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A Bleg for Steve Mac Donald, if you would

September 20, 2020 Skip

UPDATE and BUMPED: I’m happy to announce that Steve is now home and doing better. Whatever it was (and the medical folks are unsure), it was not a heart attack or effects from the first one. As he wrote, everything is in the green. ************** As most of you know, Steve had a heart attack … Read more

“Teachers would beam with pride”

September 20, 2020

The spoon-fed, spoiled, rich kids toppling statues in Minneapolis on behalf of a phony cause has given me an idea. They want national attention. They want to replace American history with one they have drummed up. The baby anarchists yearn for a future of “justice” where everyone is equal. How about this: Buy up the … Read more

Data Point – Americans believe a SCOTUS opening should be filled this year

September 20, 2020 Skip

I did not see this coming: A new poll conducted shortly before the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed that an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults of all political stripes supported holding hearings for a nominee if a vacancy opened on the nation’s highest bench. Marquette University released the survey results on Saturday … Read more

ICYMI – Trump has been nominated for TWO Nobel Peace Prizes

September 20, 2020 Skip

Yep, the first one I caught here for the agreement that he and Jared Kuchner (+ others) forged between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Bahrain also joined in with Trump saying that other Arab nations may join in. Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament and chairman of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, … Read more

Cancer cell with killer scaffolding structures

Well, as Glenn Reynolds says, this IS the 21st Century? Novel way to kill cancer cells

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Skip

Actually, a way to have the cells kill themselves, sorta, sideways. By taking advantage of the changes in the environment inside ONLY cancer cells, a new mechanism hits the “Big Death Button”. Every cells has a mechanism by which it kills itself off – but this is certainly new in how scientists are turning it … Read more

The Leftist Narrative is Leading us into Danger

September 21, 2020September 20, 2020

Today America is under assault from the Leftist narrative. The police, for example, today are living under a narrative of lies. This is different from the conditions in any other profession. Police motivation, as a group, is largely the desire to help people. However, the story the media is telling is the exact opposite. The … Read more

Free Trade vs National Defense

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Skip

As even recent readers of GraniteGrok know, I like short (er, mostly short) snippets of what someone has said or written that make what I think is an important idea that I label as “Notable Quote”. Many are just a couple of sentences – a few have multiple paragraphs but in either format, express ideas … Read more

Dem Majority Leader Doug Ley sans mandatory mask

Is That Manner of “Mask Wearing” Democrat Party Approved (Majority Leader Ley)?

September 21, 2020September 20, 2020 Skip

For all of the yammering by the Democrat Party and its NH House leaders over the 50 or so Republican Representatives that went without masks in the “Freedom” section, you’d think that they would have thought about the blowback: glasshouses, throwing stones, and all that.

Why Doesn’t the Media Report on Dark Money Politics?

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Why doesn’t the media report on dark money politics? Everyone understands it exists. Many treat the subject like the boogeyman. OOOooohhhhh… we can’t go there. Well, why the hell not? We want clean elections; we have to know who is putting the money into the campaigns. Let’s stop being hypocrites. Billionaire financier George Soros is … Read more

Quick Thought – Republican “packing” or Democrat “packing” – which is worse?

September 20, 2020 Skip

With the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the Democrats have threatened, like FDR did, to “pack the Court” by adding new Justices if Trump and the Republicans ram through a replacement for RBG as soon as possible. Governor Sununu, as Grokster Doris pointed out (In Emergency Order #69, Sununu Packs the Public Health … Read more

Notable Quote – what kind of life do you desire? A variant of “Who Chooses?”

September 20, 2020 Skip

The issue, of course, was that there have always been two kinds of people: those who agree with Chris Sununu that merely prolonging life trumps every other consideration; and those who agree with General John Stark that there’s little point in prolonging life if it means giving up the freedom to live that life the … Read more

Filling the Empty SCOTUS Seat Adds Fuel to the Fire

September 20, 2020

Filling the empty SCOTUS seat is going to be political. Reports are some Republicans close to the White House think Trump may nominate a woman. Maybe… Yes, that comes to mind… if you are an advocate of identity politics. But what if you are concerned with finding the best candidate? Or what if you wanted … Read more

The Two-Budget Solution to the School Funding Problem

September 19, 2020 Ian Underwood

Many people don’t know it, but the state has definitively identified the amount of money that a school district should be spending on each student in the district: 198:40-a Cost of an Opportunity for an Adequate Education. – I. For the biennium beginning July 1, 2015, the annual cost of providing the opportunity for an … Read more

CHAZ City 206 Wikicommons - The Seattle Autonomous Zone

As if the Seattle “CHAZ” autonomous zone was such a rousing success??

September 19, 2020 Skip

Here they go again! Elected Representatives on the Minneapolis City Council are already yammering that with their “Defund the Police” initiative, crime is rising. Now, they’re allowing what Seattle allowed – protesting anarchist and BLM activists setting up their own version of Seattle’s lawless “country within a city”. The idea of having the various States … Read more

Biden/Harris administration announces Supreme Court short list

September 19, 2020 Norm Silber

With the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Biden/Harris administration has announced its list of prospective nominees to fill the now open seat on the country’s highest court. In keeping with their earlier announced intent to nominate a woman of color, the list is topped by Loretta Lynch and Susan Rice. And keeping in … Read more

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High Ranking Member of Peace Corps Indicted for Illegal Voting in New Hampshire

January 21, 2022September 19, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The hits keep coming for New Hampshire’s “no such thing as voter fraud crowd.” Washington DC resident Mary Kate Lowndes has been indicted “on a felony wrongful voting charge, two counts of misdemeanor wrongful voting, and a single count of misusing an absentee ballot.”

Palate Cleanser – “Confused” Should Have Been at the Top of the List

September 19, 2020September 19, 2020 Skip

Was this going to a wordsmith specialty store? Or just someone that decided to liberate one from the clueless others…

R.I.P. A Political Era on SCOTUS is Over

September 19, 2020September 19, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. She has been on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) since rocks were young. She has left this life just as we come to the wrap up of a bitter presidential campaign. This presidential election is visceral in the hate it is bringing out.

In Emergency Order #69, Sununu Packs the Public Health Ethics Committee

September 19, 2020 Doris Hohensee

Governor Sununu signed yet another emergency order, maintaining his pace of three orders per week. Emergency Order #69 allows the State Disaster Medical Advisory Committee (SDMAC) to pack the Public Health Ethics Committee with his appointees.

My first reaction was “Or WHAT? Demands means you’ve got something to back them up with. You don’t”.

September 19, 2020 Skip

Over at NH Journal, Michael Graham asks the actual question I answered: “Will NH Pols Meet BLM Demands?” My answer is “only if they are scared of their own shadows“. This is yet another ploy by an extremely small group of people trying to shove their way forward on the political surfboard based on the … Read more