With all the devastating news about urban crime, drug overdoses, illegal immigration, rampant homelessness, out-of-control budgets, and educational failures, it is encouraging that President Donald Trump has committed his next administration to saving America’s cities.
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The Trump of Argentina Wins
The recent election of Argentinian President Javier Milei is a political earthquake as big as the election of President Donald Trump in 2016. The anti-establishment movements in Argentina and the United States share remarkable similarities.
Honoring Ambassador Joseph and Augusta Petrone – Part 3
Another set of folks to offer their words of praise for Ambassador Joseph and Augusta Petrone – family friends, the Miners, were the next to take the podium. In addition to those that were physically present, a number of folks sent their words in by proxy due to other commitments; some came later in the … Read more
Rightwingnews: Pre-Florida Conservative blogger Presidential Poll
John Hawkins over at RightWingNews does a lot of polling of Conservative blogsites and the ‘Grok as picked to participate in his latest one. One day ahead of the Florida Presidential Primary, he wanted to know where over 250 bloggers stood on the remaining candidates:
Right Wing News polled more than 250 right-of-center bloggers on which candidate they’d support if the 2012 Republican primaries were today. The following 68 bloggers responded:
101 Dead Armadillos, Advice Goddess, Alarming News, Alexa Shrugged, All American Blogger, All That Is Necessary, American Glob, And Rightly So, Argghhhh!, Atlas Shrugs, Batesline, Betsy’s Page, Black and Right, Blonde Sagacity, Bookworm Room, Dodgeblogium, Don Surber, Dr. Helen, Election Projection, Fausta’s Blog, Fraters Libertas, Freeman Hunt, GraniteGrok, IMAO, Isaac Schrodinger, Jeremayakovka, Joanne Jacobs, John Hawkins, Left Coast Rebel, Likelihood of Confusion, Liz Mair, Mean Ol Meany, Melissa Clouthier, Midnight Blue, Milton Wolf, Moonbattery, Mount Virtus, Musing Minds, Neo-Neocon, Newmarks Door, Newsreal, Nice Deb, No Oil For Pacifists, Pal2pal, Pirates Cove, Political Mommentary, Politicalistas, Pundit Boy, Pursuing Holiness, Rightosphere, Russ. Just Russ, Smart Girl Politics, SondraK, Sunshine State Sarah, The Hedgehog Report, The Jawa Report, The Lotus Blog, The Next Right, The Pink Flamingo Bar & Grill, The Smallest Minority, The Sundries Shack, The TrogloPundit, This Ain’t Hell, WILLisms, Weapons of Mass Discussion, Wintery knight, YidwithLid, mountaineer musings
Here’s how the results broke down:
Data Point – Once again, “who pays the taxes”? Where’s the Press on this?
From the Wall Street Journal:
“This all-too-conveniently confuses the incidence of a tax with the burden of a tax. The marginal tax rate on every additional dollar of capital gains and dividend income from corporate profits can reach as high as 44.75% at the federal level (assuming a company pays the 35% top corporate rate), not 15%.
The Congressional Budget Office recently examined the distribution of federal taxes on various income groups. The report was ballyhooed by liberals as proof of rising income inequality, but that argument is for another day. What everyone has ignored is what CBO found about the relative taxes paid by different groups. And, lo, the rich pay more, which is probably why the press didn’t report it.”
Indeed” “why the press didn’t report it.” All we have heard from the Left is the inequality, a la Warren Buffet, is the inequality of who pays what for taxes. What they seldom report to the public, and what Warren Buffet absolutely doesn’t mention, is exactly the important info laid out above: double taxation. The money that Buffet receives has already been taxed once at the corporate rate (35% before legal deductions) and as an owner of the corporation (as that’s what shareholders are – owners) he gets taxed a second time on that income – referred to as dividends.
