Hal Shurtleff, Author at Granite Grok

Shurtleff: Remembering Homeschool Pioneer Sam Blumenfeld

July 9, 2025May 24, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

June 1 of this year marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of author and homeschool pioneer Samuel L. Blumenfeld. Sam’s last book, which he co-authored with Alex Newman, was Crimes of the Educators. A week before Sam’s passing, I called Alex and asked when he planned to visit Sam. They had not met in person, but … Read more

Camp Constitution Announces Its 17th Annual Family Camp

July 9, 2025May 24, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

Camp Constitution will hold its 17th Annual Family Camp at the Singing Hills Christian Camp in Plainfield, NH, from Sunday, July 13 to Friday, July 18, 2025. Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution, Keith Hanson of Critical Dynamic, Professor Willie Soon, world-renowned astrophysicist and climate realist, Catherine White of The Constitution Decoded, Alex … Read more

The Department of Education is Unconstitutional

March 23, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

Or, so says a 1941 book published by the U.S. Government This is a PDF version of a book published by the federal government in 1941. In the book, there is a series of questions. On Page 128, one of the questions is “Where, in the Constitution, is education mentioned? And the answer: “There is none; education is … Read more

Debating a Liberal Is as Futile as Putting Talcum Powder on a Hog-but I Sometimes Still Do It

March 12, 2025March 11, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

While I agree with the late Tom Anderson, who said with a distinct Southern drawl, “Debating a liberal is as futile as putting talcum powder on a hog,” I occasionally do so. Not that I think that my reason and logic will change the mind of a liberal, but for others who may be reading or listening. … Read more

Russian Puppetry – From Wilson to Obama to Biden

March 9, 2025March 8, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

Long before Donald Trump entered the political scene (and was repeatedly and wrongly accused of being “Putin’s Puppet”), 100 years before, actually, forces in the United States, including Wall Street financiers and both Republicans and Democrats, had been involved in aiding and abetting the communists in Russia. Leon Trotsky lived in exile in New York … Read more

Black History Month: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate?

February 20, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

Back in the mid-1980s, while a mail handler working for the United States Postal Service at what was called the South Postal Annex, I had a conversation with a White liberal co-worker. I was trying to “Red Pill” him” by loaning him a book, “Hijacked,” the Anthony Bryant Story. Mr. Bryant was a Black Panther … Read more

It Is Okay to Abolish the Department of Education

February 13, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

A Federal Government Publication Affirms That Education is “A matter reserved for the states” About ten years ago, I stopped in a library in Medfield, Massachusetts, a town about 40 miles West and South of Boston. At its book sale, I found “Formation of the Union Under the Constitution” in 1943 which was published to … Read more

The Wild Truth About The California Wildfires

January 18, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

Practically every time a disaster strikes in the United States, the Corporate Media blames it on climate change. This short video from our friends at Gorilla Science refute the claim that climate change is behind the on-going California wildfires using data from the U.S. Government: We’d like to thank Hal Shurtleff for the content. As a … Read more

5th Annual Camp Constitution Ladies Spring Fling

January 18, 2025January 16, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

Friday, May 2 to Sunday, May 4, at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center in Alton, NH Camp Constitution Ladies’ Fifth Annual “Spring Fling” will be held at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center, Alton Bay, NH https://altonbay.org/ from Friday May 2 to Sunday May 4, 2025 Activities include arts and crafts, classes on gardening, Bible studies, … Read more

Charlie Kirk is Wrong on Jimmy Carter

January 3, 2025 Hal Shurtleff

Charlie Kirk recently praised the late Jimmy Carter. In a recent post, he wrote: “Jimmy Carter represents a type of Democrat that no longer exists. Christian, loving husband, and a true patriot. He was objectively an awful president, but he loved America and never intentionally tried to do it harm. America could use more Democrats like … Read more

Happy Bill of Rights Day – Sunday, December 15, 2024

December 14, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

Sunday, December 15, marks the 233rd anniversary of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. It is essential to point out that the Bill of Rights did not grant or give rights to anyone. Rights come from God, and the main reason for government at any level is … Read more

The Job Description of the President and Vice President of the United States

October 28, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

H. L. Menchen said, “Elections are nothing more than auctions for future stolen goods.” That maxim rings true when one looks at the promises that a particular candidate running for president of the United States has made. The candidate promises first-time homeowners a cool $25 grand. When this candidate wasn’t polling too high among Black … Read more

Remembering Dr. Mildred Jefferson

October 17, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

October 15 marked the 14th anniversary of the passing of Dr. Mildred Jefferson, Pro-Life pioneer, the first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, and my friend. I first met Dr. Jefferson or Dr. J when Dan Edmonds, a conservative activist from Sharon, MA, asked me if I would drive Dr. Jefferson to an … Read more

Happy Birthday U.S. Constitution!

September 17, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

September 17 is a day that I customarily set aside to walk around various business communities armed with pocket copies of the US Constitution and ask people I pass by: “What day is it?” “It’s Tuesday” was one answer. “National Donut Day” was another. But of all the hundreds of people I have asked, only … Read more

Books You Are Not Supposed To Read

November 10, 2024August 11, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

This list I have compiled isn’t in any particular order, except for the last book. It is just a handful of many books that may reinforce, challenge, and/or change the readers’ worldview. All of them are either in print and/or available on Amazon except one, which has been banned by Amazon but is available from … Read more

Lord Monckton: The Blob Is To Blame for Street Rioting in a Nation of Habitual Peace

November 12, 2024August 10, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

For the first time ever, foreign countries are recommending that their citizens should no longer travel to the usually gentle and peaceable United Kingdom on the ground that the growing frequency of violent riots has made us a dangerous destination. How has this happened? Our Marxstream media, now more or less entirely captured by agents … Read more

Event: Camp Constitution Family Camp

November 10, 2024July 16, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

Camp Constitution’s third annual weekend family camp will be held from Friday, September 27 to Sunday, September at Camp Sentinel in Tuftonboro, NH. https://www.campsentinel.org/ This year’s weekend instructors include Rev. Steve Craft, author of America: Home of the Brave or Land of the Slave, Michael King of the Massachusetts Family Institute, and New Hampshire State Rep. Paul … Read more

From Live Free or Die to Come Here and Die

November 12, 2024May 9, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

First, the so-called elites promoted Eugenics, which led to forced sterilization laws. Then it was abortion, first decriminalized in California and New York, and then decriminalized by the now overturned Roe v Wade decision.

Secession or Statehood?

November 12, 2024March 13, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

New Hampshire State Rep Jason Gerhard of Northfield sponsored Constitutional Amendment Concurrent Resolution CACR20, which is a proposed amendment to the New Hampshire Constitution. It will trigger the secession of New Hampshire from the United States when the national debt rises to $40 trillion.

Convention of States and Term Limits USA Lose in Maine and New Hampshire

November 12, 2024February 27, 2024 Hal Shurtleff

Last Week, Wolf PAC’s Cenk Uygur and his “Conservative” allies were handed a defeat in New Hampshire, and this week they were handed a defeat in Maine.