Tag: Spike

Moffett v. Smith: Right-To-Know, Citizen Sabotage, and Cherry-Picking Your Legislators

September 16, 2024August 24, 2024

by Spike

On Friday, Rep. Michael Moffett (R-Loudon) defended himself against a “Hit Piece” from Julie Smith regarding HB-1002 (now law), the “Right-to-know tax.” Numerous Groksters submit Right-to-know requests and copy the text of them here, either to show how to talk tough to office-holders, to show how to burden office-holders to distract them from eating out … Read more

Trump Cut Taxes for Billionaires?

September 16, 2024June 30, 2024

by Spike

It was astonishing to hear that, after neglecting the Ship of State for a solid week for debate “training,” Joe Biden failed at both execution and plan. The plan included repeating his stock lies, including:

Abortion, Abortion, Abortion

October 10, 2024June 27, 2024

by Spike

I see in the New Hampshire Journal that the NHGOP is going to waste donor money in six figures again. It is the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, which correctly abandoned Roe v. Wade and sent the abortion question back to the states. Massachusetts and Mississippi are always going to decide differently, and under federalism, that is okay.

Larry Hogan and Kelly Ayotte

October 10, 2024June 19, 2024

by Spike

“Regardless of the result, I urge all Americans to respect the verdict and the legal process. At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders—regardless of party—must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship. We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law.”

Thank You for Riding Herd on SAU16

September 16, 2024May 14, 2024

by Spike

Ms. Banfield, fellow Grokster, thank you for riding herd on SAU16 and keeping us up-to-date on its numerous outrages, from Sharpie-gate to making athletic participation contingent on following Woke orthodoxy in private communication.

Unicameral Versus Party List

October 10, 2024May 11, 2024

by Spike

Julie Smith suggests on Thursday that New Hampshire follow Nebraska and have a single legislative chamber, presumably our lower House, and do away with the Senate.

Senate by Party List

October 10, 2024May 7, 2024

by Spike

Julie Smith wrote on Sunday a retrospective on Jeb Bradley’s career in the New Hampshire Senate — essentially, a place where “good House bills go to die.” It’s also a place where legislators go to retire. (So too Digital Equipment Corporation in its latter years.) Boston’s Howie Carr often quips that anyone who has been in a State House for six years has proven his uselessness.

Recurring Town Meeting Gambits

October 10, 2024March 5, 2024

by Spike

Many of the gambits at the recent Exeter regional (SAU 16) deliberative meeting, and last year for the Brentwood elementary school, will certainly recur at a town meeting next month near you, and you should identify and resist them.

Dr. Ebner and Reefer Madness

October 10, 2024February 19, 2024

by Spike

I see via NoScript that GraniteGrok is still on Disqus; otherwise, I would have entered your competition for the weekly prize. Refer to my Grok column of last 21-Apr, in support of legalization and against a new industry created by a government that intends to administer legalization and fight all mishaps.

HB-1175: Another Attempt to Repair SB2

October 10, 2024January 28, 2024

by Spike

To set the stage: Town meetings are dominated by the people who receive, benefit from or massage taxpayer loot. The “official ballot referendum town meeting” or SB2 procedure took away from town meetings the power to make final budget decisions for the upcoming year.

Zoning: HB1291 is NOT HB44 On Steroids

September 16, 2024December 17, 2023

by Spike

HB1291 reduces the power of our consistently anti-liberty zoning boards to write anti-liberty rules where there is no basis. A typical town’s 1.8-acre minimum lot size has been justified by the scarcity of water and septic capacity and was adopted in an era of poorer understanding and technology.

Frank Edelblut at the Belknap County Republicans

Frank Edelblut Should Get Back in the Race

September 16, 2024December 4, 2023

by Spike

In September, Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut spoke to the Brentwood Republican Committee. I don’t hang out there, but Frank had just announced his non-candidacy for Governor, and a neighbor and fellow Grokster was aching to understand the skullduggery behind the move and offered me a ride to the event.

Stephen Manuszak’s Column on Thanksgiving Day Is Complete Crap!

October 10, 2024November 25, 2023

by Spike

Yes, federal law drives up the cost of food (with tariffs on lower-cost foreign supplies–also with Marketing Orders that limit production) and drives it down (with subsidies). Grok readers want the market to determine prices.

Two Grok Articles: Make Mine Liberty (a Commentary/Riposte)

October 10, 2024September 6, 2023

by Spike

Contributor John Klar on 2-Sep lamented that the agricultural sector is “in decline” if measured by manpower. As is the manufacturing sector, though in both cases, output is up. America is producing more with less — that is what we do — and, all other things being the same, that is the only way that real pay rises.

It Depends on How You Legalize Marijuana

October 10, 2024April 21, 2023

by Spike

I am not a marijuana user and don’t think habitual users are high-quality conversation partners or employees. But I dislike the Legislature’s current effort to legalize marijuana.

Elderly grandparent old person original Photo by Danie Franco on Unsplash

New Hampshire Is Not in Demographic “Crisis”

September 16, 2024December 4, 2022

by Spike

Rarely has an article been more panoramically wrong than Ian Huyett’s contribution of 3 December. The problem is supposed that New Hampshire has too many old people and too few young people — a theme heard from GOP state reps in years past, who look in awe at the Democrats’ many gunpoint solutions to non-problems … Read more