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CARDELLO: Are We All Born With a Moral Compass

February 12, 2026 Ray Cardello

Are we all born with that feeling in the pit of our stomach that something is wrong when we see it, or are we born with a blank filter that gets filled as we experience life, coaches, and mentors? Aren’t we all sickened when we see someone mistreat a dog, or did our parents have … Read more

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RICHARD: Who Decides Morality?

November 20, 2025 Daniel Richard

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

Opinion: I Have Seen The Future

July 22, 2025July 20, 2025 Right America Media

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

Recalling What Made US

December 5, 2024 Jim Bowman

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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“CNN Says Infant Deaths Could Be Solved With Abortion.”

July 30, 2023 Skip

Headlines at big corporate media outlets typically go through a process. So what process resulted in a headline by CNN that lead someone else to write this gem: “CNN Says Infant Deaths Could Be Solved With Abortion.”

The Left has No Moral Authority They are Just Bitter and Resentful

July 12, 2023 Steve MacDonald

In his youth, Jordan Peterson worked with the socialist party in Northern Alberta—good folks who were mostly concerned about the working class. And everything was going along fine until he met the real socialists and encountered a life-changing disconnect.

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My, My, California Has Gone Full Communism: “Hey, Shopkeep? Your Stuff Is Now Officially the Thieves”. The Former No Longer Allowed To Stop the Latter

June 10, 2023 Skip

Because when The State is no longer going to protect the Right to Private Property, NO one can own anything at all. And if you no longer own your property, there can be no private Freedom. In fact, no freedom at all as the linchpin of freedom is to both own, control, and protect one’s property. … Read more

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So What’s in Your Child’s Public School Library? I Didn’t Know, So I Did a Right to Know.

November 1, 2022 Skip

“Right to knows” are like a Lay’s potato chip; you just can’t eat just one or send only one. So, I sent more than one, more than a few. And more to come, but here was a first effort. Here was the “payload” (minus the normal boilerplate):

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A Sociobiological Peek at Our Situation

October 17, 2022 Op-Ed

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

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Op-Ed

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.

Mary’s Moral Militia, Part 1

August 28, 2022 Op-Ed

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:

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

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 Skip

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

Wage rates are lower in Indonesia than in the United States because workers in Indonesia are willing to accept less; they are willing to accept less because their alternative opportunities are so much poorer;

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Quick Takes – Hat Trick

October 16, 2021 NITZAKHON

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!):