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Today, on the Morning Update: Has the online right gone too far in its response to the response to the Lindsey Clancy case? Debate is welcome and necessary, but we need to discuss a deeper, darker problem. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep. 263 Links: Authors’ and … Read more
Most Americans assume that if they are ever charged with a serious crime, they will be judged by a jury of twelve fellow citizens. That is how the right to trial by jury has been understood for most of American history. But that protection has been shrinking, like so many of the rights enshrined in … Read more
Millions of people today refer to their rights by amendment number, as if they get them from the Bill of Rights. They talk about their “2nd Amendment rights,” but they have it completely backward. The founders didn’t write the words as a permission slip for the people. They aren’t a “gun permit.” They are a restraining order … Read more
Watching the left lose its hive mind over Trump’s $5000.00 midterm convention “election bribe” is not just predictable but hilarious. We have no idea what he means, where it might come from, how it might manifest, or whether he’s serious. A check, a tax rebate or credit, an in-pocket real-world benefit courtesy of the invisible … Read more
Charlie Kirk argued in the open. A year later, his accusers still work in the dark. They came at night. Three days after we marked one year since Charlie Kirk was murdered on a campus, someone walked up to the new bronze outside Turning Point headquarters in Phoenix and tried to kill him again. Red … Read more
Today, in the morning update, anti-Flock outrage has become bipartisan, but for entirely different reasons. People on the right want privacy and protections from the capricious surveillance state, while people on the left…don’t want the Feds, or local police, seeing or finding their criminals, foreign or domestic. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the … Read more
Twenty-five years later, I still remember the beautiful morning, the burning towers, the strangers, the children, the smell, the silence—and the people who refused to stop looking for the lost. I Will Never Forget: September 11, 2001 Twenty-five years later, I can still remember exactly how beautiful that morning was. It was bright. Clear. Sunny. … Read more
Back in the Saddle? This week on GrokTALK! GraniteGrok.com co-founder Skip Murphy joins me to talk about getting back to the ‘Grok, with some chit-chat about what’s kept him away, AI data center outrage, Lindsey Clancy culture, and whatever tangents we end up on in the process. 00:00 Reintroduction of Skip Murphy02:03 The Impact of … 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. Special shout-out to Matt, Laura, Deb, Keith, and everyone who keeps the meme folder full. Without them and the rest of you … Read more
Politics should not be an emotional arena. There should be opposing policies and views, debate, compromise, and results – hopefully in the best interest of the people. The two things that can stir emotion, even anger, are insincerity and outright lying. Both of these are associated with Congresswoman Sandy Cortez far too frequently, and it … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC Rollercoaster is back in the news, but are new rumors of the show’s impending demise premature? If not, what’s the late-night proglodyte prepared to do to keep it? Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep 261 Links: Authors’ and Speakers’ … Read more
Anne Edwards’ appointment to a commission on access to justice? It’s amazing what PR can do for justice in NH to forget the past when it comes to Anne Edwards: Rep. Kelley Potenza gave an excellent argument as to why Anne Edwards should never have been appointed as a judge at all. See this opposition … Read more
A Review Rainer Zitelmann has built a career making the case for capitalism against its cultured despisers, and in this book he turns that project skyward. The argument is straightforward and, once stated, almost obvious: space is not primarily a government achievement that private enterprise has recently colonized, it is the other way around. The state involvement … Read more
Not many people ascend to the level of an American hero upon their premature demise. The list of our nation’s political assassinations turned national martyrs is short yet distinguished: September, 10th, marked the one-year anniversary of Charlie’s untimely assassination while doing what he felt called to, namely speaking to a crowd of college students, challenging … Read more
Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one. Statistically, the majority of those who died on 9/11 in New York City were probably Democrats. Some of them were rich Democrats. Maybe even old-school Democrats, the sort who would have objected to the brash, youthful, and open embrace of Socialism and anti-Americanism that dominates the young … Read more
I remember driving around with my Dad, and the AM radio was tuned to 850 WHDH. Dad loved that station because it featured a lot of Jazz programming. I recall most news reports ended with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), and back in the day, that’s the 1960s, to be more specific-it hovered around … Read more
I was pondering what to write about when it occurred to me that we had not yet had our annual fearmongering over Triple E: Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Unless I missed it and I’ve been Johnny-on-the-spot all year with the latest thing. We had the not-so-catastrophic rise in tick bites, Hantavirus, Ebola, Tick bites again (Lone … Read more
This time of year marks the Article V Convention season when out-of-state lobbyists and their allies converge upon Concord with promises to either save our republic or democracy if only we could hold an Article V Convention. This movement is well-funded and organized. It is made up of folks from both sides of the political spectrum. … Read more
Benjamin Franklin’s Forgotten Warning “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” That was James Madison, explaining that the modern federal welfare state is not authorized by the Constitution. Despite that, politicians today still insist that these programs aren’t just authorized; they’re also absolutely necessary to help people. But they ignore the … Read more
Michael Shellenberger has some great content on his Substack; you should check it out, especially if you are still confused about why liberals are so confused about why more and more voters don’t trust them. Progressive politics took a beating in South America, a trend that has spread to Europe, where the dirty peasants have … Read more