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This week on GrokTALK! August 8th, 2015, (9am to 11am EDT) David Bozell from ForAmerica is back with post Republican debate analysis. Jane Cormier has an update on NHRTL’s Supreme Court Case. And Guest Host Susan Olsen joins us Plus commentary on local news, politics, and culture you could only get from the bloggers at GraniteGrok.com – And maybe…a …
Certainly ole’ Bernie is tapping into something on the hard Left – proving what a lot of us on the Right have been saying for a while: the center of the Democrat Party is now outright Socialist. And step by step, over the decades, they have been using the Law & Regulation stick to transform …
In this segment we are joined by Lawrence J. McQuillan, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute and author of CALIFORNIA DREAMING: Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis. “In California Dreaming, McQuillan provides a beautiful case study of the way politics operates to produce public pension …
Theodore Dalrymple | City Journal The word “fell” denies agency to the young men, as if they had no choice in the matter. They were victims of circumstance by virtue of their membership of a minority, for minorities are by definition victims without agency. There is a strange parallel here with how heroin addicts explained …
Mark Steyn on Hugh Hewitt, talking about Republicans and debates. The most important thing that the Republicans need to do in order to win is to challenge Democrat liberal assumptions as the default lever in which political discourse in this country is conducted. So if you’re not flinging back ‘war on women’ in their face, …
The most important thing that the Republicans need to do in order to win is … Read More »
To paraphrase Theodore Dalrymple, “distress” always expands to meet the supply of publicly funded services available to reduce it. So the idea that Medicaid expansion would expand Medicaid was never in doubt. If you build it they will come. If you build it with other people’s money, and back it forever, they may come in …
Remember Pennsylvania’s Democrat Attorney General, Kathleen Kane? She abandoned a slam-dunk bribery sting that netted local Democrats, because they were Democrats silly. (also here) Well!? HotAir! First she blamed racism because the five videotaped Democrats were black. Then she blamed a “Good Ol’ Boys club” out to get her because she is a woman. Then she threatened …
Turns Out The PA AG Who Dropped A Bribery Case Against Fellow Dems in 2014 Is Corrupt. Read More »
Well, my post about Houston Mayor Annise Parker and the razing of two churches caught someone’s eyeballs (which was here: Is lesbian Houston Mayor Annise Parker going after Christianity – again?). Who’da thunk it – that a small state blog here in NH would attract the attention of a left-of-center political heavy weight from Houston …
On the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb…it’s as a good a time as any to revisit, “Thank God for the Atom Bomb.” Here’s a link to a PDF if you prefer (or here), but it is reformatted in it entirety on the Grok for your serious and measured consideration. Bio c/o …
