Tuesday • October 14 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XLII
Manchester, N.H.
If White Guilt needed a poster Girl, there are many from whom to choose, but if you don’t feel like looking, Leah Stokes fits the bill. She is the senior author of a paper funded by pro-wind-energy concerns titled “Prevalence and predictors of wind energy opposition in North America.”
Put down any beverage before you read this.
In the United States, opposition was more likely and more intense in areas with a higher proportion of White people, and a lower proportion of Hispanic people; in Canada, the same pattern held for wealthier communities. The names in articles associated with US opposition were overwhelmingly likely to be White. This suggests an environmental justice challenge we term “energy privilege,” wherein the delay and cancellation of clean energy in wealthier, Whiter communities leads to continued pollution in poorer communities, and communities of color.
Leah needs ot have a sit down and chat with Greta ‘How Dare You’ Thunberg. Muppet Greta led a protest opposing a wind project development in indigenous areas earlier this year. Something she called Climate Colonialism. I quickly pointed out how green-energy privilege leveraged as liberal privilege to create energy privilege was already ruining the lives of “indigenous populations” and their local environments.
Nearly everything “green” has CCP fingerprints on it. China owns many of the mines in Africa and South East Asia, where local low-wage or slave-level laborers work in criminally unhealthy conditions with massive environmentally damaging footprints. Not the fake damage used to sell the agenda but real, generational harm with long-term impacts on human health, land, water, and wildlife.
Can we expect Thunberg to visit the Congo, Indonesia, or the Mother Ship in China? What about CCP climate ‘colonialism’ and human rights violations? Will Greta stand before the UN and say, “How Dare You” support an energy transition under these circumstances?
And what about the rest of it? I mean, all of it. Are all the groups milking the colonialism schtick going to shoot their narrative or climate cash cows because the NWO energy transition depends on climate change colonialism and the harmful offshoring of emissions to third-world nations for the benefit of wealthy globalists?
It is a fine thing for Leah to collect data on wind energy development. Still, perhaps she should consider “whose land” they might be burying the unrecyclable bits from decommissioned wind turbines. Or how the planned exponential increase in the cost of electricity makes everything, not just electricity, cost more, and how that harms the poor minority first and most often?
That expanding domestic fossil fuel development in the US lowered the cost of living and improved the quality of life for tens of millions when the economic recovery that followed created jobs and increased wages for women, blacks, Hispanics, and teens to record levels.
Finally, that allowed to proliferate the economic and environmental cost of the rapid deployment of wind or solar is a) emissions offshoring to mines in third-world countries while China builds most of the green tech with dirty coal power, b) detrimental to the economic and national security of the West – putting more vulnerable people at risk, and c) would shift a significant portion of the middle class, including all people, below the poverty line.
So what if, maybe, these white people get all that and are doing themselves and, by extension, poorer communities a favor you are ideologically incapable of seeing?
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How much longer must we suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune from the political party that hates this country and hates us? You know, those of us who continue to do the difficult work of feeding, fueling, and defending this nation while the Hate America Party calls us racist, sexist, binary Neanderthals and climate deniers.
We want to thank Russ Wiles for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
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I am talking about the party that hates babies so much that they want abortion untethered to any limits whatsoever. The party that empowers criminals to terrorize us, even as some leftists have been targeted while outside their gated communities. Most GOP members act as though they have no idea that we are in a deadly game of survival with the party that embraces Marxism, the way toddlers cling to their teddy bears.
Dan Bongino is correct about fighting back, as if our life and liberty depend on it because it does. Kurt Schlichter is correct that we must vote out of office anyone who is unwilling to lock up criminals, deport foreigners here illegally, fire government flunkies, cut off funds to commie colleges, and demand that corporations decide if they want us as friends or enemies.
Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. yearned for a color-blind society with a focus on the content of character rather than the color of one’s skin. Yet, the Marxist Hate America Democrat Party now embraces the Southern Poverty Law Center’s recent slogan – “Colorblindness: The New Racism?”
As Dennis Prager notes, “the left generally holds the Constitution in contempt — at the very least, as a slavery-defending document.” The Democrat Party is on board with that notion. Where do you stand?
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When you show up at large events with mostly like-minded people in a state the size of New Hampshire, you will see people you know. If you write for GraniteGrok, some will know your work. The odds that they will not all love it seem likely, which is a good sign. We’re not monolithic bots. Debate is good.
But sometimes, people feel it is better to walk away and avoid debate either becasue they can’t support their position or, let’s be kind, they’d rather not say some unkind words. I’m unsure which this was, but he was not interested in talking to me. While mingling in the midst of several people, I knew this additional individual was introduced with the common, you know Steve MacDonald, don’t you? From GraniteGrok.
That last part appears to have been a problem. After a weak handshake and a look that went from ‘Hello stranger’ to, I know you (but not really), I was told we (GraniteGrok) should stick to calling out Democrats and that I cost Republicans votes. He was not a fan of what I called our very big woodshed with room for anybody.
