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Should the Government - Nope

He’s a Fool for Believing Government Is (Or Can?) Be Coherent

I had a really good laugh at one of the Daily Sun’s Letters to the Editor. They are complaining that NH’s Government doesn’t have a “rational and consistent energy strategy.” This translates to “a strategy that I believe is the ONLY one we should have – but don’t.”

Should the Government - Nope

Notable Quote – We’ve gone the wrong direction; REALLY wrong!

Somewhere along the way we lost our conviction that the best government was self-government. In our enthusiasm for turning over every social problem to the administrative bureaucracy for solution, we forgot that democracy is based on the maxim that the solution of the problem of social life is the business of the people themselves. Neither …

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Notable Quote – Social Justice mob deciding? Or you for yourself?

It might indeed be said that the main difference between the order of society at which classical liberalism aimed and the sort of society into which it is now being transformed is that the former was governed by principles of just individual conduct while the new society is to satisfy the demands for ‘social justice’

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City Censorship

Censorship takes many forms.  It has even woven its web of deception into our city government and specifically our elections.  The current trend to curtail free speech and with that ever-important flow of information has, as usual, been wrapped up in a blanket of virtue and sold to the people of Laconia as the only …

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Eco-Socialists

DISQUS Doodlings – I Stand Alone

GraniteGrok is about Freedom and Liberty, and we are ALWAYS advocating for Freedom and Liberty. After all, the other side is ALWAYS in Missionary mode to have Government “do” more and that you and I need to “let go” of those freedoms (e.g., Fauci, who just said that we shouldn’t be so concerned with it).

Gerald Ford Big Government take stuff

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.” Again

That was President Gerry Ford back in 1974; the quote’s attribution goes back much earlier. The Bigger the Government, the smaller the Citizen.  We on the Right understand that and understand that completely. The further that the Power of Control is removed from Citizens geographically, our Rights suffer. Why? They can ignore us. They can do what …

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