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Saturday • December 20 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.LI

Manchester, N.H.

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MACDONALD: They Said Global Warming Would Affect Hurricanes, and It Did

1 hour 26 min ago

A few reminders to start. No matter what they say, the alleged problem is the warming that you cause (even though it’s not you). None of their models work (if you want to read a wonky article about one that does, but doesn’t predict climate Armageddon, look here). The entire exercise is about ending free-market ... Read more

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BAKER: The First Big Lie of Vaccinology

10 hours 26 min ago

As discussed in the introductory essay in this series, standard doctrine surrounding vaccines – pertaining to clinical trials, licensing, marketing, and vaccination schedules – is largely a pseudoscientific façade, constructed on a shaky foundation of falsehoods. In this series, we examine each of the five Big Lies propping up vaccinology, plus two “Honorable Mentions.”  Big ... Read more

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The Independents: Property Tax Truths and Health Hacks

12 hours 26 min ago

If you don’t know who raised your property taxes, someone else is steering your town. And if you don’t know what actually keeps you healthy, someone else is steering your body. This week on The Independents, we break down: Because the same mindset that shrugs at tax hikes also shrugs at bad food, bad sleep, ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Trump’s Take on Joe Biden’s Three Letter Word – “Jobs”

Fri, 2025-12-19 22:00 +0000

I say it often, and you can quote me. It’s easy to break things. Fixing them is a lot harder. It takes longer. And while Obama broke stuff, whoever was running the Biden Administration wrecked a lot more. Add to that an unprecedented effort to realign the American economy, fix unfair trade deals, break the ... Read more

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OPINION: Has Orwell’s 1984 Become Reality?

Fri, 2025-12-19 19:00 +0000

To some readers it may seem like a rhetorical question to ask whether the narrative of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984), first published in Britain in 1949, has somehow left its pages and settled, like an ominous miasma, over the contours of social reality. Yet, closer inspection – which means avoiding compromised mainstream news outlets ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

Friday Meme Thing

Fri, 2025-12-19 17:00 +0000

Christmas is less than a week away, so it is obviously time to look at memes. Lots of memes. I mean, a lot of memes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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OPINION: Why Do We Rank So Low On The State Achievement Tests?

Fri, 2025-12-19 15:00 +0000

Remarks delivered at the 12/16/25 meeting of the Wilton-Lyndeborough School Board I’ve attended many school board and budget committee meetings over the past six years in person and online, and I have read all the minutes from both boards since August. I was surprised when an administrator at a recent meeting mentioned some recent standardized ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Democrats Brown Shooter “Problem”

Fri, 2025-12-19 13:00 +0000

On Today’s Morning Update, I talked about the failed security footprint at Brown University and gun-free zones. Incompetent or not, the fools dancing around the microphones in the Island of Rhode could have prevented this if someone besides the shooter was armed. It turns out the shooter is alleged to be a former Brown student, ... Read more

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Morning Update: Brown Note

Fri, 2025-12-19 12:00 +0000

Today, on the morning update, the Brown University Shooting is teaching woke, incompetent libs a thing or two about gun-free zones. Or not. But we’re learning a lot! Note: “The suspect in the Dec. 13 mass shooting on the campus of Brown University has been found dead by suicide in a storage unit in Salem, ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

PAGE: Ever-rising Taxes Endanger Downtown Restaurants

Fri, 2025-12-19 10:00 +0000

Just days after a popular Burlington coffee shop announced it would close amid a strike and challenging financial and social conditions in downtown Burlington, a Barre restaurant is sounding the alarm about overtaxation. Barre restaurant owner Diane Duquet Hood says she plans to take her concerns about rising property taxes directly to local lawmakers after ... Read more

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IMANI: Multiculturalism Is The West’s Shattered Mosaic

Fri, 2025-12-19 03:00 +0000

In the waning days of 2025, the once-celebrated ideal of multiculturalism lies in tatters, exposed by a cascade of violent incidents and societal fractures across Europe, the U.K., and beyond. The brutal attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Dec. 14, 2025, where a gunman targeted a Hanukkah celebration, killing several and injuring dozens, serves as ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

Right Side Up: The Right to Self Defense

Fri, 2025-12-19 01:00 +0000

This week on Right Side Up, after the weekend chaos, the right to keep and bear arms, your natural right to self-defense, is more critical than ever – and gun-free zones are where killers go to find soft targets. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

MACDONALD: Making Everything Unaffordable, Forever

Thu, 2025-12-18 22:00 +0000

As I reported, or perhaps opined, on this week’s edition of GrokTALK!, Democrats are talking about affordability around a mouthful of policy objectives that do the opposite. And as noted here, “A Democrat wouldn’t know affordability if it bit them in the ass. Not one thing they propose, have done, or might do makes life ... Read more

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BRADLEY: The Blue Slip Scam

Thu, 2025-12-18 19:00 +0000

Are you wondering why the Republican Senate has accomplished almost nothing of Trump’s legislative agenda? If not, you should be. And here is why the feckless Republicans again fail the 80 million voters who returned Donald J. Trump to the White House as the 47th President of the United States. Simply put, there is the ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Want a Refund On Your School Property Taxes?

Thu, 2025-12-18 17:00 +0000

New Hampshire’s public schools have problems. No matter how much money we pour into them, the results get worse. Money, therefore, mathematically, economically, academically, and scientifically, is not the answer. Money, practically speaking, leads to worse outcomes. This fact aligns two problems in a common solution. Schools are the reason why property taxes are so ... Read more

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CARDELLO: Thank God Rachel Only Appears Once a Week

Thu, 2025-12-18 15:00 +0000

I have always had a problem with media celebrities who elevate themselves above the event they are covering. This unfortunate occurrence can happen whether it’s a news or a sporting event. The usual solution is the handy mute button, which works if you can still see the event, but it does not provide the remedy ... Read more

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Morning Update: “Islamophobia” Gets a Makeover

Thu, 2025-12-18 12:00 +0000

Today, on the morning update, calling someone an islamophobe isn’t producing the necessary capitulation or apologies that it used to, so some elites are rolling out a new term and definition to replace it. Links: Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or ... Read more

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OPINION: How Religious Freedom in America Was Founded on Privatization and Decentralization

Thu, 2025-12-18 10:00 +0000

A common myth about American history is the one in which a handful of so-called “founding fathers” in the 1780s declared that America would create a “wall of separation” between religious institutions and government institutions. After that, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was instrumental in ensuring that religious institutions would be totally separate ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

MACDONALD: “Women,” Raping Women™ In Safe Spaces…

Thu, 2025-12-18 03:00 +0000

A few years into my now nearly eighteen years in the political blogging trenches, the cultural Marxist wingnuts running the Democrat Party (in my state, in this instance) promoted a bathroom bill. It would permit men who think they are women to use the ladies’ room. It failed, but my initial reporting included what I thought ... Read more

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Justice 4 All 12-17-2025

Thu, 2025-12-18 01:00 +0000

Welcome back for more Justive 4 All as Jocelyn and her guest discuss the week’s news and events. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment or submit Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com Please like, follow, ... Read more

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