28 June 2016 - Granite Grok

June 28, 2016

Hassan Signs Off On Asset Forfeiture Reform But Never Admits It.

People are getting excited (with good reason) that Democrat Governor Hassan signed criminal asset forfeiture reform in New Hampshire, (Forbes) New Hampshire became the latest state to roll back civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize and keep property without ever filing criminal charges. Under legislation signed by Gov. Maggie Hassan on Friday, the …

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Wait. You Actually Listen?

Clinton: I don't like hearing people don't trust me https://t.co/mVNdVCZMBm | Getty pic.twitter.com/B2sT44pZ5A — POLITICO (@politico) June 27, 2016

Where’s Maggie?

added… Outside the State Bending the knee to her Donor Sugar Daddy's? https://t.co/XQkvNjbqlI — Steve Mac Donald (@TheRealNHSteve) June 28, 2016 H/T Anson Loveday-Twitter

ICYMI – Challenging Ayotte, then the Rise of Experimental Science

ICYMI – Jim Rubens, Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s primary challenger, joins us to talk about Kelly’s record and why he’s the better Republican. Then John Zmirack helps us explore the question, “why did experimental science arise in the West, as opposed to other civilizations?” Original broadcast date 6-4-2016. >>> You Can Listen to us on Stitcher Smart Radio! <<< …

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Substandard care for women is now a Constitutional right

Remember Gosnell? (If you don’t, let Skip remind you.) Among the laws passed in some states in the wake of Kermit Gosnell’s conviction was Texas’s H.B. 2, which included requirements that abortion providers have hospital admitting privileges and that abortion facilities meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical facilities. Five Supreme Court Justices have tossed …

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Notable Quote – Randy Holcombe

Freedom is meaningless if we are only free to make choices that meet with government approval. The Progressive ideology compromises freedom and takes away the individual rights that at one time justified the existence of our American government. Progressivism is a direct attack on freedom. -Prof. Randy Holcombe Of course it is – that’s what Socialism …

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Kevin Williamson of NRO on the current state of Democrats vs the Constitution

The Corner: …The bearing of arms is a sign of citizenship, which is to say, of being a full participant in government who acts through it, as opposed to subjectship, the state of being a passive being who does not act through government but who is acted upon. In that sense, it is like the …

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So Kelly Ayotte and Jeanne Shaheen, THIS is the kind of Due Process you want?

One that is unConstitutional and, well, hasn’t any “due” to the bureaucratic process now in place?  Again, you want to CHAMPION this Hotel “due process” California hell? (emphasis mine, reformatted) Currently, it can take years for an innocent individual to get off the list. Take for example Rahinah Ibrahim, an innocent Stanford professor and PhD student …

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Notable Quote – Rick Wilson

On the Slippery Slope we see going on right before us: On a hundred-year time scale you have more to fear from an unaccountable government than you do from radical Islam. A bureaucracy empowered to place you on a list where your rights can be excised or suspended will follow the inevitable path of all …

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