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No ManchTalk this week, but AJ put together a special edition of The New England Take in response to the Charlie Kirk Assassination. A. J. dives into the tragic, political assassination of @turningpointusa‘s Charlie Kirk. Does this open the door for more violence and toxicity? The regular weekly installment of NE Take will still air … Read more
Threatening broadcast licenses is a bad idea As much as I would like to see biased networks with news divisions pretending to be unbiased get what’s coming to them, the continued threats by the Trump Administration and the Federal Communications Commission are beginning to bother me. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said in an … Read more
Remembering includes the reasons for living, and one of them, just ask Turning Point US, which has produced plenty of them, is memes.
I had the good fortune to meet Charlie Kirk during one of his visits to Vermont. I drove over an hour to meet the young man who was setting conservative politics on fire with his impassioned speeches and indefatigable debating style. Where was he speaking? At the appropriately named Ignite Church in Williston. That day’s … Read more
MACDONALD: “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” Website, Shares Content From Those Celebrating political Violence
Eleven years back, John W. Whitehead warned in his weekly column about the danger from government’s proliferating use of automated license plate readers across America. Whitehead included these devices among the tools being employed in the construction of what he termed an “electronic concentration camp.” This “electronic concentration camp,” wrote Whitehead, “as I have dubbed the surveillance … Read more
Wednesday, September 17, marks the 238th anniversary of the end of the Constitutional Convention, which created what Daniel Webster said was the “works of the purest patriots and wisest statemen that ever existed.” He, of course, was referring to the U.S. Constitution. Sadly, far too many Americans know little to nothing about the Constitution. … Read more
harlie Kirk was shot in the neck at an event in Utah.
Charlie Kirk was a young man, just 31 years young. Charlie Kirk was a husband and father. Charlie Kirk was a Believer. Tonight, Charlie is with our Heavenly Father in Paradise. For some reason, God called Charlie home this afternoon, far too soon for those of us who admired him. The best tribute we can … Read more
Last night I went to see the movie Guns and Moses. It’s in town for only one more day (at Apple Cinemas in Hooksett), and I think you should see it before it’s gone. Here’s the teaser from IMDB: “A beloved small town rabbi in the high desert becomes an unlikely gunslinger after his community … Read more
From Steve’s Substack – 9-10-2025 You already know what happened. An unknown assailant assassinated Charlie Kirk in Utah. The original “suspect” was not the shooter, and as Ian and Rita remind us over at the Bugscuffle Gazette, 72-Hour Rule, folks. Nothing that comes out in the first 48 to 72 hours should be taken at face … Read more
I made a promise – GraniteGrok will not forget Eugen; this day we still remember what happened 24 years ago today: 9/11/2001. Someone had written a post with a short blurp “…22 years ago…”. I can’t believe that it has been THAT long – yet I vividly remember that day almost to the minute. While it … Read more
Jocelyn is back with her guest to dissect the week’s news and events. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment or submit Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok … Read more
It has become a maxim inside the political cage match. If you want to start a fight, ask about affordable housing. The “housing Crisis,” real or imagined, was injected into the collective consciousness. Some blame boomers, others blame banks (or sinister global evils like Blackrock), as legislators dance around the fire tossing gasoline on it … Read more
Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot … Read more
We’ve got forty memes to help you get over the hump, no matter what size yours happens to be (this week).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
From the Women’s Defense League By now you have probably heard of the monstrous murder of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina. We will not post the video here. It is horrific, disturbing, monstrous, and beyond comprehension. We DO, however, need to discuss a few things: Criminals Don’t Follow the … Read more
On August 4th, the VA announced that it would extend approvals on a list of treatments performed by third-party vendors up to a year. Where approvals had been limited to 90 or 180 days, one would now be good for twelve months. The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced it will improve Veterans’ access to … Read more
To their critics—who regard themselves as the center of all things—all these men are just different types of “woke,” though some fall to the left and others to the right. Gottfried explains:
The US Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been undermining public health for decades. Still, a majority of Americans would have never noticed if not for the response to COVID. No one should trust their judgment or guidance, and the Trump Administration has tasked Robert F. … Read more