Notable Quote – Dr. Thomas Sowell

Those who want to “spread the wealth” almost invariably seek to concentrate the power.  It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence.  Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

– Dr. Thomas Sowell, professor of Economics, author, syndicated columnist

The prototypical example is President Obama – he ran on the idea that “spreading the wealth” was a high virtue.  It is a crime for someone on the street to take (re:steal) someone else’s money by using the point of a gun.  Yet, it is perfectly legal if that taking comes from the point of a pen and Obamacare is the perfect example of doing that “wealth redistribution”.  Yet again, this legalized theft is seen as a “good virtue” by Progressives who see wealth concentration (e.g., income inequality) as being one of society’s worst ills (believing that such money has been stolen from its rightful owners, the poor and oppressed. 

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The Democrats Gave You ObamaCare…

Taking Away People’s Health Insurance, making it too expensive, making the deductibles too high,  taking away women’s doctors, treatments, specialists, and hospitals….was 100% Partisan….Democrats did that.  

Notable Quote – Samuel Adams

‘The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It … Read more

This Week on GrokTALK!

I’ll be heading up to Concord shortly to record this weeks GrokTALK! and I thought I’d let you in on the guest list before hand. Congressman Tom DeLay. (Yes, That Tom Delay) Author of ‘Credentialed to Destroy,’ Common Core Expert  Robin Eubanks NH House Rep JR Hoell will be visiting us And AFP-NH’s Greg Moore … Read more

Notable Quote – John F. Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. – John F. Kennedy, WWII Navy Officer (PT-109) and President of the United States   New Hampshire Constitution: [Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or … Read more

Let’s look at the facts on gun control and the Second Amendment

This is a repost of an article I wrote back in January of this year. It was featured in both the Derry News and the Lawrence Eagle Tribune Newspapers and posted on Granite Grok on January 22. Given its content and material, I thought it appropriate to repost it here today.

barking_moonbat3Several weeks have passed since the horrid Newtown massacre where 20 small children were senselessly murdered. While their lifeless bodies still lay dead in Sandy Hook Elementary School and first responders still on scene, America’s gun control contingent seized upon the opportunity. Twitter and Facebook were awash with calls for gun bans. “Take the guns away now!” went the hue and cry.

And, as expected, the nation’s media soon diligently followed with analysis and statistics, making the case for a

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Notable Quote – Jonah Goldberg

The difference, however, is that conservatives tend to see government as a necessary evil, and therefore see policymaking with some humility. Liberals tend to see government as a necessary good, and see ordering people to do things “for their own good” as a source of pride, even hubris. From a conservative perspective, telling people how … Read more

Notable Quote – C.S. Lewis

“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden—that is what … Read more

Notable Quote – Milton Friedman

The minimum wage law requires employers to discriminate against persons with low skills. No one describes it that way, but that is in fact what it is. Take a poorly educated teenager with little skill whose services are worth, say, only $2.00 an hour. He or she might be eager to work for that wage … Read more

Notable Quote – Steve Mac Donald

On the nature of Democrat cum Socialists (empahsis mine): ..Governments are only formed to ensure mutual protection of persons and property or…to oppress people and abuse property for the benefit of a ruling class. Laura Pantelakos, the Modern Democrat Party, and the Obama Administration are all governing as the latter.  They are more interested in … Read more

Notable Quote – Ludwig von Mises

“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they … Read more

Thank You

I wanted to take a moment to thank our readers. I have been out and about a bit more than usual, and everywhere I go I meet people who are dedicated readers of GraniteGrok.  I wanted to thank them for taking time to make us a part of their day and to thank them for … Read more

Notable Quote – Michael Walsh

Pork scraps.  Ouch. ‘The GOP is not, in any meaningful sense, a conservative, first-principles, Constitutionalist party — and unless it’s subsumed by the Tea Party, it never will be. Rather, it’s content to be the lesser half of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party as long as it can collect some of the pork scraps from … Read more

Notable Quote – John Hayward

There is nothing more pernicious than the illusion of liberty surviving, or even flourishing, alongside growing government power. It doesn’t work that way, not once you get past the transition from anarchy to lawful government. Personal liberty does not exist in a state of anarchy, because individuals can be defrauded, robbed, and killed at will by lone predators and organized gangs. Some degree of government power must clearly be exercised to secure liberty.

But when a government the size of America’s federal system grows larger, it occurs only at the expense of liberty, and the contraction of the private sector. Law is meaningless without the exercise of force to compel obedience. More government means more laws, more force, more punishment for disobedience… more things you must do, more things you cannot do.

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Notable Quote – Thomas Jefferson

‘Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. – Thomas Jefferson (H/T: Protect the Second Amendment – Resistance New Hampshire)

Notable Quote – Ronald Reagan

“It would be immoral and the height of folly to infer these people are less patriotic than ourselves. They are sincerely motivated by the most humanitarian of ideals. But it would be equally foolish to let them have their way without opposition. If someone is setting fire to the house, it doesn’t really matter if … Read more

Showing the political cowardice and duplicity of DC Republicans when votes are easy but have all kinds of issues when the votes become very telling, very visible, and actually are compared to Principle by voters – and be very sure,  the Base is watching with microscopes.  Of course, these self-same pols are hating every micro-second for being in the spotlight.  Ah, accountability – what a wonder concept!  Here’s a smidge from a post at The Corner  that brings this into great hi-def (emphasis mine):

The change has left some of today’s defunders bitterly resentful of their colleagues and former allies. In private conversations, they complain that their fellow Republicans were with them when voting for defunding was easy but have run away when everything is on the line….

This is the Washington political class in sharp relief. The Republican establishment resists President Obama and his agenda only when it knows that resistance is futile, token and sure to be inconsequential – when it’s good for a campaign commercial about how hard the GOP is working to undo Obamacare, not when it’s about actually working hard to undo Obamacare. For most Senate Republicans, the vote on an anti-Obamacare amendment in the context of authorizing national defense programs that Republicans knew they were never going to block was a pose – just like the forty-odd votes to repeal Obamacare that had no chance of becoming law.

By contrast, the current defunding effort is a put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is moment:

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Notable Quote – Samuel Adams

For RINO’s, Sunshine Patriots, members of the entitlement plantation class from both parties and their willing benefactors… “If ye love wealth more than Liberty, the tranquility of servitude more than the animated contest of freedom — go from us in peace…. We ask not your counsel nor your arms…. Crouch down and lick the hand … Read more

Notable Quote – Edmund Burke

Democrats are actually pro-gun.  They want the state to have all the guns.  Big guns, armor, undeniable force superiority. You might ask why?  Why would a party that opposes “gun violence” encourage the arming or over-arming of the state and its bureaucracies?  The answer lies plain before your eyes.   They want to micro-manage your life … Read more

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