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Crime is down for a very good reason. Someone is enforcing the laws we already have. Be they immigration, illegal entry, or just the everyday variety meant to keep you safe from people who would do you harm and steal your stuff. Not Democrats. They let criminals run loose and invite more here, and while … Read more
I’m not sure this is good politics in a city that’s 137.5 percent Democrat voters, but if he’s being honest, you have to respect that. I mean, we got so entrapped in our progressive values and talking about progressivism that we weren’t taking stock of what was happening on our streets. We had 810 people … Read more
If you’re not sure which way to vote in November, we’ve provided plenty of proof that Democrats destroy everything they touch. But if you need another example, local business leaders in Burlington, Vermont, wrote a letter to Gov. Phil Scott. It seems they’re unhappy with what voting for progressives has done to them. Burlington is, … Read more
A New York man wanted on a Vermont charge of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child was arrested at the Canadian border last week, Vermont State Police said. Ryan Ouimet, 28, of Averill Park, New York, was taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol at the New York-Canada border at about 6 PM Sept. … Read more
Political candidates, both incumbents and hopefuls, are lining up in opposition to Attorney General Charity Clark’s decision to charge the ‘Williston 13’ anti-ICE protesters with trespassing. The protesters pleaded innocent in Vermont Superior Court last week to trespass during a July protest at the ICE National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center in Williston. Clark said … Read more
When the criminal who committed the murder is as plain as the nose on your face, justice and crime prevention are only preserved by a speedy execution of the perpetrator(s). Justice delayed is justice denied! The three children of Lindsey Clancy and the ghost of Charlie Kirk are crying for justice. Everyone knows the perpetrator … Read more
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