Several times today, you will find detailed content on some of the significant issues with New Hampshire’s One Big Beautiful Bill (or not so much), HB2. It’s got some good, bad, and ugly, and we’ve covered some of that here and here, and while there’s a lot of good, and we need to take the points we can get, ... Read more

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How Hyper‑Planning Defines Liberty in New Hampshire I have come to realize that New Hampshire, far from being a bastion of freedom, is quietly becoming a textbook case of Charles Merriam’s vision of administrative progressivism. The technocratic restructuring of government that Merriam called for in the early twentieth century—replacing representative institutions with expert-driven administrative bodies—is ... Read more

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Mayor Jim Donchess’s recent decisions regarding Nashua’s Pride Parade have raised serious questions about his commitment to the First Amendment and his understanding of viewpoint neutrality in public forums. Taxpayer funds are being used to organize the Nashua Pride Parade, a public event that begins at City Hall Plaza and proceeds through downtown streets. Participation ... Read more

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While the last House session is still fresh in everyone’s mind, I want to take the opportunity to give my perspective on both the process and substance of HB1, HB2, and HB282. When I ran for Speaker this term, I attempted to keep the issues internally and within our caucus rather than putting it out ... Read more

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Many of us are at a point where being still for too long can cause us harm. You went to sleep feeling fine, but getting up is a form of torture that can last for minutes, hours, or even days: aches, pains, twinges, loss of mobility, or range of motion. Getting old, as some like ... Read more

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The state will start deducting 5% of some workers’ wages unless they actively opt out of VT Saves In 2023, the Vermont legislature passed a law spearheaded by Vermont State Treasurer Mike Piecack (D-VT), Act 43 – An act relating to the establishment of VT Saves. What it does is mandate that employers with more ... Read more

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Welcome back for another week of news and opinion from Jocelyn and her guest(s). Justice 4 All returns to its regular Wednesday schedule on 7/9 Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. ... Read more

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In November of 1970, The Sun (UK) began posting large pictures of topless glamour models on the third page of its tabloid. Readership soared, as did the practice among other British “news” tabloids. I’m not sure how the women felt about it, but men in England were buying newspapers to see these lovely ladies and, ... Read more

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’ve spent a lot of time discussing the Clean Heat Standard and Cap & Invest proposals to meet the mandates of the Global Warming Solutions Act, and have noted often but perhaps too obscurely in passing that even these monumentally expensive and disruptive programs won’t, on their own, do the job. Other programs, each with ... Read more

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My hero, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, Father of the Underground Church, freed from Communist prison hell in 1967, became the founder of “Jesus to the Communist World,” now “The Voice of the Martyrs.” In his book “In God’s Underground,” he describes an ordeal of torture administered by a communist Lieutenant that has gradually become too close ... Read more

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The company that makes Jaguars today isn’t the same as the one that founded it. The brand has been around for a century, having been owned by Ford Motor Company for a while, and then by Tata Motors. It’s Jaguar Landrover these days, but not for very much longer. The company promised to make all ... Read more

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A new bill gaining momentum in Washington is absolutely the right thing to do for America, but it will cause an uproar on the Left for so many reasons. First, the bill is sponsored by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who is probably the second most hated person in America, by the Left, after Donald Trump, ... Read more

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The World Health Organization is being very upfront about a problem it is having. Funding for Sustainable Development Goals is in decline. If someone doesn’t take action, there won’t be enough money to sustain the march toward global socialism. Never fear, they are here to help. In response, the World Health Organization (WHO) is leading ... Read more

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On this radiant Fourth of July, 2025, as I stand under the vast American sky, my heart swells with gratitude for the 249th anniversary of this nation’s independence. For someone like me, who left oppression in Iran decades ago, this day is more than a celebration of America’s birth. It’s also a personal testament to the ... Read more

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Legislating is hard work, and achieving the right success is even harder.  But our faithful advocate, Rep. Barbara Comtois, prime sponsor of HB233, the NH Vaccine Association transparency bill, achieved this year’s greatest legislative success in the battle to rein in runaway government and industry that work together with money and power to push vaccines ... Read more

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How could Julia Child and Groucho Marx be wrong? The Fourth of July is a firecracker of a feast, when billows of smoke rise from grills all over the long-liberated nation. Barbecued favorites, especially juicy hamburgers and hot dogs, are always the specials of the day. It’s the prime time to chow down on beef and lift up ... Read more

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Mama Maria’s Gyros Opens In Keene

Mama Maria’s Gyros and More opened this week In Keene, New Hampshire. Mama Maria & her food truck is permanently situated at 85 Emerald Street and will be open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 11am – 3pm and from 5pm – 8pm.

When I inquired about the unusual hours Mama Maria stated that she was following a trend in downtown Keene. Apparently many restaurants are now closing during the day and re-opening in the evenings.

Mama Maria’s adds to the growing list of convenience stores, restaurants, dentists, doctors, and other establishments taking cryptocurrencies in Keene, New Hampshire. Over the past decade many new businesses have come onboard with accepting cryptocurrencies and goldbacks. Despite a rocky handful of years with various restaurants and other businesses going under due to governmental policies and restrictions on operating Keene has remained a tiny bastion of freedom and peace when it comes to businesses taking non-government pro-peace currencies.

Mama Maria’s Also Accepts Monero & Goldbacks

If your looking to grab lunch while in Keene and Mama Maria’s is closed there are also a number of other restaurants you can check out that also accept cryptocurrencies. The Mighty Moose Mart convenience store at 152 Winchester Street in Keene for instance and Little Zoe’s at 149 Emerald St, Keene, NH (Center at Colony Mill). And we can’t forget there is also the Indian Curry restaurant at 149 Emerald St (Center at Colony Mill, back side). At the moment there may be a few others I’m forgetting about as well, for instance, there is a new baker in town that has begun accepting cryptocurrencies and goldbacks in Keene this month as well, at least for those in the know (the baker operates without a license in a bit of an act of civil disobedience to Keene’s food ordinances). 

One other interesting aspect of Mama Maria’s is that not only does Mama Maria take the frequently accepted cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Dash, but she’s also taking Monero. Mama Maria’s may be only the 2nd brick and mortar business in Keene to accept the more privacy respecting cryptocurrency that has taken the internet by storm. Unlike most cryptocurrencies it’s almost impossible to trace Monero.

Monero employs several cryptographic techniques to ensure that transaction details remain hidden. These include ring signatures, stealth addresses, and ring confidential transactions (RingCT). Ring signatures combine a sender’s output with decoy outputs, making it difficult to determine the true origin of a transaction. Stealth addresses generate unique one-time addresses for recipients, ensuring transactions cannot be linked back to a public address.

 

I will concede that politicians are not a trustworthy breed. They lie about their past to enhance their present. Ask Senator Dick Bluementhal (D-CT) about his tour in Vietnam. They distort their party affiliation to make themselves attractive to more people. Ask Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat candidate for mayor of New York City, who says ... Read more

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In celebration of American Independence Day, we bring you a boatload of memes, most of them having nothing at all to do with July 4th, and mostly the usual nonsense (over 60 bits of nonsense, actually). Bonus: I have some caption-this entries to share (requested in the Midweek memes post), and be sure to stick ... Read more

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Too many Americans do not realize how blessed our nation is, as it was founded upon the foundation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This Independence Day, let us not allow hidden forces of subversion to continue targeting these foundational roots of our moral strength. The subtle encroachment of rewriters of history, the educational establishment, ... Read more

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