10 January 2013 - Granite Grok

January 10, 2013

That’s Just Crazy Talk

The Left began the war on women when a journalist asked Mitt Romney what he thought about states banning contraception.  No state was even considering it.  Neither Romney nor anyone else on the right had ever said anything even remotely related to that.  But from that moment on the question was not only asked by …

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Not Exactly William Loeb III’s N.H. Union Leader Anymore

“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.” —Leon Jaworski In life change is inevitable. Sometimes change is good. Other times, change is not so good. Then there are times where change is merely a change that we might individually do not care much for. The New Hampshire Union Leader, once a reliably conservative …

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Guns And Freedom

“Today, the limitations on the power and precision of the guns we can lawfully own not only violate our natural right to self-defense and our personal sovereignties; they assure that a tyrant can more easily disarm and overcome us.”—Judge Andrew Napolitano The right of the people to keep and bear arms is an extension of …

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Some Free Advice To Free Staters

It is not beyond the pale to suspect Democrats of using anonymous blog handles and throw away email addresses, to pose as Free Staters in polls, surveys, and online social media, for the purpose of advancing their narrative, particularly after the national attention received by the tyrannical Cynthia Chase. The left has the money and …

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Henniker New Hampshire’s Local Aristocracy Wants What They Want

Back in November we reported that despite meeting all the legal requirements the town of Henniker had cited Stephen Forster of Forster’s Christmas Tree Farm with the illegal use of his property. Typically, when such nonsense erupts it is to either punish a landowner for some perceived slight, or to help an abutter (or the town) …

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“I am not your subject” – Senator Blumenthal’s ammo bill is moving to change that sentence.

“There is no rational reason why a person can walk into a store, fill their shopping cart with hundreds of rounds of ammo, pay up, and walk out without so much as giving their name.” The Hill is reporting on [US] Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would require background checks for …

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Notable Quote – Glen Reynolds

NOTE: When people say things like “don’t let this moment pass without acting on gun control,” what they’re really saying is our arguments are so unpersuasive that they can only succeed when people aren’t thinking clearly. – Glen Reynolds, Law Professor, Instapundit

I am not your subject…I am not your servant…I am not your peasant.

Boston’s letter, titled “No ma’am,” was first posted on CNN’s iReport on Dec. 27 and quickly made the rounds on social media as he responded to all of the items that are known about US Senator Diane Feinstein’s gun grabbing legislation (for nothing says ‘gun grabber’ like legislation that requires fingerprints, a humungous new Federal …

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