9 July 2017 - Granite Grok

July 9, 2017

An interesting proposition

D. Hawthorne over at American Greatness has something on which to contemplate given the trajectory this country is following when compared to what the Founders intended: The American Founding: The Declaration’s Natural Rights ? Individual Character Formation to Create Good Citizens Capable of Self-Government ? Culture with Vibrant Mediating Institutions ? Limited Government versus Today’s …

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Data Point – the false meme going around about domestic vs Islamic Jihad terrorism

THere is a meme going around the Left trying to claim that domestic terrorism is worse than those of Jihad.  Their problem is reading reports on “Incidents” vs actual outcomes of those “incidents”.  Incidents are just numbers; outcomes mean death. https://twitter.com/uberfeminist/status/807396285053403136 Go ahead – what about from 2005 to now? (H/T: PJ Media)

Is the Climate Cult the Left’s Last Hope and other Random Thoughts

Climate change is the single most important progressive agenda item. It has to be. Everything else they claim to care about has failed. So they leverage the climate narrative to blame you for their lies failure.  Championing climate change lets leadership continue to enrich itself and the political class (and grow government) while allowing themselves rank and …

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Should John Burt Run Against Dem. State Sen. Lou D’Allesandro?

House Rep. John Burt talks about the media, constitutional carry, what a waste of space Washington DC is, and his next run for public office. Should he run for Congress, challenge Democrat Lou D’Allesandro for the NH State Senate, or how about staying in the NH House and running for Speaker? 7′ 33″ Recorded live …

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It seems like they succeeded – what’s the difference now?

Over at Instapundit was this from a NYT piece: Earl Browder concluded that the American-Soviet alliance of World War II would continue after the defeat of Nazi Germany. For this reason, in 1944, he boldly engineered the transformation of the C.P.U.S.A. into a pressure group designed to work within the Democratic Party. Seventy years later, color …

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So now “White Supremacist” is the new Democrat epithet du jour?

It’s all about the demonization. You know, Democrats just love to blow through “words” or “memes” about their opponents.  It isn’t enough to call them (er, that would be us) wrong, silly, or dumb.  No, it is always a case of trying to make us so distasteful personally as to make people in the middle …

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