Tag: Politics

MacDonald: IRS Rule Change Allows Pastors To Preach Politics Again

July 10, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Seventy years ago, a practice hundreds of years old was kneecapped just a little bit. Those fiery sermons of old, which spread the call for liberty and independence in the Colonial era, were stifled. Even after the IRS was invented out of whole cloth, pulpit pounders were free to talk about politicians and even endorse … Read more

Karstens: The Narcissism Of Tribalism

July 9, 2025May 30, 2025 Sofia Karstens

A nation divided against itself cannot stand,” said Abraham Lincoln. Sadly, I think that’s precisely the point. I recently flew with my friend Bill Maher to DC, where he was to have dinner with the Bad Orange Man. I was not attending the dinner, I was just along for the ride…but I was wholeheartedly in … Read more

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From Leninism to Social Democracy: A Guide to Socialist Models

May 18, 2025 Richard W. Fulmer

Discussing socialism is difficult, not only because of the many different varieties that have been proposed, but also because its definition is highly malleable. In debates socialists often shift between different interpretations—sometimes emphasizing state control, other times focusing on worker cooperatives or social safety nets—depending on what best suits their argument at the time. Broadly, … Read more

What Happened To Service And Sacrifice?

March 11, 2025 Jim Bowman

What justified the explosion from the original reimbursements for elected officials to the present pay scales that are approximately double the average working wage? Yes, times have changed but still! No wonder political science courses have soared in popularity! What other career offers starting wages at the same level as the experienced worker? What began … Read more

125th Playing Of The Game & 1,500 Days And Posts

December 15, 2024 Ray Cardello

I could not think of a more upbeat topic to discuss on the day I mark my 1,500 article. I started posting on Conservative View From New Hampshire four years ago when I felt a need to help promote the conservative view of political happenings, formulate and express my thoughts, and stimulate conversation and debate. … Read more

“Tradition Is Not the Worship of Ashes, but the Preservation of Fire.”

December 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts is featured in the most recent edition of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis. The topic is “Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order.” He opens with this. The top-down, elitist brand of politics that has dominated the United States since the end of the Cold War—under Republican and Democratic administrations alike—has failed. Yes, we … Read more

I Said, NH Was Trending Right – But The Entire Country Has Too!

December 3, 2024 Skip

Back in August, I noted that NH Republicans had pulled to a practical parity with the Democrats in voter registration this past year: Interesting. I was actually scurrying around the NH Secretary of State site looking for something else (dang if I can remember now) when I thought this was what I wanted. It wasn’t … Read more

The Context Behind Donald Trump’s “Takeover” of the American Right

May 29, 2025November 14, 2024 Connor O'Keeffe

Donald Trump’s victory in last week’s election reinforced the impression that he and his followers have “taken over” the Republican party. The campaign saw Republicans like Liz and Dick Cheney switch sides and back the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris. Now—after Trump won a second term—the right is locked in an impassioned struggle to pressure the … Read more

It’s Good to Be Right

June 7, 2024March 24, 2024 Kensley Vitoria

kensley It’s OK to be right wing Yes, that’s correct— there’s nothing bad about being Right wing. US citizens and many all around the world have for decades been attacked by corporatist propagandists who slander the political Right. Correspondingly, the very nature of being on the Right entails conservative mentality— tolerance, turning the other cheek, … Read more

What Happened to True Liberalism?

March 3, 2024 Op-Ed

Unfortunately, liberals have become mostly wacko. That is why ‘Liberal’ has become a word with negative connotations. The extreme religious right wing has always been the core of right-wing wackos. The transformation of liberals into “Karens” has been the failure of the mainstream liberals to maintain a core of self-respecting people who, in general, just want to help people.

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Bold and Unscrupulous

January 29, 2024 Op-Ed

In the 1970s, the moral wit of Tom Anderson precisely describes today’s rush toward economic suicide in Washington, DC: “Changing Nelson Rockefeller for Hubert Humphrey is like changing the pins on a soiled diaper without changing the diaper; you continue to get the same mess.”

Frank Edelblut at the Belknap County Republicans

Frank Edelblut Should Get Back in the Race

September 16, 2024December 4, 2023 Spike

In September, Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut spoke to the Brentwood Republican Committee. I don’t hang out there, but Frank had just announced his non-candidacy for Governor, and a neighbor and fellow Grokster was aching to understand the skullduggery behind the move and offered me a ride to the event.

Tucker: There is No Chance (Your Kids) Will Prosper in a Country Like This

October 5, 2023October 5, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Tucker Carlson is back on our pages to talk about being brave about what’s required and what is involved. And the secret sauce, he suggests, is that you must stop being afraid to die. That embracing the inevitable can liberate you.

Voting is Bad for Democracy

August 25, 2023 Steve MacDonald

A White Tower stooge has published an article in the New York Times suggesting that America might be better off if it bailed on the popular vote. Given the recent trajectory, who could blame anyone for thinking that?

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.

Trump Reads Grok?

June 28, 2023June 28, 2023 Ian Underwood

Recently I’ve started pushing the idea here at Grok that libraries and schools are inherently political institutions, so we should start treating them as such by electing librarians, teachers, and school administrators.

The Science Says That Conservative Women Are More Attractive Than Liberal Women

June 24, 2023 Steve MacDonald

You don’t need researchers or some fancy A.I. to tell you that conservative women are happier and prettier than liberal women, but someone did some research, and it’s been confirmed by science.

Public Schools and Teachers Are Inherently Political, so Let’s Treat Them Accordingly

June 23, 2023 Ian Underwood

Read this. Then ask yourself: If 70 or 75 percent of parents want (or don’t want) their children to be treated a certain way, how is it that teachers and administrators are able to ignore them? It’s because we pretend that these positions are not political when in fact, they are. So they are protected … Read more

Notable Quote – “…A Battle Between Freedom and Subjugation”

June 9, 2023 Skip

Emphasis mine: Condemning capitalism is nothing new in this country. We’ve heard the angry criticisms all of our lives, and they weren’t novel when we were young. It’s tragic, really, that so many in the West see the tension between “capitalists” and their ideological opponents as merely a conflict between ideas about which economic system … Read more

Progressive “Love” Is a Lie

June 7, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Remember when the LGBT lobby said they only wanted civil unions, then demanded marriage anyway? Our entire experience with the movement, dominated by Left-Wing politics and tactics, echoes that one example.