6 April 2016 - Granite Grok

April 6, 2016

Blogline of the Day – Capitalism, Social Justice Warrors, and Hypocrisy

THE HYPOCRISY OF PAYPAL’S ‘MISSION AND CULTURE:’ The online payments company cancels plans to expand in North Carolina while maintaining offices in some of the most anti-gay countries in the world. It is because the LGBT mafia see Christianity as its greatest enemy here in the United States and as easy marks as many won’t …

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Data Point – Living Standards: US vs the world

So why is it that our Leftist Political Class always wants us to be like other (more socialist) countries?  Dan Mitchell has the numbers: “And here are the most recent numbers from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, showing “average individual consumption” for various member nations of that international bureaucracy.  The average for all …

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So, NH Choo-Choo trainers still think a second line would be a GREAT idea?

From the Anti-Planner (a nationally recognized land use and transportation expert): Commuter rail was flat, overall gaining just 20,000 riders for the entire year, which considering the total is 490 million is a 0.00 percent increase. Some of the biggest losers were Portland, Maine (-14%), Albuquerque (-12%), and Portland, Oregon (-8%). Maine, Maine – whatEVAH …

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So Democracy Spring has a sister effort – Democracy Awakening. A leftist one-two punch?

And as I have been writing about, NH Rebellion is right in the middle of it. With the march of Democracy Spring now headed to DC, what’s the status? …Democracy Spring, which is currently in the midst of a 10-day protest march from Philadelphia to DC, with plans for a major escalation in DC on …

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Guess whose name is absent: 43 Senators Tell Court Obama Trying to Change Law ‘by Extra-Constitutional Assertion’ of Power

Ayup – and no surprise, either.  Here, let me give you a hint: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Lamar Alexander, Senator John Barrasso, Senator Roy Blunt, Senator John Boozman, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Senator Bill Cassidy…. And yes, the list on that amicus brief is in alphabetical order.  Amicus brief, you say, Skip? Ayup.  What is …

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