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Strong Foundations Charter School is n the process of developing a school policy on flags that are hung in the classroom. A Google Meeting with parents and administrators last week, called for a committee to develop a policy on PRIDE flags hanging in the classroom. A few parents made the argument that PRIDE flags should … Read more
So the post-election dust has settled and there will be 9 recounts for the House and none on the other side of the wall,
Americans voted to give President-elect Donald Trump a mandate to enact his campaign promises. Without even stepping foot in the Oval Office, he’s already delivering. In one of Trump’s closing rallies in North Carolina, he unveiled his promise to use tariffs as a vehicle to force offending countries, like Mexico, to stop the flow of illegal immigrants … Read more
Bringing the Number to 28 Chicago and Cook County enjoy majority power and influence in Illinois politics. Major TV networks create shows to make the city look less like a war zone than it is. But people in and out of Chicago know the truth. Illinois without Chicago and Cook County is a peaceful place, … Read more
Liberal women (some liberal women) think they can teach men a lesson. Men voted for Trump, and Trump won, so they are going to refuse to have sex with them. I’m assuming these are women who have sex with men, but the odds are high; it is a lot of women most men wouldn’t have … Read more
You cannot label us misogynistic or racist because Kamala Harris lost her bid for the White House. It was not just white men who elected Donald Trump and rejected Harris’s bid to be the first Black woman to be elected President of the United States. America did not reject Kamala Harris because of her color … Read more
Hat tip out of the gate to Brian Lewis (Grok: Words Mean Things Oct 23rd ) for subscribing to my Substack and, in doing so, allowing me to follow him and find this – a different Substack called The Radical Center, and this content in particular: Transphobia is a False Premise. It’s an excellent read, and … Read more
In Japan, lifetime employment is almost a given. Employees are protected by law and custom, so a wide scale RIF rarely happens. The company does not want to incur embarrassment or admit that they have excess personnel, which could mean unnecessary expenses that reduce profitability and thus affect the company’s stock price. Japan has a … Read more
The first part of the job is done. America elected Donald Trump as the 47th President, completing the most incredible political comeback ever. After multiple impeachments, indictments, and assassination attempts, Donald Trump not only rose from the Washington scrapyard but delivered a mandate given to him by the American voters. At this time, it looks … Read more
Embrace your civic duty and capture the unfiltered feelings the Dems can’t help sharing online (most days, if not every day).
Vermont Republican Party Chair Paul Dame joins the program to review the 2024 election results and the pick-ups that turned Vermont from Blue to Purple.
Occasionally, divorced couples reconsider their decision to split up and remarry. The Western world, once enamored of atomic techno-wizardry and promises of cheap, limitless energy, embarked on a lengthy, passionate honeymoon with nuclear power plants. But frightening glimpses of calamities – such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima – led to a widespread disavowal … Read more
As several commenters here and in other blogs have noted, a problem situation only exists if you continue to feed it. It is time to stop feeding it. Nonviolent deportation… um, eviction… is possible. All it takes is a reversal of the federal policies that “invited” millions of people to illegally enter the US. The … Read more
The American people have elected you for the third time to preside over their destiny for the next four years.
Update: What got fixed was the old configuration. We are about to move to our new email vendor so that might interrupt or screw up delivery. I suspect it will. We will endeavor to get the settings updated, if necessary, as soon as possible. Original A recent test run of the “Hot on The ‘Grok” … Read more
Celebrities endorsed Kamala’s candidacy under the impression it could move voters to vote…for Kamala.
Nashua’s assessing office underwent significant changes between 2019 and 2021. These changes occurred when the Mayor, aware of the problems, failed to keep the lid on a dysfunctional office operating in disarray. The lack of management oversight created an unregulated environment, which eventually revealed itself and continues to reveal itself. The chief was at the heart … Read more
Maine is one of the dysfunctional states that uses ranked-choice voting, but that may be about to change. The incumbent Congressional Democrat in District Two didn’t win outright. The Secretary of State—the same one that tried to kick Trump off the ballot—says Jared Golden failed to get over 50% of the vote, and Ranked-Choice Voting … Read more
In an election in which a socialist third-party candidate won 13,000 votes, Democrat-turned-Republican John Rodgers defeated Progressive/Democrat incumbent David Zuckerman to win the general election for lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor race featured two farmers – Rodgers, hemp, and cannabis on his fifth-generation farm in Glover, and also a contractor, and Zuckerman, on the fruit … Read more
Well, I was not expecting that number! I’ve been wondering what the final result was for the 400 member NH House of Representatives.