The Manchester Free Press

Sunday • April 20 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XVI

Manchester, N.H.

Education Freedom Accounts are public education, not an anti-poverty program

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-27 11:00 +0000
The State New Hampshire and its towns and cities provide the opportunity to obtain a publicly funded education to every school-age child, regardless of income. And no one complains that this unfairly benefits higher-income households. To illustrate the point, the median household income in Hopkinton is $130,216. That’s 55% higher than in Concord ($83,701) and ... Read more

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Why the World Is Giving Up on Birthright Citizenship

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-27 03:00 +0000
Earlier this week, Donald Trump signed a new executive order which attempts to end so-called “birthright citizenship” in the United States. During the signing ceremony, Trump declared that the United States is “the only country in the world that does this with birthright…” This is untrue and the Washington Post, among other publications, was quick to ... Read more

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Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship

Granite Grok - Mon, 2025-01-27 01:00 +0000
Skip mocked “Da’ Media” whiners who are overwhelmed by the amount of information they’ve been force-fed in the past few days. Boo, frikkin hoo. We’re looking at the same firehouse …with the uncontrolled glee one might express while being gang-tackled … by puppies. It’s fun. Every EO does not have to be your favorite, but ... Read more

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Can Trump Fix Our Broken Foreign Policy?

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-26 23:00 +0000
By the time most of you read this column, we will have a new US President. Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term today at 11:30 AM, Eastern time, and many Americans are hopeful that the disastrous foreign policy of the past four years under Biden will be improved. There is good ... Read more

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[Update] Colombia Decides It Wants to Be Trump’s “Example”

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-26 21:00 +0000
The Trump administration is alleged to have already canceled thousands of flights scheduled to bring “refugees” from around the world to your town or city. That’s a significant number, and you’d be right to question it. AP, CNN, and The NYT have all confirmed it. By canceling the refugee resettlement program, thousands are no longer ... Read more

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The Right-to-Work Freeloader Fallacy

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-26 19:00 +0000
Labor unions negotiate benefits on behalf of all employees of a collective bargaining unit, not just their own members, unions say. Since non-members receive the benefits, they should be compelled to pay the union for negotiating them.  Because right-to-work laws forbid non-union employees from being compelled as a condition of employment to pay any portion ... Read more

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Bad Bill Alert – Defend Child and Parental Rights, Demand Due Process

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-26 17:00 +0000
Upcoming Hearings – Mark Your CalendarsShow Up and Testify Tuesday, January 28 – House Children and Family Law CommitteeRoom 206-208, Legislative Office Building, 33 N State St., Concord, NH⚠️1:30PM – HB553-FN – relative to the definition of abuse and neglect and conditions triggering a rebuttable presumption of harm in abuse and neglect cases❌ Oppose ❌It is highly ... Read more

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Gun Control Bill Suppresses Voting Rights

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-26 15:00 +0000
From the Women’s Defense League The hearing for this gun control bill is on January 30th at noon in the Legislative Office Building, rooms 202-204. Once again, the out-of-state gun control lobby is pushing another draconian gun control bill in one of the SAFEST STATES in the country – House Bill 352 – An act prohibiting the possession of ... Read more

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Target Puts DEI Gun Down, Steps Slowly Away from Wokism…

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-26 13:00 +0000
Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and its misery loves company pals Critical Race Theory (CRT) probably figured that, after people fell for COVID, they’d fall for anything. Having Joe Biden’s cultural Marxist puppeteers in the Oval Office for four years helped. On what BLM begot, they profited. Anti-racism is racism. Orwellian, anyone? America could save ... Read more

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Groucho Marxism

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-26 11:00 +0000
Although many people resist acknowledging this, we use a kind of Marxism to fund our schools: The Accidental Marxist The Accidental Marxist, Part 2 That is, by taxing each property owner in a school district a flat rate on the assessed value of his property, we take more from people who have more.  So that’s ... Read more

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A New American Age

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-26 03:00 +0000
After four Biden years, America’s first benefit still awaits.  Such a record is not by accident. Not to be rude or disrespectful of the office, but the consistency of deception and lies during these last four years needs to be summed up with one word, “Bidenized.”  This term refers to the meaningless state of any innocent ... Read more

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Out Of The News, Out Of Mind

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-01-26 01:00 +0000
One of the favorite lines of the Biden Administration was “Clean up in Aisle 7.” This referred to the task of the Press Secretary and communication people to explain an off-the-cuff or erroneous statement made by Joe Biden when they let him out to talk off prompter. This practice happened with such incredible frequency that ... Read more

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EFAs Should Not be Universal

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-25 23:00 +0000
One of the many problems with universal EFAs is that they take money from people who don’t have it, to give to people who don’t need it. Let’s ask a straightforward question: Under what conditions should we give tax money to, or spend tax money on, people who can afford to get along without it? ... Read more

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According to the CDC, NH Vaccinated More People Than There Are People

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-25 21:00 +0000
There are a lot of problems with the various reporting mechanisms related (in particular) to COVID. They lied about positive tests, cases, test efficacy, threats, cures, and safety (to name a few), but a new FUBAR has entered the equation. From Steve Kirsh. New Hampshire deserves the credit for vaccinating over 50% more elderly people ... Read more

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Poorly Conceived, Ineptly Written

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-25 19:00 +0000
A Case Study In How Not to Govern After eighteen months of attempting to build a governing structure for the Clean Heat Standard, the Public Utilities Commission concluded, “…that this program is not well suited to Vermont.” It’s expensive, complicated, and, as they illustrate over a dozen pages in section X of their report, Problems with ... Read more

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Seizing The Guns of Alleged Domestic Abusers

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-25 17:00 +0000
Illinois lawmakers have passed legislation requiring police to take possession of guns from accused domestic abusers who are subject to protection orders. The Prairie State statute seeks to protect domestic violence victims but may run afoul of the due process guaranteed by the Constitution. Rising Domestic Violence In support of the new gun seizure bill, ... Read more

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The Biden Reality Put Into Perspective

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-25 15:00 +0000
In the worst cover-up and conspiracy since Watergate, it was obvious to every American that Joe Biden was mentally incapable of being president. Still, we heard his staff and media defending and proclaiming him to be at the top of his game. For four years, his staff and media colluded to hide the fact that ... Read more

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Hegseth Confirmed!

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-25 13:00 +0000
Whether you like him for the job or not, the Democrats and the worst sort of Republicans (admit it) didn’t like him or want him. That means a lot. These are typically the sort of politicians who like to spend money on the military the way it does education, as a laundromat to third parties, ... Read more

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EFAs Simply Continue the Failed Pay-And-Pray Paradigm

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-25 11:00 +0000
One of the many problems with EFAs is that they simply continue the Pay-and-Pray paradigm that is at the root of our failing school system.  Let’s ask a straightforward question: Under what conditions should we spend tax money on something for which we have no specific, agreed-upon goals (and therefore no way to judge whether ... Read more

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Lower Property Taxes Start With Lower School Spending

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-01-25 03:00 +0000
Governor Scott is set to unveil his proposals for education reform this week, fulfilling campaign promises to lower property taxes which are a direct result of public school spending. But there are powerful special interests that want to keep that money flowing from your pocket to theirs. Chief among them, the Vermont Teacher’s Union, the ... Read more

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