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Lisa Kinkade, the Brattleboro homeless advocate who was praised last year for helping create a downtown drop-in center for homeless people, has been arrested following a drug raid in which police say a large amount of crack cocaine and cash was seized. Kincade, 46, was one of three people arrested Sept. 4 when Brattleboro police … Read more
The heartbreaking case of Lindsay Clancy, a mother who strangled her three children to death and has been charged with murder, has dominated world headlines. As a former criminal defense attorney, I must protest that this is insane. By definition, a person who commits a mass murder, or even a regular old premeditated murder, road … Read more
TL; DR: Liberal feminism, late-term abortion, and the Clancy spectacle I personally have found this story and everything around it absolutely disturbing. I wrote this piece because I can’t have children. Massachusetts spent August doing two things at once. Governor Maura Healey signed a law stripping the last gestational limits off abortion, surrounded by smiling … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, there were 4th of July fireworks at the Prarieland Detention facility in Texas, and they’re still going. It involves Antifa, Trantifa, and a guy named Autumn, a guy named Meagan, and a van full of guns. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep. … Read more
We’ve talked a lot about Democrats and their liberal judges and prosecutors letting career criminals go free because of the color of their skin. There is an army of posts on GraniteGrok about Democrats and their mayors and Police forces letting criminal aliens go free, many of whom are violent or deranged criminals, some with … Read more
The title really needed a few more words to capture the entire thought. There are two correct answers to the question, and they fall along Party lines. As we saw in the first Trump term, many of his aides and supporters did jail time, and some of them pleaded guilty to fake charges after being … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, we know Dems are crooks, from using government to steal your property to robbing you of your natural rights. But these Dems are extra crooked, and if they are doing it there, they are probably doing it wherever you are. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video … Read more
If you removed the data from just the ten largest Democrat Run cities, America would look like a cultural utopia. Free speech, right to self-defense, low crime and poverty, higher standards of living but lower cost of living, significantly higher health outcomes, and better educated children. Keep in mind, America’s baseline is the same from … Read more
You won’t get much argument from anyone, including the proglodytes, about California’s progressive credentials. Blue states want to be California when they grow up, and Democrats in every state want to emulate it. The economic and social downward spiral associated with left-wing priorities only seems to catalyze their desire to duplicate it where they live. … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, a reporter corners a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) National Political Committee Member, and it’s not just glorious; it’s the template for you when confronted with anyone who supports them. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep 239 Links: Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions … Read more
Burlington, Vermont, has a two-party system. Far-left Democrats and further-left progressives. That’s no joke. They run against each other for Mayor and elected city offices. Voters answer the question, which wingnut best represents the speed of decline that appeals to me. Hardly. The burning question is who can convince enough voters that the end of … Read more
Rick Olson is a contributor to these pages, though not for some time. Other priorities, and as I always say, if it’s not fun, then do something else. But he has hundreds, if not thousands, of posts on GraniteGrok, and, as I may have said before, we spend time together. Rick is a former Marine … Read more
At Monday night’s Burlington City Council meeting, some Progressive city councilors and attendees mocked Democrat city councilors’ ‘Burlington Forward’ public safety plan as ‘Burlington Backward.’ They claimed the plan would return Burlington to an era of incarceration and forced removal of homeless encampments – both of which they deplore and insist won’t work. The epic … Read more
The interstate migration of Americans has been happening for decades, but is it giving the Left too much credit to say it is part of a master plan? We have enough empirical data to show that there is a significant disparity in states’ success or failure, driven by the trend and history of the Party … Read more
GraniteGrok can be, for some more disciplined Republicans, something of a guilty pleasure. They would never announce they are fans, but we can say things they never would and maybe they should. Weekly, if not daily, we provide narrative ammo and armor that you can hand to your troops for the trench wars in social … Read more
Zohran Mamdani can say anything he likes about Islam and still go to heaven. Lying isn’t just acceptable; it is required. The global Ummah will thank you for all your deceptions to advance it. Case in point. Not for nothing, but regardless of how many marbles you have and whether they are all there, everything, … Read more
One of the underappreciated nuances of the anti-racism movement (the pro-white racism is blatant, not nuanced) is how everything that movements like BLM stand on assumes blacks are criminals. Calm down. I understand that the point they are trying to sell is that blacks get framed, and if there were fewer cops, they’d be less … Read more
Chasity Bono used to drop by the variety show because she was a super cute little girl, and pets and small children (especially if they are not yours and you can walk away from them or give them back) are a big draw (marketing-wise). Chastity had an addadicktomy and became Chaz Bono, not so cute, … Read more
Nashua residents deserve full transparency into how our City manages taxpayer‑funded housing programs and vets individuals placed in our neighborhoods. Recent events have raised serious and urgent concerns about the City of Nashua’s screening practices, concerns that City officials have repeatedly refused to address. A Nashua resident recently informed me that her father, a local … Read more
Concord, NH, July 9, 2026 — Today, a Carroll County, NH, jury found William Kelly of Ossipee guilty of two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the December 17, 2023, deaths of Christine Falzone, 33, and her unborn child, according to an NH Department of Justice press release. The case is historic, as it marks … Read more