The Manchester Free Press

Thursday • November 20 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XLVII

Manchester, N.H.

MACDONALD: Like Clockwork!

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-11-02 22:00 +0000

Like clockwork, it is once again time to talk about Daylight Saving Time. And why the heck not? You just moved the clocks back an hour to Eastern Standard Time—the time it’s supposed to be. And maybe you managed to milk that extra hour for something or not. I wake up an hour earlier and ... Read more

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BRADLEY: Oh, Baseball World Series Time Again!

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-11-02 20:00 +0000

Oh, Baseball World Series time again! Seventy years ago, baseball was America’s favorite pastime.   As little boys, on our way home from school, we ran to the Chevy dealership on Delaware Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware, to watch the game. Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Moose Skowron were the stars we hoped to see win ... Read more

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SMITH: Attention Air Traffic Controllers And Animal Lovers

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-11-02 19:00 +0000

Think of the Dos Equis guy because I don’t always agree with Osborne, but when I do, it’s because he said something good.  In a recent tweet, he said, “Anyone else wonder why all the attention on the SNAP corporate welfare program and not the federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay?”  I’ve ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Watch the Democrat Agenda Kill More Americans

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-11-02 17:00 +0000

The idea that Democrats care about anything or anyone but themselves, and that does not include regular, everyday, registered Democrats, is absurd. Nothing they do or care about ends up improving their lives, care, or safety—quite the opposite. You may remember the deaths of a family by a foreign-born trucker who failed his written exam ten times. ... Read more

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CARDELLO: Washington is Shut Down, But We Cannot Get it to Shut Up

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-11-02 15:00 +0000

I have found this recent government shutdown to be the most frustrating period in all my years of following politics. This current shutdown is not a situation that can be negotiated, for what the Democrats want is not open to discussion by the Republicans. The Democrats believe they have the leverage in this tug-of-war, and ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

MACDONALD: When They/Them Call You a “Book Banner!”

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-11-02 12:00 +0000

The groomers and pedophiles have been allowed to spool out more than enough rhetorical rope… I started a research project last month, during which I suffered through the intolerable nonsense of a series of websites listing banned books in the United States. I won’t share the links because the internet age affords you tools to ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

MACDONALD: Do NH Dems Think They Can Get Their ‘Primary’ Groove Back?

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-11-02 02:00 +0000

There is a state law that says New Hampshire has to be the first primary in the presidential election process. This means that no matter when another state sets its primary date, New Hampshire has to set one earlier. You can say what you like, but NH has made it a statutory requirement that we ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

NE Take: The Right Angle” Speaks the Truth, Even If Some Outlets Don’t like It

Granite Grok - Sun, 2025-11-02 00:00 +0000

This week on NE Take, Editor-in-Chief Chris Thompson of The Granite Eagle breaks down what they do, why Chris stepped away from the New Hampshire Union Leader, and the future of Republican Politics after Trump.  Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or ... Read more

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OPINION: Something That Scott Brown And John E Sununu Have In Common

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-11-01 21:00 +0000

Scott Brown and John E. Sununu have something in common. They both appear to be deeply despised by factions of the eclectic New Hampshire Republican Party. More specifically, the libertarians who choose to run as Republicans (“Liberty Reps”) despise Brown, while MAGA-Republicans (populists) despise Sununu. Here is what a libertarian-influencer thinks of former Senator Brown: ... Read more

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The Ever-Living Podcast: NHRTL Banquet Recap

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-11-01 19:00 +0000

In this uplifting episode of the Ever-Living Podcast, hosts Xindi, Jason, and Jessica recap New Hampshire Right to Life’s highly successful annual banquet, which drew a record number of students and honored faithful pro-life leaders. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or ... Read more

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KLAR: Good Chemicals, Bad Chemicals – Where Will the EPA Fall?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-11-01 18:00 +0000

The old adage about playing “good cop, bad cop” to elicit a result offers a metaphorical counterpart in an ongoing challenge to EPA approval processes for new chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Enacted during President Trump’s first administration to impose stricter oversight of new chemicals, TSCA may be defanged under his current ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Will Fewer US Hurricane Landfalls Prove “Global Warming” Too?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-11-01 16:00 +0000

