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von Mises vs Marx: “Freedom” vs “Total Control”

October 19, 2019 Skip

Me: “Let me decide for myself.” Bernie-Bros (and the rest of the current den of Democrat Prez Wannabees: “We’ll decide from on high because you’re too stupid”. Freedom vs enforced “equality”. Self-interest vs Faux Moral Superiority. Individualism vs serfdom. How will you vote? Me? With Mises: (H/T: Cafe Hayek)

Frederick Douglas A Forgotten American Patriot

October 17, 2019 Percy Blakeney

Frederick Douglas was prominent in the 19th century though his story is little known and even less taught today. We might do well to try to understand this man who was a large figure of his day. His story is important to the Civil War Era.

Progressives: These ‘Weapons’ Must Be BANNED!

October 5, 2019 Skip

Democrat Socialists fear Free Speech more than a gun. A gun can only affect a few people at a time (if or when that horrific incident happens).

Socialism: you are but a mere cog. Conservatives: you can be a Superstar!

September 16, 2019 Skip

Really, this is a Notable Quote by I think the title above sums up the below better: The more that individualism can be portrayed as a chimera, the more that any individual’s achievement can be considered derivative from society, the less the achievements warrant respect. And the more society is entitled to conscript – that … Read more

Note to Hollywood and the Music Industry – Sharia Law Sees all Art as a Sin

September 13, 2019

Are all things equal? Do you like music? Is all music equal? Do you find pleasure and joy there? Should we be free to listen to and to make music without fear or intimidation? What about liberties?

Tolerance… The Notion of Live and Let Live

September 4, 2019September 4, 2019

Tolerance, the notion of live and let live, is a word we hear a lot these days So, let’s define it. Tolerance is the ability to live with people whose opinions and behavior you don’t agree with. You might be for the death penalty, and your cousin might be against it. You might be against … Read more

NH Dem Party Chair seeking to silence a Conservative on FB – silences himself (in shame?)

September 1, 2019September 1, 2019 Skip

You know, it really doesn’t get much better than this when you’re a blogger. It’s almost too easy when the Other Side keeps on saying, figuratively, “Thank you sir, may I have another” (although I’m cringing as a write this because this is about Ray Buckley. Again).

A Simple Explanation: The Key Difference Between Democrats and Real Conservatives

August 9, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Every day I think about changes or decisions I could make to my life that might help my family work toward things that are important to us.

The Fork in the Road

August 5, 2019

The Democrat presidential hopefuls are a Marxist lot. Even Joe Biden agrees they are all socialists. They are willing not only to accept but to promote open borders, cancelled college debt, tax-funded health care for illegal aliens and the Green New Deal… all without a thought to affordability. They want to eliminate private health insurance, … Read more

“Protect Freedom PAC Releases “Stop Socialism”

July 31, 2019 Skip

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 30, 2019 Contact: Michael Biundo michael@rightvoter.com, 202-809-6014 Protect Freedom PAC Releases “Stop Socialism” TV Ad Will run in New Hampshire during the Democratic presidential debates Warrenton, VA – Protect Freedom PAC, an independent organization dedicated to supporting pro-liberty and freedom-minded candidates, announced that they will be running a television ad … Read more

“By their debates, ye shall know them”

June 28, 2019June 28, 2019 Skip

OK, I’m plaigerizing, a tad, Matt 7:16 (“Ye shall know them by their fruits”) and I swapped the clauses around, well, just a couple takeaways from the two nights. I actually missed most of both of them because of meeting but I think that these perfectly summarize the mindset of the mainstream Democrat elected politicians: … Read more

DISQUS Doodlings: Not understanding Freedom and guns

June 25, 2019 Skip

Someone was QUITE confused over at TH, still at the “Right wing populists want to kill us all” post. More on that part later on but I had to bring this up about guns. It’s a topic that comes up rarely (much to my surprise) but the opinions are what one would think at an … Read more

Transgenderism: “…so they can replace the rights of citizens with the rights of government.”

June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 Op-Ed

by Tom Ambrose | I’ve been watching with both fascination and horror at the increase in news stories about letting men compete as women in women’s sports. Women fought for decades for the equal opportunity to have sports available and funded for their gender so they, too, could also compete in what was once a … Read more

Notable Quote – Ari Fleischer

June 13, 2019June 13, 2019 Skip

[Bernie Sanders says that] Socialism is for compassion, justice, and love. Well I don’t know what nation on Earth where socialism has ever achieved those objectives. Freedom achieves those objectives but socialism has brought, to 10s of millions around the world, instead, is oppression, injustice, and scarcity. This is what socialism delivers. -Ari Fleicher (Fox … Read more

Another difference between Britain and America

June 8, 2019 Skip

The British side of this is that they had problems with guns so this land that gave birth to the most free country in history decided it needed gun control. And more gun control, and then stepped on the gas even more. We on this side of the pond said “Law of Unintended Consequences! When … Read more

Notable Quote – Herbert Spencer

May 28, 2019 Skip

To assess the degree of liberty individuals do enjoy, [Herbert] Spencer argued, what matters is “whether the lives of citizens are more interfered with than they were; not the nature of the agency which interferes with them.” That we elect our rulers does not necessarily mean that they rule us well, nor that they respect … Read more

NH Bills that are going to receive vetoes from Gov. Sununu

May 4, 2019 Skip

There has been a lot of angst from you, GraniteGrok readers, that I have seen both here in comments here on the ‘Grok as well as on Facebook. Most of them surround “where is my State heading? What is happening to the ‘Live Free or Die’ ethos we grew up with (or moved here for)? … Read more

Libertarianism is the widely reviled idea that we should use reason and persuasion to accomplish our distributive aims.

May 1, 2019April 30, 2019 Skip

Libertarianism is the widely reviled idea that we should use reason and persuasion to accomplish our distributive aims. Only reason and persuasion. According to the libertarian, it is wrong to utilize threats of violence in the form of state-sponsored coercion, however sublimated by bureaucratic routine, in order to redistribute property that we have an antecedent claim to. … Read more

603 Summit – Dinner Keynote James O’Keefe From Project Veritas

April 22, 2019April 21, 2019 Skip

Not only did the 603 Alliance put on an entire day’s program last Saturday (“Liberty trumps ismSocial”) but they held a dinner program as well. The featured speaker was James O’Keefe – someone we consider to be a friend of GraniteGrok for his intense pursuit of those that do wrong through his undercover investigative reporting. … Read more

603 Summit: Steve Mac Donald – College Speech Codes vs. The Constitutional Republic

April 22, 2019April 21, 2019 Skip

Campus Bias – the Left using colleges as incubators for shock troops. The weapon is both overt and covert coerced speech – or worse, none at all. Talking quickly about “SNUFlakes”, he brings up the UNH speech code manual as an example of the Orwellian redefinition of our common language (for political purposes). And how, … Read more