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Quick Thought – This Is Correct; They Are Trying to Break Us

July 18, 2022

by Skip

From Liberal Logic 101: Progressives, on the other hand, not only wish to crush that spirit but continue the process of forcing a dependency upon Government that started in the early 1900s. They believe they are entitled to Rule. Oh, not them personally (well, many of them) but knowing that the facade would be sufficient … Read more

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Let Freedom Ring!

July 13, 2022

by Op-Ed

This election cycle you have a clear choice. Do you want to be told what to do? Or do you want to be left alone? If you want to be left alone to go about your business with little to no government intrusion into all aspects of your life, then you value freedom.

Democrats, Abandon Ship!

July 7, 2022

by Steve Earle

#WalkAway I’ve been saying and writing that what was once the Democratic Party of my youth is no longer that. The Party of Roosevelt and Kennedy is gone, highjacked by Marxist Socialists promoting an anti-American radical agenda, and robbing true Democrats and all Americans of our futures. Proof of this came from the Democratic Mayor … Read more

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Brittney, Biden, and Star-Spangled Banners

July 6, 2022

by Michael Moffett

WNBA star Brittney Griner is experiencing the hell of Russian incarceration. That’s not a unique experience. Tens of millions of human beings suffered and died in Communist gulags and prisons over the past century. While Griner is presumably not being tortured or starved like so many of her prison predecessors, her confinement is surely brutal, … Read more

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Born Again on the Fourth of July

July 5, 2022

by Aaron Warner

The United States of America was born of a minority of people overcoming seemingly impossible odds. Serious students of history tell us the founders who fought for their independence from tyrannical governance credited divine intervention throughout the Revolutionary War. Their enemy, the British Empire, boasted the greatest naval and military war machine on earth. The … Read more

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Blogline of the Day – We Should Be Saying This More Often – MUCH More Often

June 20, 2022

by Skip

Freedom just is – having to ask permission means it doesn’t exist

(H/T: Skip, September 12, 2014)

We are closing in on 47,000 published posts at GraniteGrok; we’ve covered a lot of issues, concerns, questions, and trouble. A lot of times, by several of us, and often, the same thing comes back up in different guises.

Notable Quote – And This Is How They Will Destroy America

May 30, 2022

by Skip

I don’t get chances to abstract much from Kurt Schlicher’s columns even as I read them all the time – he writes in a style that DEMANDS the entirety be read in toto and it’s hard to excise a part to be standalone; all of the sections are required to get the gestalt of his point. This, I hope, stands alone in part, especially when combined with Michael Graham.

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Consequences Are Not Problems

May 26, 2022

by Ian Underwood

Sadly, there has been another school shooting, this time in Texas. Also sadly, there are people who have been waiting around to use something like this as an excuse for dragging out every anti-gun measure that they haven’t been able to enact in the past.

Safeguard the Precious Treasure of Freedom

May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

by Amil Imani

Patriots,

Do not allow the current political climate to affect your spirit or diminish your energy. Also, do not allow anger and frustration to control your life. If you do, we all lose. Remember, you are not alone. There are over 100 million of us. If we are united, we can move mountains.

Notable Quote – Capitalism Requires Both Individual Freedom and Respect for Private Ownership

April 26, 2022

by Skip

Capitalism is an economy based on decentralized private ownership of resources and open markets; “based on” means that private ownership rights are acknowledged and respected. Most members of society must feel a duty to respect the private rights of others. Ownership rights must be exercisable without fear, ridicule, or disrespect from other members of society. … Read more

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MONDAY MEMES

March 21, 2022

by NITZAKHON

Let the mockery and other memes begin. And note the sign about “UnJabbed need not apply” – from New Zealand. Medical apartheid is coming. Remember this cartoon? There is an insane drive to put a needle into every arm. This is the new One-Worlder religion.

Notable Quote – Only Capitalism Puts the Individual Foremost. Everything Else Puts the State First

March 16, 2022

by Skip

As Hayek frequently repeated, many intelligent and informed people of his day had been taken in by the claim that National Socialism was the next logical and historical phase of a collapsing capitalism. His point, one that most would accept today as evident, was that fascism and communism both represent totalitarian systems that have much more in … Read more

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Did the Slaves or MLK Know Freedom Was Actually a Dog Whistle for White Supremacy?

February 23, 2022

by Op-Ed

Everything is racist nowadays. Bike helmets are vestiges of Jim Crow, at least according to the city of Seattle. Who knew? I suppose swimming pools are racist too if one considers the hazards for sinking among certain, shall we say, racial demographics.

It’s EASY to Make Shared Misery “Equitable”! – Freedom vs Coercion

February 17, 2022

by Skip

With ad hom attacks thrown in. Yes, I’m getting more militant on Treehugger – time for us ALL to heed Glen Reynold’s admonition to Conservatives and Libertarians to “punch back twice as hard” and that’s what the deal is here. Take the eco-socialists words and turn them right back on them. Make them come out … Read more

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Which Is Worse – Their Presence or Their Absence?

February 14, 2022

by Skip

I’m referring to those Canadian truckers using their Big Rigs to make statements in various Canadian cities with Ottawa, Canada’s capital, being the main and first target.

Why do we Care? Why do we Fight?

March 13, 2022February 2, 2022

by Ray Cardello

Would we sleep better if we withdrew into our shells and tuned out all the negativity raining down on us? Would it be easier to bury our heads in the sand? To ignore the people reaching out to drag us down.

Open Letter to Utah Governor Spencer Cox and the Salt Lake City Tribune Editorial Board

March 20, 2022January 17, 2022

by Kensley Vitoria

This past weekend, the Salt Lake City Tribune posted on a public internet website that “Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find out a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going so far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.”

Vax Apartheid – If Not for This, The US Could Be Australia Right Now

January 15, 2022

by Skip

Australia started out as a prison colony and its elected “Leaders” under the influence of Panic Porn have effectively put the lockdown on their people.

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Inaction is Action

January 11, 2022

by Op-Ed

The Supreme Court’s failure to issue a decision on the Biden Administrations’ unconstitutional vaccine mandate yesterday is bad for every American regardless of which political side you sit.

So, You’re Saying America is Again the Last Best Hope For a Life Without Tyranny?

January 11, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

I stumbled (digitally) across an article at MSN.com. I know, I know, but the headline was what a headline should be – it made me have to read more. “In much of the West, the walls are closing in on anti-vaxxers.”