6 November 2011 - Granite Grok

November 6, 2011

Cain and Gingrich to the rest: “Debate this!!”

Updated: Here’s the C-Span replay: Dateline Washington DC, in a hotel with every cable channel except C-Span! After begging a video cable from the hotel engineer, we lash together a PC, the TV, and an alarm clock, then we’re in business! 8pm EDT Saturday, we witnessed a game-changing event in the presidential race – See Skip’s …

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Democrat’s Say The Dumbest Things

Mr. Morse and the left would have you believe that jobs spring from government like Eve from the rib of Adam. They do not want to admit that ‘government’ is itself a luxury item that must be paid for like anything else’ by the product of the private sector risk taking. Good government cannot exist without the conscience of better men giving a portion of their property for some guarantee of stability and a promise to protect their property in exchange.

Dispatch from AFP’s “Defending the American Dream” #9 – Cut Spending Now

Bumped and updated VIdeo added of Andrew Breitbart and Mark Levin A two hour long event dedicated to revving up the crowd on the general topic of reducing spending and the size of government. Cut Spending Now Opening address by Tim Phillips of AFP, followed by a string of stellar speakers: Andrew Breitbart, who has …

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Dispatch from AFP’s “Defending the American Dream” #10 – Andrew Breitbart, Acorn, Anita Moncrief, Brandon Darby

Bumped and updated:Video added First, lunch at one of the convention center food outlets, in itself a microcosm of what’s wrong with DC, and then on to the Saturday afternoon sessions. The food outlet is worthy of mention – it only sold wings, fries and soda, but it was an overstaffed, underskilled, overpriced, union shop. …

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Occupy DC – Compassion for the Disabled? Not if you’re a Conservative, it seems

From The Blaze comes this video of a wheelchair bound lady that is unable to leave the building where the AFP "Defending the American Dream Summit" was being held.  It seems that the Occupy DC folks decided that trapping the attendees in the building, including this disabled lady, would advance their cause.  Now, being supportive …

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