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October 27, 2015

Robert Heinlein on Patriotism

Well, of COURSE I’d post this up – we took part of our name (“Grok”) from his Stranger in a Strange Land opus: As one drives through the bushveldt of East Africa it is easy to spot herds of baboons grazing on the ground. But not by looking at the ground. Instead you look up …

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Notable Quote – Mark Steyn

That would be NH’s own Mark Steyn – on the nature and character of Democrat candidates (emphasis mine): Democrats win by pretending to be to the right of who they really are. Their base understands and accepts this. Thus, when Democrat candidates profess to believe that “marriage is between a man and a woman” or to be …

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2016 Presidential Primary: Lindsey Graham: ‘How Am I Losing to These People?’

I would have JUST TOO MUCH fun with this as I should be writing on some other thing – so I’m turning this over to you, our readers.  Have at it! Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), in an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, sized up his competition in the Republican primary race for the White House …

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Feminist Contradiction: How can one be a victim AND empowered at the same time?

Hmm, I just can’t decode this logic.  Professor Suzanne Venker was “disinvited” from giving a “harmful” speech at uber-Liberal Williams College – apparently, the students there think they are adults but prove they are little better than children. Its “paper of record”, The Williams Record, has a pitful editorial that, well, mirrors well what Venker was saying on …

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