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Skip

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 – George Washington

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. — George Washington (H/T: RightWingNews)

I wonder what they thought of my 2 minute speech?

It seems that we had more folks at the Tea Parties than what I thought: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a clandestine monitoring operation on last week’s Tea Party protests, filming and cataloging the hundreds of thousands of Americans who acted on their First Amendment right to Free Speech. The FBI operation reportedly …

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YIPPEE!!! The NH Senate Judicial Committee has voted for SANITY!

And we have to let these folks, Republican AND DEMOCRAT that we appreciate their votes.  PLEASE CALL THESE FOLKS AND THANK THEM!  Via our friend Sue P., we get this update from our other friends at CPR Action: ***Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted by a vote of 3-2 to NOT recommend the Genderless Marriage …

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Notable Quotes – Alex de Tocqueville

“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

Why is smaller Government Better? Less temptation!

Less chances to mess with the law or tax code and less money to hold out as carrots (or as brass rings for the lucky or politically connected). 5% of GDP historically for the size of government, 25% now, and Obama wants to push that even higher (more spoils?). Discuss.

Income percentages? Surprising….

Individual (not household) Income level  and Income Taxes paid The "top 1%" of earners in this country, is everyone who makes over about $180,000 a year.  They paid about 39.89% of all income taxes. The top 5% is everyone who makes over about $152,000 a year.                            They paid about   60.14 of all income …

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Notable Quote – Rush Limbaugh

Compassion is defined not by how many people are on the government dole but by how many people no longer need government assistance. The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages. – Rush Limbaugh (H/T: RightWingNews)