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President Trump upended US Middle East policy by announcing that the United States would “take over” war-ravaged Gaza and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” President Trump also said the Palestinians living in Gaza would be (temporarily?) relocated to Jordan or Egypt. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul came out strongly against the proposal. … Read more
In hour one, a quick report on “National Not My President Day,” followed by Rep. Michael Grainger on his bill to eliminate annual passenger vehicle inspections in New Hampshire. In hour two, longtime Grok contributor Claire Best joins the program to discuss the web of NH connections from judges to AGs, to the NGOs who … Read more
I was recently asked: How would you go about eliminating public schools? I think we would eliminate public schools in the same way that we would eliminate public oil refineries, and public farms and ranches, and public grocery stores, and… Oh, wait, we don’t have those, do we? We don’t have those, because we have … Read more
What kinda set of morons are going to try to take on a pistol-packing momma with “da babe” on her hip? Didn’t they pay attention to Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzly” – and this one bringing some hot lead to make somebody’s day? Mother With Baby on Hip Gets in Shootout With Alleged Intruders A Decatur, … Read more
Protect Due Process, Protect Our Rights House Bill 159 (HB 159) and the Senate version SB 144, dubbed “Bradley’s Law,” is presented as a well-intentioned fix to keep guns away from the violently mentally ill. Its sponsor, Chairman Terry Roy, claims it’s a necessary step to close a loophole exposed by the tragic murder of … Read more
If you’d like to take a walk down memory lane, New Hampshire has a colorful relationship with allowing boys and men to play girls and women’s sports. From flag lawsuits to sexual predator relatives, there’s no shortage of soap-opera-level intrigue. One consistent thing is the effort by activists to save women’s sports and that of … Read more
In a heated war of words, Luther Martin responded to a series of essays penned by Oliver Ellsworth under the pseudonym Landholder, defending his colleague Elbridge Gerry against Federalist attacks and reinforcing key Anti-Federalist warnings about consolidation and the dangers of unchecked federal power. Gerry and Martin were both delegates to the Philadelphia convention, and neither … Read more
Part 1 went rather long (even for me), so I decided to split the remainder into this post. To recap, Gilford School Board Superintendent Kirk Beitler stated the following when High School Principal Anthony Sperazzo announced the formation (and seeking official backing thereof) of a new student club called “Prism” – a “safe space for … Read more
If you are reading this, it has been sixteen days since the Committee to Elect House Republicans (CTEHR) was publicly informed of the need to submit corrected campaign finance reports to the Secretary of State’s Office to account for missing expenditures totaling nearly $170,000.00. If you’ve been following the story, you’ll know that, according to … Read more
There’s a rumor going around that there is a web site where people with Education Freedom Accounts (EFAs) can go to find people who need things like printers, or musical instruments, or martial arts gear. Holders of EFA accounts can use them to buy things that have been approved (by the Children’s Scholarship Fund, which … Read more
Rep. Kathleen James (D-Manchester) chairs the House Energy & Digital Infrastructure Committee. She was appointed to that post by Speaker of the House Jill Krowinski (D-Burlington). Krowinski also assigned multiple bills that would repeal controversial, unaffordable, climate laws, such as the Clean Heat Standard (H.16), the Global Warming Solutions Act, and the Clean Car mandates … Read more
This week, Mike and Dylan talk about hunting bills in the legislature, land use, Housing, affordability, saving farms and farmers, drugs, prostitution, and more. . Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube and check for Replays of Granite State Live, GrokTALK! and Right Side Up, or follow these links to their podcast pages.
Important Hearings this Week Support Parents Rights & Women’s Privacy The Parents’ Bill of Rights is back. The House version (HB10), sponsored by Speaker Sherm Packard, will have a hearing on Tuesday afternoon at 1:00 PM in the Children and Family Law Committee (Legislative Office Building Room 206-208). This bill affirms that parents have a … Read more
With a nod to Marxism’s goal of breaking everything, trust in public health, hospitals, and medicine is at an all-time low. The response to SARS CoV2 fractured public confidence, and while there’s room for a discussion about whether that was the point or just a helpful artifact, that ship has sailed. The triad of hospitals, … Read more
D.O.G.E. just cut $900 million from an agency, the Institute for Education Sciences (IES), which tracks American student data. Did the cuts go deep enough to eliminate funding for the State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) ? This system tracks student data from all fifty states, despite the fact that the federal government has no constitutional … Read more
From the Women’s Defense League On Thursday, February 20th, the full New Hampshire House will vote on two gun control bills we’ve already told you about: HB – 352 The Voter Suppression gun control bill and HB – 56 The End Gun Safety training and hurry-up-and-wait to practice your rights bill. Both bills were voted Inexpedient to Legislate out of the … Read more
Lloyd’s been on a roll/rant about Trump and the tariffs he threatened to put on Canada, wailing and decrying what it was going to do to HIS country’s economy – economic Armageddon. He’s also been on a kick about Degrowth – the far Left Eco-Socialism fantasy that we can kill off 7 billion people and … Read more
Ten Democrats and two ‘republicans’ have sponsored a bill to create a committee whose job it would be “to study the feasibility and implementation of certain state house complex safety and security procedures.” It sounds benign enough, but if you read HB477—once you get past the bits about how the committee shall be comprised—the proposed … Read more
“Well, “Taxation is Theft” especially when it is taken by bureaucrats and spent in ways that have nothing to do with America’s interests but spent on Leftist ideological pet projects. We are also supposed to be a Constitutional Republic that is governed by Law passed by Congress. Instead, we’ve gotten this (assembled by DOGE): If … Read more
First, let me say for the record that any Republican that supports a new tax or the expansion of Big Government is really a Democrat. We all know that the latter gobbles up such bills like flies on fresh excrement. No matter how noble or popular the objective is, taxation is still theft. SB255 establishes … Read more