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In the wake of Israel’s airstrikes on Iran, a spate of Republican senators quickly exposed their disconnect with the anti-war MAGA base. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attempted Thursday to set a tone of restraint in the administration’s response to the airstrikes, which targeted Iranian nuclear sites and left multiple top-ranking military commanders dead, emphasizing that the … Read more
The State budget and Trailer bill are a biennial fascination that are increasingly used to accomplish tasks that could not be done through the legislative process alone. “Putting it in the budget” is an ordinary course of action. Didn’t pass? Stuff it in the budget. I’m not a fan, but if you’re willing to overlook … Read more
This week, the House met to consider action on all bills that had different House and Senate versions. Most committees of conference – including those on the budget and two bills from my committee – were set up in advance, since that action doesn’t need the entire House to approve. On other bills, committee chairmen … Read more
Efforts to secure statutory immunity from liability for personal injuries caused by pesticides have converged with massive increases in federal subsidies for chemical-dependent GMO monoculture crops, proposed in the House Reconciliation Bill (AKA the “Big, Beautiful Bill”), to fuel a bitter conservative battle over the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. Both initiatives pit industrial … Read more
Does the Democrat Party run on nothing but fear? I’m not convinced it can. Fear of everything except government, which, ironically, is the one thing we ought to fear. So, when Donald Trump became president again, like the first time, the left went about filling the culture and airwaves with fear. Fear that Trump will … Read more
A man suspected of killing the former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives was taken into custody on Sunday night, The Wall Street Journal reported. Vance Luther Boelter, who authorities believe killed Democratic State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband early Saturday morning and shot Democratic Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, … Read more
For someone like me who loves this country and has a sense of patriotism nurtured from birth, this article is challenging to write and even more difficult to fathom. We have become a nation not just divided by two vastly different ideologies with a common goal, but we are a people divided by what is … Read more
A Maine family’s then-five-year-old son was vaccinated in November 2021 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a public school without his parents’ consent. After the family filed suit, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that their state claims for damages were pre-empted by the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, holding that their … Read more
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A recent executive order issued under the banner of “withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization” has generated considerable attention. At first glance, the order appears to fulfill a long-standing demand from Americans concerned about foreign influence in public health governance. However, a closer examination of the text reveals that it falls short … Read more
Financial privacy is a right under the Constitution, as is free speech. Under the guise of “credit review,” Stripe is now rolling out a requirement that appears to target conservative or “anti-vax” Substack authors. Stripe is requiring that these authors provide all of their current and historic financial records associated with the bank account into … Read more
The excuse that this regime is better than it was, or might otherwise have been, only lasts so long. Every transition government in history has deployed that trope. Think the Girondins in France, Kerensky in Russia, Weimar in Germany, the Second Spanish Republic, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and so on. In order, they were replaced … Read more
David Hogg is something of a Kardashian in Democrat circles. He’s famous for being famous for shouting and fist-waving after the Parkland shootings. A student of the school at the time, though, like Sandy Cortez, was neither present nor in danger. Hogg, to his credit, did not pretend to cry at the fence line, but … Read more
As the Vermont Climate Council punches away at a document that will, I assume, be heralded as “The Plan” (cue heavenly chorus) to meet the greenhouse gas reduction mandates of the Global Warming Solutions Act, I’m happy to say a few honest, semi-sane voices have emerged in their debate. Will the majority on the Council … Read more
The party that doesn’t know what a woman is happens to be the one that defends “mostly peaceful” protests. But that’s not what they’re protesting. No King’s Day attendees had signs that said “protesting is not illegal.” No shit. Everyone knows this. It is a fundamental right, protected by the First Amendment. What they may … Read more
We have a “spending problem” at the Grafton County Complex, and transparency and open government have been non-existent since April 22, 2025, when Chairwoman Martha McLeod curtailed the viewing of Grafton County Commissioners’ meetings online. Is this why? A burdensome 9.41% tax increase of the Grafton County Budget (Fiscal Year…July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026) is … Read more
Far-left extremists crave something to hate. That is their cult — hate and suffering. Fortunately, the hate cult is waning in the face of truth. Aldous Huxley observed: “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To … Read more
New Hampshire raises the bar! Governor Kelly Ayotte signed SB295 and HB10 into law, locking in Education Freedom Accounts for all and the Parental Bill of Rights in New Hampshire. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Agree? Disagree? Submit Op-Eds … Read more
My son once said, “Dad, I think you were once a bit of a hippy!” I told him that if you grew up in the Sixties, it was unavoidable. LBJ’s war resulted in 52,000 dead young American men in Vietnam. Whether we can admit it to ourselves or not, the United States is again in the … Read more
Hamlet’s famous soliloquy ponders mortality through the filter of our insufferable experience, littered with brief moments of joy versus the mystery of what awaits us in death. Or, something like that. The inner voice explores existential crisis. In keeping with my impromptu (as in unplanned) climate content Friday, while reporting this morning on the demise … Read more