The Climate Cult’s entirely faith-based dogma, which includes the computer model Psalms, Book of Algore, and the Hockey Stick Scriptures of Mann (from which Mann Made Global Warming is derived). It fits the framework of a mythology (in every spiritual sense). Nothing about it has to be right because belief is based on faith, and ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

OPINION: The Erosion Of Local Zoning Control In New Hampshire

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-11-01 14:00 +0000

The state legislature has passed several laws this year that limit the ability of towns and cities to control zoning — for example, towns must allow multifamily residential development in commercially zoned areas where infrastructure exists. HB 577 (Chapter 197, 2025) Requires towns/cities to allow either an attached or a detached accessory dwelling unit (ADU) ... Read more

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A Supreme Move

Free Keene - Sat, 2025-11-01 12:02 +0000

Does Part I, Article 10 of the New Hampshire Constitution mean anything other than feel good rhetoric to those of us who want fair government?

Let us find out: Motion For Interlocutory Transfer.

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But wait — it gets worse.

In 1975, the NH Supreme Court (State v. Miller) quietly expanded police arrest power to any violation — even spitting on the sidewalk.  Miller said violations stay in the “criminal process” — so cops can arrest, even though there’s no jail, no criminal record, no real harm. But Miller never asked the 1784 question: “Where in the Constitution does it say you can seize a free man for a fine?” Answer: Nowhere.

Part I, Article 10 says no arrest but for crime or breach of the peace.

The Framers didn’t write “submit to any badge with probable cause.”

They wrote: “Submission to arbitrary power is slavish and absurd.” This case isn’t just about my petition.

It’s about whether New Hampshire will keep arresting people for being human. Stay tuned. The Attorney General’s response is coming. And when it does — we’ll show them 1784 in high definition.

MACDONALD: Woke Dr. Who & Woke Disney Part Ways (Declining Ratings)

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-11-01 11:00 +0000

We like to give the social-justice warriors at Netflix a hard Time, but Disney, as a platform, has lost a lot of credibility in the past decade, all because it let the #Wokeasaurus in the door. Its reimaging of the Star Wars universe may have resulted in some spectacular backgrounds and film-making innovations (something the ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

ROPER: Gates Cops to Climate Change Hoax

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-11-01 02:00 +0000

After decades of spewing – and funding — climate alarmist rhetoric of the most virulent kind, multi-billionaire Bill Gates shocked the Left by admitting what some of us have been saying all along: Yeah, the climate is changing (it does that), but it’s totally manageable and not a crisis. So, y’all just chill the heck ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

The Independents w. Carla Gericke

Granite Grok - Sat, 2025-11-01 00:00 +0000

Welcome to the launch of The Independents with Carla Gericke—the show for New Hampshire’s largest voting bloc: the Undeclareds. In this premiere episode, Carla dives into what makes the state’s independents tick, from political philosophy to practical freedom. We’ll also explore New Hampshire’s first 3D-printed home now on the market (and available for Bitcoin!), recap ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Shutdown Dems are Fighting To Take Away Health Care

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-10-31 21:00 +0000

A month into the Schumer Shutdown, and Democrats are still trying to distract you from how full of shit they are. Oh look, Trump is destroying the White House (with donor money), which was a super cool narrative that gave the internet an excuse to point out that most Presidents do something (Barry added an ... Read more

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Granite Discourse: Kristin Noble

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-10-31 19:00 +0000

On this installment of Granite Disourse, our guest is Kristin Noble. She is a NH state rep currently serving her 2nd term for Hillsborough County District 2. She is the vice chair for the Education Policy and Administration committee and was named the NH Liberty Alliance 2025 legislator of the year. You can find out ... Read more

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BANFIELD: When Taxpayers Pay Both Sides

Granite Grok - Fri, 2025-10-31 18:00 +0000

The Growing Cost of Legal Battles in New Hampshire Schools As school boards and budget committees across New Hampshire begin preparing next year’s budgets, local taxpayers are taking a closer look at how their property taxes are being spent. One area drawing quiet but growing concern is the rising cost of legal expenses in public ... Read more

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