8 March 2015 - Granite Grok

March 8, 2015

I’m having a nice case of shadenfreude: couldn’t happen to a more intolerant Firefox

Intolerant is the word (back story here) – believe as we say or retribution will come pretty much sums up the story of Brendan Eich who lost the CEO position at Mozilla / Firefox simply because he gave a donation years earlier to a pro-traditional marriage group during California’s Prop 8.  Thus, upon seeing this …

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GrokTALK! – At Liberty Forum – The Videos (Segments 1 & 2)

As Steve points out, we were at this weekend’s Liberty Forum (Radisson at Manchester, NH) for a VERY extended GrokTALK! yesterday – instead of the normal 4 segments of around 30 minutes each, we have 12 video segments from around 15 minutes to over a 1/2 hour.  So, all the video has been snipped, titled, and …

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GrokTALK! at Liberty Forum – Life, Liberty, and Contraceptive Coverage

The head of NH Right to Life, Jane Cormier,  joins us as we ‘Pierce’ the mysteries of Life, Liberty, and a bill that would have required employers to include what kind of contraceptive coverage they offer…on employment applications, among other things… Follow us on YouTube, USTREAM, Facebook, and Twitter …and take us with you on …

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Journalism’s role in losing the Republic

Whatever happened to that old journalism phrase, “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”?  Or what the Founders meant – to be a check on Government? Blinded. Combine this with the lack of will of the Congress to exercise its considerable powers (or the opposite – the abject surrender), we are finding ourselves stepping more and more in …

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The Rule of Law: Funny that she used that phrase: “we have these laws that aren’t being enforced?”

Talking on Fox News Sunday about the Ferguson report and the “disparate outcomes” on arrest records Kim Strassal: Are we going to trust the Justice Department?  Again, Eric Holder came out and said we’re not stop until we fix these things here. Neera Tanden (Center for American Progress): Yes, we should not stop until we …

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Only Ted Cruz Could Go To Iowa

Agricultural Business leaders gathered at the Iowa Ag Summit where Presidential hopefuls took the opportunity to vie for their attention.  Given the crowd, the subject of ethanol is always on their minds and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in particular. The RFS mandates how much food must be forced in to motor fuel so as …

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50 Years after Democrats brutally beat down blacks marching for civil rights …

…on the infamous Bloody Sunday, the historically ignorant head to Selma. Yesterday, as per his usual course, Oblivious stood perched above sycophants spouting self-serving lines picked from teleprompters between metronomic head turreting from left to right to state something about which he is either completely ignorant or intentionally ignoring.  He said “Look at our history…” …

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