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Online Learning May Help the US Close Education Gap

Students Deserve the Best Education Possible

December 7, 2019December 7, 2019

All our state’s students deserve the best education possible, and many people contribute to making that happen. Parents, teachers and school officials are all critical in the effort to educate our kids and help them unlock their potential. But our state legislators are also important, because they help set the overall approach that schools take … Read more

Transjacking – biological males taking over biological female athletics

December 7, 2019 Skip

2+2 = 5 “Lies Are Informing Public Policy” The Gilford School Board, as a result of one family’s complaints about their child suffering from gender dysphoria (I’m not going to use the Left’s language anymore if at all possible – you loose the debate right off the bat) and of the passage of NH SB263, … Read more

Palate Cleanser: So many definitions for LGBT…

December 7, 2019 Skip

Does this new one mean I’m guilty of “cultural appropriation” of the Politically Correct one? How could that be, though? The Left is CONSTANTLY changing their own definition of words and acronyms – so why can’t I? Or you? After all, they are trying to retrofit things to bolster their agenda – why SHOULDN’T we … Read more

There’s an Election Coming

December 7, 2019

There’s an election coming, can you tell? The squads of Leftists are going nuts. They seem to think that if they can vote for impeachment it means automatic reelection. They forgot a few things though. Chief among the things they have forgotten is that talk is cheap. Throwing around charges is easy. They have been … Read more

Are Leftists Friends of the Little Guy?

November 19, 2025December 7, 2019 The Editors

Are Leftists: friends of the little guy? That is the cloak they cover themselves with. But are they really friends of the average American? They insist on being judged the promises they make and the intentions they aspire to. Leftists never want to be held accountable to their actual results. The cloak they wrap themselves … Read more

Art Gallery Sells a Banana Duct-Taped to a Wall for $120,000.00 (Wall Not Included)

December 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The culture is replete with examples of first world expressions. Many are little more than pretentious crap. But even pretentious crap that is beyond the ability of everyday people can be attractive. So, what does it say when a “work of art” that anyone can create, possibly right now, for about $1.00, sells for $120,000?

Go ahead, keep alienating half of your customers

December 7, 2019 Skip

“Maybe it’s time to do something different”. Yep, just keep proving me (and lots of other Conservatives) right – the MSM is little more than cheerleaders for the Democrat Party and its agenda. They at least, in the past, were fairly subtle about it. Now, not so much as their full Progressiveness is front and … Read more

Government Schools: Valedictorian can’t do college remedial math?

December 7, 2019 Skip

I’ve written in the past that our public schools aren’t getting the job done and that’s why Parents should have choices in directing their childrens’ education. Our tax dollars should be following the child and not a zip code. This snippet from RedState puts the “evolving” notion of a school, thanks to the Left’s notion … Read more

Data Point – the American people are Michael Bloomberg’s worst enemies

December 7, 2019 Skip

Former NYC Mayor and now Democrat Prez Wannabee Michael Bloomberg hates guns. Well, maybe that’s not quite true – he loves them in the hands of his bodyguards. He does hate them in YOUR hands – else why would he be spending hundreds of millions of dollars in a vainglorious attempt to infringe upon our … Read more

Up to Seven Saudi’s Could Be Connected to Florida Naval Base Attack

December 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Friday, a Saudi “trainee” opened fire on a Florida Naval Base, killing three and injuring eight. The attacker was shot dead during the attack, but were they a “lone wolf”?

Rand Paul on Impeachment – President Had to Ask About Investigation, It’s the Law

December 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

While Peloton is a more popular search than impeachment, the Democrats circus act (we’re into the second ring) is still the hot political topic. One into which Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has punched another huge hole.

A $540 million Fee Increase – By a Republican?

December 7, 2019December 6, 2019

You know that we Groksters will call out malice on either side of the aisle when appropriate, and this time it’s a Republican who has earned the spotlight. A representative from one of the most republican districts in New Hampshire has put in two very, very, anti-liberty bills. One of those bills will create a … Read more

Shout out to Tony at Patch – thanks for including GraniteGrok!

December 6, 2019 Skip

Tony Shinella runs a number of the PATCH.COM sites here in NH; in addition to reading us, try them as well as he is trying to do local stuff that the regular papers miss. However, this time, he did a really deep dive on this cycle’s Presidential Primary and it really is worth your time. … Read more

Union Leader is breathless in announcing it is no longer a conservative paper

December 6, 2019 Skip

Norm just took the Union Leader to task: But more importantly, the Union Leader is dying, or some would say it is already dead, based on how they actually fill their news “hole,” that is the portion of the paper supposedly devoted to real news and not ads. The Union Leader was once thought of as … Read more

Your dramatic pause reached its expiration point a while ago…get on with it

December 6, 2019 Skip

If. If. If. If… Dear Corey, Look, you and I have known each other for a long, long time. I still appreciate what you did for GraniteGrok when we were just starting out when you were the Exec. Dir. for AFP/NH – you always looked out for us at your events and always made it … Read more

Palate Cleanser: Yep, this is me….

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Skip

Go ahead – make fun of me. I always end up at Frame 3 no matter how hard I try (which lately, isn’t all that hard). It’s a plot, I say, to frustrate me for all eternity. OK, someone make a home priced robot for this – please? Anyone? Save my pride (or at least … Read more

Democrats’ campaign ideas never make it in practice

December 6, 2019 Steve Earle

While it’s on my mind I should comment on a couple of letters in the Laconia Daily Sun where the writers lament our failure to buy into their climate change hysteria. Seems they believe all the disaster scenarios produced over the past 20-some years are cascading into reality. Frankly, I do not see it.

Data Point: Job data soars – last quarter revised upward as well.

December 6, 2019 Skip

It is going to be really hard for the Democrats to run against the Trump campaign if they are limited to actual data: U.S. Jobs Report Breaks Expectations, Unemployment at 50-Year Low The U.S. Labor Department’s jobs report released on Friday showed accelerated hiring and unemployment at a 50-year low. Employers added 266,000 jobs for … Read more

Go! Nadler’s “Jerry” mandered Congressional District Has Diversity Issues

December 6, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Nothing has enough color anymore. Not the Granite State (White is not a color). Not Congressional hearings. Not even diversity-challenged Democrat Congressman (and Judiciary Committee Chair) Jerry Nadler’s district.

The Decline & Fall of The Union Leader- a morality tale as to why print media is dying or is already dead

December 6, 2019 Norm Silber

I used to subscribe to The Union Leader for delivery to my home in Gilford 6 days a week. But not anymore. For two major reasons. First, starting with occasional failures to deliver the paper a couple of years ago, their very frequent failure to deliver their product to my mailbox on a regular basis, … Read more