Tag: History

Vintage Firearms for Sale

June 3, 2025 Steve MacDonald

One of our longtime contributors has some vintage firearms for sale. He asked if I could share that on GraniteGrok, and I said, “Sure.” He says he has Rifles from the Civil War and WWI. The appraised value, according to the seller, is $5000.00 each, but he is willing to sell them for less. As … Read more

1775: Putting Tyrants on the Run

April 24, 2025 James Bovard

April 19 was the 250th anniversary of American militiamen routing the best army in the world. Seven hundred British troops arrogantly came out of Boston early that day in 1775 to seize firearms and gunpowder in Concord, Massachusetts. By the time the tattered remnants of that force escaped back to Boston, hundreds of British troops … Read more

“The Crisis We’re Now Facing”

April 8, 2025 Andy Schaalman

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of a book called The Fourth Turning. If you’ve read it, you know there’s a good reason it’s trending again. Published in 1997 and co-written by historians William Strauss and Neil Howe, The Fourth Turning examined the rhythms of American history and predicted that America’s next enormous crisis – something on par … Read more

The Cornerstone of a Free Society: Everyone Should be Armed

December 1, 2024 Michael Boldin

“Self-defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish.” That’s how the great Mercy Otis Warren put it. But this wasn’t just a philosophical view for the Founders and Old Revolutionaries. They knew an armed society was essential to preserving liberty – because they lived it firsthand. In fact, it was one … Read more

Freedom’s Just Another Word for Everything to Lose

November 16, 2024 Andrew Cline

Among his many memorable contributions to American arts, the great singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who passed away in September, wrote one of the most quotable lines in rock history. “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” It’s a fabulous drifter anthem. It’s also entirely wrong. Part of the American political left at the time … Read more

Historical Revisionism: What It Is and What It Is Not

November 11, 2024 Wanjiru Njoya

An activist historian in the United Kingdom, who rose to prominence as a supporter of Black Lives Matter, recently expounded to the Times on what he sees as the proper role of historians: “I think [the job of historians] is to try to stand there at this arsenal of dangerous ideas and to make it more difficult … Read more

Israel: The Lesson of Sudenteland Applies

January 2, 2025June 8, 2024 NITZAKHON

I first learned the Arabic phrase “First Saturday, then Sunday” from Brigitte Gabriel’s book BECAUSE THEY HATE. Translation, for those who have not heard of it: First the SATURDAY PEOPLE, i.e., The Jews, and then the SUNDAY PEOPLE, the Christians.

Proposed Statute Perverts History

May 21, 2024 John Klar

The “social justice” movement that’s taken the nation by storm since last summer has descended as leftists employ absurd lies to impose glaring injustices. Perhaps the biggest of these lies being spread by leftist lawmakers is that Vermonters killed off all the Native Americans and must now pay economic penance.

Bill Maher’s Excellent History Lesson

December 19, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Bill Mahr and I disagree on a lot of things, and he wouldn’t know me from Adam, but we do agree on some. Free speech. That’s a big one. He’s no fan of so-called right-wingers, but he defends their right to disagree with him. We have a similar policy.

Maybe We SHOULD Put Communist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s Historical Marker Back

August 11, 2023August 10, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Former Executive Councilor and failed candidate for governor Andru Volinsky is representing two folks suing the state of New Hampshire after it removed a historical marker honoring devoted communist and activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

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Ben & Jerry’s Says, “Hold My Bud Light!”

August 23, 2023July 8, 2023 Rob Roper

Okay… So, by now you have probably heard that Ben & Jerry’s, in a “Hold my Bud Light” attempt to see who can alienate the most customers with one Tweet, kicked off July 4th with the statement, “It’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”

Indigenous Theory and The Age of Progressive Educational ‘Colonialism’

April 14, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Feel free to berate me for the odd and (perhaps) unnecessarily long title, but I promise the two thoughts are connected if you grant me a few moments to make the case.

The Term ‘Liberal Historian’ is an Oxymoron and This One is a Moron.

March 25, 2023 Auntie Vaquser

An oxymoron could be a toothless hillbilly high on painkillers. For our purposes today, we will cling to the standard dictionary definition: one or two words in which seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side.

Presidents’ Day – Much More than Just a Three-Day Weekend!

February 18, 2023 Op-Ed

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are arguably the two greatest leaders in the history of the United States. Two great Presidents. Two great Americans. For many years, we would come together as a nation and celebrate each of their respective birthdays.

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That Racist You Are Looking for Might Be In Your Mirror

January 27, 2023 Op-Ed

It is interesting how the democrats always turn to name-calling and labels (Racists, colonizers, white supremacists) when they can’t argue the merits of their case.

Where Are We Headed? Will You Survive?

September 21, 2022 Op-Ed

Today, the beginning of autumn, 2022, is an appropriate time to look back. I believe we are in extreme trouble; in fact, some sort of world collapse may be at hand. The following discussion is pitched at anyone who cares but lacks the time to research the particulars.

The Founders Predicted our Economic Crisis

June 30, 2022 Op-Ed

Did Thomas Jefferson call the economic crisis? “Every thing predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. we are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper as we were formerly by the old Continental paper.” That’s from a letter to Thomas Cooper in January 1814. And … Read more