3 July 2017 - Granite Grok

July 3, 2017

If Illinois Had One-Party Rule: House Dems Pass $5 Billion Tax Increase

I am fond of pointing out that to Democrats there is no limit to how much of other people’s property they will spend. California is the poster child, but Illinois is vying for the title. If it weren’t for the citizens electing a Republican Governor, they’d be staring into the teeth of a 32% $5 billion dollar …

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Random Thoughts on the Monday Before Independence Day

1.) Democrats like to accuse everyone but themselves of vote suppression but abortion is vote suppression, and they’ll do anything to protect that. The irony, of course, is that they are statistically suppressing their own likely voters while a majority of Republicans favor letting them not just live, but live long enough to vote (potentially) against Republicans. 2.) …

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Want your city to be safer? Don’t be a Sanctuary City. That’s what Phoenix learned

All we’ve heard for years from Chiefs of Police in big urban areas (you know, Democrat strongholds that the Mayor appoints the Chief – go figure) that we shouldn’t go after illegal aliens for deportation as then they wouldn’t talk to the police about crime.  We have to treat them differently, we’re told over and …

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Notable Quote – Bryan Caplan

I don’t think it’s correct to argue that leftists do not “grasp the reality of spontaneous order.” It is precisely that spontaneous order and the freedom that yields it that the left hates, because it is the opposite of the centralized control that is the reason d’etre of the left. Here is a simple conceptual …

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They Can’t Help Themselves – Smug Alert, It’s A Volt!

The license plate frame suggests that pure geekdom may be more of a factor than worship at the altar of Algore, but the driver of this Chevy ReVolt simply could not resist labeling it “LOW CO2,” even though the range extending gasoline engine is anything but, and the main power source is a smokestack somewhere …

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European Gun Rights? Czech It Out!!

Constitutional Amendment Will Permit Keeping And Bearing Of Guns And Ammo! As the EU continues to advocate the immigration of yet more hordes of fighting age “rapefugees” and terrorists, while further disarming their subjects, the Visegrád group of Eastern European nations (Hungary, Poland, Czech republic, and Slovakia) are pushing back hard on Brussels, and refusing …

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Notable Quotes – boy, the Libs will flip over this – JFK and Trump believe the same thing!

John F. Kennedy‘s Inaugural Address: …And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe–the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the State but from the hand of God… Donald J Trump (at his “Celebrate Freedom Rally”): “Since the signing of …

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