14 February 2017 - Granite Grok

February 14, 2017

Bias in journalism much?

Normally I do like the Daily Mail, a UK newspaper, as it reports on a lot of items that the US MSM won’t – and if the MSM does, the Daily Mail generally has more facts and less political correctness than its American brethren.  This time, not so much. SHOT: The not-for-profit American Civil Liberties …

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Data Point – It’s about time somebody started to do what Republicans have promised since forever

And hardly ever did. Trump started it, it looks like the Republicans are following Trump’s lead by using the CRA (Congressional Review Act that allows them to delete bureaucratic regulations (with caveats)).  Let’s see if they: Pass the REINS Act Repeal the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act in which Congress ceded much of its power to …

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Now the Right is out-Alinskying the Left? Serves them Right!

Given how Alinsky’s Rules were used against Conservatives, Traditionalists, and Libertarians at the beginning of the Obama Administration, and how long it took us to figure out what it was that was being used against us, this piece by Kurt Schlicter (who is becoming a good read) is amusing: The Left is getting massively out-Alinskyed, …

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A reminder about how the Minimum Wage came about – and its not pretty

“As I’ve said on other occasions: compared to (most of) today’s advocates of the minimum wage, the minimum-wage’s early advocates had far worse ethics but a far better grasp of economics. These early advocates of the minimum wage correctly understood not only that the minimum wage destroys jobs for some low-skilled workers, but also that …

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Zandra Rice-Hawkins: Master purveyor of FUD towards the Second Amendment

FUD – Fear, uncertainty, and doubt.  Coming from Zandra Rice-Hawkins (our favorite cereal, Rice-Crispies) of Granite State Progress (a totally out of state funded entity), I tend to more call it lying.  She hates guns because this Statist loves Government – and it is clear from her history, as we all have said before, she …

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