27 December 2015 - Granite Grok

December 27, 2015

Hey Statists! Which economic system cures Poverty best?

Continuing on that 23 different types of deoderants, 18 different pairs of sneakers, and people making decisions all on their own and such; yet another post to which Statists would like you not to know (emphasis mine, reformatted): Sorry, Socialists, But Capitalism Is Killing Absolute Poverty To hear the global left these days, you’d think the …

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Guest Post – Harold Turner on Net Metering and Free Markets

This first appeared in the Concord Monitor (reformatted, emphasis mine): First, what is “net metering”? It is the process of using a new “smart meter” to monitor and record the flow of electricity at your home, business or municipal building, both to and from your local electrical utility.  My smart meter has been in place in …

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But Socialists / Communists / Statists WANT you to not know history!

Prof. Thomas Sowell on Socialist centrally planned economies (run by the elite government few in a command-and-control) (emphasis mine): The French Revolution was their chance to show what they could do when they got the power they sought. In contrast to what they promised — “liberty, equality, fraternity” — what they actually produced were food …

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Anecdotal Evidence Flies in the Face of Government’s “Hard Facts”

The November numbers are in; the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that New Hampshire’s unemployment rate is at 3.2%, which compares favorably to the reported national unemployment rate of 5.0%. (See the BLS chart below.) Normally, both of those numbers would be something for us to cheer about, or at the very least, we …

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Stupid The Bruce

Susan Bruce has this idea in her head that the First Amendment (presumably to the US Constitution, she might mean something else) protects her Facebook status updates from being deleted. We’re not going to take this space to quibble over her “interpretation” of the law of the land. Instead, Susan, if you do decide to use screen …

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Democrat Jim Webb’s Third Party Presidential Campaign?

Hillary Clinton’s failed vision in Libya & the Arab Spring are foreign policy leadership at its worst. https://t.co/NC80rbKLfP — Jim Webb (@JimWebbUSA) December 26, 2015 Bloomberg | Since dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination, Webb has continued to maintain his Webb2016 website, which he has updated with posts about the possibilities of an …

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A Visual Interpretation Of The Budget Deal

First, this gem from 2013 by Branco (with a little amateur rework): Then this timeless number from Nate Beeler, also with a little “help”: 2013, 2015, what difference, at this point, does it make!!