8 March 2012 - Granite Grok

March 8, 2012

Anonymous Hackers Arrested

One week after Anonymous announced a call for armed rebellion against the US, six members believed to be part of the group have been arrested and charged with hacking into corporate and government systems. (Must not be Obama Campaign donors.) The report points out that an insider who was arrested in 2011 has been helping …

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Guest post by Ellen Kolb, Legislative Director at Cornerstone Action: “On Women and Trust”

ON WOMEN & TRUST The hallways in the state house were lined on Wednesday with people sporting stickers emblazoned with the slogans “Trust Women” and “Stop the War on Women.” Such exhortations give me pause, inasmuch as I’m a woman, and none of my sticker-clad fellow citizens seemed inclined to trust me. Imagine, if you …

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The ease at which a birthright is given away for mere pills…but at least they were free?

My own interpretation of this cartoon is broader than Ramirez perhaps intended. It is not just forcing religious institutions to pay for contraception, etc., that is unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Rather, for the federal government to dictate any coverages that must be included in private insurance policies is well beyond any enumerated power in …

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Worried about the national and your State elections? Then concentrate on your local elections!

One of my Samsphere buddies has a post that makes a lot of sense – at least, for a lot of other states.  Here in NH, we see this in play every March in every hamlet – those that wish to be merely left alone after the basics of government have been fulfilled, finally get …

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