January 2017 - Granite Grok

January 2017

Betcha she never saw it coming….

SHOT: Interim and acting Attorney General (an Obama holdover) Sally Yates on Trump’s Executive Order on the Travel / Immigration Pause: At present, I am not convinced that the defense of the executive order is consistent with these responsibilities nor am I convinced that the executive order is lawful. In other words, she wasn’t going …

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Blogline of the Day – how much stupider can Political Correctness go? Behold!

British Medical Association Warns Against Using “Expectant Mothers” For Pregnant Women As It May Offend Intersex Men. Oh, we aren’t supposed to offend anyone?  Well *I* AM offended by all this stupidness of people that believe they are adults that are living in fantasy worlds.  So I’m not supposed to offend a man thinking he’s …

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So how will Republican Senate Majority Mitch McConnell weasel out of this Supreme Court situation

SHOT: McConnell refuses to say whether ‘nuclear option’ in Supreme Court nomination is on table CHASER: Senate Democrats Vow to Filibuster Trump’s Supreme Court Choice HANGOVER: President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he wants Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to invoke the nuclear option if Democrats try to block his upcoming Supreme Court nominee through filibuster. …

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BlogObservation of the Day – Loyalty

And there’s dang little of it around anymore – especially in politics: “People trust their leaders not only because of their competence but also because of their courage and commitment, and because they believe that their leaders will remain with their own in times of crisis rather than being helicoptered to the emergency exit. Paradoxically, …

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Democrats and Disarmament – the Truth about NH’s Pistol License Law

On January 10, 1923, NH’s more than 450,000 residents enjoyed equally the right to defend themselves, their families, their property and the state. By May of that year, 91,000 found themselves criminalized and statutorily stripped of those rights. But New Hampshire is the “Live Free or Die” state. How could that happen? In 1922, more …

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Another reason why Trump won – Liberal moral preening rejected

“if you want to be an obnoxious slob, you have a right to be one” Again, Progressives truly believe that they hold the moral high ground in politics and in having such, can be “bossy” (remember when that was a liberal pejorative?).  Looking down their noses, on their high horse, nose up in the air; …

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