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In June 1776, Great Britain and its North American colonies had been fighting for over a year. The Americans desperately needed foreign help, particularly from Great Britain’s principal rival, France. Many members of the Second Continental Congress—the assembly the states had charged with conducting the war—believed France would not help the colonies if their goal … Read more
Click the link and let them know you listened! WFEA Copy: Granite Grok – Steve MacDonald: Major Stories Missed by Corporate Media. Steve MacDonald, from one of the nation’s top online political publications, GraniteGrok, joins The WFEA Morning Update with Jeff Chidester to talk about the top stories that are either under-reported or just not … Read more
I am not sad to see Dan Goldman lose his primary contest and his seat in Congress, but I feel like we have taken another step down the wrong road for America, as Brad Lander, the person who ousted Goldman, is a Socialist. Let’s stop playing games with semantics and drop the Democratic. These people … Read more
“Like a cancer” America was built on a foundation that constitutional violations are a deadly disease. Give government an inch – and they’ll take a few thousand miles, and never stop. And before too long, it’ll get to a place where it’s no longer a Republic, but a long, slow coup. Or, as the Declaration … Read more
While the star-studded A-listers fawned over Barry Obama and everyone spoke eloquently about this or that, and Obama talked about a world where politics wasn’t so contentious (despite being the great divider), a dirty little secret and an open lie went underreported. Jackson Park and the 19-acre “campus” surrounding that ugly-ass building include an Indigenous land acknowledgment. … Read more
July 1, 1776, witnessed one of the most consequential debates in American history. The venue was the floor of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The topic was whether America should declare independence. The principal participants were the passionate John Adams of Massachusetts for the affirmative, and the eloquent John Dickinson of Pennsylvania for the negative. In theory, the … Read more
Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither vetted nor “fact-checked,” nor to be considered “research,” or taken seriously, nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers, even if they make the proglodytes cry like little girls or pitch fits like overstimulated toddlers. Might be some duplicates from Monday … Read more
Democrats suck for lots of reasons, not the least of which is this. Over Father’s Day weekend, 44* people were shot, 7 of them permanently. That’s more than three dozen gunshot wounds over a three-day period, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson took time to express his concern about trans-femicide. 00:00 Introduction and Overview of Current … Read more
For the Democrats, there is no deadline on challenging and rewriting history. They have shown that history to them is not an accurate accounting of events, but an arbitrary storyline that can be modified or edited to match their narrative. The Party that is in total flux and has nearly completed its transformation to the … Read more
Perfectly Breeding Socialists for America’s Grand Finale It has taken over 100 years, but much like the patient radical Islamists, the indoctrination is complete and bearing fruit. You have finally created a generation of Socialists who will band together to finish the task of taking down the evil and oppressive America. I preface this article … Read more
I just read a great piece on Substack about what it’s like to break the chemical addiction cycle of the internet, and specifically, social media. The dopamine loop. The pleasure-pain balance. Interesting stuff. You all likely know by now that when your phone does that little alert thing, be it a beep, tweet, chirp, or … Read more
Unconditional submission” or “resistance by force.” Thomas Jefferson, John Dickinson, and the Second Continental Congress said those were their two terrible options less than three months after the battles of Lexington and Concord and the “shot heard ‘round the world.” This is the story of the forgotten declaration in which they explained why they fought back. THE … Read more
Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat of standing armies. This was a heritage of British legal thought and history, and it became an underappreciated part of American political thought and experience. Why were peacetime standing armies … Read more
Unless there is a major meltdown or a situation nobody sees coming, the Republicans have a potential ticket that should beat any combination of Democratic candidates. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio continue to impress anyone paying attention with their handling of any situation President Trump assigns them. With every public … Read more
Recent website issues made it impossible to do a new GrokTALK! But it will return next week – and since AJ got bumped on Saturday, I’m sharing that now. A. J. is joined by NetChoice’s Patrick Hedger to push back against data center misinformation, including how this goes beyond artificial intelligence, the importance of the … Read more
About this time every year, and more so this year as we celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, our friends on the Left tell us that our nation’s founders were either enlightened freethinkers who thoroughly rejected the tenets of Christianity or that they were evil, exploitative Eurocentric white men whose only purpose in life was to … Read more
Editor’s note: I have regained control of the website, but there’s still some work to do. Monday memes have been preempted, but there is a version on my Substack (I wasn’t expecting to have access yet). One of the things that sets GraniteGrok apart, and no, I don’t mean getting hacked and not updated all weekend (sigh), was our … Read more
Today, on The Morning Update, Trump got Congress to block FISA Section 702, and now he’s holding it hostage while the guy they didn’t want at DNI guts the deep staters in the Intelligence Community. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel Ep 200 Link(s): . Transcript [edited]: Welcome to your Monday, June 22nd morning update. … Read more
In year one of Trump 2.0, the DOJ made it clear that Antifa was not, as the progressives who benefited from its intimidation tactics, the Keebler Elves. It was real, and rather than a disconnected coincidence like Book Club (as the proglodytes kept claiming), Antifa was a well-funded, well-trained, well-organized militant guerrilla group. Everyone paying … Read more
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences.” From the Declaration of Independence, one of the charges against the King that justified secession. It was built on a violent American raid on a British ship years earlier that few of us are ever taught about. In the early hours of June 10, … Read more