Practical Federalism–Closing remarks by Jeff Chidester

In concluding the entire day’s activities, Jeff Chidester gave his closing remarks to those still there at the end:

In large part, this was due to a lot of people there to hear Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, and Rick Santorum – the Presidential candidates.  Yes, many did show up for the beginning (more or less) and the room was filled to standing room well before those three showed up but it was clear the exits were seeing more activity the longer the event went on after the Wannabees had left.  This I can understand – at least they are trying to understand what the candidates are about on the issues.  For a lot of people, that may be all of the “dip into the political pool” they can stand – and I can’t say I blame them.  I, as a political blogger, news junkie, and philosophical in outlook, really got a lot out of the event – but it isn’t for most.  So all I have to do is convince another couple of percent of folks to be willing to jump right in and….

On the other hand, there was the Press…

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GrokTV: interview with Stanley Kurtz

As I said earlier, I have read Stanly Kurtz’s stuff for years and I was really happy that he agreed to come over and yak with us after the long day of the Practical Federalism forum at SNHU.  So, what did we talk about?  Of course – the Obama Administration’s use of Regionalism to distort … Read more

Lt. Governor of Tennessee Calls for Christians to protect themselves after UCC Shooting

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Although it isn’t being talked about much in the news, witnesses to the horrific Umpqua Community College shooting stated that the killer was asking his victims their religion before shooting. It was been made clear that if a victim said they were Christian they were shot in the head. This extremely disturbing scenario has been ignored by Obama and others but not by the Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee, Ron Ramsey.

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RICO Letter Take-down Leads to Congressional Investigation

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Jagdish Shukla asked the president (of the United States) to use the threat of racketeering charges to silence scientific dissent. Two weeks later and Shukla faces a congressional investigation.

Chairman Smith: “IGES appears to be almost fully funded by taxpayer money while simultaneously participating in partisan political activity by requesting a RICO investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change. In fact, IGES has reportedly received $63 million from taxpayers since 2001, comprising over 98 percent of its total revenue during that time.”

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GrokTALK! October 3rd, 2015

This is the Podcast version of the event. Check back at GraniteGrok.com throughout the week for the individual speakers from the Practical Federalism Forum. Video Live Stream

Data Point – Labor Participation Rate

A record 94,610,000 Americans were not in the American labor force last month — an increase of 579,000 from August — and the labor force participation rate reached its lowest point in 38 years, with 62.4 percent of the U.S. population either holding a job or actively seeking one. In September, according to the Labor … Read more

Has Obama apologized to Mitt yet?

Of course not….Obama just declares that the guy cleaning his clock in the Middle East is “weak”.  Of course, the guy who declared that he knew all of his subordinates’ jobs better than they did must be right, right? (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

Political Correctness – when the Left really has no winning argument

Political Correctness 2We’ve railed against Political Correctness for years and how it is the hobgoblin of minor minds.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been called a racist, misogynist, homophobe, cold-hearted, uncaring…and a TEA Partier (heh!).  Frankly I don’t much care and a couple of times I’ve started laughing – which drives that Progressive nuts for obvious reasons.  It just doesn’t matter any more as for me (and the rest of the Groksters), we’re all set understanding that they’ve got nuttin’.  But most people DO care because they just don’t understand that if they only would look past those emotional attacks, they’d be home free.  Ammo Grrrll from Powerline has this observation – and what to do when attacked:

As soon as someone claims to be “offended” or worse yet, to “feel unsafe,” the discussion is automatically over. It’s really a nasty, intellectually-dishonest tactic to change the subject completely. You’re losing, so let’s not make it about the subject under discussion, but about your feelings. Since there is no “right or wrong” with feelings and everybody is entitled to as many feelings as she can generate, then the moral high ground is already ceded. And the person who disagreed with her and made her feel “unsafe” is clearly a vicious “bully.”

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Should be one of our WTF entries for tomorrow’s GrokTALK!

I read the post – totally unhinged from reality and it proves my point – the Left doesn’t care at ALL who it must tyrannize in order to “grant” freedom to “the oppressed”.  Once again, we see that the Left must TOTALLY distort the common language (“…freedom from destitution…”) in order to make their point. Adding … Read more

Wait. What?

“Possession, use, or threatened use of firearms (including but not limited to BB guns, air guns, water pistols, and paint guns) ammunition, explosives, dangerous chemicals, or any other objects as weapons on college property, except as expressly authorized by law or college regulations, is prohibited. Possession of knives with a blade longer than 4” is … Read more

Just Who is Sen. Ayotte Fighting For?

Why is Senator Ayotte leading the fight in the Senate against those who stand for life? Not since revelations about Dr. Kermit Gosnell shocked the nation has the pro-life movement had such an opportunity to expose the gruesome and barbaric practices of the abortion industry – which the recently released videos of Planned Parenthood have … Read more

Overheard At The Pentagon…

Overheard at the Pentagon: “Right now, we are Putin’s prison bitch.” 11:26 AM – 30 Sep 2015

(h/t zerohedge.com)

A perfect laconic summation of our current position.  Of course, the primary target of that derision will do as he always does and sheepishly distract others from his humiliation, like he attempted to do last night, with the hope that no one notices the newly acquired awkwardness in his gait.

Of course, the distractions don’t work on all.

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Democrat Murderland

ChicagoMurdersBannerDon’t fall for the distraction from His Disgrace.  It’s politically expedient and self serving for His Disgrace to scold and glower the public on the shooting in Oregon.  If he really cared about gun violence, he would look in his own backyard.  Literally.  Below is a tiny sample of the murders in Chicago this last September.  I encourage you to click on this link   and poke around the site now and again.  And note the names and places of the people.  Check everyday, the list interminably grows.  At last check, the 2015 the death toll was 374.  The site has a list going back to 2012 which had a death total of 509, in 2013 there were 422 murders.  426 in 2014.

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Tomorrow on GrokTALK! – Live From The “Practical Federalism Forum”

Tomorrow morning we start as usual at 9am EST, but live from Southern New Hampshire University and the Practical Federalism Forum. The Event itself kicks off at 10am with guests, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania), and Carly Fiorina. Additional speakers include: Jeff Chidester – Host of New Hampshire Perspective, News Radio WQSO and New … Read more

EPA Opens Door to More “Shady” Environmental Fraud

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There’s no getting away from this. Sunlight is bad. It’s bad for plants. Why? Because plants that get sunlight emit ozone. Trees are the biggest culprits. So we need to regulate sunshine as only suitable for taxpayer backed solar farms that keep the sun from getting to the plants. Got it?

Wait. EPA has had a change of heart, sort of…

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