The Manchester Free Press

Sunday • August 16 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.XXXIII

Manchester, N.H.

OPINION: Who Decides What You Can Display on Your Own Property?

Granite Grok - 56 min 16 sec ago

PORT ST JOE, Fla. — The Rutherford Institute is urging the City of Port St. Joe, Fla., to work with a local business owner to find a prompt, practical resolution to a dispute involving a proposed 18-foot cross display on private property. Drawing on more than four decades of experience helping citizens and public officials ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Racial Profiling

Granite Grok - 2 hours 56 min ago

You won’t get much argument from anyone, including the proglodytes, about California’s progressive credentials. Blue states want to be California when they grow up, and Democrats in every state want to emulate it. The economic and social downward spiral associated with left-wing priorities only seems to catalyze their desire to duplicate it where they live. ... Read more

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KLAR: USPS Mail-In Ballot Rules Head to US Supreme Court

Granite Grok - Sat, 2026-08-15 21:00 +0000

Democrats’ knee-jerk opposition to President Donald Trump’s initiatives apparently even extends to the most sensible policies, including efforts to ensure that US elections are honest and transparent. Frustrated by congressional dithering over passage of the SAVE America Act, Trump issued an executive order that directed federal agencies to create a database of eligible voters to ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

SHURTLEFF: Pinch-Faced Leftist Woman and the Right to Bear Arms

Granite Grok - Sat, 2026-08-15 18:00 +0000

On July 3, I was manning an information table at Manchester, NH’s  Independence Day Celebration.   We had hundreds of attendees visit our table.  One of the items of interest on our table was a firing replica colonial-era musket.  Many of the visitors asked to be photographed holding the musket, which we were happy to do.  ... Read more

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MACDONALD: The Right to Keep and Bear…Surveillance and AI?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2026-08-15 16:00 +0000

It is entirely true that Flock Cameras are collecting all sorts of information about you and that, whether private or public, they create a database that could be used against you. You’ve heard stories, not all of which will be true. But the tech exists to do all the worst things you could imagine anyone ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

COLQUHOUN: Mismanaged Finances

Granite Grok - Sat, 2026-08-15 14:00 +0000

Nashua taxpayers deserve full transparency, accuracy, and candor from their elected officials. Recent developments, however, raise serious concerns about how Mayor Jim Donchess and the Board of Aldermen are managing the City’s finances, and how residents are being informed about those decisions. The FY2026 budget initially presented to residents totaled $474,895,381. Yet the City now ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Hiding What They All Knew

Granite Grok - Sat, 2026-08-15 11:00 +0000

A group in Maine called Progressive Victory, very likely a DSA front group, tried to warn Maine Democrats about Troy Jackson. Platner was out, and Jackson was the popular fake working-man replacement. But the so-called lumberjack had a history he’d have to pretend didn’t exist. You know, the old, you’re misrepresenting, misunderstanding, that didn’t happen ... Read more

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Imani: Texas Cannot Afford an Attorney General Who Won’t Fight

Granite Grok - Sat, 2026-08-15 02:00 +0000

Let’s be honest: following Ken Paxton is not a job for the faint of heart. For years, he took hit after hit from the left, from the media, and from the Austin establishment, and he still delivered victory after victory for Texas. He fought federal overreach in court and won. He fought the Biden administration ... Read more

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The New England Take: New Hampshire VETO DAY

Granite Grok - Sat, 2026-08-15 00:00 +0000

Should we give more time for a new trial? Also, Flock camera chaos! This week, on The New England Take, Veto Day at the New Hampshire State House will be August 18th, NH Rep. Buzz Scherr talks about NH HB1422 (relative to the time to petition for a new trial), a bipartisan bill. Also, we discuss ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Royce White and NH Dems

