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I have never heard the plethora of negative political ads as I have for the 2026 Midterms, and they get more acerbic and time-consuming as we get closer to Election Day. If you took the time to listen to these spots, you would not vote for anyone. One ad in particular caught my attention: Maine … Read more
Chief of Police (Ret.) Ed Varso, who led his department through the perilous time of the George Floyd riots and through the pandemic, will hold a webinar on October 13th. The topic of conversation: The Hidden Agenda to Abolish the Police. The webinar is sponsored by “Support Your Local Police” (SYLP) New England committee. The strategy … Read more
If you’re not sure which way to vote in November, we’ve provided plenty of proof that Democrats destroy everything they touch. But if you need another example, local business leaders in Burlington, Vermont, wrote a letter to Gov. Phil Scott. It seems they’re unhappy with what voting for progressives has done to them. Burlington is, … Read more
A new milestone for the School District Governance Association of New Hampshire (SDGA-NH): after ten years of work, the organization is now formally recognized in chaptered state law; see RSA 194-C:13. This is a significant step forward. SDGA-NH, as an all-volunteer non-profit seeking improved school governance, is now legislatively recognized alongside the established statewide organizations … Read more
I am what’s called today a “baby boomer.” I suppose the younger crowd might call me a dinosaur. Born shortly after WWII, I grew up in a country vastly different from the one we live in today. After our war-weary nation helped defeat the Nazis and fascists, we embarked on another war, a Cold War … Read more
Woodstock, Vermont, is a hotbed of anti-gay hate crimes. Actually, it’s not. But someone spray-painted a “Gay slur” on retired Police Chief Joe Swanson’s mailbox. Joe is married to Nicholas “Nico” Seldon. The “Chief” was also involved in a demotion kerfuffle that required judicial intervention. The case is not, however, being investigated as simple vandalism … Read more
For Good Reason The word “emergency” doesn’t exist in the Constitution. That means the rules of the Constitution apply whether someone calls it an “emergency” or not. This wasn’t an accident. It was very intentional, and based on the founders’ own warnings, long-forgotten and ignored today. Let politicians have extra power or funding because they … Read more
Roofer and former federal candidate Victor Orlando might have disappeared into irrelevancy after Scanlan certified the primary results last month, or he might not have, depending on whose perspective you consult. Let’s just say that Victor’s recent $55G roof job on the Coos Catalyst Center was indeed a CATALYST for bringing attention to the captain … Read more
Alex Chalmers and Rob Wiblin’s “Just bury your trash” challenges a durable assumption of modern environmentalism: that recycling is intrinsically virtuous while landfill represents failure. Their evidence supports a more selective view. Recycling metals often makes excellent sense, and some clean plastics can be worth recovering. But many other materials require more labor, energy, water, … Read more
Surveys and polls are great, not because they’re low-hanging fruit, but because (despite the punditry class, blogosphere, and podcastistan leaning on them to make a point), they tend to be wrong. Not just wrong as in results – political polls are close enough for government work- I mean wrong as in the questions themselves. That’s … Read more
Blaming Republicans for higher energy costs, especially electricity prices, is like blaming Republicans for all the illegal aliens Joe and Kamala let into the country. Not only did Biden and Harris let them in, but they also invited them and worked with international organizations to run the conveyor belts that brought them here. And this … Read more
Also, Eric “Fast and Furious Holder” for Cinde This week, on The New England Take, Stefany Shaheen launches an attack ad against Anthony DiLorenzo, but it only talks about Trump. Eric “Fast & Furious” Holder endorses former opioid lobbyist Cinde Warmington for Governor. The Maine Wire’s Joe Sokol is almost killed while reporting in Bangor. … Read more
Last week on my monthly bit with Jeff Chidester, I pointed out what I thought was an amusing contrast. The Pappas campaign (or some third-party supporter) was bitching that John Sununu left Congress and built money and influence in the private sector. Team Sununu (or some third-party supporter) has been reminding us how Pappas leveraged … Read more
With the sudden and unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in 1989–1991, the U.S. national-security establishment went into a full-blown panic. For some 45 years, the Cold War had been the most lucrative racket in U.S. history. “The Reds are coming!” By inculcating the fear that the commies … Read more
Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither vetted nor “fact-checked,” nor to be considered “research,” or taken seriously, nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
Last year, one of the big stories out of Messachusetts, was the Cambridge Brothel Ring. A Cambridge magistrate criminally charged 12 of the 28 alleged customers of a high-end brothel network that operated in parts of Cambridge and Washington D.C. suburbs at a Friday morning hearing. Nearly 18 months after federal prosecutors first arrested three … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, some on the right, including some with large audiences and high-profile accounts, are behaving a little too much like most on the left, and that needs to stop. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Links: Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and … Read more
Everyone seems to be taking “a few days off” at the same time, which is why you are seeing so much content from me. Today, for example, I am responsible for six of the eight pieces of content, and for one of the two I didn’t write, I had to find it, share it, and … Read more
As an Albanian man, I am usually struck by the ease with which so-called “democratic socialists” in America dismiss any criticism of their beloved socio-economic system. When I point out the fact that “real socialism” has been tried, and it has failed miserably everywhere it has been tried, including in my country of origin, Albania, … Read more
“Tyranny can now enter our country,” from one place. Benjamin Rush dropped that warning in 1778 at the height of the War for Independence. But he wasn’t talking about Redcoats. Recognizing the nature of power and humanity, he was giving us a timeless warning about “ourselves” and our own “great men.” The Founders knew the … Read more