Angelo Codevilla has a great piece over at Real Clear Politics. His thesis is one with which we agree, and have shared repeatedly – in our own words – over recent months. “[T]he ruling class took this opportunity (COVID19) to extort the general public’s compliance with its agendas.”
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Liberty
That’s no Excuse, and the Racialized Marxists are Here to Fix It
Would it surprise to know that the vegan world is rife with systemic racism? It might surprise you more to discover you cared, but you should for reasons I’ll explain. It’s all connected.
Reader Mail: “THIS is what New Hampshire Values are SUPPOSED To Look Like.”
Did you see Gov. Kristie Noem’s Tweet from yesterday? South Dakota has recovered 80% of its jobs and therefore did not need to even accept Trump’s aid help.
Who is campaigning for your best interest? What exactly are your interests?
It is the political season and we are in a war for our individual liberties. Who is campaigning for your best interest? What exactly are your interests?
Still the Land of the Free? Maybe Not.
Before coronavirus and widespread rioting filled the headlines, there was the controversy over undocumented immigration and sanctuary cities. Advocates of open borders were using the Statue of Liberty and the words inscribed in her base to defend their argument.
Dr. Jeff Barke – “Thousands of Physicians… Voices are Being Silenced”
This has been kicking around for a few weeks—another medical professional challenging the political reaction to SARS Cov2. Dr. Jeff Barke, a California Physician – familiar with the tyranny of the majority – took five minutes to speak to a crowd about the irregularities of the response.
Hey, New Hampshire – Here’s a Summary of How The Democrat Majority Legislature Voted this Session
Note – look at each vote total and ask yourself “Who Chooses”? Does this diminish MY right to choose for myself or does it enhance the State’s Power in making those decisions for me (i.e., reducing my Liberty and Freedom and others deciding “it’s good/best for you that WE decide”)? -Skip
We Need a New Declaration of Independence
Early Americans criticized their king’s rule with the memorable slogan “no taxation without representation” and decried His Majesty’s efforts to suspend their legislatures, altering fundamentally the forms of their government by imposing an arbitrary power structure instead.
GraniteGrok – and then there were a whole bunch more
OK, this intro of a project I’ve restarted (and to date, really haven’t settled on a really good name yet) isn’t going to drag on for much longer. But a “few more” became a LOT more. More than I ever thought: More than I ever thought when I finished coding up Version 1.0 of GraniteGrok … Read more
Liberty and Freedom
Liberty and freedom are rare in human history. Human instinct is not to yearn for liberty. Rather, humans yearn to be taken care of.
Was Malthus Correct After All?
Thomas Robert Malthus is known for the assertion: Population grows geometrically while food production grows arithmetically. Yeah, I know, it just ain’t so. So why bring it up, right?
The Obvious and Simple System of Natural Liberty
Through natural liberty people have the ability to attend well to their own interests. That is true when government weighs down the people with the sort of burdens governments are so fond of imposing.
Notable Quote – Ian Underwood
Yep, Grokster Ian gets a two-fer Day today; this one “Why Liberty?” and gives a perfect answer: Every other organizing principle for society begins by denying this fundamental truth about humans: You don’t know what’s best for me, and I don’t know what’s best for you. And so every other organizing principle is doomed to the kind of failure that … Read more
You are responsible for me so I can control you (as I like)
Alternative title 1: Community above the Individual
Alternative title 2: the government has made us all our brothers’ keepers.
That is a political philosophy called Communitarianism. The short definition is a feeling of community but on steroids with the control clamps being brought out of the secret drawers.
Why liberty?
There are a few ways to answer the question: Why liberty? There is, of course, Jefferson’s answer: That everyone is born with a right to liberty is self-evident. Not as in ‘obvious’, but as in ‘requiring no justification’.
Notable Quote – Goerge Will
The Declaration is not just chronologically prior to the Constitution, it is logically prior. As Timothy Sandefur writes, the Declaration “sets the framework for reading” the Constitution, so it is the Constitution’s “conscience”: By the terms with which the Declaration articulates the Constitution’s purpose – the purpose is to “secure” unalienable rights – the Declaration intimates … Read more
If You Don’t Stand up Now They’ll Know They Can Keep You On Your Knees
In the course of coarse discourse, one thing is clear. The only party that wants people to die are Democrats. But there is something they want to kill even more than unborn babies—the Constitution’s power to limit them from confining you at will.
ReOpenNH Concord Rally – MicroIntervew with Keith Ammon
No, he’s not Jason Osborne….sigh…it was Keith. Yep, what a way to start an interview – just MANGLE the opening due to my inability to get peoples’ names straight.
A Medical Necessity, a National Catastrophe
The economic paralysis we’re suffering today is catastrophic, but it’s just what the doctor ordered.
Looking back, it’s clear the medical profession was caught off guard by the coronavirus. When it first appeared in China, the medical community here was, at most, cautiously concerned.
A Republican’s Republican for the Sake of the Republican Party gets a bit snooty about GraniteGrok. Or me. Which ever.
It seems that a lot of people never bother to read the first sentence of my bio that appears under every post I write: “Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us)“. I recently wrote “NH Governor could learn from South Dakota’s Governor: … Read more