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Steve MacDonald 
The court says the law says you can be detained without a bond hearing In what has to be a crazy development for “Democracy,” a Circuit Court just ruled that the law says what it says and the Trump Administration can enforce that. I’d add that it is constitutionally required to enforce the law as … Read more
Not one progressive millionaire in America lives on land that wasn’t “stolen,” if their rhetoric is to be believed. Bernie Sanders, for example, has three homes on stolen land, a hypocrisy not rivaled by his 550K$ “campaign” expenses in 2025 on Bombardier Challenger private aircraft (flown over stolen land), to bitch about rich people and … Read more
If you search “Diversity” on these beloved pages (was that a stretch?), you will get over 1400 hits. Searches for DEI, Equity, Inclusion, or related forms of discrimination (and insanity) will overlap in some instances, but we’ve got plenty more to chew on when it comes to the subject, and it all leaves a bad … Read more
Nothing says fun like campaign ads. Most of them are formulaic, boring, uninspired, and not share-worthy. I know. The consultant class knows how to spring whatever it is to get their candidate to win, but half of them are going to lose. Not great odds. So, if you are going to lose, have fun, and … Read more
Let’s Hope So I don’t know how many copies of Kamala’s book are boxed up in a well-kept but distant corner of many a Millionaire’s manse (or their housekeepers sus storage shed), but her book tour was a “good read.” Yeah, we dodged that bullet. But what if it’s an ordinance from the 2008 Movie … Read more
Every January, the nice folks at NewsGuard ask whether I will be responding to any of their questions about content published on GraniteGrok.com that they have issues with. They cite a post, comment on it, present rebutting information, and ask why we didn’t include any of that in the original. My pat response for years has been … Read more
Welcome back for another installment of the Friday meme thing. We’ve got more memes than you can shake a hockey stick at, and Friday is our weekly opportunity to dump a few extras on our eagerly waiting meme fans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
It almost goes without saying that the Democrat Party isn’t terribly concerned, from 30,000 feet, if people drop dead or kill themselves. Individually, there are people registered as Democrats who care, and a few of them are actually concerned about killing babies in the womb. The latter is, of course, required if you intend to … Read more
Pearl-clutching abounds as politicians and pundits ponder a progressive population decline in the Green Mountain State. Vermont is old, white, and clearly not “importing” enough “refugees” to replace the “indigenous” population. The “reasonings” abound. The people born there, the indigenous ones, aren’t having enough children to replace themselves. It is a problem Vermont could solve … Read more
Welcome to the middle of the first week of February and another hump day edition to get you pointed toward the weekend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
As requested by the First Circuit Court in the case of Stephen & Bethany Scaer v City of Nashua, the District Court entered a declaratory judgment last night. The City of Nashua has conceded that, if the Citizen Flagpole was a forum for private speech during that time, then the City has engaged in impermissible … Read more
Welcome to another installment of Monday memes. Memes, more memes, and nothing but memes, and an opportunity to subscribe to the newsletter and donate to help fund surgery for my dog, but everything else is memes! I promise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
FAFO and What Goes Around Comes Around are getting one hell of a workout in 2026. From the folks who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination to an increasing list of anti-ICE doofuses, progressive peeps find themselves on the pointy end of their own stick. Todd Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), … Read more
Local BLM activist Monica Cannon-Grant is a local New England elite who won Bostonian of the year. Praise was heaped on her for expeditiously “deporting” a plane full of illegal immigrants from her Island shortly after a plane landed and couched up two score and ten filthy foreign peasants onto the ritzy Martha’s Vineyard tarmac. … Read more
Unaffordability would be the goal, as well as an increasing scarcity in jobs, wages, benefits, and capital to pay for all the promises the “tax the rich” lunatics promised. They never sell it like that, nor do they know the waste, fraud, and corruption inherent in their project, which is why they need more money … Read more
Those of us wallowing in the muck are well aware of what will happen if Democrats take control of the Federal Government, but not everyone has the time or the constitution to do that. Modern politics frays at the very fiber of humanity, and if you are not careful, you end up a progressive divorced … Read more
If you allow or encourage mental illness, you will get more of it. When glorified, as has been done by the political left, you get a lot more. For good measure, classes on how to become mentally ill have propagated in the curricula at buildings doing business as taxpayer-funded schools, resulting in a tidal wave … Read more
Trump’s great, but most folks can’t see it, and the further toward the left you go, the worse the TDS gets. But the guy is an Energizer Bunny with a plan and a vision, and if we cna hang on to the midterms, even he will find a way to make a deal with Congress … Read more
After we switched hosting companies, the newsletter got hung up for a few days. I started to receive it again, but not everyone did. I’m not yet clear on why that is. It’s always something, right? If you were receiving it and no longer are, please check your spam folder to ensure it’s not there. … Read more
You survived not just to the end of another week but the end of January. And you’ve still got 328 Shopping days until Christmas. What’s that? Shut up and share some memes? Here you go: includes a few Ilhan Omar “fake attack” memes for good old-fashioned “MAGA/Trump country” fun. . . . Note: They did … Read more