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Tuesday • April 8 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XV

Manchester, N.H.

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The Authoritarian War on Due Process

Sat, 2025-03-29 20:00 +0000
I can say without much reservation that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s explanation to justify the deportation of individuals like Mahmoud Khalil made a lot of sense to me. He is a guest granted a privilege, that – had we known his intentions prior – may not have been allowed into the country. It is ... Read more

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Taxpayers Now Fund Mental Health Services in their Public Schools

Sat, 2025-03-29 18:00 +0000
It wasn’t that long ago that the Executive Director from the New Hampshire Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers testified before the New Hampshire Senate, and indicated that Social Workers were violating Federal Law: Executive Director Lynn Stanley, from the New Hampshire Chapter National Association of Social Workers, testified before a Senate Judiciary ... Read more

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Lest We Forget: The Dems ‘Oligarchs’ Got Us Into This Mess

Sat, 2025-03-29 16:00 +0000
The progs have settled on a strategy. Ignore the Left-Wing Oligarchy that ran Biden’s Presidency, and your country, into the ground. Oligarchs. The Oligarchy. That’s their Trump Card. But are they prepared to answer the questions only new media will dare broach? Who set policy for the Biden presidency? It was probably a panel of ... Read more

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Texas Lawmaker ‘Sneaks’ into University’s Transgender Event, Exposes Programs Funded by Taxpayers

Sat, 2025-03-29 14:00 +0000
R.E. Wermus – The Daily Signal Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison sounded the alarm after he “snuck” into a state-funded transgender conference at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday, according to a string of posts on his X account.  “The Texas Government is promoting a radical, liberal agenda … with your tax dollars,” the ... Read more

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The Judging of “Judgy” Judges

Sat, 2025-03-29 12:00 +0000
There are likely more than two sides to this particular debate, but we’ll stick to these to keep things in focus. First, President Trump is out of hand with all the executive orders, and thank god for district court judges (almost always a small g with these folks – the Big G is for Government). ... Read more

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Bill Limiting Tennessee Governor’s Emergency Powers Passes In TN House

Sat, 2025-03-29 10:00 +0000
Adelia Kirchner – The Tennessee Conservative A bill to protect the constitutional rights of Tennesseans by prohibiting the governor from suspending any part of the Tennessee Constitution in the issuance of an emergency order, proclamation, or rule passed on the House floor by a 77-16 vote on Monday afternoon.  House Bill 0324 (HB0324) is sponsored by Representative Rusty ... Read more

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The Post-Lockdown Disorientation in the Arts

Sat, 2025-03-29 02:00 +0000
Snow White, the live-action version cobbled together by Disney, opened over the weekend with devastating reviews and empty theaters coast to coast. In my community, there were no sellout crowds on opening day and the thinning turned to zero tickets in the final afternoon and evening of the weekend. No showings are scheduled past Wednesday.  ... Read more

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Quote of the Day

Sat, 2025-03-29 00:00 +0000
From Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address: [I]f the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to ... Read more

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Atoms for Peace, And Other Things Pandora Promised

Sat, 2025-03-29 00:00 +0000
(Manch Talk 03/26/25) Nuclear is on the table in a big way in the Granite State–are you ready for NH to be the green energy star on the Northern Seaboard? More cash for kids hurt in the YDC settlement–$10 million, discounted for an apology! And what’s the point of fasting? Better health! Please like, follow, ... Read more

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Democrats’ Anti-American Agenda is Doomed

Fri, 2025-03-28 22:00 +0000
On March 25, 2025, Speaker Mike Johnson took to X to deliver a scathing rebuke of the Democrat Party: “Democrats cheered against an American company. They refused to celebrate the rescue of American astronauts. They couldn’t even stand for a childhood cancer survivor. Their message has shifted from being anti-Trump to anti-American.” Standing before a podium emblazoned ... Read more

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To The Honorable Jonah Wheeler:

Fri, 2025-03-28 20:00 +0000
I’m saddened to read the article in the NH Journal about your Town Hall meeting and that the progressive white loving democrats were verbally attacking and that you are receiving death threats because they can’t grow up and behave.. Their comments about you are totally out of line because you voted your conscience, principles, and ... Read more

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Gender Bender Gets Schooled (Just a Little Bit) at School Board Meeting [Updated]

Fri, 2025-03-28 18:00 +0000
Some things are just too funny not to share—funny, ha hah, not funny odd. What is odd is the testimony of Suzy Colt, a resident in a town served by the White Mountain Regional School District (WMRSD). If you missed it, WMRSD has been considering whether to ignore state law and Federal Title IX by ... Read more

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Friday Meme Thing

Fri, 2025-03-28 16:00 +0000
It’s another day starting with F. That can only mean one thing. Memes! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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AI Agriculture Boosts Soil, Crops, and Human Health

Fri, 2025-03-28 14:00 +0000
Hailed as “the beginning of a new era” and “a revolutionary way to improve agriculture,” artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to monitor potato harvests and discover which soil microbes best feed crops. This novel AI tool also can expose past (and current) technological follies and hazards in agriculture. Drone-Farmed Potatoes Potato researchers collected data ... Read more

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Grafton County Commissioner – On ICE

Fri, 2025-03-28 12:00 +0000
The following is excerpted from an email sent by NGCRC Chairman Nick De Mayo M. Ed., an occasional contributor to Granite Grok. The email concerns Grafton County Commissioner Martha McLeod and is directed to Governor Kelly Ayotte’s office. Nick relates some things attributed to Martha that suggest she is not a fan of removing illegal ... Read more

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Short Videos For Mr. Sorg et al?

Fri, 2025-03-28 10:00 +0000
Plato said, “If you don’t take interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”  Let me tell you, my friends, how much that resonates with me as a former constituent of Mr & Mrs Newman and Alderman Dowd, to name a few.  The goal of ... Read more

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Legal Wrangle Over NYC’s Congestion Pricing Comes to a Head

Fri, 2025-03-28 02:00 +0000
The court will settle the tussle between the New York governor and Trump. New York City has been torn apart by a protracted legal wrangle between President Donald Trump and New York Democrats over congestion pricing. Underlying the conflict is a tussle between equity and tax revenue, pitting progressive initiatives against the working class. The ... Read more

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No Rooney But We’ve Got Rants!

Fri, 2025-03-28 00:00 +0000
Ambassador Francis Rooney was going to be my guest this week, but he’s out of the country and in unstable internet territory, so we’re rescheduling. Instead, I grabbed some clips off the internet and a few classic rants from this week’s episode of Granite State Live and pasted a show together. The last one still ... Read more

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School Deficiency

Fri, 2025-03-28 00:00 +0000
One of the latest attacks against President Trump is his Executive Order to close the Department of Education.  He wants to return educational standards to parents and each state.  Daily, we hear how poorly students are doing, even though the United States spends more per student than any other nation.   Two recent stories concern students ... Read more

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Who Is Using the Motel Voucher Program?

Thu, 2025-03-27 22:00 +0000
Governor Scott and the House and Senate Democrat majorities are at loggerheads over the motel voucher program that pays to put up homeless people in, well, motel rooms. The governor vetoed the budget adjustment bill over a $1.8 million spending increase for the program and is threatening to do so again if a revised version ... Read more

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