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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

Waste-to-energy is the solution to the trash problem

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Doug

Regarding the recycling center in Gilford, this whole project has been a boondoggle of the highest degree. As the entire recycling industry crashes and burns, Gilford dives in headfirst … to an EMPTY pool. Once again, government is a day late and a dollar short in providing a “solution” to a “problem” that doesn’t exist, … Read more

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! – NH City Wants to add $125.5 Million in New Public Debt

December 6, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We’re not confident the local media is going to alert taxpayers of this public hearing, so we’re going to do it for them. Monday, Dec. 16th at 7 PM, the city of Nashua will hold a hearing to authorize bond sales to the tune of 125.5 million dollars.

Campus Mein Kampf – The Left’s Cultural Intifada of America Continues

December 6, 2019 Steve MacDonald

As King Edward Longshanks notes in the movie Braveheart, “the trouble with Scotland is that it is full of Scots.” The same is true for America (and New Hampshire) as viewed from the left. It’s full of white people. If they can’t breed them out, they must “fix” them.

CNN Self-Boycott Win: Network Posts Worst Ratings Week in Age of Trump

December 6, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The Network (CNN), whose prime mission is to hate President Trump, went wall-to-wall with collusion and lost. They then did the same thing with the ‘impeachment’ circus (‘cuz that’s what they want to see) and lost even more.

NH Vape Sales up 76% Since Massachusetts Banned Vaping in the Bay State

January 6, 2020December 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Charlie Baker is a registered Republican in Massachusetts. Even real Republicans know what that means (Democrat) – and Democrats surround him. So the knee-jerk 4-month vaping ban in the Bay State was not surprising. Nor was the massive uptick in sales in New Hampshire.

NH Dem House Speaker Calls Deceased Former Rep ‘Difficult’ In Email Announcing His Death

December 6, 2019December 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

As a courtesy to members of the New Hampshire House the Democrat Speaker, Steve Shurtleff, sent an email to the legisalture announcing a former state rep passing; because many current members probably knew him. It sounds like a nice idea but Shurtleff still manages to screw it up.

Democrat Impeachment Diversity Problem: No People of Color Called to Testify (You Mean Besides ‘Blue?’)

December 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

First, the good news. There are so few things in need of attention by congress that this is a concern. No experts of color have been called to testify against this President in the Judiciary Committee. Not one.