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Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.

Notable Quote – Pericles

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. -Pericles (430 B.C.)

Wonderland: The World According to Goodwin Liu

Guest post by Bill Wilson (President of Americans for Limited Government) Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin confirmation hearings on Barack Obama’s nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Goodwin Liu.  Liu’s record itself is rather unremarkable.  He has no judicial experience.  He only practiced law privately for a little more …

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And who is supporting Carol Shea-Porter for voting for something that most NH citizens didn’t want?

Are they NUTS? The Public Sector Unions: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees HCAN (an SEIU / Soros entity) New Hampshire Citizens Alliance for Action (another Colorado Model style George Soros Progressive "advocacy" group – you know, the one that has no problem in smearing the TEA Party with no proof; and yes, …

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So all you Progressives, you DON’T believe that Obamacare robs us of Freedom of Choice?

Freedom – the ability to choose what is best without Government restraining that choice.  It is the freedom of knowing that the "better choices" have been pre-chosen by Government and that the judgment calls have already been made concerning the lesser choices – and the choices are not available. Free markets?  I guess we are …

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Nanny-Staters just can’t stop intruding…a perfect example writ small

Tyranny is not just having another country’s army occupy your country even though that is most often what people think of.  Another common visualization is that of the evil king tormenting his subjects.  Yet, sometimes tyranny is simply being herded with choices removed from your life simply because they think it best for you… I …

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Notable Quote – P.J. O’Rourke.

This is because we believe in freedom. Freedom — what this country was established upon, what the Constitution was written to defend, what the Civil War was fought to perfect. Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It’s not entitlement. An entitlement …

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Rep. Paul Ryan keeps sounding better and better – Jim Splaine? Not so much

One speaks like a Statesman of old – the other one, like a whiney Progressive that can’t understand why other Americans (who actually believe the words of the Constituation and the philosophies that created it) won’t agree with him. First, the Statesman: We are fast approaching a tipping point where more Americans depend on the …

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New Hampshire – Anti-fish or “nibbling away at our freedoms”

Or is this simply a case of already established businesses using the force of Government (regulations!) via the Board to "discriminate" against their competition?   In other words – crony capitalism.  Yup, even here in NH, we see a too cozy relationship between business and government not to provide more opportunity for entrepreneurs and thus …

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