The Manchester Free Press

Saturday • September 6 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XXXVI

Manchester, N.H.

GrokTALK! – Don’t Drive Angry

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-05-16 00:00 +0000
This week on GrokTALK!, my guest is…me. Yes, it’s just me. The topic is the rising desire to cajole the mysterious political middle and the rise of the Woke Right. I try to figure out what it means and provide a possible path for us to consider to avoid or prevent the radicalization at both ... Read more

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Bradley: Trump, Kennedy and Oz v. The Pharmaceutical Companies

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-05-16 00:00 +0000
According to some historians, the Smoot-Howley tariffs caused the Great Depression. Since then, mention of the word “ Tariff” has brought to mind the “SCREAM,” a famous work of art by Edward Munch. The painting reveals a figure on a bridge, holding his head with an expression of anguish and isolation! The Mainstream Media’s (MSM) ... Read more

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Video: Watch the Debate on HB 649 (Car Inspection Repeal)

N.H. Liberty Alliance - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:13 +0000

NHLA would like to thank Senators Tim McGough, Keith Murphy and Victoria Sullivan who courageously broke with the rest of the Senate to oppose the re-refer motion. We also want to thank Senator Tim McGough, who made an excellent floor speech in support of the liberty community on this issue.
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Free Speech Lawsuit Challenges New Hampshire School Board’s Censorship during Trans Athlete Debate

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-05-15 22:00 +0000
Beth Scaer was silenced and threatened with police intervention after referring to a biologically male athlete who plays on the girls’ soccer team as a “tall boy” during public comment period. New London, NH — Beth Scaer spoke out against male athletes in girls’ high school sports at a local school board meeting—but the board silenced ... Read more

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MacDonald: Free Speech Pope?

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-05-15 20:00 +0000
Leave it to an American Pontif to tell the assembled members of world media that free speech and a free press are not just essential but that it “does not seek consensus at all costs, does not use aggressive words, does not follow the culture of competition, and never separates the search for truth from ... Read more

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Bowman: As Originally Required

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-05-15 18:00 +0000
There was a hidden lesson within Trump’s “too big to rig” rhetoric, which modern-day talkers and experts will never mention for obvious reasons.  Simply stated, it is that unity equals strength and together we can prevail.  Trump’s campaign slogan is an offshoot of our forefathers’ belief that freedom will only prevail when the citizenry is ... Read more

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Cardello:Will Anyone Be Held Accountable For The Biden Conspiracy

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-05-15 16:00 +0000
Starting about a month ago, a new tell-all book from someone within the Joe Biden administration or the mainstream media hit the shelves every Tuesday. These books give us a firsthand look into the Biden White House and Biden himself, documenting an honest assessment of not only when Biden began his mental decline but also ... Read more

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Smith: Call Tara Reardon “Mrs Soprano”

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-05-15 14:00 +0000
Let’s get the “say something nice” part out of the way before the attack.  I met Community Loan Fund lobbyist Tara Reardon on 2/15/23 after a Senate Executive Departments committee hearing for a trailer park bill.  She supported what I said into the mic and followed me out into the hall and introduced herself when ... Read more

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Scaer: Planned Parenthood Northern New England Continues to Implode

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-05-15 10:00 +0000
On April 1, Federal Title X, family planning funds were frozen for Planned Parenthood Northern New England (PPNNE) facilities. $2 million in funds were frozen in Maine and $500,000 in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Executive Council stopped distributing Title X family planning funds to the PPNNE facilities four years ago because they provide abortions. ... Read more

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Dear Grafton County Commissioners & Delegates,

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-05-15 02:00 +0000
As you may or may not know, virtual, online, ZOOM Commissioners’ Meetings were “blacked-out,” “shut down,” canceled,” by “the Chairman of the Board,” Martha McLeod,  as of April 22, 2025 so that no Grafton County residents can see & listen to the meetings in real time.  This type of censorship is something that is done ... Read more

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Podcast: Justice 4 All

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-05-15 00:00 +0000
Welcome back for another week of news and opinion from Jocelyn and her guest Robbie Stewart. Authors’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Agree? Disagree? Submit Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com – We want to hear from you, too! Follow these links for ... Read more

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Waste of the Day: “Free” Tax Returns Cost Too Much

Granite Grok - Thu, 2025-05-15 00:00 +0000
Topline: The IRS estimated in December 2024 that its new Direct File tax return system would cost the government $61.1 million for an estimated 2.3 million users, or about $27 per person. But the pilot program ended up costing about $238 per person who used the system to file their taxes, according to a report from the Treasury ... Read more

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Bernie and the Privileged Political Class

