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Joe Biden Flip Flops… Will He or Won’t He Ban Fracking

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 Percy Blakeney

Joe Biden flip flops… now he says he won’t ban fracking. Maybe he and Kamala should get together. One might think national energy policy would be a topic on which they might want alignment. It is only responsible for what? About 3,000,000 jobs. Joe says yes and Kamala says no. Joe used to say no … Read more

America Fought A War to Free the Slaves

September 7, 2020September 7, 2020

America fought a war to free the slaves about 160 years ago. A slave is a person in servitude as the chattel of another. A slave is someone that is completely subservient to a dominating influence. Why would we so willingly give up freedom for a promise of security? Why?

Wealth Tax History in Europe Is Instructive

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020

Progressives love to point to Europe as an example for their policies. So let’s look there. In Europe, we find that the wealth tax as a policy has a fundamental flaw. Thirty years ago, 12 European countries had some form of wealth tax. Now, only three remain. Why is that?

We Stand for the Flag

August 20, 2020

In 1863 at Fort Wagner on Morris Island South Carolina, an American flag was waving. It flew over the head of a black man. His surroundings were acts of injustice, rage, and violence. William Carney wore a uniform tinged with red as he was kneeling in the midst of a green field.

Quick Thought – Democrats: Making You Hold Opposing Views at the Same time for Decades

August 12, 2020 Skip

Democrats Claim DACA kids shouldn’t have to pay for their parent’s crimes…

Notable Quote – David McCullough

August 2, 2020August 1, 2020 Skip

With the radical Left trying to destroy history in various ways, this series of questions and answers from 2012 is more timely than ever.

Scandinavian Socialists

July 29, 2020

During this spring our government has been guilty of massive overreach. The people in charge were so fearful they felt they needed to put restrictions in place. They suspended the U.S. Constitution. Our political leaders would have us believe they needed to ban our freedoms to keep us safe.

Is America About Tearing It Down?

July 20, 2020

Is America about tearing it down? Our history says we are the best builders… ever. But today, mobs are defacing and tearing down our statues and monuments nationwide. They do so claiming “social justice.” Well, being full of hate has never produced justice.

So the National Democrat Party believes July 4th = White Supremacy Day?

July 1, 2020 Skip

The Democrats, disguised as Black Lives Matter and other disgruntled rich white kids without a sense of American history and those who just like to destroy other peoples stuff (but I repeat myself), have finally decided to be really open as to what they really think. First, it was just about Confederate soldier statues. Then … Read more

Blogline of the Day – First they’ve gotten History wrong, gotten morality wrong…

July 1, 2020 Skip

The Black Lives Matter movement highlights the horrors of the past but is blind to the horrors of the present Human history is replete with lots of horrors and many are not all that long ago no matter how hard Progressives think or say they can “evolve” the rest of us to be in their … Read more

Socialists are Democrats by Another Mother

June 30, 2020

Socialists are Democrats by another mother; they are non-voting utopians. They don’t live in the real world and they don’t want you to either. According to them what is going on is a great moment in American racial history.

“Those who erase history have no past – and no future.”

June 29, 2020 Skip

Over at Weekend Pundit, DCE has a proper observation of the NOW in politics (emphasis mine): Seeing the increasing attack upon history by overly-sensitive know-nothings, I am dismayed at the level of ignorance being displayed by those wishing to erase history. They have been convinced that 17th, 18th, 19th, and early/mid 20th century historical figures must be … Read more

Let’s move forward, not in circles

June 28, 2020June 27, 2020 Ian Underwood

Driving home from PorcFest this evening, I noticed that on I-91, Vermont has combined traditional exit numbers with the new distance-based exit numbers mandated by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). For example, one of the exits is marked Exit 18/Milepoint Exit 120. This seemed like a nice way to combine the old and the new.

“History is not supposed to make you feel good or bad. History is your best defense against ignorance”

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 Skip

Every country has written great pages and dark pages in History. For the United States, slavery and the Civil War that brought an end to it were definitely some of the darkest pages. And we must never forget.

Seems apt today….

June 21, 2020 Skip

Bruce Currie, former Government School teacher, approves of erasing history and substituting Communist ideology instead. After all, being a Bernie-Bro AND all of his comments over the years here at GraniteGrok pretty much backs up that assertion. Whereas, the rest of us want our history on display – especially the Civil War era as it … Read more

Poll Question: Should Franklin Pierce University Change Its Name Because Pierce “Supported” Slavery?

June 16, 2020 Steve MacDonald

This morning we shared news about pressure applied to local universities: Franklin Pierce and UNH (the Franklin Pierce Law school). While Pierce owned no slaves, he was not anti-slavery. He believed the Constitution protected a State’s rights to slavery. For this, some want him canceled.

weather vane that has been on top of Baker Library at Dartmouth College

Another step toward making Indians invisible or irrelevant

June 16, 2020 Skip

OK, Native Americans. As I have said before, I don’t care what the Left’s politically correct / Cultural Marxism demands that I use for my speech – ain’t happening.

NH Democrats Are Gunning for ‘Racist’ Franklin Pierce, But Why Not Just Go All the Way

June 17, 2020June 16, 2020 Steve MacDonald

I’m not sure what they plan to do about his statue in front of the State House, but Franklin Pierce is in danger of being canceled elsewhere in the State. “Both the UNH Franklin Pierce Law School and Franklin Pierce University are receiving pressure to rename themselves.”

NotableQuote – a two-fer by Dan Henninger

June 8, 2020 Skip

Emphasis mine. No Guardrails (paywall, 1993) ..In our time, the United States suffers every day of the week because there are now so many marginalized people among us who don’t understand the rules, who don’t think that rules of personal or civil conduct apply to them, who have no notion of self-control. As the saying … Read more

No, Lord Andrew Cuomo – History will Judge YOU, not Us

April 27, 2020 Rick Notkin

According to Andrew Cuomo, the Lord High Governor of New York, history will judge us on how we dealt with the Wuhan flu. He wanted to do everything that he could. Then he played the “ultimate” card: Save one life, and it will all be worth it.