The Manchester Free Press

Saturday • January 18 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.III

Manchester, N.H.

Breaking: Mike Johnson Re-Elected House Speaker

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-01-03 20:04 +0000
Mike Johnson will continue to be the Speaker of the US House after a last-minute first vote change by two republican holdouts. Speaker nominee Mike Johnson (R-La.) clinched 218 votes to reclaim the gavel on the first ballot. The final tally was 218 for Johnson and 215 for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). Three ... Read more

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NH Students Continue to Struggle to Learn Math, Here’s Why

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-01-03 19:00 +0000
From the moment the New Hampshire State Board of Education voted to adopt the Common Core Math Standards in 2010, I knew it would be a disaster. Fourteen years later, we see the proof. Schools across America still use Common Core-aligned programs in their schools because those math programs align with their state academic standards. ... Read more

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Friday Meme Thing

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-01-03 17:00 +0000
Did someone say memes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Charlie Kirk is Wrong on Jimmy Carter

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-01-03 15:00 +0000
Charlie Kirk recently praised the late Jimmy Carter.  In a recent post, he wrote:  “Jimmy Carter represents a type of Democrat that no longer exists.  Christian, loving husband, and a true patriot.  He was objectively an awful president, but he loved America and never intentionally tried to do it harm.  America could use more Democrats like ... Read more

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Maine Helps New Hampshire Be More Exceptional

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-01-03 13:00 +0000
Vermont’s Minimum wage rose to over 14$ an hour for the first time on January 1st, 2025. We reported on that give to the Granite State here. It turns out the State of Maine was already meddling in that range as it just raised its rate on J1 from $14.15 to $14.65 per hour. First, thank ... Read more

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The Left Will Be Apoplectic, But We Must Stay The Course

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-01-03 11:00 +0000
The Left still owns the media and, therefore, the message. Right or wrong, what the media says is the truth for half the country, and the Left has already started its mission to disrupt or destroy the Trump Presidency. They begin by trying to break the bond between Trump and his followers. By constantly attacking ... Read more

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Happy Rand Paul Day to Everyone But Peter Petrigno

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-01-03 03:00 +0000
With Rand Paul’s birthday coming up on January 7, the day before the New Hampshire House meets next, it’s a good time to call attention to someone exactly 9 years older and perhaps the polar opposite.  He’s a very nasty loudmouth rep from a purple town, and this article serves to better acquaint freshman reps, ... Read more

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Bowl Mania: Too Much College Football!

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-01-03 01:00 +0000
The college football season finally ends on January 20 with a national championship game. Finally. Recall that college football games used to cease after the New Year’s Day Bowl extravaganzas featuring Rose, Cotton, Sugar, and Orange. Then, there’d be a poll to determine the national champion. Times have changed.  Inevitably, there was controversy over those polls. Sometimes, ... Read more

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Terrorists Can Be Homegrown Too

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-01-02 23:00 +0000
I watched the news and read the alerts as they hit my iPad throughout the day, and I sensed disappointment when the terrorist in New Orleans turned out to be a U.S. citizen. It is much easier to get angry at these senseless incidents when the villain is an outsider. When the person who pulls ... Read more

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A Quarter Century of Democrat Control in VT …

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-01-02 21:00 +0000
As we reach the quarter-century mark in the new millennium, it’s worth looking back on what the politics of this era have done for (or, spoiler alert, “to”) Vermont. First, some important historical context: The last time Vermont Republicans had a majority in the Senate was 1996. The last time Vermont Republicans had a majority ... Read more

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Hey, Dems, How About Expanded Background Checks on Truck Rentals

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-01-02 19:00 +0000
On New Year’s Day in New Orleans, on a famous stretch of road known as Bourbon Street, a US citizen used a rented pickup truck to kill twenty people and wound many more. This mass casualty event – we can’t say mass shooting because the only individual to die from gunfire was the perp when ... Read more

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Take Two Parts Lawfare, Two Parts Delusion, And Top It With Condescension

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-01-02 17:00 +0000
As we turn the page on 2024 and look ahead to 2025, we see two diametrically opposed plans on the left and right. The Left made a mockery of the act of turning the page during the campaign, and they are getting what they asked for but were in the wrong book. They believed in ... Read more

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School and Town Budget Meetings Coming Up: READ THIS

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-01-02 15:00 +0000
It’s that time of the year again when the School and Town budgets are presented to taxpayers at the town meetings. This is the time to ensure you are part of the process so your elected representatives understand what you expect from them. Pembroke voters rejected a $3 million dollar school budget last year, indicating ... Read more

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Is Pedo Marc Jacques Probation Officer on ‘Probation’?

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-01-02 13:00 +0000
Marc Jacques isn’t just any admitted and convicted sex offender arrested for possessing child pornography. He is world famous. His hijinks at girls’ soccer games, where he watched his son compete as a girl, got national attention, likely – in my opinion – as a result of having groomed him so he’d have easy access ... Read more

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The Role of a Term Insurance Premium Calculator in Financial Planning

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-01-02 12:26 +0000
Financial planning requires strategic decision-making, especially when it involves securing one’s financial future through life insurance. A term insurance premium calculator could be an important tool in this case as it enables individuals to get an overview of what their insurance will cost. It can simplify the complex process of understanding premium structures while aligning ... Read more

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2024 in Review – What a Year

Libertarian Leanings - Thu, 2025-01-02 12:06 +0000
January A tone was set when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin disappeared for several days in early January. He had been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at Walter Reed Hospital due to complications from cancer surgery. Three days later... Tom Bowler
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The Federal Loophole That Fuels Asset Forfeiture Nationwide

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-01-02 11:00 +0000
A federal asset forfeiture program known as equitable sharing provides law enforcement agencies with a major loophole, allowing them to continue seizing property almost unabated – even when state laws seek to limit such practices. WHAT IS ASSET FORFEITURE? Civil asset forfeiture is the process by which governments seize cash or property that was allegedly ... Read more

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Radical Republicans and the Thirteenth Amendment

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-01-02 03:00 +0000
The Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution brought a decisive end to slavery in the United States in 1865. The amendment enshrines important principles of justice—self-ownership, individual liberty, and equality before the law. The amendment declares that, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been ... Read more

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The Media Is Still Lying To Parents

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-01-02 01:00 +0000
Numerous mainstream media outlets are deliberately lying to American parents about the law regarding COVID-19 vaccines. In August, Vermont’s Supreme Court that ruled a six-year-old boy administered a COVID-19 vaccine against his parents’ specific instructions that he not be jabbed has no state tort remedies and that the family’s sole recourse is a federal claim ... Read more

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Happy New Year, Legislature – Now Fix ‘Catch and Release’

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-01-01 23:00 +0000
You can call it the ‘Michael Reynolds Law,’ after the Burlington-area transient with more than 1600 police interactions since 2012 and still going strong this month with reported abusive, disruptive, threatening behavior.  Or you could call it the ‘Abdirahman Mohammed Law,’ after the 22-year-old Burlington man with a mere 35 run-ins with law enforcement, 11 ... Read more

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