You’re looking at the menu, and there are just two choices. It’s beef and chicken, but you’re a vegetarian. You don’t want to starve, but what do you do? We’ve recently heard from two intelligent and very respectable people, Doris and Jose. Many of us are or were already familiar with the merits of their ... Read more
In response to public outcry, a Bennington County school district is taking heat for what parents say is a recently announced ban on saying the Pledge of Allegiance. The Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union includes Mt. Anthony Union High School in Bennington, and schools in Pownal, Arlington, Shaftsbury, and Sandgate. According to the story reported by News 10 out ... Read more
Here at the ‘Grok, we’ve had the good misfortune of watching how Democrats create the need for new taxes in real time. This is important. Dems will run on a platform with no tax hikes or new taxes if they must, but these promises are empty. Once in charge, the first order of business is ... Read more
Do EPA regulations prohibit racism or implement it? A recent federal court decision prohibited the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating pollution based on skin color. Viewed as a blow to “environmental justice” initiatives, the Louisiana decision hinged on an important distinction between government policies created with racist intent versus those that result in racially disparate impacts. The ... Read more
I know people who can’t go places because of some actual or perceived trauma. It’s a rough ride for them. But that’s regular folks—you and me. We’re not looking to run the free world. You need desire, ambition, perseverance, and fearlessness. You need a clue. Some intellectual agility. And experience helps. Mr. Trump, like him ... Read more
A sordid story of broken boundaries has emerged out of a high school girl’s soccer game. A trans-identifying soccer player was allowed to play against the Hillsboro Deering girl’s team on October 1st, violating New Hampshire state law (HB1205). The parents of the opposing Hillsboro Deering team were not initially notified by the school that ... Read more
The climate crazies are getting their hurricane season peak a month late this year because (same as always) trying to live a comfortable lifestyle broke the planet. September started to show some promise a bit late, but October? We’ve got more cyclones than you can shake a hockey stick at. And while FEMA does bureaucratic ... Read more
The presumption of liberty is an established liberal tradition according to which any restrictions on individual liberty require justification. Gerald Gaus and Shaun Nichols depict this as a principle of “natural liberty,” a “general presumption in favor of freedom of action.” As they explain, if natural liberty is a general presumption we expect, it to ... Read more
Doug Emhoff (Kamala’s alleged husband) has adopted something of a new masculinity, crafted by communications experts and sold by the media. He’s the new man (how Marxist)—what a guy should be—the perfect example of what a First Gentleman should look like, you know, if were to become one. It’s all bullsh!t. Emhoff, like Kamala, is damaged goods ... Read more
Kamala Harris, the inept individual who wants to be President, told us on Wednesday, nearly a week after the rain started falling in the southeast, that she was proud of our support for the victims of Hurricane Helene. Families who have lost their homes, cars, neighborhoods, and possibly some of their families will get a ... Read more
Be they bewildering, perplexing, or just puzzling, the world is filled with things that don’t seem to or perhaps don’t always make sense. Not right away, nor even after some measure of consideration. Our tolerance for such things will be as manifold as there are people to consider them, but some things oughtn’t be so ... Read more
Dear Ms. Fenton, After repeated complaints by residents and parents around New Hampshire, I am requesting an investigation into the illegal actions by the Kearsarge school district, and any other district that has participated in their illegal activity. HB1205 was signed into law in July by Governor Sununu, and requires schools to designate athletics by ... Read more
The world was a dangerous place on September 11, 2001, and is now even more so. Freedom is shaken by terrorism, and terrorism neither fears nor respects complacent joy. Eleanor Hodgman Porter was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, in 1868. She wrote several novels with little notice, but at the start of World War One, ... Read more
We’ve no shortage of debunking on these pages when it comes to the hyperbolic prognostications of climate cultists. These are people whose gambling advice you’d best not take unless you know your bet is backstopped by endless federal grants to friends and family, who then fund their re-election campaigns to keep the cycle of fiscal ... Read more
The recent events of transgender athletes playing on girl’s high school sports teams in New Hampshire have brought some serious boundary and free speech issues to light. Two players received a court injunction to continue playing their high school sports in New Hampshire (New Hampshire transgender teens can play girls’ sports, federal judge rules). Still, one ... Read more
Remember that time at Little Lenin Camp when Comrade Newsom tried to ban AI-generated content that could be considered parody or just … I don’t know … constitutionally protected speech. It was about a month or two ago—a long time ago on the internet but a blink of an eye to history. California’s All-Union Congress ... Read more
The longshoremen all along the east coast, from Maine to Texas, went on strike this week, bringing the vital shipping ports to an abrupt stop. The 45,000 men who keep the goods Americans buy and those American manufacturers ship overseas are on strike. These men feel underappreciated and fearful of their jobs as the seaports ... Read more
Of the innumerable Satanic evils the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has perpetrated on humanity, the murder of members of Falon Gong (and I suspect Christians) for purposes of organ transplantation to prolong the life of the CCP ruling elite is horrific. Apparently, the CCP has struck a Faustian deal with Mephistopheles: “All the organs you ... Read more
Helene turned out to be one nasty storm whose consequences were extreme in some unexpected places. That sort of thing tests people and systems, and while the folks appear to have risen to the occasion, as well as one Red State and its governor (Florida), the preferred system of the elites, the federal government, once ... Read more
Did you catch the VP Debate? Tammy and Carla have thoughts. Also, local election talk, including messaging, propaganda, and lies. (28 min) Note: Right Rally will ultimately be a place for podcasts and longer-form videos. Until then, it will catch whatever I throw into it.