Brief thought on the opening of the CNN Prez Debate tonite
I haven’t looked for it yet, but I can guarantee that there will be clips aplenty of how Newt Gingrich unloaded on the prepared, “barely tabloid level” question that CNN host John King tried to bait him with the story / interview of his ex-wife and the subject of open marriage. You just KNEW that … Read more
GrokTV Event: Former US Speaker Newt Gingrich at the Hillsborough County Republicans 1/6/2012
The next speaker at the Hillsborough Republican event last night was former Speaker of the US House, Newt Gingrich. To say that there was a crush of MSM press would not even come close! As he had another event soon after , his remarks were rather short – but well listened to:
O’Brien to Endorse Gingrich; Horn will Endorse Romney
The Manchester Union Leader is reporting today that House Speaker Bill O’Brien plans to formally endorse Newt Gingrich today. This was noted last week but not formally stated.
“I want a candidate who has a clear understanding of conservative philosophy. I look for someone who has good instincts, someone who is intelligent and has great leadership and an ability to articulate the philosophy of our party and his own goals.
“Speaker Gingrich has all of that,” O’Brien said.
Former CD-2 Congressional candidate Jennifer Horn will endorse Mitt Romney today, and has been selected as co-chair of Romney’s national grass-roots committee. (Let’s see – Ayotte is on the VP list, endorses Romney; Horn gets national committee co-chair, endorses Romney– Oh, did I write that out loud?)
Newt on the Left as presented by Occupy Wall Street
It fits – it is just a minute long so watch it. Since Hayward reprised it, if you liked Reagan’s “Acts like Tarzan, dresses like Jane, smells like cheetah”, you get the idea: (H/T: Powerline) Note: Our new blogging platform is nice enough to show me drafts of stuff that I didn’t actually post…this is … Read more
Email Doodlings – 2012 Presidential Primary – whose next?
Well, on yet another email thread I’m on, just before I decided to be a rock Fool, I got the question (else I would have posted earlier):
Tim, Johnson’s likely to run 3rd party, due to the media freeze-out. Cain is now out. So who’s left? Or perhaps, who’s right?
What’s the Granite Grok crew going to do now? Skip?
Good question – what are we going to do? (edited slightly)
Windham Welcomes Gingrich
John Sununu’s ears must be bleeding. Yesterday Hot Air reported on the Sununu dig at Gingrich and what looks like a twenty year old grudge between them about Newt not supporting the Elder Bushes tax hike deal. (The one that cost him the oval office.) The problem is that by drawing attention to it, Sununu makes Newt look more conservative, with history putting Gingrich firmly on the proper side of the argument.
Meanwhile, New Hampshire is supposed to belong to Romney, and Governor Sununu has lined up all the right endorsements (including his own) to make sure it stays that way. But most of us know Kelly Ayotte will never be Romney’s pick for VP (if Mittens even gets the nomination) and that this is just more establishment chain-yanking and game playing to make sure the ‘right people’ get elected.
Sununu is all about that. Just ask Jack Kimball.
What exactly is it about Newt Gingrich? He drives them mad, both left and right….
“Gingrich reminds me more of a Steve Jobs or a Richard Branson than he does of a politician, and that is a good thing because politicians these days are the kind of people that make me want to bang my forehead against the desk.” That from Roger Simon, a Hollywood guy, at PJ Media today. Read … Read more
National Review – The Week
If the latest issue of National Review has graced your mail box (or you read the digital edition) you’ve probably read this already, but I can’t help but share it. “The case for Newt is that he is nothing like that guy who used to be governor of Massachusetts. The case for Romney is very … Read more
EMail Doodlings – “How the can this movement support this insider?!?!?!?!?!” (Part 2)
Adding on to my previous post – a reposte to a response (lightly edited):
Obama is a dictator, not a traditional political President
Obama is the epitome of the Progressive end-game: The High Administrator of the Administrative State that should decide for us all what is best for us instead of the Founders’ vision that we are the sovereigns and not the State; in that, you are absolutely correct.
