August 2015 - Granite Grok

August 2015

Notable Quote – William Marina

Intellectuals and politicians enjoy the idea of power and control.  Like the mandarin, whose long fingernails demonstrated his distaste for, and ability to evade, physical labor, many politicians and intellectuals have an inherent dislike of the market economy with its emphasis on work, entrepreneurial risk, and money. – William Marina (in The Politicization of Society) …

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Gun Control By All Other Means

“Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.”  —Thomas Sowell New York Anti-gun liberal Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney is leading the charge on HR 2546, a measure if enacted, forces gun owners to buy liability insurance or face a $10,000 fine. The Firearm Risk Protection Act …

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Planned Parenthood Prioritizes Politics Before “Women’s Health.”

Alternate headline: Abortion Cult Cuts Hours at New Hampshire Shrines – Blame Taxpayers who Oppose Government Enforced Tithing. Life News | Planned Parenthood cuts its hours… As a result of losing some New Hampshire tax funding, Planned Parenthood has announced fewer hours of operation.  They say this will hurt women, but New Hampshire Right to …

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Shaheen Ties Her Wagon to Clinton Death Spiral

The Clintons and Shaheens, to borrow a phrase, have always been thick as thieves in the night–so this comes as no surprise, ‘Hillary Clinton coming to Portsmouth to accept Shaheen  endorsement.’ This so called news report fawns over Clinton and Shaheen. Its embarrassing. So it would never ask the question: “If Shaheen were up for reelection …

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Perry Reminds DC “We Work For The People”
And “We’re Coming For Ya!”

[youtube=http://youtu.be/MiSY4_89aBI&align=right&w=260] Shannon Bream interviewed Governor Rick Perry on America’s News HQ. Pull quotes at about 3:20. We work for the People, not the other way around. I’ve been fighting Washington DC for 14 years. I want to go to Washington DC and make it as inconsequential in people’s lives as I can. “…that’s what wrong …

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GrokSHOT! – There’s No Right To “Live Without Fear”

Democrat Socialists are always imagining rights that might allow them to take actual constitutional rights away; like the idea that you might have a government enforceable right to live without fear (like in those gun free liberal run urban areas?). If you missed it, we were talking about that yesterday and things took an interesting turn…(68 seconds) Subscribe …

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Jackson Hole Summit: Economist Dr. Marc Miles on why the economy is stagnant

Today was the last day of the Jackson Hole Summit in Wyoming. Yours truly sat down with economist Dr. Marc Miles to discuss the economy and interest rates and the affect of monetary policy on Americans. Dr. Miles was on a panel yesterday during the Summit in which he discussed how interest rates being kept …

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