs of the individual child — and also includes kindergarten for all, provides curriculum for gifted students, … Read more

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