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Morning Update: Vermont Dumb

July 31, 2026 The Morning Update

Vermonters will have the opportunity to enshrine two stupid ideas into their constitution this November. Both are Bad Ideas, and to my mind do exactly the opposite of what they claim or intend. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep 230 Links: Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their … Read more

ROPER: “Equality of Rights” Amendment Is Racist

May 10, 2026 Rob Roper

Next week, Proposition 4, a proposed amendment to our state constitution, will come before the full House of Representatives – the final hurdle in a four-year process before it goes to the voters this November in a popular referendum. What is Proposition 4? It is the so-called “Equality of Rights” amendment. Don’t be fooled. That … Read more

Citizens MUST Be Reminded of This Truth

June 12, 2024 Skip

One of the reasons why our Education System is so pathetic is that our children are not being correctly taught our own American history and philosophy. Then they grow up listening and believing whatever the manipulators behind pop culture are seeding throughout our citizens and young ones.

“Free Speech… That Extraordinary Thing We Have That Muslim Countries Don’t.”

October 21, 2023 Skip

What, you haven’t already figured this out? How can you NOT be paying attention if you love your children? “Free speech… that extraordinary thing we have that Muslim countries don’t.”

Hey A.I. – Who has more Rights: Parents or LGBT people?

July 19, 2023July 18, 2023 Skip

I ask the question because the Woke Left has made this personal. They have attacked the Grandson and me by requiring coerced speech (preferred pronouns) and demanding that school staff lie to parents about the transgender status of kids in school.

Payne: Demand Statesmen not Bloodsucking Insects

December 6, 2025May 24, 2023 Russ Payne

As Americans, we picture representative government through the lens of controlled history, unable to call for a replay to see through the deception that rewriters of history have caused. Below the surface of misinformation about the history of our American Republic, the narrative of eternal truth is triggered by Cal Thomas’s definition of politics: “Poly” … Read more

So I Was Tinkering Around with Microsoft’s New A.I., Bard, Sunday Night

May 17, 2023May 16, 2023 Skip

I would have thought, given my background, that I would have taken much more interest in AI tech – which has sprung out onto the scene with ChatGPT, Bard, PaLM2, and updated Bing (Forbes has a lot of others listed here). Thus far, however, it has been a yawning “meh?”

A Marshall University Professor Said That You Have to EARN Your Second Amendment Right to Own and Carry.

February 28, 2023 Skip

That would be Chris White who is against what this W. Virginia bill would allow (reformatted, emphasis mine) this restoration of a specific Right in a certain location and whose view can be seen as “Safetyism trumps EVERYTHING!” (er, I’ve heard something like this before Chris Sununu, can you help me out on this): A … Read more

This Has Bothered Me For A While: NO, Patrick H. Wood, “Housing Is Not a Right”

January 23, 2023 Skip

The actual LtE title: Patrick H. Wood: Affordable housing should be a right, not a privilege Sometimes I hang onto things far too long. Like I’ve said in the past, when GraniteGrok first opened up, there were FAR fewer “things” to write about as the pace of such things were: Much slower than they are … Read more

Rights are Not Gifts from The Government

October 20, 2022 Op-Ed

The world is filled with self-evident truths — truisms — that philosophers, lawyers and judges know need not be proven. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Two plus two equals four.

Notable Quote – So What Is Fascism?

August 28, 2022 Skip

Emphasis mine: As Charlotte Twight has shown, the essence of fascism is nationalistic collectivism, the affirmation that the “national interest” should take precedence over the rights of individuals. So deeply has the presumption of individual subservience to the state entered into the thinking of modern Americans that few people have noticed – and no doubt many … Read more

The Constitution: Bait and Switch

July 16, 2022 Ian Underwood

I recently had an email conversation with a woman from Connecticut who contacted me after reading Dan Barry’s article about Croydon in the New York Times.

Blogline of the Day – Said NO Democrat/Progressive EVAH!

July 5, 2022 Skip

What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant: It officially adopted the American Theory of Government: First Come Rights; Then Comes Government to Secure These Rights. If A, then B. But the converse is not always true and we’ve found, over time, that almost all politicians can’t handle logic statements. And in this case, not … Read more

Manchester School District – Aborting Parents from Their Child’s Life like Democrat’s Abort Children from Their Mom’s Lives

March 20, 2022 Skip

My original title was “Manchester School District Made Their Lying to Parents about Their Kids Even Worse – Policy JBAB,” but I don’t think that adequately conveys my feelings.

Democrats in Lock Step on Their Extremist Agenda

February 26, 2022February 19, 2022 Op-Ed

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE legislature has a proud tradition that every bill introduced receives a public hearing and gets an up or down vote by the full House.

It’s EASY to Make Shared Misery “Equitable”! – Freedom vs Coercion

February 17, 2022 Skip

With ad hom attacks thrown in. Yes, I’m getting more militant on Treehugger – time for us ALL to heed Glen Reynold’s admonition to Conservatives and Libertarians to “punch back twice as hard” and that’s what the deal is here. Take the eco-socialists words and turn them right back on them. Make them come out … Read more

It’s EASY to Make Shared Misery “Equitable”! – Part 4

February 14, 2022 Skip

When the other side resorts and is left only with ad hominem retorts, it’s a WIN! Especially as you remain cool, collected, and drawing merely on foundational principles via example.

Thanks to the Cancel Culture Dartmouth College Administration: “Dartmouth Republicans Secure Free Speech — by Fleeing Campus”

February 12, 2022 Skip

Really, from being bastions of Free Academic Research and Debate to backing up Cancel Culture. A great thing to have done, Dartmouth College. You’ve created an atmosphere of fear and repression that your students fear retribution. Do you consider this your Mission Accomplished?

No Right Is Absolute? Think Again.

February 5, 2022 Ian Underwood

Once again, the ‘no right is absolute’ argument is being dragged out, this time as an excuse for flagrantly violating not just the Constitution, but the federal statutes that prohibit the government from collecting information about gun purchases necessary to create a firearms registry.

Open Letter to Utah Governor Spencer Cox and the Salt Lake City Tribune Editorial Board

March 20, 2022January 17, 2022 Kensley Vitoria

This past weekend, the Salt Lake City Tribune posted on a public internet website that “Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find out a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going so far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.”