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The evolution of Karens into AWFLs seems like sound demographic science. Women who probably bought into at least one or more waves of feminism and have been jilted at the secular humanist altar. Absent children either altogether or anymore (because they’ve grown up and moved out), the forever single and divorced need something to care … Read more
Rural Vermonters have certainly woken up to the dangers of Act 181, the state land use law that threatens to basically steal the property rights away from landowners living outside the 2.5 percent of the state deemed to be “urban settlement.” The “Vermont Act 181” Facebook group has exploded almost overnight to 11,400 members, the … Read more
This week, on NE TAKE, A. J. reflects on hitting the five-year mark of the New England Take and the state of local media in New Hampshire, followed by a deep dive into the US Department of Justice indicting the Southern Poverty Law Center for funding the very organizations it is allegedly fighting! Authors’ and … Read more
The Human diet precedes woke experts and opportunists by millions of years, and while there were several variations of humans before the one we know won the “evolution” game, we all ate meat. Our ancestors survived significant and recurring geologic catastrophes. The sorts of things that would wipe out the vegan faction and most of … Read more
President Donald Trump boasts that his administration “ended DEI in America.” However, on closer inspection, DEI and Affirmative Action policies are alive and well at America’s elite universities. In the face of national pressure and threats of investigation from the Trump administration, our nation’s most prestigious universities have disguised and hidden their DEI initiatives while … Read more
Here are some helpful lessons or reminders sent by one of our readers on how to engage law enforcement after a self-defense incident. Someone attacked you or your family, or a life was in danger. You drew your weapon, perhaps fired it. It seemed like the right thing to do at that moment, but no … Read more
One of the things that is becoming more obvious as the years pass, and is really quite sad to a traditionalist like me, is our connection to our heritage. That connection could have been to nationality, religion, or both, but the reality is that in today’s culture, that connection is weak at best. I was … Read more
The Hive Mind is having a rough couple of years. Trump is dismantling their government laundromat. He started with USAID, but the hammer has come down all across the Executive branch. DOGE is still the disease that keeps the fraudsters awake at night. Fewer headlines, but plenty of internal action. ACT Blue is getting legal … Read more
Federal Reserve nominee Kevin Warsh mocked Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s question during his Tuesday confirmation hearing. President Donald Trump nominated Warsh to replace Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, whose term officially ends on May 15. During the Senate Banking Committee’s confirmation hearing, Warren challenged Warsh to name one aspect of Trump’s “agenda” that he disagreed … Read more
This week, on The Independents, Carla Gericke explores a growing breakdown in trust between individuals and large institutions—especially around health, risk, and personal experience. This is a conversation about: This episode is not about telling you what to think. It’s about asking better questions. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent … Read more
Ilhan Omar is no stranger to controversy. Like many a Squad member, she invites it. It amps her Q rating with cat-litter-lugging divorced liberal wine moms. Karens, AWFLs, they love that stuff. It makes someone committed to creating an American Despotism, possibly even a Theocratic one, look like she’s a rebel fighting the system. The … Read more
Another Breakfast With Claude A unscripted conversation between one-old-conservative and Claude (Anthropic) — April 2026 Backgrounder: This is another in a series of original GraniteGrok articles on Artificial Intelligence (AI), written by one old conservative and Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 from an unscripted chat over breakfast. Before beginning the chat, I uploaded a 250-word text file … Read more
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Sometimes you hear a story, and it snaps you back in time to the old supermarket tabloids where aliens were overtaking Mother Earth every week. Today’s story falls into the bizarre category, and you have to wonder if every elected official, from school board to city council, has lost their collective minds. According to multiple … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, if you follow the progressive dots from exit taxes to we won’t let you leave, and the dots leading from compassionate calls for assisted suicide to systemic use of suicide as economic and social engineering, what happens when those paths converge? Transcript below Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if … Read more
Apparently, not wanting men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms is a form of terrorism in 2026. At least, to Senator Debra Altschiller. It’s no secret that the topic of transgender people and which bathrooms they use or don’t use is a controversial and touchy subject. Here in NH, the transgender epidemic is not as … Read more
The WFEA Morning Update with Jeff Chidester is where Granite Staters get their news and opinion in the morning, and I have the honor and privilege of being a guest once a month. We recently moved it to the 4th Wednesday of the month. I used to be on the first Wednesday, but I get … Read more
This week, on Right Side Up, Mike and Alison talk about Justice Clarence Thomas’s speech @ U of Texas at Austin, H.670, a voter ID bill, and RES siting.” Chapter List: Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent … Read more
My arrival in the Granite State predates the Free State Project, but from time to time, I’ve been included as an accomplice. Ideologically, it makes sense. We agree on most things, and the details come down to how much or how little government. As a keeper of the flame of our founding principles, I am … Read more
Free speech champion Elon Musk is once again leading an effort to protect commercial speech from government control. His company, xAI, filed suit on April 9 against the state of Colorado, seeking to block the enforcement of a Democrat bill that regulates the content of artificial intelligence applications to prevent unlawful discrimination. xAI asserts that … Read more