“An illegitimate government is no better than a band of thieves with superior firepower. If that.” – Glenn Reynolds    

Pretty much sums up what we at GraniteGrok are all about (emphasis mine): We write about a set of principles and compare everyone to them, regardless of party. Without principles as a litmus there are no limits to what any elected official can or will do. We also write about Republican principles outlined in their own … Read more

This week on GrokTALK! our guests are Andrew Langer, president of the Institute for Liberty, and two Republican primary winners for NH State Senate, George Lambert and Kevin Avard, join us to talk about their primary wins and their Democrat opponents. Watch and listen live right here at GraniteGrok.com starting at 9am Eastern time, or … Read more

With many people now acting as if it is time for “a woman” to become president, apparently they have learned absolutely nothing from the disastrous results of the irresponsible self-indulgence of choosing a president of the United States on the basis of demographic characteristics instead of individual qualifications. It would not matter to me if … Read more

RLCNH Chairman Aaron Day joins us, as do NH State Senate Candidates Dan Dwyer and Maureen Mooney

…Progressives say corporations using inversions are unpatriotic, which is amusing. When the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision stipulated that Americans do not forfeit their First Amendment right to political advocacy when they act together through corporations (including, and especially, incorporated nonprofit advocacy groups), progressives ridiculed the idea that corporations should be treated as people. Now, progressives charge that corporations resorting … Read more

Now, what is the left’s worldview in general?  What is it? If you had to attach not a philosophy but an attitude to a leftist worldview, it’s one of pessimism and darkness, sadness.  They’re never happy, are they?  They’re always angry about something. No matter what they get, they’re always angry. They are animated in … Read more

“Rebuilding the republic has to begin at lower levels, down where we actually live. It has to be an economic and political insurgency. Discount anybody in national politics. Anybody. They can’t possibly help. The better ones are merely imperfectly dissolved bits of the toxic broth. Some are admirable, sure, but that’s all they are, those … Read more

This week on GrokTALK! Greg Moore from AFP New Hampshire; Dan Hynes – candidate for NH State Senate; Jack Kimball – Smith for US Senate; with special guest host Kimberly Morin.

“Societies are normally this badly wounded coming out of catastrophes, not entering them. Which means we’re in no condition for what’s coming, and what’s coming is something not seen since feudal times. Everything’s on the table including civilization itself. We’ve run out of good outcomes. There isn’t even a name for what’s coming. So far … Read more

“…we use no other artillery than goose quills..” Or pixels.    

But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they … Read more

“If I lived in Venezuela, I’d find out where the guardsmen lived, and shoot them when they walked out the door in the morning. That is, of course, the proper response to dictators and their minions of every stripe, even Hollywood-backed socialists.” – Glenn Reynolds, law professor, proprietor of Instapundit, syndicated columnist, and prolific writer … Read more

“One of the greatest economic misunderstandings is the myth that government officials are more attentive to the long run than are private entrepreneurs, investors and other owners of private property. Private property rights cause us to live for tomorrow, while the need to win political elections causes politicians to live only for today.” – Prof. … Read more

On Obamacare’s illustrating of Democrat philosophy (emphasis mine): This isn’t even a law anymore.  It is lawless.  That state where there is no defining framework, no boundary, and most importantly no way for any person, business, municipality, or state to know if and to what extent it is operating in or outside the law. This … Read more