With Vermont’s annual budget shrinking like CNN’s viewership, the native population is fleeing the state for more affordable regions like the Carolinas or Sudan.  The subsequent drop in tax revenue has many in Montpelier racing to figure out how to shore up the shortfall.  The avant-garde senator from Windsor County, Becca White (Windsor D-3), who came out as the ... Read more

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I stumbled across an article at Townhall written by Derek Hunter. It’s titled “How Democrats Sell Themselves. I’m not even sure how I ended up there, but the featured image is our very own Sock Puppet Chris Pappas. He’s the lead in the article. And how does he sell himself? According to Derek, well, he’s ... Read more

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I am not sad to see Dan Goldman lose his primary contest and his seat in Congress, but I feel like we have taken another step down the wrong road for America, as Brad Lander, the person who ousted Goldman, is a Socialist. Let’s stop playing games with semantics and drop the Democratic. These people ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, SB464 just became law, and it has quietly amended New Hampshire’s civil rights law to protect Free Speech (IMO) from spurious hate-speech and hate-crime prosecutions by the AG and whoever else might think to leverage imagined victimhood to suppress protected expression. 00:00 Pretending at Hate Speech and Hate Crime01:15 Civil ... Read more

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You are invited to attend a 250th Anniversary Celebration of America on August 1st in America’s hometown of Plymouth, MA. We will have our first event from 10 a.m. to 2 pm at Pilgrim Memorial Park, where our speakers will take us back in time from 1620 to 1776 and share the sacrifices our Pilgrims ... Read more

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“Like a cancer” America was built on a foundation that constitutional violations are a deadly disease. Give government an inch – and they’ll take a few thousand miles, and never stop. And before too long, it’ll get to a place where it’s no longer a Republic, but a long, slow coup. Or, as the Declaration ... Read more

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This week, on Right Side Up, Alison and Mike talk about the challenges for dairy farmers in VT. We also discuss some of the Governor’s vetoes. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, ... Read more

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While the star-studded A-listers fawned over Barry Obama and everyone spoke eloquently about this or that, and Obama talked about a world where politics wasn’t so contentious (despite being the great divider), a dirty little secret and an open lie went underreported. Jackson Park and the 19-acre “campus” surrounding that ugly-ass building include an Indigenous land acknowledgment. ... Read more

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July 1, 1776, witnessed one of the most consequential debates in American history. The venue was the floor of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The topic was whether America should declare independence. The principal participants were the passionate John Adams of Massachusetts for the affirmative, and the eloquent John Dickinson of Pennsylvania for the negative. In theory, the ... Read more

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Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither vetted nor “fact-checked,” nor to be considered “research,” or taken seriously, nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers, even if they make the proglodytes cry like little girls or pitch fits like overstimulated toddlers. Might be some duplicates from Monday ... Read more

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A missed opportunity for true leadership: Choosing repetition over courage while leaving privacy, fairness, and safety unprotected. As the NH State Representative for The Independent Women’s Network, an athlete, a girls’ and women’s gymnastics coach, and an advocate for women’s and girls’ single-sex spaces, I expected more from our first female republican governor. This was ... Read more

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Democrats suck for lots of reasons, not the least of which is this. Over Father’s Day weekend, 44* people were shot, 7 of them permanently. That’s more than three dozen gunshot wounds over a three-day period, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson took time to express his concern about trans-femicide. 00:00 Introduction and Overview of Current ... Read more

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For the Democrats, there is no deadline on challenging and rewriting history. They have shown that history to them is not an accurate accounting of events, but an arbitrary storyline that can be modified or edited to match their narrative. The Party that is in total flux and has nearly completed its transformation to the ... Read more

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Some people know me as a “numbers person,” and I might irritate many with my “today in history” posts, but let’s get the following item out of the way.  June 27 is Kelly Ayotte’s birthday.  There will be tweets, posts, and comments by her operatives and members of her fan club claiming how great she ... Read more

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Perfectly Breeding Socialists for America’s Grand Finale It has taken over 100 years, but much like the patient radical Islamists, the indoctrination is complete and bearing fruit. You have finally created a generation of Socialists who will band together to finish the task of taking down the evil and oppressive America. I preface this article ... Read more

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Cash-flow businesses are becoming one of America’s most attractive investment classes because they can generate income from existing customers, recurring revenue, and proven operations. Instead of relying only on startup growth, stock market returns, or real estate appreciation, more investors are buying profitable businesses with operating history, cash flow, employees, systems, and room for improvement. ... Read more

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Let’s open by applauding Europe and the EU for a significant change in direction. After years of badmouthing, trolling, and jailing its own people for objecting to the third-world invasion of the continent, EU ministers just approved a sweeping reform. It is time, it appears, to send them back. Too little too late, perhaps, but ... Read more

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A New Hampshire case study in vetting failures, sex-based privacy, and why women and girls deserve real boundaries in law. When Warning Signs Are Ignored: Laughton, SB 552, and the Failure to Protect Women New Hampshire women and girls should never have been put in the position of having to warn the public about a ... Read more

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I just read a great piece on Substack about what it’s like to break the chemical addiction cycle of the internet, and specifically, social media. The dopamine loop. The pleasure-pain balance. Interesting stuff. You all likely know by now that when your phone does that little alert thing, be it a beep, tweet, chirp, or ... Read more

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Unconditional submission” or “resistance by force.”  Thomas Jefferson, John Dickinson, and the Second Continental Congress said those were their two terrible options less than three months after the battles of Lexington and Concord and the “shot heard ‘round the world.” This is the story of the forgotten declaration in which they explained why they fought back. THE ... Read more

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