23 March 2014 - Granite Grok

March 23, 2014

Data Point: “Judging Obama’s Economy By His Own Promises”

Res ipsa loquitur: But is that true? And how do you fairly measure Obama’s record?  Perhaps the best metric is Obama’s own promises about what his economic plan would produce. Those are contained in his first budget, which was issued in early 2009. Above are charts comparing that budget’s forecasts for key economic indicators with …

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The problem with Progressives is that they REALLY think that human nature “has progressed”.

They really believe their own PR: So much for that “Post Cold War” historical period we’re supposed to be in, eh?  Once again, Progressives not understanding that human nature IS just that – human nature.  It hasn’t changed over thousands of years on its own – there is that innate feeling that some have that …

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Only the RIGHT has Yahoos….so says ABC’s “This Week with Geoge Stephanopolous”

The discussion was about the US Senate elections coming up later on this year and whether or not control would shift to to the Republicans… Sidenote: and Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com is now saying that is a 60% chance that will happen; I’m unsure of that percentage but probably good with his assessment that even …

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Bill Maher: “why vote for Republican-lite when you can vote for a real Republican”

I just thought “My, the Democrats think the same way – just in reverse on this! – and this from the religion hating, Republican hating Bill Maher.  But what gets me is that he laid down THE marker question to his panel of Lefties:  Why won’t the Democrats just come out, be brace, and be …

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This advice should ring true to ALL Republicans – not just to NH State Senator Jeanie Forrester

Permission granted to post (and follows along with the words I just wrote: Jeanie, I’ve heard that the NH Senate – and quite a few senators – are thinking of voting in favor of SB 244. I was wondering if you’ve made up your mind and if you’ve had any discussions with other senators about …

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“To Protect and to Serve”? Or “Us vs Them”?

We’ve blogged about the militarization of our nation’s local police forces over the past couple of years where local cops have “weaponed up” with the “free” military goods that the US armed forces have deemed surplus or by using “free” money from the Feds.  Yes, the bad guys have “stuff” that most civilians don’t have …

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Once again, we see the Republicans just ducky for moderate candidates

This morning’s CloseUP program’s first segment had NHDP Chair “Buckles” and Republican “strategist” Tom Rath.  The latter had this to say about Scott Brown entering the NH Senatorial campaign: Of course, the President of the United states has described him as a moderate so that’s something that’s pretty good for us I dryly note that …

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Notable Quote – Angelo M. Codevilla

Nothing has set the Country Class apart, defined it, made it conscious of itself, and given it whatever coherence it has, so much as the ruling Class’ insistence that people other than themselves are intellectually–and hence otherwise humanly–inferior.   Persons who were brought up to believe themselves worthy as anyone, who manage their own lives to …

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