23 August 2009 - Granite Grok

August 23, 2009

Grokster on the air…

 . I will be joining Alex and Kevin on their Voice of Liberty radio show on BlogTalkRadio tonight starting at 8PM EST. The topic of discussion will be the militarization of our local police forces thanks to the "generosity" of the Feds, and the abuse that happens when some law enforcement officials lose sight of the …

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State Education Department fails test

By Ann Marie Banfield State Education Department fails test Published: Friday, Aug. 21, 2009 The Cabinet To the Editor: The 10th Amendment of the Constitution states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The …

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Alinksky’s Rule # 5 for Radicals

I put up an abridged version of Saul Alinsky (the philosophical mentor to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) Rules for Radicals here. This is a very good implementation of Rule #5: RULE 5: "Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon." There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure …

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Stupidly is as Stupidly does….

Sorry for the rip-off from Forrest Gump….but it fits.  This was one of my favorite signs from President Obama’s Healthcare Forum charade at Portsmouth High last week:  Rich Lowry of NRO and the Washington Examiner has a great column in this theme: The Obama team is saddled with a foundering health-care strategy. But it has …

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