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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.

This is what happens when Government determines winners and losers?

Just as it has in the Financial marketplace ("this company, we help.  This one, we let die"), Big Government is starting to decide which are the winners and which are the losers.  Is it right?  Is it fair? Doesn’t matter – it’s still our money….sigh. The losers: Solar power struggles: DayStar warns, OptiSolar closes Two …

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Notable Quotes – Jerry Pournelle

JERRY POURNELLE on democracy and tyranny (emphasis mine): “The sad truth is that democracy itself is often unstable. Intellectuals lose faith. Democracy is not flashy. It falls out of fashion. The intelligentsia feel scorned, unappreciated, and turn to new theories. There are other pressures. Republics stand until the citizens begin to vote themselves largess from …

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Insanity – they’re going to try it all over AGAIN?

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.–Albert Einstein, (attributed, physicist 1879 – 1955) I nearly lost my jaw when I read this: Romer: We Need to Get Fannie and Freddie to ‘Lend Like Crazy’ Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, appearing on CNN yesterday …

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Hey, NH! Look what happens you implement an income tax to lower property taxes!

The logical result: property taxes do not go down for long.  In fact, both income and property taxes will go up.  Such a "solution", eh?  You really know in your heart of hearts why, dontcha! Of course, it’s from one of the States that are the poster children of "Don’t ever do this at home …

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Obama’s Weekly address – the actual words!

Saw this over at RightWingNews by Devil’s Advocate – it is both hilarious and truthful at the same time.  Watch the REAL thoughts of Obama as he attempts to tell us what he is doing for and to us. Watch it – it is worth your 5 minutes

Bush practiced it – Obama promised it – Obama living up to it? Nope!

In the Right Blogosphere, it is becoming a fact of life that Obama’s promises all have expiration dates!  Open and Transparency by posting all new legislation so that the public can review it for 5 days? Go ahead, can you tell me just one?  Out of HOW many again? Not going to hire lobbyists.  Yup …

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Ruminations – 3/22/09

I generally write long – short posts are not my forte.  Problem is, there is just SO much going on all at the same time, it has been hard to keep up.  There are times when at the end of the night, and I’ve only put up one or two posts, I look around and …

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Meet The New Press – Podcast for 03/21/09

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