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May 6, 2016

Taxes: they’re not Charity

Here’s an article about Warren Buffet’s well-known view that the rich should pay more in taxes. His bottom-line argument is, “If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.” I don’t disagree. My disagreement with Buffet is the implication that being forced …

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There’s that word again; it does not mean what you think it does

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump set his sights on conservative critics who condemn his positions on trade during a rally in West Virginia Thursday. “I’m a conservative, but the conservatives hate me for suggesting I would dare tax somebody,” Trump said after promising he would punish companies that move overseas with high tariffs when …

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Cthulu is a Poseur, SMOD is the Only Candidate Delivering Real Change

All the Cthulu sycophants peddling the tentacled one recently on this site have been tilting the Grok way off balance.  In an attempt to remedy that and put us back on a fair keel, we must remember SMOD!!! The only candidate who ON ELECTION DAY GUARANTEES to Crush Common Core. Smite out ISIS. Obliterate Iran’s …

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Tied and tabled: abortion stats and buffer zone repeal fail in the Senate

The New Hampshire Senate on May 5 tabled bills on the First Amendment and public health, after twelve Senators found them too hot to handle. Both bills were characterized by opponents as attacks on abortion rights, although neither would have affected to any degree the rights created by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. …

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So now the principle of Government is to be “irritating”?

NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior“ …said NONE of our Foundational documents.  But these Progressive Socialists don’t care much ’bout details…or freedom to choice or the free marketplace: …The City Council on Thursday green-lit a controversial bill that puts a 5-cent fee on plastic and paper shopping …

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Tomorrow Morning on GrokTALK!

From National Review, we welcome guest David French. We’ve got Robert Pondiscio, the Vice President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Jim Lawrence has been talking to voters and he’d like to tell us what they are thinking.  And Carrier Severino from the Judicial Crisis Network is back to discuss Merrick Garland’s No-mentum problem. It …

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