October 2011 - Granite Grok

October 2011

Occupy Wall Street – showing its true roots?

From the NY Post (emphasis mine): Some 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters saw red yesterday — giving an enthusiastic welcome to a genuine communist. Alex Callinicos, a professor of European Studies at Kings College in London, announced to his rapt audience, “I am a Marxist.’’ Asked if the upcoming revolution can be non-violent, he parroted …

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Cain at the AEI – 999 Plan and panel discussion

This morning, Herman Cain sat down at the American Enterprise Institute and discussed his 9/9/9 plan in detail with their Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies, Kevin Hassett. Following Cain’s presentation, a panel discussion was held on the merits of the plan featuring the plan’s author, Rich Lowrie, and well known economists, including …

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Dodd-Frank: And how much innovation time does it cost?

Progressives are always all in on Government is benign and never a thought to how much Government costs the private sector (although they are always yelling about how much tax cuts, otherwise known as "allowing the money earners keeping more of what they earned, "cost" the Government. Already, Sarbanes-Oxley is costing medium sized companies in …

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I don’t want to hear another word from Mo Baxley about outside money

Ever since the Democrats so ticked off NH voters and replaced them with a super-majority of Republicans (BTW, Maggie,, the voters labeled the Democrats as the extremists ), I’ve been hearing about gay marriage being "settled law", complaints that outside money is coming in to defend traditional marriage and repeal gay marriage, and "why aren’t …

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