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Senate GOP Stabs Conservatives in Back – Make Dirty Deal With Democrats on Redistricting

From the #DyingPaper, sometimes alternatively referred to as the Union Leader: Republicans and Democrats in the state Legislature have struck a deal on legislation to create an independent redistricting commission to redraw electoral district maps after the 2020 census. … Republican Sen. James Gray of Rochester and Democratic Rep. Marjorie Smith of Durham unveiled the …

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MLK Votes Republican Today

The premise American universities have dangerously devolved into institutions of political indoctrination. They ought to be institutions of higher learning. A recent study of the 60 highest rated liberal arts colleges in the nation found more than 10 professors are registered Democrats for every registered Republican. That means something. Perhaps it means politicization of universities …

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Some Additional Thoughts on the Democrat Redistricting Commission (House Bill 706)

I previously posted about House Bill 706, the so-called Independent Redistricting Commission, which is really a Democrat Redistricting Commission. Here is an update and a few additional thoughts. First, GOP support for HB 706 was not as bad as I had thought it would be. Only sixteen GOP Reps voted with the Democrats: Here is …

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The New Hampshire GOP Shows -Yet Again- Why It Is The STUPID PARTY

This: The bill in issue is House Bill 706. While it is styled as creating an independent redistricting commission, if you read the bill, you will see that is a misnomer. It is a Democrat redistricting commission. Let’s begin with the composition of the commission. The bill provides for 15 members split equally between the …

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Quick Shot: Gucci pulls ‘blackface sweater’

No, GraniteGrok is not becoming a fashion blog. But when ‘fashion’ collides with left-wing identity politics, twice in one day, we’ll try to be there. And here we are. Gucci has a sensitivity problem. No, it’s not the cut or the fabric it’s the color. 

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Identity Politics on the NHGOP eBoard

Fair elections (in which everyone has an equal voice) are good. Special carveouts for identity groups are bad. I thought that was what the GOP stood for, but apparently not. The NHGOP’s bylaws stipulate that three specific Republican groups (NH Federation of Republican Women, the Young Republicans, and the College Republicans) are each entitled to a voting …

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