The Manchester Free Press

Saturday • May 3 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XVIII

Manchester, N.H.

Pelham’s Race to the Bottom in Math (Part 1)

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-02-07 19:00 +0000
During the Deliberative Session in Pelham, a resident rose to support a warrant article to change the math program, and replace it with Singapore Math. Why would anyone want to support Singapore Math in their school? There’s a simple answer to that question, Singapore students finish at the top on international math and science tests, ... Read more

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Friday Meme Thing

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-02-07 17:00 +0000
On the Eve of the Strong End (there’s nothing weak about Saturday or Sunday), we arrive once again to meme you up. It’s Friday. Celebrate with sarcasm and silliness. Note: We are not responsible if you are offended. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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Rebutting John Klar on Boston’s Proposed Soda Pop Tax

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-02-07 15:00 +0000
Boston City Councillors have proposed a tax on sugary beverages, and on Tuesday, John Klar argued against it — fighting on a battleground defined by the adversaries. Let’s start with first principles: There is no “public health.” The public is not a body and does not have a health. All “we” have are statistics involving ... Read more

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Did USAID Buy Beyonce Her Country Music Album of the Year Grammy?

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-02-07 13:00 +0000
Democrats up and down the political food chain have prostrated themselves in defense of a triumvirate of secular gods—Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. Oh, mighty laundromat of taxpayer dollars, fueler of the deep state gravy train, we are forever your servants and benefactors of your grace. They’ve been protesting, first at USAID and then at the ... Read more

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So, Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (2/6/25)?

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-02-07 11:00 +0000
Today we learned that being in a comfortable majority is a glorious thing indeed!  At the start of this wintry day there were 209-R and 149-D in attendance.  We knew the 23 bills we had before us were going to yield some very good wins.  That being said, we’ve got a lot of work ahead ... Read more

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Before Boston: The Tea Revolt That Began in Philadelphia

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-02-07 03:00 +0000
The Boston Tea Party is arguably the best-known event leading up to the war for independence, but a number of leading Revolutionaries, including Benjamin Rush and John Adams, held that it actually started in Philadelphia. Resolutions adopted during a Philadelphia town meeting on Oct. 16, 1773, set the stage for the Boston Tea Party in ... Read more

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A Deep Dive into NH’s Claremont Decision Part II

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-02-07 01:00 +0000
Paul Ingbretson continues the Claremont Decision discussion with Senate Counsel Attorney Rick Lehmann, who also practices law in New Hampshire. He’s been involved with the Court filing amicus briefs on behalf of the Senate. ln this podcast Rick lays out some of the separation of powers issues resulting from those decisions. If you missed Part ... Read more

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Dear Harrison Thorp Editor of The Rochester Voice

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-02-07 01:00 +0000
President Trump’s victory has tossed our nation’s Ship of State a life-preserver. Living up to the MAGA expectations will be a difficult task to turn the ship around, and it promises to be equivalent to threading a needle without an eye. So how do we get to shore?   As the war against globalism gets hotter, ... Read more

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On Election Integrity

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-02-06 23:00 +0000
I want to be sure that only RESIDENTS (not students who live out of state) and REAL US citizens (not illegal aliens) voting and only ONCE. I want any votes to be counted with both parties watching (not having one side show up to count absentee ballots and hear the other side did it already). ... Read more

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It Is So Much Fun To Poke The Democrats

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-02-06 21:00 +0000
This is no longer a challenge. The Democrats are so easy to excite to paranoia that we may have to find another group to play with. The vision of Chuck Schumer with his eyeglasses on the tip of his nose, is he not aware that Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals a couple of hundred years ago ... Read more

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Ken Weyler YDC PR Crisis Word Salad

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-02-06 19:00 +0000
Dear Representatives, Today’s apology is a word salad, and it appears to have been created with the NHCADSV – a compromised agency in the YDC cases. If “victim blaming” is never appropriate, why did the NHCADSV say and do nothing when the State and AG Gordon MacDonald’s Office dismissed David Meehan et al. v NH ... Read more

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“Every Movement Needs a Scrappy Little Dyke, And I Am That Person!”

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-02-06 17:00 +0000
Can You Say, Insurrection? Democrats have been rudderless for weeks, lost political minorities who had their agenda flushed down the proverbial toilet. Sure, they elected a straight white guy to head the DNC, but that’s a figurehead position with about as much actual authority as Joe Biden had the last four years. You show your ... Read more

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Do Public School Students Have a Right to Decline COVID-19 Vaccines?

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-02-06 15:00 +0000
News reports are punctuated regularly by echoes from the great COVID-19 pandemic: monkeypox is on the rise; bird flu is in cows … or humans … or Canadian swine. The COVID-19 panic that disrupted the global economy is in the rearview mirror, but the prospect of another pandemic raises important questions about civil rights. A ... Read more

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NHRTL’s Position on HB476 / The 15 Week Bill

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-02-06 14:00 +0000
Summary NHRTL’s Perspective The pro-life movement began this legislative session with low expectations. After all, the Republican messaging had not been encouraging. The good news was we had gained a few seats in the House and Senate. At a December pro-life messaging training, everyone felt we should have a 15-week abortion regulation bill this term ... Read more

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Mr. Speaker: Is it Money Laundering Or Something Else?

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-02-06 13:00 +0000
While we wait for the Committee to Elect House Republicans (CTEHR) to explain where nearly 170,000.00 dollars went between 2022 and 2024, other related matters require our attention. Let me preface with this. If you are married, it is not a good look if you are seen frequently in public in the private company of ... Read more

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Dems Want to End NH Ban on Traffic Enforcement Cameras

Libertarian Leanings - Thu, 2025-02-06 12:03 +0000
by Michael Graham, NHJournal Smile, New Hampshire drivers — you could soon be on a red light camera. That’s the goal of Keene Democrat Rep. Philip Jones, who has proposed ending the state’s current ban on traffic enforcement cameras—his HB305,... Tom Bowler
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Murders by Weapon Type

Libertarian Leanings - Thu, 2025-02-06 11:58 +0000
September 2024 Statistics by Cassandra McBride, Ammo.com Homicides in the U.S. have risen to levels similar to those seen in the 1980s. The most commonly used weapons are firearms, unspecified weapons, and sharp objects. Report Highlights: Since 2020, there has... Tom Bowler
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Shut Down the US Department of Education? Rep. Thomas Massie has a Bill to Do That.

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-02-06 11:00 +0000
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced a bill on Friday that would implement the repeatedly expressed desire of President Donald Trump to shut down the United States Department of Education. Shutting down the Department of Education and moving education decisions out of the control of the US government were actions Trump proposed on multiple occasions through his presidential ... Read more

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Audit USAID…Then Shut it Down!

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-02-06 03:00 +0000
As of this writing, when you attempt to access the US Agency for International Development (USAID) website or social media pages you are informed that, “This site can’t be reached.” The media reports that the new Trump Administration has not only frozen USAID activities but may be planning on bringing it back under control of ... Read more

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Skip Murphy Joins Me To Talk About…Everything!

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-02-06 01:00 +0000
This week my guest is the co-founder and co-owner of GraniteGrok.com, Skip Murphy. We talk about Trump’s first two weeks to what’s happening in New Hampshire and around the world. USAID, buyouts, EOs, Tariffs, South and Central America, DEI, Media, Kelly Ayotte, NH Republican majorities, the mid-terms, and more. Please like, follow, or subscribe to ... Read more

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