24 February 2016 - Granite Grok

February 24, 2016

Between A Trump and a Hard Place

We talk Trumpmentum, Trump-tactics, third-party, political cults-of-personality, Establishment games, and observing who tolerates what in a sometimes almost progressive-like battle for a Republican nominee. Get the Free Spreaker App for iOS, Android, or Windows Mobile, then  Follow us to get updates on live shows and broadcasts, as well as access to thousands of podcasts and tons of free …

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Lexington Massachusetts – The Gun Grabbers are Coming!

Daily Caller “…a Harvard professor named Robert Rotberg has taken it upon himself to enact, what he hopes will be “a movement against assault weapons that would capture the state and therefore maybe explode to reach the country.” He has seized upon the recent ban enacted in Highland Park, IL, and has modeled his own …

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In honor of the Nevada caucus: Revenge Of The Plebs

“America’s new elites, fancying themselves superior to the rural, the old, the religiously inclined and the rest, have increasingly turned politics into something that is done to people, for their own good, rather than by people according to their moral outlook. And then they wonder why people go looking for something else, something less sneering.” …

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Is Administrative Law Unlawful?

From Cafe Hayek:  Is Administrative Law Unlawful?: “Evidently, the lust for power outside the law is a recurring danger, and it is confined neither to monarchies nor to the past. Understanding this, Americans in their constitutions carefully repudiated power outside or above the law.  Their constitutions, however, could no longer hold off the danger when …

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Oh, the irony….

Its famed research vessels and scientists are arrayed across the globe, installing weather instruments off the Cape, tracking water currents in the Labrador Sea, monitoring monsoons in India, and measuring melting ice in Antarctica. In these and other ways, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is playing a leading role in raising the alarm — and …

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When Freedom reigns – even here in America

…Looking around the country, we find huge gaps in major metropolitan areas’ economic fortunes — for every booming Dallas-Fort Worth, there’s a sclerotic Detroit. Adam Smith’s principles, put forth more than two centuries ago, go a long way toward explaining why some areas do so much better than others. In “The Wealth of Nations,” the …

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Some more equal than others – what should the response be?

A former CIA officer serving jail time for leaking documents to the New York Times accused federal officials of setting a double standard by apparently refusing to aggressively prosecute Hillary Clinton. Clinton was “a high ranking official who should know better, but completely given a pass, and almost an apologetic pass,” Jeffrey Sterling, who was …

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Zimbabwe Park May have to Shoot 200 Lions Because – Cecil!

One dentist shoots one lion. Animal rights cry-babies go on the war path. This intimidates other big game hunters, preventing them from travelling to Zimbabwe to hunt lions for fear of negative publicity. The lion population explodes. More lions start eating more of everything. To preserve all the other species sharing the “preserve” Park officials …

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