On July 31, 2025, I appeared before a new judge in Superior Court South for a hearing on a motion to disqualify Attorneys Bolton and Leonard from my cases. I filed that motion because both attorneys have repeatedly shown an inability to remain professionally detached, as officers of the court are required to do. Over ... Read more

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his week, we look at the left's violent rhetoric in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and how it has catalyzed the right-wing culture counter-revolution in America, and beyond.

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People today have the attention span of a child, bouncing from one news story to the next. Only a major happening can survive the evening news to live another day. The killing of Charlie Kirk is more than a major happening, and you can feel the momentum of this story building to a crescendo of ... Read more

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Keene City Councilor Bobby Williams is facing mounting pressure to resign following a series of inflammatory online comments that residents say crossed the line of decency and decorum. In posts made on his personal Facebook account, Williams referred to conservative commentator Charlie Kirk as a “dirtbag” and a “piece of [expletive],” adding that Kirk “promoted ... Read more

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Welcome to the Monday after a bizarre and unpleasant week that took a surprisingly positive turn. The world, as they say, goes on, but not unchanged, it would seem, and that includes people, groups, nations, and memes. . . . . . . . . . Monday is our “lite” meme day (only about thirty). ... Read more

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On August 4, 2025, the Personnel and Administrative Affairs Committee reviewed an ordinance sponsored by Alderman Rick Dowd to prohibit flags, banners, and signs in the Aldermanic Chamber. The ordinance was poorly drafted and, according to the New England First Amendment Coalition, raised serious constitutional concerns about viewpoint discrimination. Despite the importance of the issue, ... Read more

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Free speech needs protecting, but we have to accept that it is not absolute. It is also critical to grasp, as a reminder, that private entities are not bound by it. Actual defamation is not protected, nor is demonstrable incitement to violence. This last bit is crucial as regards the celebratory social updates, as well ... Read more

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A recent study raised alarming concerns about risks to infants exposed to electromagnetic radiation, including Wi-Fi signals and cellphones. Children exposed to high levels of electromagnetic field radiation displayed developmental difficulties at significantly higher rates than others. Numerous studies have found associations between electromagnetic radiation exposure and leukemia, brain tumors, and dementia. As 5G is ... Read more

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This week, Charlie Kirk’s Legacy: A Nation at a Crossroads. 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. Comment or submit Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube for new episodes ... Read more

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Numerous polls and studies and research and you know the deal, have come out over the past fifteen years, telling us “college students” oppose free speech. Many still do, and often believe violence is a suitable means for silencing opposing political speech. It’s not very American of them. The founding fathers would likely have them ... Read more

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The Left and Right cannot agree on whether it is day or night, but if there is one thing both sides can agree on, it is that this country is broken. Call it fractured, divided, polarized, or any other adjective you can conjure up; it is broken. We are well past civil discourse, and you ... Read more

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Two and a half years ago, I wrote a piece titled “Auditors Report: Just How Bad Lawmakers Screwed Up the Broadband Buildout.” This followed a post nearly two years before that, when Covid was raging, schools were closed, and kids in rural communities were doing their online homework from their cars in McDonald’s parking lots, ... Read more

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If you really believe that ‘there is no place in our country for political violence’, then you can’t support taxation.  Because taxation — forcing people to give you their money, to spend it on what you want, by threatening them with harm if they don’t give it to you — is perhaps the oldest and ... Read more

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If you have apples and oranges, no sensible person will try to tell you neither of them is a fruit, but neither can either one be the other. An apple cannot be an orange, nor an orange an apple. This does not prevent someone from claiming otherwise, but the claim does not make it so. ... Read more

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Dear Members of the Executive Council, As you get ready to consider the re-appointment of John Formella to the Attorney General’s position, I urge you to consider the following. (Please note that this is not personal against John Formella, but it is an indictment against the Attorney General’s office over the last several AGs in ... Read more

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This week on The NE Take, New Hampshire House Majority Leader Jason Osborne gives a preview of what to expect for the fall session, with topics ranging from education funding, school choice, judicial reform, and economic development. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, ... Read more

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No, I don’t know. I have no solution. But I do know one thing: The problem is not firearms. Firearms are tools, nothing more. They cannot perform a task independent of a human being. They are, in essence, “slaves” to the human that owns them. The problem is not whether a firearm shoots a small ... Read more

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A recent survey from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University noted that about 50 percent of Americans, and WAY TOO MANY Christians, believe that they are perfect and have no need of improvement. This is false doctrine, and it is our objective at First Fruits Ministries to correct false doctrine by teaching the Truth. As ... Read more

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I’m absolutely horrified, disgusted, enraged, and saddened to my core by this heinous, senseless tragedy. What has happened to basic humanity? We must stop hating one another for our beliefs and our political opinions. We must not turn to violence and murder, and assassination for speaking honestly and truthfully about our culture. The Main Stream ... Read more

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MANCHESTER, NH September 12, 2025–A history teacher at Memorial High School in Manchester has celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk in his classes.  According to information received by Girard at Large early yesterday evening and shared on the Girard at Large TV show, Jason Paige is reported to have rejoiced in the political slaying of Kirk.  According to www.opengovpay.com, Paige earns over $85,000 per ... Read more

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