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Right Side Up: Harm Reduction?

December 25, 2025 Right Side Up

This week, on Right Side Up, “Safe Injection Sites”, Harm Reduction?, the Somali flag at school? And the Constitution.” 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, … Read more

MacDonald: When What Rich Libs Vote for “Finds Them”

August 6, 2025August 6, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The elites didn’t realize that this is what they voted for? In the year 1 BC (Before COVID), circa 2019, there was unending amusement to be found. Schadenfreude, to be more specific. Decades of Democrat rule in Los Angeles had finally managed to spill over into the nicer neighborhoods. Angry homeless addicts pushed out of the … Read more

Klar: Drug Price Executive Order Unleashes Unlikely Critics

May 29, 2025 John Klar

Is it only bad when Trump does it? President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) yesterday, May 12, designed to reduce drug prices for American patients and taxpayers alike. The move is a moderate effort to work amicably with pharmaceutical companies to cut taxpayer costs for Medicare and Medicaid, shave price gouging by middlemen, … Read more

Photo from public Instagram site, Burlington looks like s–t

Instagram page “Burlington looks like s–t” depicts Queen City homeless/drug epidemic

December 12, 2024 Michael Bielawski

An Instagram page has taken the initiative to publicize some concerning imagery and videos of the Queen City’s homeless and drug epidemics. The page is crudely titled “burlington_looks_like_shxt”, it has at least 36,300 followers and more than 300 posts. There are numerous public comments. Generally, folks are upset but not surprised. Some are ready to take this … Read more

Bananas Guide to Joining A Cult

April 19, 2024April 19, 2024 Johnny Bananas (Fake News Reporter!)

It’s been said “if you’re not in a cult by now you’re crazy”. The chances are you’re already in one and don’t even know it, which is the sign of a well-run cult, so congratulations. Most people wouldn’t stick around in a cult if in fact they knew they had been hoodwinked into involuntary membership.

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Oregon Re-Criminalizes Hard Drugs After Four Years of Decrim Disaster

April 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

If you need an example of bad drug policy vs. human nature, then Oregon is your gal. She decriminalized hard drugs in 2020 and was rewarded with a 200% spike in overdose deaths. People were not more likely to seek treatment, but they were more likely to become unproductive criminals if they didn’t kill themselves.

Have We Reached The Point Of No Return

March 20, 2024 Ray Cardello

There is a rhythm to politics, but we usually live in the middle of the spectrum, leaning one way or the other. Barack Obama made the Progressive Radical Left popular, and for the last sixteen years, we have been pulled out of the middle to the more Socialist Left. The previous four years have been highly volatile, even on the state level.

For the Children: Ban Flavored Tobacco, but Not Flavored Pot, Legalize Drug Dens (No Age Limits)

February 8, 2024 Rob Roper

If you want to know why Vermont is in such terrible shape on so many fronts, it is because the people we have elected to make important decisions for us are totally unmoored from any rational approach to problem-solving. They are devoid of any guiding principle, barring an intense desire to get their hands on our money and spend it as they see fit, which is usually not in a fit way.

EXCLUSIVE: Marco Polo Report on Biden Crime Family

May 10, 2023 Aaron Warner

The Hunter Biden laptop story tried to be at the center of the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Riot, Loot, and Burn

April 26, 2023April 25, 2023 Steve Earle

Chicago, Chicago, that bussing town, where violent protesters aka rioters, have set fires, destroyed property, and created massive havoc along with 11 murders and multiple assaults, is again in the news. With a new mayor, are things going to change?

Reality Is Starting to Bite HARD on San Francisco’s “Sanctuary City” Proclamation

February 18, 2023 Skip

It’s easy to virtue signal highly when the cost is so low; when the rubber hits the road, however, not so much. Take sanctuary cities run by Democrats (or States or towns or whatever) who have LOUDLY proclaimed that illegal aliens are welcome.

Palate Cleanser: What a Difference That 36 Years Can Make

January 21, 2023 Skip

Whoever thought we’d end up this way? And I’ll add that the World Economic Forum /Davos people that believe they have the right to tell the rest of us how to live is that they are going to make bugs for us to eat dirt cheap. The only constant in any of this is while … Read more

Maggie Hassan Lies Again (And Chris Pappas Too!)

November 8, 2022 Skip

Once again, the Democrats, especially Maggie Hassan, are twisting the meaning and usage of words to fit a political narrative. In this case, for the purely personal gain of keeping her butt in DC.

Feature or Bug: Overdose Deaths Spike more than 200% in Oregon After Decriminalizing Hard Drugs.

November 24, 2023September 14, 2022 Steve MacDonald

If you have any technical experience, you’ll be familiar with the phrase feature or bug. When something does something you didn’t expect, you have to ask if it was supposed to (a feature) or not (bug). And yes, it’s a joke. Like Oregon, which decriminalized hard drugs claiming they wanted to help more people … overdose?

Fentanyl, That Devil …

July 28, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Maybe I’m just being picky, but I have a problem with this Union leader headline. “Direct delivery of Naloxone key to reducing opioid deaths.” It’s key? The key to stopping opioid deaths is trying to prevent death after an overdose.

Can Anyone Defend NYC Drug Campaign

June 7, 2022 Ray Cardello

I saw the picture of the PSA drug poster currently being displayed on NYC subway cars, and I was disgusted. I cannot believe how low we have sunk as a society. Like we wake to a new record high gas prices, we also awake to the bar lowered by some government agency or party.

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I Want A New Drug

March 23, 2022 Op-Ed

To the sober observer, it appears we have crossed over the pharmacological Rubicon where dealing in drugs, once the practice of the dark artists found in alleyways, college campuses, covens, and secret temples, is now so profitable it makes the GDP of a third world country seem like a weekend allowance.

Biden to Spend 30 Million on Crack Pipes for Minorities

March 13, 2022February 9, 2022 Ray Cardello

Just when you think Joe Biden and his administration have lowered the bar to an embarrassing level, he does something more egregious and drops the bar some more.

How The States Can End the Illegal Alien Invasion

September 24, 2021 Op-Ed

Several years ago, when then-President Obama was allowing Illegal Aliens to invade our Nation pretty much without restraint, I wrote Arizona Governor Jan Brewer a letter. The letter spoke of Article I of the U.S. Constitution section 10, paragraph 4. Here is the paragraph as per our Constitution:

Crime and Punishment

August 7, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Ever since Obama and Dems opened the southern border, states like New Hampshire and Vermont have seen the rise of the only real public health threat in the last decade, opioid drug addiction and overdose deaths. With it came crime and a rise in gang violence.