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Notable Quote – Socialism provides no such Incentives

February 6, 2022 Skip

Capitalism provides many with the opportunity to display initiative. While the rigidity of a status society enjoins on everybody the unvarying performance of routine and does not tolerate any deviation from traditional patterns of conduct, capitalism encourages the innovator. Profit is the prize of successful deviation from customary types of procedure; loss is the penalty … Read more

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Their “Cure” is Worse Than ‘The Disease’

January 16, 2022 Steve Earle

All the usual Democrats are in the news giving us their latest and best advice on dealing with COVID. New, the kids need to stay in school (because they are less susceptible to COVID) or because self-isolation has been reduced to five days instead of ten (because parents must return to work to improve our economy?).

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Why Top-down Socialist Economic Systems Are Always Doomed to Failure

January 4, 2022 Skip

No single individual, nor any collection of individuals, could have in their heads all the complex technical information on production processes and the nuances of personal feeling involved in matching millions of investment sources and users.

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Even Republicans Think We’re Imbeciles and Incapable of Self-Care: The COVID

December 25, 2021 Skip

I recently got the following from a NH Republican House Legislator (who asked for anonymity) lamenting our “political elite” on both sides of the aisle. You know, like NH State Rep Kris Roberts (D): “Government has to protect us from our own stupidity.” However, this is about the Republicans.

Blast from the Past – Apropos Given What the Biden / Sanders “Build Back Better” Catastrophe wants to Do

November 29, 2021November 29, 2021 Skip

GraniteGrok now has well over 44,000 posts in its archive – and I have written well over 16,000 of them and Steve is credited with an almost as large number as well. Why do I bring this up?

Potassium Metathorinate

November 9, 2021 NITZAKHON

Please forgive the click-bait title… you probably said “Potassium Meta-WTF-is-he-talking-about”?

The Evolution of Today’s Socialist, Anti-American Democrat

October 12, 2021 Peter Lemiska

Throughout our history, Democrats and Republicans have offered contrasting solutions to the many problems facing our nation. But until recently, they have always agreed on certain fundamental principles.

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“Socialist Magazine Founder Fires Staff for Socialist Organizing, Confesses He Felt Ownership of What He’d Made”

October 10, 2021 Skip

A socialist starts a socialist magazine, hires more Socialists that are “down with the Cause,” and then faces a revolt when his Socialist workers try to make it a “workers co-operative” and fires them. This is beyond hysterical.

Quick Takes – Hat Trick

October 8, 2021October 8, 2021 NITZAKHON

Within I pick three topics upon which to discourse, but not worth a full-length examination as a standalone piece on their own. But first, reprising an older cartoon (for shameless self-promotion!):

Democrats’ Spending

October 3, 2021October 2, 2021 Op-Ed

The Democrats are pushing to spend more money than most Americans can truly conceive. The Senate, with the help of some Republicans, signed off on what is called the “Infrastructure Bill” for about 1.2 trillion dollars.

Notable Quote – Have Progressives already beat the Free Market into submission? Have we moved into Fascism controlled markets?

October 1, 2021 Skip

Reformatted, emphasis mine: In the interventionist state it is no longer of crucial importance for the success of an enterprise that operations be run in such a way that the needs of the consumer are satisfied in the best and least expensive way; it is much more important that one has “good relations” with the … Read more

Quick Takes – Hat Trick

September 26, 2021 NITZAKHON

Three quick-hit-style bits of news with comments:

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CARTOON: At Least the Mean Tweets Are Gone

September 23, 2021 NITZAKHON

“At least we don’t have to deal with mean tweets.”

Is Capitalism Evil?

September 20, 2021 Op-Ed

The cover page of the July 4th Union Leader read, “Poetry Returns with a Slam,” headlining the return of Slam Free or Die, a poetry club that had not met in person since the beginning of the COVID lockdowns.

Hungry Wolves and Darkened Campfires

August 21, 2021 NITZAKHON

So in the clusterfark that is Afghanistan, the entire world is either laughing at us – e.g., China, Iran, Russia (even if discretely) – or watching in horror as the world’s most powerful military not just cuts and runs, but can’t even evacuate every American citizen. And is telling those there they need to pay their own way out.