The latest episode of “Progressive Culture Gone Wild” comes to us from a Florida Middle School. Administrators are punishing a male gym coach who refused to “knowingly place himself in a position to observe a minor female in the nude or otherwise in a state of undress.”
Steve MacDonald
Prerequisite 2018 “Winter is Coming” Post
Winter is coming. I know, it’s been cold lately, and plenty of places have had snow already, but no real “snowstorms” to speak of until tomorrow. So, here it is, your prerequisite winter is coming post, and we get our first statewide snowfall of the season – even though it’s still autumn. There is nothing all … Read more
Help Us Grow our Alexa Rank
We use Alexa to measure our traffic rankings and to compare them to other sites around New Hampshire. But not everyone who visits us is getting counted. We are not all using the Alexa extension in our browsers. If you’d like to help us improve our Alexa ranking a great way to do that is … Read more
One of Life’s Certainties – New Hampshire Democrats Raise Taxes
As Government gets bigger and more inefficient (corrupt), it needs to feed. The ‘food’ is your hard earned dollars, and the delivery method is taxation (fees, charges, etc.). Anyone who recalls the last time Democrats “ran things” around here they deliberately overestimated revenues and then spent them to grow government. When the estimates fell short, … Read more
Breaking: Michael Avenatti (Stormy Daniels Lawyer) Arrested for Domestic Violence
Michael Avenatti‘s love affair with cameras and microphones has taken a turn in a direction he may not have anticipated. The Los Angeles Police Department just arrested him on suspicion of domestic violence.
Meadowstone Farm Apologizes (For Violating NH Election Law)
Earlier this week we reported, with images, a blatant violation of New Hampshire election law. Meadowstone Farm posted pictures on Instagram (which they quickly removed) depicting cut up campaign signs. The proprietor has apologized formally on their business website. I would first like to apologize to the Northern Grafton County Republicans, especially those whose signs … Read more
Minor Website Tweaks and Fixes – “Hot on The Grok” Update
We added the Hot on the Grok feature so readers would immediately know what was attracting the most attention on the site, NOW! Until today, however, the settings were looking over too wide a range of dates, and the content was not refreshing the way we wanted. That has changed. Hot on the Grok will … Read more
Employer Gives All of Their Employees Handguns For the Holidays
The Chrismas or Holiday bonus is a tradition even a Democrat wouldn’t eschew. But what about the gift of self-defense? (WMUR) …the father-and-son team at BenShot LLC gave each employee a gift card with which to purchase their weapon. “That way the background check was done by the store,” Ben Wolfgram explained to WISN 12 … Read more
Renny Cushing Challenges Steve Shurtleff for NH Dem House Speaker
The Union Leader is reporting that Democrat House Rep Renny Cushing has stepped up to challenge presumed Democrat New Hampshire House heir Steve Shurtleff. Dept’y Dog Shurtleff, around these parts. The current minority leader in the lower chamber of the state legislature. Shurtleff wants to be Speaker. As leader of the Democrats in the House for … Read more
Man Petitions Court to Change Date of Birth Because He Feels Younger Than He is
The burning question is this. If sex is not fixed then why should age be any different? That is why Motivational Speaker Emile Ratelband has petitioned a court to alter his birth certificate because he says he feels 20 years younger and there are benefits to being 49 instead of 69. “Mr. Ratelband said: ‘I have … Read more
FBI Report: Hate Crimes Plummet Under Republicans in ‘Too White’ New Hampshire
Regular readers will know that I do not believe in either hate speech or hate crime as legal concepts. Any motivation, in the context of hate crimes, comes loaded with bias and opens the enforcement mechanisms in society to justify persecutions contrary to the purported purpose of adding “hate” to crime in the first place. … Read more
New Hampshire Ballot: Libertarians Lose Access, Ask “What Next?” (I have the Answer)
The major parties, in the interest of less competition, require New Hampshire Libertarians to obtain at least 4% of the vote in any election to retain access to the ballot. That means being able to register and run as a Libertarian on the printed ballot. In the 2018 election they came up short. The 2018 … Read more
Forest Fires, Melting Ice-Cap’s, and Global Cooling
The politicization of the climate continues to get column inches at Granitegrok because it is not just one of the finest examples of Leftist hypocrisy in modern history but one where they are fully committed. Just search our pages for the proof of this contradiction in their own words. The summation of which is, weather … Read more
Eugene Volokh On NH’s New Privacy Amendment: “What Does it Mean?”
Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, and he’s got a question. What does this amendment to the New Hampshire Constitution mean? “An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.” He asked his readers to … Read more
Is it Time to Call for a Boycott of Ben & Jerry’s?
Last week I wrote about how whoever owns Ben & Jerry’s these days is no less pretentious and hypocritical than the original Ben & Jerry. The company named an ice cream flavor Pecan Resist and say that profits will got to four far-left groups one of which is the Women’s March; an organization whose ties to antisemitism … Read more
On the Topic of “Free Money” – A Refresher Course
Given the “complexion” of our incoming New Hampshire legislature, we should take a moment to revisit a phrase you’ll be hearing a lot more around the Granite State. “Free money.” ‘Free money’ is taxes for which (the individual using the term) did not have to “vote” to collect them. Someone else, further away and more difficult … Read more
Two-Minutes [FAKE] “Hate” Sunday Nov 11th
In the wake of any reported “hate crime,” it is important to remember that the majority of these have an annoying habit of turning out to be self-inflicted, often in a desperate effort to get attention. College campuses don’t hold a monopoly on this behavior, but they do tend to produce a majority of them. A … Read more
Meadowstone Farm Commits Massive Violation of New Hampshire State Election Law
Meadowstone Farm has since removed the pictures from Instagram, but before that happened, they were very proud of what they’d done. So, what did they do? They picked up Republican campaign signs from wherever they found them and cut them in half, then temporarily repurposed them – if for no other reason than to show everyone on … Read more
Jeb Bradley is Prepared to Screw New Hampshire Ratepayers No Matter What the Cost
State Sen. Jeb Bradley didn’t lose last Tuesday but you will. He’s got a lot more company in the State Senate than the last session with Democrats in the Majority. Together they can advance legislation like SB466. (Union Leader) State Sen. Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, is among those hoping the state mounts a vigorous defense of the biomass … Read more
Brookstone Bankruptcy a Done Deal – Still not New Hampshire’s Fault
Lost in the election noise was a report from NHBR last week that Brookstone’s bankruptcy was “official.” The chain, headquartered in Merrimack, New Hampshire, had fallen on hard times, attracting our attention when a reader tried to argue that the Granite State’s tax system was to blame for companies like Brookstone going out of business. … Read more