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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For two months, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s bobblehead was a prominent feature next to the sacrificial altars of Planned Parenthood supporters. After Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill defunding Planned Parenthood, which President Trump signed, the Obama appointee decided it was unconstitutional. For reasons only her law school and law professors can unravel, ... Read more

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Thursday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing, about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at times felt more like an unruly boxing match than a vibrant exchange of opinions in the nation’s capital. In the center ring – Kennedy sparred with a determined phalanx of outraged Democratic senators before the Senate Finance Committee. The ... Read more

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No ManchTalk this week, but AJ put together a special edition of The New England Take in response to the Charlie Kirk Assassination. A. J. dives into the tragic, political assassination of ‪@turningpointusa‬‘s Charlie Kirk. Does this open the door for more violence and toxicity? The regular weekly installment of NE Take will still air ... Read more

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Threatening broadcast licenses is a bad idea As much as I would like to see biased networks with news divisions pretending to be unbiased get what’s coming to them, the continued threats by the Trump Administration and the Federal Communications Commission are beginning to bother me. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said in an ... Read more

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Online gambling can be confusing, with many casino sites vying for attention. Players often want excitement, perhaps rewards, but security should probably come first. That’s why trustworthy casino review sites usually seem helpful to new players today. Trusted review sites act like guidebooks, helping to separate the good casinos from the risky ones. They don’t ... Read more

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I’ve been checking the EC hearing calendar daily as the one for Gould’s judge appointment is tomorrow morning, erroneously assuming that Formella would get his sometime shortly after that.  Then I stumbled upon a quiet little nugget while reading a NH Journal article on the embattled Karen Liot Hill (KLH) announcing that she’s recusing herself ... Read more

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Remembering includes the reasons for living, and one of them, just ask Turning Point US, which has produced plenty of them, is memes.

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I had the good fortune to meet Charlie Kirk during one of his visits to Vermont.  I drove over an hour to meet the young man who was setting conservative politics on fire with his impassioned speeches and indefatigable debating style.  Where was he speaking?  At the appropriately named Ignite Church in Williston.  That day’s ... Read more

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MACDONALD: "Expose Charlie's Murderers" Website, Shares Content From Those Celebrating political Violence

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Timberlane School District teacher Ed Tinney is so brave. Speaking truth to power. It’s true. He reportedly had himself a little rant over on Facebook about justice and rights and stuff and junk at the end of which the English teacher said, “And yeah, I’m glad he’s dead.” Poor Ed. Life is so unfair. He’s ... Read more

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Eleven years back, John W. Whitehead warned in his weekly column about the danger from government’s proliferating use of automated license plate readers across America. Whitehead included these devices among the tools being employed in the construction of what he termed an “electronic concentration camp.” This “electronic concentration camp,” wrote Whitehead, “as I have dubbed the surveillance ... Read more

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