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RICHARD: Who Decides Morality?

In 1784, New Hampshire’s schools were indeed overwhelmingly religious in character, typically operated by local towns or parishes under the state’s 1784 school law (and earlier colonial precedents). As Nathaniel Bouton documents in his 1833 A History of Education in New Hampshire, the explicit purpose of common schools at that time was to teach children to … Read more

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Opinion: I Have Seen The Future

American society is rigged. It is designed so that the educated, connected elites succeed and everybody else fails. There’s no sugar coating it. By the age of 12, children of the wealthy are four grade levels above their peers and 77 times more likely to go to an Ivy League school. Once they reach adulthood, … Read more

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Recalling What Made US

Another Blessed Thanksgiving Day; one in which we people always fare better than those helpless turkeys! As mentioned in a previous piece, prior to our special American holiday, fake news outlets echoed about how to cope with certain family members that would come to dine. Just more from their ‘negative influencing’ gig that keeps the … Read more

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A Sociobiological Peek at Our Situation

It seems we are in for some big changes. Some say there will be real physical changes made to the human being by design — our DNA will be maliciously fiddled with. I am not able to foresee what may happen in that regard. I’m here to address the way basic forces of biology are acting upon us.

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Mary’s Moral Militia, Part 2: Instincts

My first career was as a sociobiologist (See my book The Sociobiological Imagination, SUNY Press, 1990). The late EO Wilson was my mentor. By 2000, I moved into Law, but I’ve never stopped looking at how law exists in relation to our evolved instincts.

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Mary’s Moral Militia, Part 1

The other day I was reading George Washington’s 6th State of the Union Address (typical beach reading when you are running for office) and was surprised to see this bit:

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BREAKING: So Doug Lambert, What Are You Going to Do Now That Another Gunstock Check to the Sununu Campaign Has Surfaced???

I’ve known that the existence of this newly discovered $1,000 check had been rumored for a while but I was asked to remain silent.  However,  loyal reader (and relatively new – THANKS for reading GraniteGrok!) Commenter Manny brought this up last night on my post (“Gunstock – Somebody Gave NH State Rep Harry Bean Really … Read more

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How to Be an Anti-Racist in Vermont

The topic of anti-racism is a hot one in Vermont, and why shouldn’t it be? Since racism is now an inbred feature to whiteness, Vermont is officially the most racist state in the U.S. after those Maniacal racists at our eastern border. 

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Quick Takes – Hat Trick

Within I pick three topics upon which to discourse, but not worth a full-length examination as a standalone piece on their own.  But first, reprising an older cartoon (for shameless self-promotion!):

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The Left Has No Humility

“Our default assumption should instead be that people who make choices different from what we make or would have made must have their reasons, even if we do not know what they are.” …

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