2 March 2013 - Granite Grok

March 2, 2013

I hadn’t really looked at it this way…

Question For Conservatives: Why Are Your Children Still In Public School? David Groessh, PatriotUpdate.com, posted this question on Wednesday.  I read it early this morning and thought gee, he’s right.  He says in his opening paragraph: ‘You would not let your little children play in a busy street, jump off the roof of a ten-story building, or …

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Violence Against the Constitution Act (VAWA): Et Tu, Ayotte?

Earlier this evening, Steve pointed out the unintentional consequences of the “Violence Against Women Act” (VAWA), which included giving unconstitutional jurisdiction over non-tribal matters to tribal courts, and (could we call it the Menendez clause?) decriminalizing child prostitution! What I find more interesting, if Heritage thinks the law is a bad idea, and we think …

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Follow-up: How Happy is Ann Kuster about the VAWA Vote Now?

Yesterday I pointed out that according to Heritage the 2013 re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) included provisions that violated the constitution by giving Federal authority to tribal courts. Today, we discover that the 78 Senators and 286 House members who voted (some happily) for S.47, the (Violence Against Women Re-authorization Act of 2013), also voted to prohibit the …

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Guest post by “Paladin”

Reader “Paladin” had earlier asked if we publish a guest post by him – it can be found here: Guest Post by Paladin – a short commentary on HB135 (the NH “Run Away!” bill) sponsored by Stephen Shurtleff.  Now that HB135 has passed out of committee in the NH House, he asked if this could …

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