September 2015 - Granite Grok

September 2015

Climate Racketeering Charges Take an Interesting About-Face

Ten days ago I reported on a letter sent to President Obama, signed by twenty well-heeled climate cultists, asking the government to file RICO corruption charges against people who disagree with them. The lead signatory of the letter, Jagdish Shukla, a professor at George Mason University and front-man for the non-profit called IGES (where he …

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Notable Quote

“There’s a level of anger far deeper and more consequential than expressed rage or visible behavior. Cold Anger does not need to go to violence. For those who carry it, no conversation is needed. You cannot poll or measure it; and even those who carry it avoid discussion. And that decision has nothing whatsoever to …

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Telephoning Doodlings: I was just warning an NH politician of this a couple of nights ago….

…when said politician wanted my opinion on some legislation, thinking that Democrats (and their Republican enablers, especially in the NH Senate) were on a path to make something much worse… The Republican Party’s conservative wing, pumped up by House Speaker John Boehner’s stepping down, is warning the 2016 presidential candidates that defying its wishes will come …

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And now we see the hollowness of “Multiculturalism” up close and real

This kinda puts all those on the Left complaining about the (non-existent) rape culture that supposedly wracking college campuses.  It was Obama’s Department of Education that issued that “Dear Colleague” letter that turned normal jurisprudence into a multitude of Kampus Kangaroo Kourts where there is no “innocence before guilty”, no due process, and Rights only …

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With Obama’s attempted nationalization of college rankings comes an observation…

When the Department of Education unveiled its new College Scorecard earlier this month, a number of schools were missing from the list — not low-ranked or misrepresented, just missing. Many are conservative schools, well-known for their independence from the federal government. Hillsdale College, a small Michigan liberal arts school which receives high marks in national …

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Email Doodlings – Again, wildlife over babies?

How things have not changed!  We’ve written about Cecil the Lion and the Big Game hunter (and dentist) and how the Left vented its outrage that a wild animal was harvested (here, here, here, and here).  And this noted the complete lack of outrage over the Left’s favorite killing machine – Planned Parenthhood (here: “…Liberals are …

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