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Skip US Constitution, Second Amendment:
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
NH Constitution, Article 2A:
All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.
And yet, Democrats / Socialists keep believing that they can ignore those plain words.
I’ve pretty much stayed out of the “Trump is a conservative / no he’s not” mess that is raging in the part of the Right political blogosphere. Sure, I’m watching it as it is part of the messy sausage making process of who we end up have representing us. But I will say that the intensity, as we are mere weeks from the Iowa caucus and the NH Primary, has ramped up exponentially. And yes, behind the ‘Grok email closed door, it rages there as well – after all, we are an extremely opinionated bunch (er, that’s why you come to read us, right?).
I have endorsed Ted Cruz, so take this with a grain of salt. I have written about Trump in the vein of mostly praising him for bringing up issues that the Establishment Republicans just didn’t want have in the election (they assault their blue nosed sensibilities) even as we, their base, have consistently said they were important. We’ve been suffocated by the Left’s tool of politicial correctness even as the R elite cowered before it as well. And a lot of “Establishment Conservative Pundits” have fallen in front of this onslaught as well – saying something at time but certainly not full throated roars of attacking the Left attacker (except for us at the ‘Grok as you all well know). Give him credit where credit is due: Trump has ripped that shroud to ribbons and has run roughshod on the enables of the Left – the mainstream media. ‘Bout time somebody did.
He’s has said a lot of rough things, but I do believe that he has just had his Edwin Edwards moment (that corrupt Louisiana Democrat that famously said “The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy“)…
Or as Papa Smurf (John Sununu) famously used to say “Talk, talk, talk” to your family, friends, and neighbors to get them to convince them to join with the Republican Party. Like just pointed out here, Trump has and is doing exactly what he told people to do.
| 2016 GOP Nominee Preference | ||
| attended GOP Caucus before? | ||
| First | Attended | |
| Time | Before | |
| Donald Trump | 43% | 28% |
| Ted Cruz | 19% | 25% |
| Marco Rubio | 14% | 10% |
If you don’t know, comedienne Joy Behar is the reigning doyenne “The View”, that overwhelming hot bed of daytime chatter, said this of Democrat Socialist Bernie Sanders (emphasis mine):
“He calls himself a socialist. He’s just a liberal. He’s a liberal. He’s as liberal as Obama.”
Well now, that pretty much pegs Obama, doesn’t it? After all,
(H/T: Powerline)
Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people -Moe Lane (RedState)
(H/T: Caveman Circus)
There’s a reason why “omnibus” bills are passed and sign by Republicans in DC (ostensibly, the Party of less government and lesser spending) – so they can appear to be FOR those two things and then pass the Fusion Party’s actual spending agenda. Sure, they enacted the Sequester that actually cut spending and held the line, but just voted to undo that restriction. And now we are about to reap that unboundedness and this time, given that the bill originated the the US House where newly coronated US House Speaker oversaw its passage, we can lay this all on the Republicans (emphasis mine, reformatted):
The tax-cut deal inked by President Obama and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan last month has put a major dent in the federal budget, helping send the deficit soaring by 24 percent, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday. The $544 billion deficit projected for 2016 marks the first year since 2009 that the red ink has grown, and it powers the deficit back up over the half-trillion mark, where it had been for most of Mr. Obama’s tenure.
And Ryan and the other Rs have just made that debt sack on our backs just that much heavier. And thanks to Kelly Ayotte as well, who voted for it. And it will get worse:
“Sadly, the world will never run out of busybody Malthusian socialists, it seems.”
The problem with the Left (and make no mistake, Carter certainly was a Leftist) is that they can only think in terms of the fixed,
Bernie Sanders, like all Socialists / Statists, believes your money is really the State’s money. After all, if you believe in Warrenism, “you didn’t build that” and apparently, Bernie believes that the State is only lending you your money, and now he wants it back. After all, like all Statists, he believes his spending your … Read more
Grokster Mike is at the Exeter Townhall where Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX and running for the Republican nomination for President) will be speaking at the first event of his day: Live streaming video by Ustream
In this short animated video from Learn Liberty I explain why raising the minimum wage is a bad idea if the goal is to improve the economic fortunes of the least-advantaged workers and families. The minimum wage yields unfair advantages to families, such as mine, with teenagers who hail from middle- and high-income households, who are well-educated, … Read more
From The Corner: El Chapo’ Drug Kingpin Had a Rifle From Federal ‘Fast & Furious’ Program The Fast and Furious gun-smuggling scandal is one of those stories that the government and the media declared over… that wasn’t, or isn’t, actually over. Here’s a nice example: A .50-caliber rifle found at Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s hideout … Read more
We all know that almost all politicians “fudge” at times. However, Hillary’s lies are now several orders of magnitude above “fudge”. When will Democrats accept that, act on it, and toss her? Certainly we at the ‘Grok have NO problem in tossing and then constantly mocking Republican officials (great example: NH State Senator Jeb Bradley … Read more
“United States forest health has improved over recent decades and is not likely to be impaired in at least the next few decades.”
Bruce is one of our Progressive commenters here at the ‘Grok; I do give him kudos for entering our “lion’s den” especially when posts on global cooling global warming climate change climate chaos go up. This may be one of those.
Sidenote: Do you wonder if those that believe Man is responsible for climate change have to keep burning through so many names? That their constant rebranding is just like Progressives cum Liberals cum Progressives (again)? That maybe the realization that most of us think their ideas are so toxic that they believe they must hide themselves all the time (emphasis mine)?
Increased atmospheric Carbon Dioxide has increased U.S. forest health in recent decades
Abstract: The health of United States forests is of concern for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, forest commercial values, and other reasons. Climate change, rising concentrations of CO2 and some pollutants could plausibly have affected forest health and growth rates over the past 150 years and may affect forests in the future. Multiple factors must be considered when assessing present and future forest health.
Preamble to the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Happiness was originally was Property; the NH Constitution says it more clearly:
[Art.] 2. [Natural Rights.] All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights – among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting, property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state on account of race, creed, color, sex or national origin.
And what does now US District Court Judge, thanks to Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Wilhelmina Marie Wright hold on the Right to Personal Property? Right out of the Critical Race Theory (that EVERYTHING, knowable and unknowable, always proves racism):
The practice of American racism is based on two principles: the sanctity of property and the belief in the hierarchy of races. The first of these principles is firmly protected by the words and action of the Constitution; the second is proscribed by the words of the instrument, but not by its effect. History shows that when these two principles are juxtaposed (which happens constantly), property rights are given absolute priority.
And poor, poor Hillary — just like in 2008, better candidates just keep stealing her healthcare lunch money right out from under her nose when she’s on the campaign trail! (H/T: Instapundit)
TODAY IN HISTORY: Bill Clinton Admitted Lying About His Affair With Monica Lewinsky Mic drop starts at 39 seconds. (H/T: Progressives Today via Instapundit)
Yes, I have been “writing short” lately – something that I do try to do more often but fail. Now with family circumstances having changed, my nights are not my own and I can NEVER tell when my “writing consciousness” will get interrupted. So instead of not writing at all, am trying for “short”. With that said:
Shot:
Why is George Stephanopoulos Even Allowed to Cover the Clinton Campaign?
Chaser:
Why is George Stephanopoulos Even Allowed to Host GOP Debates?
After all, he was the wonderkid of the