15 September 2016 - Granite Grok

September 15, 2016

“Deplorables”

I haven’t yet commented on Hillary’s “deplorable” outburst yet, but New England talker and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has and is offering up, a la Jeff Foxworthy’s “you might be a redneck if” style way of showing who Hillary Clinton was targeting (emphasis mine): In case you’ve been wondering which side you’re on, you …

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Schools are for indoctrination rather than for education

After all, it was Progressive Richard Ely that figured out that “social change” should be carried out in government schools – after all, catch them early when parents think they are learning their ABCs and math flash cards (oh, they don’t do that anymore, do they?  After all, go to that famous Progressive city, Detroit, and …

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Data Point – CEO compensation

Instead, advocates of redistribution cavalierly diminish the importance of incentives. They claim the success of America’s 1% stems from rising cronyism despite overwhelming evidence that the status quo has grown less entrenched. Seventy percent of the wealth of the top 0.1% is owned by self-employed business owners who bested competitors to satisfy customers, not cronies, …

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Data Point – Trust in Journalism down again; CNN shows why

Such a headline: Fueled by Republicans, Americans’ trust in media hits all-time low Hmmm, ya think maybe they just bring this upon themselves?  I’ve been putting up the Gallup graphs for a long time so I’m not surprised: But CNN, like many Lefty media outlets, just can’t seem to understand that when you decide to …

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