Tag Archives: politics

Drop Out Rate Result of Changing Methodology

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Steve Mac Donald

The headline reads Dropout rates below 1%. Eight paragraphs into the love fest we find out what (pat on the back) I was just complaining about a few weeks ago. Continue reading →

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Why Did They Raise The Drop Out Age To 18?

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Steve Mac Donald

As debate proceeds on the NH House bill HB 429 which returns the drop out age to sixteen (A 16 year old could leave school with a parents permission), John Lynch and the education community have come out against this change and responded with warnings of the potential consequences. They then entertain us with ‘success stories’ resulting from their raising the drop out age to 18 just a few years ago. Continue reading →

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The Economic Power Of New Hampshire

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Steve Mac Donald

I’m a strong supporter of Vermont’s sovereign right to hold the line on taxes, and for them to try because of New Hampshire–well, it doesn’t get much better than that. It is as if we are projecting economic power throughout the region. Continue reading →

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I Guess The NH Democrat Party Is Now The “Monkey In The Window Party”

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Steve Mac Donald

Being a New Hampshire democrat means never having to denounce anything. This only matters because the liberal-progressive whip holders who direct traffic leftward around the democrat’s rotary-of-hypocrisy like to tap the hair trigger on their own media Weapons of Mass Outrage (WMO) whenever they can manufacture the provocation. Continue reading →

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GraniteGrok Interview: Herman Cain

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Steve Mac Donald

GraniteGrok Interview: Herman Cain Continue reading →

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NH Journal Issues A Correction

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Steve Mac Donald

NH Journal has published a correction to a story in which it claimed that Skip Murphy from GraniteGrok was slated to assume the roll of Communications director of the NH-GOP if Jack Kimball won the chairmanship. NHJ admits after the fact that they should have sought confirmation before publication. Continue reading →

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Got Civility? The “Beheading Sarah Palin” Edition

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Steve Mac Donald

The most recent rhetorical left-wing bridge to nowhere comes courtesy of a wide-brush narrative that swept across the progressive talking points the way “teenage girls falling in love with bad-boy vampires” recently consumed the media-verse. Continue reading →

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Would You Rather Just Play Politics?

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Steve Mac Donald

Yesterday NHBR.com (New Hampshire Business Review) included GraniteGrok in its content. One of it’s staff writers or editors (there is no by-line) commented on how the GOP establishment was not the only one taking shots from their right. Continue reading →

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How About Them Nazis?

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Steve Mac Donald

Given how touchy the New Hampshire Democrat Party (NHDP) leadership is about comments relating to Jews and Nazis I wanted to wait a few days before addressing the words of Tennessee House Democrat Steve Cohen to see if they had … Continue reading →

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NH Jo-Whore-nal?

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Steve Mac Donald

As a follow up to this, yesterday or maybe the day before, the NH Journal (NHJ), New Hampshire’s prominent internet news source if the news is whatever Hynse communications is being paid to call news, decided to float a lie called pin the conservative blogger to Jack Kimball. Someone the NH Journal staff knew would stir the pot was fingered as Kimball’s communications director if he won the job as GOP State party chairman, even though no one–including Kimball and the blogger–knew anything about it until after the digital ink was dry. Continue reading →

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