1 April 2017 - Granite Grok

April 1, 2017

Russians manipulating 2016 Pres Election?

But I do remember when US Senator Ted Kennedy (“The Swimmer”) tried to get Russia to intervene in Reagan’s Presidential Election.  Good time, good times (H/T: Powerline)

Raising Prices and Lefty Intellectual Inconsistency

Ran across this on the interweb today and thought it a pithy summary of a lefty characteristic. The only problem I have with it is that it’s not just inconsistency, it’s also dishonesty.  They are dishonest. The left does not have principles that apply universally.  The only principle or lodestar  is answering affirmatively to the …

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Obama Era School Meddling Results in Increased Violence, Drug Use, and Gang Activity.

This is a familiar refrain. Social engineers suggest a policy prescription and share their blueprint with the public. But the actual results are something entirely different. In today’s example, Obama’s Department of Education decided that too many public school suspensions were discriminatory. They targeted black students. From Walter Willimas, writing at The Daily Signal, According …

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Civil War – when the Left/Democrats can’t even support our own Law?

The Left screams about “cultural appropriation” all the time – but why do they throw OUR culture away any time it collides with another? Shades of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg writ small and sideways. All over the Right side of the blogosphere I keep hearing whispers “are we heading towards a civil war”? It is quite obvious …

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State Department Employee With Top Secret Clearance Arrested

A woman with top secret clearance was accepting gifts and benefits from the Chinese in exchange for, (DoJ) “Candace Marie Claiborne is a U.S. State Department employee who possesses a Top Secret security clearance and allegedly failed to report her contacts with Chinese foreign intelligence agents who provided her with thousands of dollars of gifts …

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