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-08-14 21:00 +0000

For decades, we had to put up with Democrats insisting that people could claim New Hampshire as their residence for voting purposes. And not just them Dems. Lawyers, Judges, College Administrators, activists, Republicans. You could live in New Hampshire for voting purposes, but you didn’t need to live here for any other purpose. Vote for ... Read more

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BROWN: Housing Debate, PT 2: Migration, Not ‘Local Control’ Drives Shortages

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-08-14 18:00 +0000

ICYMI – BROWN: Housing Debate, PT 1 – “Local Control” Is Best Control TL;DR; Home affordability in New Hampshire remains a key challenge.  State lawmakers have recently passed legislation to address the problem. The new laws presume that “regulatory overreach” by town boards is the main cause of our regional housing shortages.  But the problem ... Read more

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Friday Meme Thing

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-08-14 16:00 +0000

Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither vetted nor “fact-checked,” nor to be considered “research,” or taken seriously, 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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SMITH: The League of Women Voters

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-08-14 14:00 +0000

In 2023, while I was Alderman Dowd’s opponent, I received an invitation from the League of Women Voters (LWV) to attend a Wards 1, 2, and 6 candidate forum at the library, which is in trashy Ward 4 and not even near Ward 2. Despite their name, one should ask them whether they even know what ... Read more

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Morning Update: Fraud is a Felony

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-08-14 11:00 +0000

Today, on the morning update, the server got nuked, but that’s not stopping us – JDV and RFKJ are referring clinics and hospitals (by which they mostly mean Planned Parenthood) that neutered children to the DOJ for violating … the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic False Claims Act. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the ... Read more

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KLAR: MAHA and Chiropractors Agree

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-08-14 09:00 +0000

The cornerstone of the Make America Healthy Again movement is to prioritize preventive health practices in response to the nation’s chronic disease epidemic. This includes healthier diets, more exercise, expanded access to non-drug, non-surgical care, and chiropractic services. America’s senior citizens also deserve to see a chiropractor of their choosing. MAHA is moving swiftly to ... Read more

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CARDELLO: Why Anyone Who Mentions Medicare for All Can’t Be Taken Seriously

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-08-14 02:00 +0000

I realize that medical insurance coverage is not only a hot-button topic for most people, but medical insurance premiums are now one of the biggest entries on the family budget. The failed Obamacare, or supposed Affordable Care Act, has been anything but affordable for most Americans, and the costs of medical care are as difficult ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Not So Compassionate After All

Granite Grok - Fri, 2026-08-14 00:00 +0000

If you wanted to know what I thought about assisted Suicide, medically assisted dying (MAiD), or any aspect of government-managed consent to death, it’s easy. I don’t care how compassionate you think you are; it is not the sort of authority you want them to have. Curious contradictions abound as well. Most of the people ... Read more

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KLAR: A Food Problem

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-08-13 21:00 +0000

A Wise Nation Would Pay Bipartisan Attention The very term MAHA, an acronym for “Make America Healthy Again,” sows division in many quarters. But the sentiment should hardly be controversial. Whatever Americans might think of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.; Anthony Fauci; or the various partisan battles at HHS, the populist MAHA rebellion is rapidly and ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

BEST: AG Gordon MacDonald’s Office Didn’t Follow The Protocol

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-08-13 18:00 +0000

Re: 91-A Regarding James McLaughlin The memo from Gordon MacDonald that you provided me from April 2018 regarding the Laurie List is misrepresentative for the following reasons: AG Gordon MacDonald’s office didn’t follow the protocol itself. AG Gordon MacDonald publicly argued to keep the Laurie List private in August 2018 when he knew that James ... Read more

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MACDONALD: A Plane Full of Reporters

Granite Grok - Thu, 2026-08-13 16:00 +0000

Did you hear the one about Donald Trump’s secret flight out of Turkey? You probably did. He “switched” planes after evidence of a threat. Air Force One still flew, but without President Trump on it. But that’s not the story. The media is bent (in so many ways) because no one told them. I guess, ... Read more

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