“Cold beats cool.”  

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” – H.L. Mencken   This was … Read more

“The bureaucrat begins, perhaps, by doing only what he conceives to be his sworn duty, but unless there are very efficient four-wheel brakes upon him he soon adds a multitude of inventions of his own, all of them born of his professional virtuosity and designed to lather and caress his sense of power.” – H.L … Read more

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them.  Liberty and responsibility are inseparable. – F.A. Hayek

There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but they mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. They think there need be but little restraint upon themselves. Their notion of the public … Read more

You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government. – Patrick Henry I dryly note that the purpose of our government is not diversity, … Read more

It seems increasingly that for Dems and Progressives, it’s only their way or nihilism. “Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being … Read more

‘Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquillity of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life…. – Alexis De Tocqueville, French historian & philosopher, author of … Read more

H/T Looking Spoon, Jared McA Images  

So that said, I have a question for politicians of the stripe of Barbara Boxer and for pundits of the stripe of Paul Krugman: if arguments advanced by Mr. A justifiably fall under deep suspicion because Mr. A receives funding from some institution whose interest lies in widespread public acceptance of Mr. A‘s arguments, then … Read more

This week on GrokTALK! our guests will be… Max Abramson, with a recorded 911 call and some details about a firearm discharge and all the exciting attntion that followed. Joe Mendola, local conservative activst and potential future NH House candidate on recruiting and motivating younger conservatives activists. And there’s a rumor that Lou Milanesi might … Read more

  For the Record. I do not believe that Steve believes in Atheism  

“Time to beat those plowshares back into swords.”

This week when we assemble to record the next edition of GrokTALK! our guests will be… Pam Tucker, New Hampshire House Rep (R-Greenland NH), and co-chair of the New Hampshire House Republican Alliance, will be in to talk about the continuation of the O’Brien Budget for the next two years…(grind your teeth Democrats, you know … Read more

“Trust not too much to appearances.”   —Virgil Last week a House Representative named another House Rep as the one who read Tamerlan Tzarnaev’s name off the list during Bloomberg’s No More Names bus tour. Video evidence now establishes that assertion not to be true. I apologize to NH State Representative Mary Beth Walz for … Read more

‘…all those who espoused the doctrine of reconciliation, may be included within the following descriptions. Interested men, who are not to be trusted; weak men, who cannot see; prejudiced men, who will not see; and a certain set of moderate men, who think better of the European world than it deserves: and this last class, … Read more