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Notable Quote – “…A Battle Between Freedom and Subjugation”

June 9, 2023 Skip

Emphasis mine: Condemning capitalism is nothing new in this country. We’ve heard the angry criticisms all of our lives, and they weren’t novel when we were young. It’s tragic, really, that so many in the West see the tension between “capitalists” and their ideological opponents as merely a conflict between ideas about which economic system … Read more

Assisted Suicide Could be a Cash Cow for Funeral Homes and Governments

May 28, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Where Canada goes, Vermont follows – remember, they did try to join Canada way back when – so it seems logical to wonder about this. For $700.00, a funeral home in Quebec offer “a space for assisted dying, providing care to the family and handling the body afterward.”

We Are All Ingredients In The Recipe For Socialism

May 20, 2023 Ray Cardello

Many of us are not happy about the direction of America and concerned about the younger generation being content with our trend away from Capitalism and towards Socialism. We were told by some nefarious historical figures that this would happen and exactly what the steps in the process would be. If you disregard history, you … Read more

There Is No Mental Health Crisis Worse Than an Entire Nation Shackled to the Will of a One-party State.

April 14, 2023April 14, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The public ed industrial complex, in cahoots with the Gender transitionists, is recruiting an army of mentally unstable people, some of whom are taking a false “they hate you” narrative and using it to commit suicide by cop after shooting up schools and churches.

Democrat Rule Is the Single Biggest Threat to Your Longevity and Quality of Life.

April 12, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The Democrat party is the party of death, but they are also the party of fear, and one of the more recent terms to join their lexicon is forever chemicals. Anything that gets into your body accumulates and never leaves, like ~~Democrat~~ Socialism.

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A lesson from the First Thanksgiving

January 5, 2025November 24, 2022 Skip

Updates below.

I like reading John Stossel as often he proclaims a down to earth message with common sense appeal. In addition, what he talks about is grounded in results rather then an ideological background. When I saw his column, so apropo for today, it does need to be reviewed.

Why? Allow me to inject a bit of what some might consider politics on a day given over for other-than-politics. The lesson learned by the Pilgrims is one that we should be paying close attention to, as we are looking to select a new leader, just as the Pilgrims selected Bradford as their new leader. I see the Democratic candidates all running to socialistic tendancies more and more – think “it takes a village” on steroids. Yet, given history’s results on “the common good” and the hatred that seems to be simmering on the Left for capitalism, sometimes we do need to pay attention to what history tells us of certain choices and actions, lest we repeat them over and over….

Hey Dummies … Fascism IS Socialism

October 2, 2022 Ed Mosca

In the alternative universe that the Left inhabits, the fascists are on the right side of the political spectrum, while the socialists are the middle or the center-left. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.

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The “Woke Hoax” Is Unraveling America

November 12, 2024September 26, 2022 Jim Betti

The women’s volleyball match between Duke University and Brigham Young University had ended, but the turmoil had just begun. A black Duke player complained that every time she served, a fan heckled her using the N-word.

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Parody Flashback: Obama/DNC Announce New Jobs Program

September 18, 2022 Steve MacDonald

To Help Americans better understand President Obama’s Jobs Program VII – The Return of The Laser-Like Focus, the Democrat National Committee has released this image for the DNC/Obama “Ladder to Success” Jobs program.

Notable Quote – What Socialists REALLY want!

July 10, 2022 Skip

“The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them’, the Lower Orders.” — George Orwell Corollary: “…and exile, punish or execute all … Read more

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Labeling the West as an Oppressive Patriarchy is Fundamentally Flawed

June 24, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The new left, same as the old left, has a goal. The revolution. Burn everything down and from these ashes will arise something better. At least that’s what it says in the Marxist’s tri-fold marketing literature which is spoon-fed to younger generations.

DISQUS Doodlings: Socialism Disavows Individual Responsibility – The Old “Makers vs Takers” Connundrum

May 17, 2022 Op-Ed

Note: No, not me this time but from “Vindaloo Bugaboo”, also a frequent commenter at Treehugger who would fit in well here at GraniteGrok. I liked what he wrote at one of TH those posts and asked if he’d “translate” it for GraniteGrok. And no, I had no input in that commenting series as he was doing so splendidly well!

As a child, one of my favorite bedtime stories my mum would read me was the 1974 Scholastic Books classic, “Little Red Hen” by Paul Galdone.

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The Worst Relationship the World has Ever Known

May 8, 2022 Steve MacDonald

If you have ever had any sort of relationship with anyone, you ought to have a keen sense (unless you are an obsessive naval gazer) that nothing about socialism could ever possibly work.

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

April 26, 2022 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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Things Fall Apart… With A New Cartoon “Getting Ready for the Spicy”

April 20, 2022 NITZAKHON

When I was in college studying Thermodynamics as a part of my engineering curriculum, one of the things I learned was the Second Law of Thermodynamics. I.e.:

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

March 16, 2022 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

Fighting for Its Life

March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 Steve Earle

Outnumbered and outgunned but the brave people of Ukraine are still fighting for their freedom and their national life. Massive Russian military forces are meeting heavy resistance, and the people of the world are inspired by their courage and patriotism.

The NH Senate Sees Donna Soucy’s Shadow So, Another Year without Government Meddling in the Minimum Wage

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022 Skip

Once again, NH Democrats believe that Government has the “wisdom” to determine the economic worth of every wage earner in the State.

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

February 17, 2022 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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Where’d My Memory Go? The Left “Redistributed” it Away

February 9, 2022 Skip

If you don’t know where you came from, then any road in front of you is acceptable. If you don’t know what didn’t work in the past, why worry about what lies in front of you?