Yes, Obama will have to participate in at least two debates, if not three. Simple Alinskyism – use his strength against him, which was his PREVIOUS speechifying and he didn’t do too badly in the Democrat debates. But you also have to admit that McCain was AWFUL in the debates and in the campaigning in between them, he refused to put on the gloves and beat Obama to a pulp (indeed, methinks McCain took a dive). If he REFUSES to debate, that will only exacerbate the meme HE has created that he is worthless without TOTUS.
Governor Jon Huntsman Snubs Windham NH [Updated]
Southern New Hampshire 9.12 announced today that the forum for a Lincoln-Douglass style debate between Governor Jon Huntsman and former Speaker Newt Gingrich has had its venue changed without their knowledge or permission. The debate was scheduled for December 12th, at 7 pm, at Windham High School.
From what I can tell it appears as if the Huntsman campaign arranged the event at St. Anselms College without including the Windham organizers in the process. Speaker Gingrich has said he will attend that debate but is still planning to appear in Winhdam where hundreds of people have already reserved seats for the event, far more than the facility in Manchester.
In their official Press release Representative David bates and Ken Eyring, the debate organizers and two of the founders of Southern NH 9.12 said…
EMail Doodlings – “How the can this movement support this insider?!?!?!?!?!” (Part 1)
There is one very upset and confused guy on one of the email lists I’m on; a Libertarian TEA Party kind of guy, he JUST cannot for the life of him, understand why Newt Gingrich is surging so with Movement Conservatives. And why TEA Partiers are flocking to Newt just is beyond his comprehension. So, the above question uttered from his fingertips. Never wishing to leave a challenge undone, I answered: “A tool“. Now, in many groups, that would be fightin’ words – in this case, merely “a tool with which to achieve an end”. And I wish, at the time, that I had thought of that two word answer. Silly me, had to go and use a whole bunch more instead (H/T: Gallup for the chart) (lightly edited):
I will agree with you that beating Obama is not a done deal. We all, as uber-political junkies know that because we know that a lot of effort is going to be done by the vast Left Wing / Union conspiracy in their GOTV (Get Out The Vote) efforts. We all, from our lofty positions (heh!) known that many people are not really all that knowledgeable about ALL the issues and all of the nuances thereof, and will therefore , may well vote for Obama. Again.
Being here in NH, I can tell you the overriding issue to Movement Conservatives and TEA Partiers is not to beat Obama right now but to beat Romney. That is the near term issue that is forefront on every TEA Party / 9-12 / Conservative’s mind. Five weeks to go.
The Libertarian part of the Republican Party has already…
Bachmann’s Contrdiction
Speaker Gingrich is taking heat for statements about immigration reform, mostly from people campaigning against him. (But then, that’s what makes a big primary so much fun.) Congressman Michele Bachmann, on PBS NewsHour of all places, took it to the hole with this remark…
Newt at Ovide’s May 25, 2011
At Ovide Lamontagne’s home last night Newt Gingrich gave a classic Newt talk to about 75 guests and about 10 representatives of the media.
He made fairly brief introductory remarks, took about 15 – 20 questions from guests and about five from the media. Then he walked around meeting people and answering questions individually. As far as I could tell everyone had a chance to meet and ask Newt their questions.
Newt demonstrated his unparalleled knowledge of the issues, reminded us of his record of spending cuts and welfare reform as Speaker of the House, and demonstrated self confidence based on his time fighting the fight and his years of observation, investigation, and consideration of our nation’s problems.
Newt Gingrich – Car Bomber
Chris Matthews being himself–and sorry in advance. No one should really have to have breakfast and then see Chris Matthews demonstrate civility, but this is just too funny.
At about 50 seconds Matthews, who can’t help himself, announces that Newt ‘looks like a car bomber.’
Some clarification ensues but why bother. That’s probably the media sound bite of the day. Unless you want to listen to Michael Moore explain why Rich people’s money belongs to eveyone. (That’s on the jump.)