As he turned and walked away, I asked if he’d write an op-ed making his case and that I’d publish it, but he wasn’t having any of that. I sensed that short of being the NHGOP’s MSNBC, there was no pleasing him. I shrugged, filed it away in what passes for my brain, and returned to the conversation I’d been having.
And here we are.
Does GraniteGrok cost Republicans votes? Not nearly as many as Republicans do, but the two things are related.
While we have painted the odd GOP candidate in a less-than-favorable light, the why is more important than the how. Politicians and activists, as a class, get filtered through the same lens. NH Constitution, US Constitution, Party platform, and the idea that limiting government is the purpose for which we elect representation.
I get that deal-making is required to move the ball down the field and that sometimes you need to put some points on the board, but if no one reminds anyone why, they increasingly score goals for the other team, maybe without even realizing it. Or, we score goals so they can claim some accomplishment in time for the next election, even when that achievement chips away at natural rights and liberties.
The other – more important issue – is that a member of a private club (the GOP) who feels no requirement to uphold the club charter is less likely to heed their oath of office. If the oath has soft edges, so do the laws those members create. They make excuses for inaction or failing to reign in abuses. The club that got them there takes a back seat to a ruling class club, and at the far end of this path stands many a Democrat for whom the law is a thing to manage society. The Constitution enacted to prevent these abuses becomes less a road map and more a barrier.
Elected office becomes more about what political power can do for them, not how they might use their influence to restrain it.
Yes, we target wayward Republicans, and we won’t always get that right. And not every author agrees with every other on every issue or even how to approach it. We agree that creeping tyranny is a problem, and it is not limited to Democrats. That limited government is always better. And that there is plenty of room in the woodshed.
We are not the GOP’s MSNBC. You won’t get flowery praise for half-measures. If you disagree, we’ll happily publish any defense of your position, but you have to defend it and then send it, or that won’t happen. And not just 300 words but 600 or more. All you have to do is take us up on the offer. You’ll get front-page access, just like the rest of us.
Or you can walk away, but we’ll still be here.
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There were so many important voices during the Revolution that founded our great country. Politicians, Lawyers, Doctors, and, of course, Clergymen! In fact, the brightest stars of the Revolution were the voices of ardent clergymen whose hearts set on freedom for all men and whose tongues were swords of truth to set the captives free!
One Pastor who was an outstanding leader and motivator for freedom was the Reverend John Wise, who was the Pastor of a congregational church in Chebacco Parish in the southeastern part of Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Many people know that Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, and of course, Jefferson was brilliant on so many levels. But he drew his revolutionary concepts and ideas from a source not often credited with that Declaration. The ideas came from the pen and the pulpit of the Reverend John Wise. He was the first son of an indentured servant to graduate from the prestigious Harvard University. He was a forceful preacher, a community leader, and a fluent and provocative writer.
He was often at odds with government officials. In 1687, the New England governor, Sir Edmund Andros, at the command of King James II, without consent of the legislative body, levied a tax upon the citizens. Pastor Wise took to action swiftly and sounded the alarm that Tyranny was at hand! Pastor Wise roused the people of his community and others to oppose the tax. Well, guess what? The Governor had him arrested! He brought him before a crown-friendly jury and royalist judges, and he so angered them by his defense that they threatened to sell him as a slave. He was suspended from his ministry and fined. However, he did not stop preaching against tyranny.
A year later, Governor Andros was deposed, and Pastor Wise was vindicated. Wise was very forward-thinking and was able to communicate in print and speech some of the great foundational truths of the Declaration of Independence, a few examples are listed:
As a writer, he penned two important works that the founders read and that fanned the flames of the Revolution. After his death, the reprinting of his books quickly sold out and was reprinted again. His two most famous works are: “The Churches Quarrel Espoused.” and “A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches.”
His stature was tall, and he was considered a very rough man physically. He is depicted as muscular and a formidable wrestler! The story told that he was challenged by Andover’s champion wrestler, Cape. John Chandler. Wise refused at first sighting his age, i.e., being too old and infirm. But the Captain was persistent and prevailed. In a makeshift ring, Captain Chandler grappled with the elderly Pastor. Wise promptly threw him completely over the wall/fence. Captain Chandler got up, shook himself off, and proclaimed that he would be on his way as soon as the preacher threw his horse over after him!
Finally, Cornell University historian Clinton Rossiter, in his great book, “Seedtime of the Republic,” traces six individuals that he considers the most influential thought leaders of the American Revolution. In his estimation, two were political leaders, but four were ministers of the gospel, and of course, Pastor John Wise was named among these great leaders.
Until next week!
Pastor Allen
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This is both funny and, well, funny – if you are not one of these people, trapped between the contradictions of the progressive narrative mill and a hard place.
A comedic performance of what it might be like to be an actor who has to pick a side to save his career becasue he has to post something on social media, but there’s so damn much to consider. And here he is considering it.
Watch as he explores all the factors, seeks advice, and …
Actor Not Sure if He’s Supposed to Support Israel or Palestine pic.twitter.com/X3UDB8HWPI
— Ryan Long (@ryanlongcomedy) October 12, 2023
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