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-05-14 22:00 +0000
A teachable moment (for others, not Bernie, who will never learn). Our senior senator made big news last week in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. When the anchor confronted Sanders about the $221,000 he and Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez have spent so far on private jets during their Fighting the Oligarchy tour, as ... Read more

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MacDonald: They Want to Get Arrested So, Arrest Them

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-05-14 20:00 +0000
No Proglodyte resume is complete without at least one arrest. Deranged Tesla-defacing felons are proud bearers of this distinction, but that fad has lost its shine. The latest thing is ICE officers and immigration deportation. That Mayor in New Jersey got himself a date with a judge, and that judge in Milwaukee’s weepy arrest photo ... Read more

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Cardello: Nancy Pelosi Is A Convenient Catholic

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-05-14 18:00 +0000
The College of Cardinals had not checked their email yet, as their isolation ended after electing a successor to fill the spot vacated by the death of Pope Francis, and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was urging the new Pope, Leo XIV, to intervene with Donald Trump and try to negotiate relief for anyone labeled an illegal ... Read more

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Free stater Alec found not guilty in trial over possession of weed in town of Jaffrey: Cop can’t distinguish between legal CBD flower and illegal cannabis

Free Keene - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:26 +0000

Police officer: Scott Merrell

Gang member Scott Merrell testifies against free stater Alec in trial involving possession of weed

Charge: Non-criminal violation for possession of weed

Video: Watch the full trial video

On May 28th, 2023 at around 12:30AM free stater Alec was pulled over for speeding doing 51 mph in a 40 mph zone. After running Alec’s plate dispatch informed the officer that the vehicle was stolen. Officer Scott Merrell then proceeded to ask Alec to step out of the car based on a false belief the vehicle or registration were stolen.

During the trial the officer testified that “I saw what appeared to be a glass pipe in the operators lap with green vegetative flakes around him” and according to the officer when Alec stepped out of the vehicle the glass pipe fell to the ground.

After further investigation it turned out the vehicle was not stolen.

At trial the prosecutor questioned the officer asking various questions about the stop.

Prosecutor: “Smelled like marijuana, looked like marijuana?”

Officer Scott Merrell: Yes. I estimated the weight to be 0.2 grams.

When the prosecutor was done Alec proceeds to cross examine officer Scott Merrell:

Alec: Are you familiar with CBD flower?

Prosecutor objection: Relevance your honor.

Alec: The relevance is CBD flower is marijuana, but it’s legal.

Judge: I’ll allow him to answer the question if he knows.

Officer Scott Merrell: Vaguely.

Alec: So you don’t know what it is?

Officer Scott Merrell: It pertains to cannabis and its use as herbal medicine is my understanding.

Alec: And do you have any expertise in deciphering whether or not CBD uhh is not in fact a THC illegal cannabis flower?

Prosecutor objection: Calls for speculation.

Judge: If he knows he can answer.

Officer Scott Merrell: I suppose I’d refer to the lab or something.

Alec: Are you aware you can walk into various stores in the state of New Hampshire and purchase what is called CBD flower?

Officer Scott Merrell: From my understanding CBDs are legal in some context.

Alec: So you don’t have any ability to determine whether something is CBD what is illegal here THC above 23%?

Officer Scott Merrell: I guess I’d need a specific instance.

Alec: OK, if there were two pieces of cannabis sitting on a table and one were CBD which is illegal and one was was 23% THC and legal can you tell the difference , based on the odor?

Officer Scott Merrell: Maybe.

Judges verdict: Not guilty

Midweek Memes?

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:00 +0000
Don’t get used to it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Klar: Public School Gaslights Community after Disciplining Student for Conservative T-Shirt

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-05-14 14:00 +0000
A superintendent and an attorney for a public school that prohibited a young student from wearing a shirt that states “There are only two genders” now claim the school did not discipline her, and that it has consistently “[done its] very best to protect free speech in schools.” These officials are using local media to ... Read more

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MacDonald: A Strange Hill Named ‘Dugan’ To Die On

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-05-14 12:00 +0000
Six years ago, in Massachusetts, Newton District Judge Shelley M. Joseph knowingly helped an illegal criminal alien escape ICE by escorting him through her chambers and out the Jury door. She turned herself in and was indicted on four charges but managed to slow-walk her way to a dismissal by the then-Biden DOJ in 2022. ... Read more

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Cardello: Critiquing Religion Is Fair Game For Liberals

Granite Grok - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:00 +0000
I do not often write about personal topics, but there have been occasions where my personal experience tied into the day’s conversation. Coming off of Easter, Passover, the election of a new Pope, and the coming to a crossroads in religion for myself, today’s article is an exception. I enjoy reading comments in response to ... Read more

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