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Renewable energy, so-called because it attempts to capture natural resources and convert them into electricity, is neither cheap, scalable, nor climate-friendly. They will never be affordable because the material needed to make them isn’t, and the decommission costs are ugly, both economically and environmentally. Renewable portfolios force generators to include them in the mix, driving … Read more
Seton Motley is a consultant and the founder and president of Less Government, an organization dedicated to, well, less government. He is editor-in-chief of StopNetRegulation.org, a Center for Individual Freedom project. Big Tech spends metric tons of lobby money. On just about everyone in D.C. To ensure that no one in D.C. does anything Big … Read more
The New Hampshire School Boards Association (NHSBA), the notorious creator of numerous combative and corrosive anti-parent policies often adopted by school districts across New Hampshire, recently held a presentation. To summarize, it is the board’s position (not so much policy) that school board members abrogate their First Amendment Rights so that parents and taxpayers don’t … Read more
Growing up Jewish in the West Texas Baptist Bible Belt, I was fortunate as I experienced very little antisemitism — at least not in any form I recognized. A sideways comment here, a stereotype there, but nothing overt, nothing frightening. I knew the term “Antisemitism,” of course. But for much of my life, it remained … Read more
A lot of things used to be considered health care, so as California struggles to bitterly cling to conversion therapy bans and lawsuits tied to it (and the Transgender Agenda), one bit of testimony reminds us that trans health care isn’t really health care either. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video … Read more
Police are asking for help identifying three individuals involved in a brazen retail theft at Kohl’s in the Berlin Mall on Sunday afternoon. According to the Berlin Police Department, the incident occurred at about 3 PM on April 12, when three individuals entered the store, filled shopping carts with merchandise, and then exited without attempting … Read more
Some readers have encouraged me to identify as a historian, despite my not having a degree in history. For a long time, I have been reluctant to do so, thinking it would be both presumptuous and misleading, but I have recently changed my mind. Here is why. I think the very first seed was planted … Read more
This week, on GrokTALK!, the Pappas for Senate Campaign is openly deceiving its followers, we have a quick call to action on Campus Carry legislation, and then a look at a little Dem Civil War action blowing up the California Governor’s race. The mud is flying in the Golden State, but shouldn’t some of it … Read more
Minnesota Democrats are making life unaffordable for everyone in the State, it seems, unless you open a learning center. But even that gig has come under fire as Federal fraud investigations look for the nine billion that disappeared up Minnesota’s skirt while Tim Walz was gushing over how great China is, and we know why? … Read more
… New Hampshire Collects Quite a Bit of Revenue From Sales Taxes Here is a breakdown of state taxes collected for the month of March by New Hampshire: While Governor Kelly Ayotte, the local Koch-organization, and their minions in the Legislature may incessantly claim that New Hampshire has “no sales tax,” e.g.: a review of … Read more
Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither “fact-checked” nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
A 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 220-word text file that contained a recap of our research … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, the Handmaiden media didn’t just ignore the homeless voter registration scandal uncovered by James O’Keefe and OMG; they went out and found one of their own they could proudly report instead. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the embedded video does not load. Get More Morning Update Here! – … Read more
We already know who Councilor Wheeler’s 2026 opponent is going to be, and it’s unsurprisingly Ms Melanie Levesque. She announced their rematch in January, when she was the honoree at a Martin Luther King event. There are 5 seats in the Executive Council, and there hasn’t been much discussion about opponents for the 4 other … Read more
The horizon over Tehran has changed. It is no longer defined by the minarets or the sprawling concrete of a revolutionary capital, but by the jagged, smoldering silhouettes of a shattered industrial base. The “Thirty-Nine Days of Fire” – a campaign of kinetic intensity unseen in this century – has concluded in a fragile, two-week … Read more
On the Granite Discourse, Brian Cole is a New Hampshire state representative for Hillsborough County District 26. He is currently serving his 2nd term in the Statehouse as well as running for US Congress in CD-1. He is a member of the Ways and Means committee and the Vice Chair of the Housing committee. Authors’ … Read more
This coming Wednesday, I will publish the 150th installment of the Morning Update. I started it on September 18th, 2025, on a whim, and a strong personal and professional need to 1) get better at doing off-the-cuff video shots, and 2) to increase our presence in the space. I opened with, ” Don’t get used … Read more
Go to any social media platform these days (Maybe not Bluesky. I’m not on it so don’t know, but this could explain quite a bit.) and you will see some version of a video of New York governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) mocking her wealthy, tax-averse constituents with the 2022 taunt, “Jump on a bus and … Read more
I was in front of the laptop at 1:30 this morning, trying desperately to make some sense out of all the thoughts racing through my head. I was not succeeding. I was debating with myself, and losing terribly, about the purpose of government in my life and whether it has helped me or held me … Read more
What Is Nashua Hiding? — The “Unsettling” Hunt for Settlements New Hampshire’s Right-to-Know Law has a provision most people don’t know exists, and one New Hampshire city is apparently counting on that. RSA 91-A:4 VI is short, clear, and unambiguous. Every settlement agreement involving a lawsuit, a threatened lawsuit, or any other claim against a … Read more