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By Wanjiru Njoya | Mises Wire – In Race & Economics, Walter Williams emphasizes the importance of causality in understanding racial inequality. He argues that it is not enough to document and track economic inequality — it is necessary also to understand its causes. Without understanding the causes of any perceived problem, any attempts to resolve … Read more
The Vermont primaries are over, and the official general election campaign season of 2024 has begun! With property taxes increasing by unprecedented amounts, energy costs rising with a new, potentially massive tax on home heating fuels up for a vote in January 2025, another double-digit premium increase for health insurance just announced, a new payroll … Read more
Okay, so given what we saw in Part 1, let’s consider what happens when a student leaves each of the two districts to open an Education Freedom Account (EFA). In District 1, what changes? Things that change are highlighted below: Before After Taxpayers 1000 1000 Students 100 99 Budget $2M $2M Adequacy $400,000 $396,000 … Read more
Electric vehicles aren’t going away just yet, but the industry has been having a rough year. Multiple manufacturers have scaled back production and retooled EV facilities for gas-powered vehicles or, like Ford, are shifting some capacity from EV-only to Gas Hybrid. The company said it won’t build fully electric three-row SUVs due to battery costs. … Read more
The Kamala Harris acceptance speech at the DNC was challenging and infuriating to watch. This speech on the convention’s closing night was the latest step in the coup that brought Kamala Harris from the least popular vice president of all time to the savior of democracy in six short, mind-bending weeks. As we still await … Read more
Catholics have to be excited about the opportunity to take back England (or at least wrestle the Islamists for it). The experts ruining the Church of England have decided to drop the word “Church.” I imagine they will also have to drop the New Testament (not that they haven’t already). “Church” appears 117 times in … Read more
In a strange twist of fate, two lifelong Democrats joined forces as Republicans to save Democracy by taking down the twisted Democrat, Kamala Harris. The 2024 presidential election has already been one of our most bizarre, if not unAmerican, elections. Still, on Friday, the Democrats may have gotten the punishment they deserved for their actions. … Read more
One of the things that allows so much nonsense to be bandied about when discussing school funding is that almost no one — including legislators, judges, and DoE officials — seems to understand how SWEPT (Statewide education property taxes) and adequacy grants are related. In what follows, I’ll use nice round numbers that approximate but … Read more
The ‘Grok will publish letters to the editor (op-eds), event announcements, and press releases, even when they might promote ideas or issues we may not entirely agree with. There is a line, but as regards these formats, it is fuzzier, and we prefer to let readers judge and fisk rather than make arbitrary decisions about … Read more
On Friday, Rep. Michael Moffett (R-Loudon) defended himself against a “Hit Piece” from Julie Smith regarding HB-1002 (now law), the “Right-to-know tax.” Numerous Groksters submit Right-to-know requests and copy the text of them here, either to show how to talk tough to office-holders, to show how to burden office-holders to distract them from eating out … Read more
Brenda Towne has been at the forefront of New Hampshire Election integrity issues for several years. Questioning the data, the voter rolls, and the ballot handling process. She’s back, and this time, she has provided a video and a PDF for voters. The presentation explains the material in the PowerPoint PDF. Take a few minutes … Read more
Previous issues of the RINO Report highlighted the terrible voting records of five RINOs in the upcoming primaries. This issue highlights some of the Good Guys who deserve to be reelected. These candidates are selected based on their RINO scores and their HRA scores. Belknap 5 (Laconia 1, 3, 4, 5, 6) has a 5 for … Read more
Google tossed this bone at me the other day. “National Hurricane Center tracking 4 tropical waves as we near the peak of storm season.” The headline comes from TC Palm, serving South Florida (part of USA Today). As an observer and blogger, I was caught by such things. Holy crap, I thought, here it comes! … Read more
By Marc Abear – We all know the utterances of the MSM are utterly without value. For the last month, they’ve reported only, “Joy, joy, joy, oh happy joy…” Yeah, that’s bull. We all now know it. It’s ridiculous watching Harris dressing up as Aunt Jemima to pander to blacks. It’s about a half step … Read more
Yeah, what the title says. I’ll get into that in a moment, but let’s first take a look at District 23’s primary in which NH Journal has an article about things said by candidate Emily Phillips. If you’re late for dinner, you can learn more about Emily in the Grok archives search by using keywords … Read more
A controversial Vermont Supreme Court decision reached the rather astonishing conclusion that the government can vaccinate very young children with experimental products without parental consent or legal recourse. The ruling is surreal in a state that claims it prizes individual liberties. If not overturned by sane minds in the US Supreme Court, the consequences of … Read more
Chuck Morse supporters got some bad news this week. The latest Granite State poll is out, and Ms. Ayotte has a commanding lead among self-identified Republican primary voters. Forty-four points. The good news for the Morsels is that these affairs are low turnout, and if you can GOTV with conviction, there’s a very real opportunity … Read more
By Niko Roswell – New Hampshire usually goes first. It began with voting but has trickled into NH education, law, church, and culture. After the federal separation of church and state, New Hampshire began to go first in all things criminal. Four nuns were allowed to sue the bishop, the US’s first court case was … Read more
There is no longer any need to speculate. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has endorsed Donald Trump, but you can still vote for him. Democrat-turned-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump on Friday, a major development that could shift momentum in the increasingly tight fight for the White House. During a … Read more
Folks who know me understand that when I get poked, I often poke back. Probably a Marine thing. So, when The Grok published a sad screed by a Granite State bomb thrower, I considered whether to respond. Friends advised against it. “Just ignore it.” The thing is that the truth is important, and I don’t … Read more