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Born Again on the Fourth of July

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 …

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

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 …

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Consequences Are Not Problems

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.

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Safeguard the Precious Treasure of Freedom

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

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. …

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MONDAY MEMES

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.

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

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 …

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