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Steve MacDonald 
When ThinkProgress crashed and burned back in 2019, it was a beautiful thing. Led by a slew of Clinton and Democratic Party insiders, the website that pretended to be independent was shoveling progressive drivel at the American public daily. It’s still there but hasn’t been updated since. A husk of its once prominent self, hoping … Read more
If you’ve ever worked in an office environment, almost anywhere, actually, some people can’t keep their politics to themselves. I never discussed it in the office unless they brought it up, usually asking for my thoughts. And I was fortunate. For the twenty years before I went remote, nine out of ten employees were Republican, … Read more
West Virginia banned the chemical coathanger Mifepristone. A manufacturer of the drug sued, arguing that the FDA’s approval supersedes the states’ right to prohibit their product. I wonder how much their lawyer made letting them think that? It is common, especially among state and local municipalities that hire outside counsel for big money (what, it’s … Read more
The Dietsch “I Don’t Know Sh!t About the FSP” Tour Lands in The Lakes Region The tag line at the end of the Farmer’s Insurance Ads with JK Simmons is ‘We know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.” Former State Senator Jeanne Dietsch has been on a tour of sorts, … Read more
[With my apologies, GrokTALK! will be back next week!] Over twenty years ago, when I was beginning to get my new political legs under me, one of the first blog sites I frequented that seemed to align with my burgeoning worldview was Flopping Aces. That and Townhall.com before it became Townhall (I can’t recall its … Read more
In the movie ‘A Few Good Men’, Corporal Dawson doesn’t want to plead guilty to killing Private Santiago to get a short sentence. He followed orders and did his job, and he’ll stand by the consequences, even if it’s life in prison. Lt. Daniel Kaffee, his assigned lawyer, master of the plea bargain, is indignant … Read more
It’s time to embrace the M word again. No, not Monday, Memes! More memes and lots of them, with a shoutout to my small army of foragers without whom these posts would be impossible. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
Fox 23 has a touching story about the concern among Maine’s homeless advocates after President Trump signed an order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the United States on a single … Read more
One of the few things Democrat leadership is good at teaching its cult members is projection. If a Democrat says it, or accuses you of it, or tries to sue you or impeach you, they are doing it, have done it, or are about to. It is no accident that the people who went after … Read more
The emissions lawsuit opera continues after a court told the environmentalists suing the state of Vermont for missing its made-up emissions target that you can’t sue them for missing a target we won’t know we’ve missed until 2027. Oh, but they guessed and we guessed and the official unofficial estimates are that they missed it. … Read more
The people who use the term anti-vaxxer are either short on information and have no clue what they are saying, or they are willing stoges acting as unpaid lobbyists for Big Pharma. Not to be confused with the paid stooges who fearmongered the other variety into making ignorant assumptions based on incomplete information or outright … Read more
The Boston Herald this week reported on the conviction and sentencing of a dirtbag flight attendant who had been recording young girls in flight in the plane’s restroom. How young? Seven, Nine, Eleven, and Fourteen. A search of Thompson’s iCloud account allegedly revealed four other instances of him recording a girl using the lavatory on … Read more
When nature will not do what you’ve insisted, the classic response from the so-called planet-saving environmental activists is to simulate the disaster. This most often occurs on paper and in the media, where captured interests invent and then perpetuate fraud. Weather is pimped as proof because trends fail to support the theory. The other way … Read more
You made it to Friday with barely a scratch and only a little bit more PTSD. Celebrate the accomplishment by stopping what you are doing and gawping at 70+ memes for the next ten minutes. Don’t worry, you’re worth it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
A concerned citizen has emailed the New Hampshire Department of Justice to report that Giana Gelsey, who serves on the Oyster River School Board, recently posted a comment on social media stating, “We need to identify and dox these officers…,” referring to federal agents. Here is the email sent to the Education Commissioner and the … Read more
The chemical coat hanger, Mifepristone, has surged in popularity since telemedicine became a thing during COVID. You could almost picture the Abortion Industrial Complex holding the door open in Wuhan to let the virus escape, knowing they had an almost surefire plan to kill babies remotely. I’m more than half-inclined to think that the Left’s support … Read more
One of my principled objections to legal weed is similar to that of gambling. The interference of the regulatory state and revenue whores. Both are sin taxes. Either “activity” seems harmless enough in moderation, but both will get you into trouble quickly, and when it comes to pleasures and addictions, the line forms rapidly, no … Read more
Elites, from pundits to economists, are at a loss to explain how that pig Donald Trump could be so damn lucky. There’s no way he knows more about business, trade, or global economies than they do, yet he continues to run circles around them. They predict doom from tariffs, trade wars, and economic misery, but … Read more
Bill Nye, the “I pretended to be a scientist on TV” guy, continues to garner media attention regarding weather events because he’s a trained parrot. When he says the right words he gets a cracker. Other than installing early flood warning systems in flood-prone areas, Nye said the only way prevent similar tragedies in the … Read more
It’s Wednesday, which means more humpday hijinks, from the political to the satirical to the insulting (maybe just borderline offensive). These are memes, not fact checks. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more