We’ve shared stories about cities, states, and nations forced to pay so-called renewable providers for this or that. Taxpayers paid subsidies to get them built, and subsidized them to make the price appear reasonable. Taxpayers pay extra in taxes, licensing, fees, fines, and the rest to feed that beast, on top of the price they ... Read more

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The Turkish Republic no longer functions as a sovereign state; it operates as a family-run arms bazaar. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has forged a throne out of shrapnel and drone circuitry, turning the machinery of war into a private ATM for his inner circle. Erdoğan has transformed Turkey from a mere NATO outpost into a global ... Read more

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I’m not sure what the East-Kingston and Kenisington School Boards want to keep hidden so badly, but they are spending a lot of tax dollars on legal fees to keep it that way. Taxpayers proposed a warrant article to create a non-taxpayer-funded committee to explore ways to save taxpayers’ money. The school budget is out ... Read more

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Washington has a choice this tax season: build on policies that are already driving business investment and wage growth or return to the uncertainty that has long held employers back. As millions of Americans finalize their tax returns, the real-world impact of recent pro-growth tax reforms is coming into focus and so is the risk ... Read more

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In a recent installment of the Morning Update, the subject was conversion therapy and the transgender agenda. I identified the issue as finding a path to align the mind with the body and the mind with the real world. That’s what you would do if your agenda were wellness and happiness, because it is incredibly ... Read more

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Spring in Washington usually brings cherry blossoms, warmer weather, and a familiar reminder that Congress has a habit of taking on more than it can neatly resolve. This year is no different. What stands out is how much is moving at once, and how much now depends on Republicans keeping their strategy aligned with President ... Read more

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This week, on NE TAKE, A. J. hits the latest headlines: NHFPI being Democrat shills, New Hampshire Representative Ellen Read in trouble, and the latest parental disclosure bill. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Disagree, agree, Got Something ... Read more

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Maine missed the message, but that’s okay; it probably can’t get there from here. Americans, including some who live in blue states, are rejecting rank choice voting. I know, they call it ranked, but I call it rank, because it stinks. I know that because lots of Democrats want it, which means it is bad ... Read more

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Good morning, Senate Judiciary members (and all non-freshman Rs): I considered addressing all of you as “Enemies of 91A,” but thought better of it.  Enclosed is an article about Hanover and the SC’s decision in the plaintiff’s favor.  I’m sharing it to remind you that 91A issues are NOT just “a Nashua thing.”  Team Red ... Read more

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Christianity Today recently published an article by Kristy Etheridge that was very critical of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, something that would not be surprising, given the magazine’s evangelical Christian outlook on issues. The article—again, not surprisingly—dealt mostly with how many Christian groups, and especially the Roman Catholic Church, have spoken out against Canada’s program and ... Read more

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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 240-word text file containing a recap of our ... Read more

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Regular readers have likely heard about the grant to OUTnewcomers in Boston. News spread faster than a wildfire set by a California homeless person. Not nearly as much damage, but all parties have returned to their respective corners after throwing contradicting narratives. OUTnewcomers claims to be a pro-LGBTQ+ Migrants advocacy group. If you are new ... Read more

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The purchase of Jetro Restaurant Depot by food mega-distributor Sysco has raised concerns (and eyebrows) that increasing concentration of market power in ever fewer hands threatens free markets and will contribute to food price inflation. Like market consolidation in farming, fertilizer production, farm equipment manufacture, seed companies, and other food-related sectors, the pending merger certainly ... Read more

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The Independents with Carla Gericke is back, and this week, Carla Gericke and Mark Warden of Porcupine Real Estate discuss the latest developments in the Free State real estate market. Carla opens with some Tax Slave Day jokes. An upcoming NH Constitutional amendment wraps the show. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may ... Read more

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Some countries, eighty-five of them if you believe the reporting, are trying to create a climate confab cabal outside the UN’s failed COP process, and why not? COP 30 was a disaster, and how are they all supposed to tap into the trillions in wasted “climate money” if they can’t all agree on pointless targets ... Read more

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School board members in New Hampshire are elected to represent their communities. They are not appointed advisors, and they are not public relations assistants for the administration. They are elected officials entrusted by voters to ask questions, raise concerns, and communicate with the public about the operation of their schools. Recent statements by Rochester School ... Read more

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Reminder: The 50+ Memes below 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

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Apparently, we aren’t supposed to worry about birth rate declines in younger women because the trend shows they are making up for it in their later years. However, the graph The New York Times shared doesn’t even begin to tell the full story. At first glance, the graph suggests that declines in American birth rates ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, the topic is gun control, how one gun grabber has gotten tired of dancing around the agenda with soft language, a pro-2A response, and some thoughts about reaching the middle when it comes to why we must protect the right to self-defense. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the ... Read more

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Ken Lund The Green Mountain State is a textbook case of how progressives employ social justice causes to drain the wallets and dreams of citizens. A growing populist backlash against a land use scheme that will steal wealth from property owners without any compensation is just the tip of the Marxist iceberg that is sinking the once-Republican ... Read more

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