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New Hampshire led the American colonies 250 years ago by adopting a constitution that created an independent government before anyone else. So it’s fitting that in 2026, New Hampshire could achieve another first for independence. Like all Americans, government employees have the constitutional right to free speech and free association. In 2018, the U.S. Supreme … Read more
One Big Beautiful Bill gives scholarship donors $1700 federal tax credit – but Dem majority doesn’t want it Vermonters will not be allowed to take a federal tax credit for contributing to a private/independent school scholarship program, if a House Ways & Means Committee miscellaneous tax bill introduced yesterday becomes law. H.933, titled “miscellaneous administrative … Read more
The “Deep State” is not just corrupt US politicians. It’s a transnational criminal organization that has embedded itself within governments around the globe and leveraged entire nations to do its bidding. Or as JFK called it, a “secret society” and a “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy”. It is a system that has conscripted vast human and … Read more
Academic Arms Races To The Bottom Of The Barrel Background: This is a continuation of a GraniteGrok series on various Artificial Intelligence issues, and several uses of AI resources have been demonstrated. In this example, the human, one-old-conservative, wrote the article and Claude, Anthropic’s AI, did a review and commentary. When stability is replaced by … Read more
The lust for world government goes all the way back to the Tower of Babel. It’s the unquenchable thirst of men wanting to play god. The power move under which we now live was born in the mind of Edward Mandel House. House dominated the Wilson Administration and had overwhelming success in FDR’s New Deal; … Read more
This was a very busy week, since my division of Finance met Monday and Friday, the House met Wednesday and Thursday, and Tuesday was town election day. My division met on nine bills on Monday, all having passed the policy committee and the House, so we primarily needed to look at the financial impacts. HB … Read more
Imagine having elected leaders who would put the American people before political party and personal gain. Imagine having elected leaders who would put the welfare of American citizens before non-citizens. Imagine having elected leaders who would put their lives and their personal fortunes on the line for the survival of their country. Imagine having elected … Read more
“Whatever the State identifies as comprising constitutional adequacy it must pay for.” — N.H. Supreme Court, Londonderry School District SAU #12 v. State of New Hampshire, 2006 Since the state lost its first Claremont education funding case in 1993, legislators and governors (including Democratic Gov. John Lynch in 2011-2012) tried to undo the decision with … Read more
In a free market, needs and wants (demands) are met by those willing to take a risk. In some cases, risk takers create needs or wants. There are numerous examples of creating a want and then supplying it. Two come to mind. Back in 1975, Gary Dahl invented the Pet Rock. The fad lasted long … Read more
In an attempt to educate those in the area who write LTE’s proclaiming “No Kings!” and to those who participate in “No Kings/No War!” rallies aimed at President Trump, let me remind you that we, in the West, are defending democracy and Western Culture against an evil, theocracy-oriented, 7th-century regime. This evil regime was days … Read more
With Claude (Anthropic) — in genuine collaboration with a human who had all the ideas. A conversation between one-old-conservative and Claude (Anthropic) — March 2026 Two articles landed in the queue before the bacon was finished. Both were about artificial intelligence. All were unsettling to varying degrees. The only way to make the morning bearable, … Read more
A bill to create universal open enrollment for New Hampshire public schools is already prompting school boards to consider marketing their districts to families. And the bill hasn’t passed either chamber of the Legislature yet. Senate Bill 101, sponsored by Sen. Tim Lang, R-Sanbornton, would require all school districts to “establish an open enrollment policy … Read more
Will our school children cause a communist takeover of our nation? As in the 1930s, today this question would probably be ridiculed. What makes Americans so vulnerable in this hate-filled climate? Revolution starts in the mind. Consider Minnesota, which was once the rural Christian home of Little House on the Prairie, an example of rugged … Read more
The NHCADSV has made a series of claims that are false – this undermines not only any perception about the NHCADSV but also risks undermining trust in the public agencies it works with: Sensationalist lies are very dangerous. They harm victims. They harm defendants. They harm women and children, they harm credibility, and they harm … Read more
By Claude (Anthropic) — again in genuine collaboration with a human who had all the ideas – A follow-up to “From the Stylus to the Algorithm,” published at GraniteGrok, March 5, 2026. The first piece had barely landed at GraniteGrok before the conversation that produced it kept generating new angles. That is the nature of … Read more
And So Should You, Whether You Agree With It or Not Last week, roughly a hundred protesters gathered at the New Hampshire State House to denounce the Free State Project. Their complaints were familiar: the FSP is “radical,” its participants are outsiders bent on “dismantling” public education, and their influence on state politics is illegitimate. … Read more
On February 11, 2026, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on HR38 – a resolution directing the committee to investigate whether maladministration has occurred at the highest levels of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Here is what the documented record shows. I. Chief Justice MacDonald’s $50,000 Payout to Dianne Martin Dianne Martin served as Chief … Read more
At the hands of the Secretary of State & the Election Law Committee We have a classic “Catch-22” situation here in NH. Part II, Art. 32 of the NH constitution has been ignored by state and local officials for so long that they assume or pretend it doesn’t exist. HB 1223 (relative to the moderator’s authority … Read more
Where is 79% ($3.7 M) of the $4.8 M Kensington K-5 School – Budget going to? TRANSPARENCY = TRUST CITIZENS MUST BE INFORMED to Vote on March 10th. *Costs Highlights: SAU 16 Teachers are top 10% in Pay and benefits in the state. On average, Kensington Teachers’ proposed contract = $92,000 base pay and approx $44,600 in benefits = … Read more
And why are they writing press releases for Lyn Schollett? On March 3rd, a committee of the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 9 to 7, along strict party lines, to advance Amendment 0946h to House Bill 1675. Before that final vote, it’s worth noting what happened on the amendment itself: it passed 16 to … Read more