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My, My, California Has Gone Full Communism: “Hey, Shopkeep? Your Stuff Is Now Officially the Thieves”. The Former No Longer Allowed To Stop the Latter

Because when The State is no longer going to protect the Right to Private Property, NO one can own anything at all.  And if you no longer own your property, there can be no private Freedom. In fact, no freedom at all as the linchpin of freedom is to both own, control, and protect one’s property. …

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Mary’s Moral Militia, Part 2: Instincts

My first career was as a sociobiologist (See my book The Sociobiological Imagination, SUNY Press, 1990). The late EO Wilson was my mentor. By 2000, I moved into Law, but I’ve never stopped looking at how law exists in relation to our evolved instincts.

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Mary’s Moral Militia, Part 1

The other day I was reading George Washington’s 6th State of the Union Address (typical beach reading when you are running for office) and was surprised to see this bit:

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BREAKING: So Doug Lambert, What Are You Going to Do Now That Another Gunstock Check to the Sununu Campaign Has Surfaced???

I’ve known that the existence of this newly discovered $1,000 check had been rumored for a while but I was asked to remain silent.  However,  loyal reader (and relatively new – THANKS for reading GraniteGrok!) Commenter Manny brought this up last night on my post (“Gunstock – Somebody Gave NH State Rep Harry Bean Really …

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Palate Cleanser – Well, Mine Certainly Do!

“Every morning I find out I have new joints I never knew I had because they crack.” And yes, the guy in the picture, I used to watch him every morning before school decades ago.