News – Politics – Opinion – Podcasts
I am happy to announce what I hope is an incentive to support independent media and GraniteGrok.com. Free stuff. Our first foray into this something-for-something landscape is an 18-page E-Book called ‘Democrats Destroy Everything They Touch.’ It is a primer, using a handful of my past essays sorted and formatted for easy reading, that reminds … Read more
A conversation between one-old-conservative and Claude (Anthropic) — April 2026 Backgrounder: This is another in a series of original GraniteGrok articles on Artificial Intelligence (AI), written by one-old-conservative and Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 from an unscripted chat over breakfast. The human is driving; the computer provides the horsepower. This 1,600-word column was edited for publication length … Read more
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I do not put much stock in the inner thoughts of Michelle Obama because I do not think she is qualified to make such a broad sweeping statement. I believe the country is more than ready for a female chief executive, just not her. Folks on the Left talk like Mrs. Obama is destined to … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, the City of Houston showed its ass last week when it called Good Friday (and Easter Weekend) a Spring Holiday after gushing over Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr. Houston, we have a problem. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load. Ep. 143 Link(s) Authors’ and … Read more
When you watch your favorite news source or listen to the radio or podcasts, you know you are getting either a news or an opinion interpretation of the subject, and they can be very different. When I tune in to Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, or (why would I torture myself) Rachel Maddow, I understand I … Read more
This week, on the Elsa Kurt Show, Elsa and Clay discuss First Amendment issues and cases involving sports and “athletes.” Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Disagree, agree, Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment … Read more
I’d like to say this is not the exception and more the norm, but we know it’s not, and not just from schools. Cities like Nashua exist to use government resources and waste taxpayers’ dollars to defend their partisan personal interests. Governmental bodies, flush with other people’s cash, bonded staff, and large insurance policies, especially … Read more
Whether you like it or not, solar, as a scaled-up alternative to other forms of commercial energy production, is a huge risk. It’s expensive, intermittent (unreliable), has a significant front and back-end carbon footprint, has a highly toxic manufacturing process, a sketchy and toxic end of life question mark (how, who, cost, disposal, de-manufacturing, danger … Read more
President Trump stopped by the US Supreme Court to listen to oral arguments on the birthright citizenship case. The only President ever, I think, to do that. Power tie, listening. He is later reported to have said, “We are the only Country in the World STUPID enough to allow ‘Birthright’ Citizenship!” I’m thinking, maybe the … Read more
The President addressed the American people on Wednesday night, but listening to the supposed experts on CNN and MSNBC afterward showed they missed it. Nicolle Wallace was brought in for the recap because of her political expertise. Please, she spent her segment basically laughing at the President and his address. Kaitlin Collins on CNN was … Read more
With the help of Andy and Julie Liddell at the EdTech Law Center, some parents around the country have begun filing lawsuits against Curriculum Associates, the company that produces the i-Ready learning platform used in many schools. According to the complaints filed in these lawsuits, parents allege that the company’s business model allows for the … Read more
People often say that ‘politics is the art of the possible’. But I think that this is too often used as an excuse to tinker with an issue rather than really addressing it. The reason we’re not still part of Great Britain — and the reason we have a country that is (on paper, at … Read more
There is no shortage of content on these hallowed pages related to the so-called No Kings protests. Morning Updates, podcasts, and print-media commentary aplenty. Aside from the lost proglodyte or some left-wing troll looking for validation for their notion that we are all bigots and racists, not many a lefty is likely to see it. … Read more
In late 2025, Representative Keith Self (TX-03) and Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) made a historic move by officially launching the Sharia-Free America Caucus. The mission of this group is to educate lawmakers and the public on what they describe as the existential threat posed by Sharia law to the U.S. Constitution and Western values. Self has … Read more
We’re back with another weekend-jump-starting dose of memes to launch you from your early lunch directly into your weekend, or something close to that. Very early lunch if you happen to be on the West Coast, and good for you guys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
Bernie Sanders was in New York this week to support Mayor Mamdani’s effort to raise taxes on the wealthy to close the budget gap caused by bad Democratic management of the world’s greatest city. Bernie attacked the rich who are leaving New York to avoid the high cost of residence in NYC as enemies of … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, another nail in the Dems’ so-called affordability narrative coffin. The culprit. Democrats, blue states, and how they can’t help being the crooks that they are. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load. Ep. 142 links Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may … Read more
Karl Marx believed machines would eventually turn workers into something disposable. In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels wrote that industrial labor had already reduced the worker to “a mere appendage of the machine.” In Capital, Marx argued that machinery would create a permanent “industrial reserve army” of unemployed workers. As automation increased, workers would lose bargaining … Read more
In response to egregious cases of medical malpractice, to many hospitals’ failure to properly hold physicians accountable, and to claims by physicians that the peer review process was often weaponized for political or commercial purposes, Congress enacted the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) in 1986. The law was intended to protect patient safety and … Read more