I watched and listened intently to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Facebook reel where he talks about his thoughts on the tragedy of 9/11. Mamdani is a lousy mayor, but a great actor. You can almost hear sincerity in his tone and words, but knowing what he has said in the past and what ... Read more

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Many VDC readers know me through my 2020 campaign for Lieutenant Governor, my time as president of the Ethan Allen Institute, or my other work in Vermont’s political and policy spheres. Today, I would like to tell you about an initiative that carries deep personal significance for me. RISE supports survivors of sexual violence – ... Read more

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Today on the Morning Update, we revisit a classic. Pocket-sized climate catastrophist turned Hamas spokesmuppet, Greta “Floatilla” Thunberg, might be a little bit less climate Marxist and a little bit more muslim apologist (Marxist), but she’s on the hook for how wrong she’s been, and it’s still hilarious. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if ... Read more

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It was a dark night on April 18, 1775, and the path was lonely and dangerous as Paul Revere mounted his horse in the little town of Lexington outside Boston. He rode through the woods and small hamlets on small roads lit only by the moon to let the good people of Massachusetts, including the ... Read more

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New Hampshire has already made an important choice about artificial intelligence. Under RSA 5-D, when a state-agency AI system produces a recommendation or decision that cannot be reversed once implemented, a responsible human must review it before it takes effect. The law specifically points to rights, biometric identification, critical infrastructure, law enforcement, and legal interpretation as ... Read more

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During the past week, New Hampshire progressives have gleefully shared an internet post that ranks New Hampshire fourth in the nation in “lifetime taxes” paid.  The analysis itself is, to use the technical term, bogus. The social media treatment of it is even worse.  On social media, “lifetime taxes paid” very quickly morphed into “lifetime ... Read more

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One of my superfans sent me a link to a conversation on WMUR between Fred Kocker and Brad Reynolds. The topic? “How New Hampshire ranks last in the U.S. for state support of public education with property taxpayers anteing up $7 of every $10 of cost.” The headline really sells it, though. “The Granite State ... Read more

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My breach with Islam started as far back as I could understand things. More to the point, I never embraced Islam in the first place, and I speak for many Iranians. My Early Life While I was born into a non-practicing Shiite Muslim family in Iran, as children, no one within the family forced Islam ... Read more

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The Democrats have nothing to run on except the impossible, unicorn-like notion that if you elect them this time, they will do the opposite of everything they’ve ever done. No Democrat is going to make your life cost less; they are going to raise taxes and impose more regulations. No Democrat is going to reduce ... Read more

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I moved to New Hampshire from Massachusetts 45 years ago because the Granite State was a solid red state then and more aligned with my conservative beliefs. The state has evolved, like so many red states have, to purple and even blue as people move in for a better quality of life. Many of these ... Read more

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This week, on GrokTALK!, the Political Left and their Handmaids in the media keep telling you how they feel about Islam and gays, and you’d be wise to listen before it’s too late. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Links: Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and ... Read more

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Vermont’s Big Oil shakedown should meet a similar fate. Another (BIG) one bites the dust. New York, like Vermont, passed a Climate Superfund law back in 2024 in hopes of making “Big Oil pay” for damage these doom-and-gloomers allege is caused by our burning fossil fuels to survive winter, do our jobs, transport ourselves from ... Read more

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Democrats and their union allies are racing to constitutionalize their power base with Vermont’s Prop 3. This amendment would lock the right to organize, join unions, and force collective bargaining into the state constitution while explicitly banning any future right-to-work laws. In plain terms: once it’s in, no legislature can ever make union membership optional or stop ... Read more

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This week, on GrokTALK!, Trump’s EPA tries to save recycling by reclassifying it as a manufacturing process instead of waste management. I’ve also got some great news about the next generation of Electric Vehicles. Plus a rant on how Democrat behavior, from Climate Cult antics to AI scaremongering, proves they hate America and Americans. 00:00 ... Read more

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TL;DR: Two months ago, I warned New Hampshire about what it needs to do to end homelessness. Stop subsidizing it. Get the government out of funding entirely and instead look at incentives that encourage private funding. [W]e don’t want anyone to be homeless unless that’s how they choose to live, which no one ever measures. ... Read more

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The smell from his record, 12 years ago, still wafts into today. I didn’t forget, and neither did GraniteGrok. We all took potshots at this anti-Second Amendment dude – WHY vote for someone who was antithetical to our beliefs even though he had an R next to his name? Ayup, he really didn’t like that ... Read more

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Saturday was a great day for NH because it’s the day Annie Kuster became ineligible to be a judge.  You might be thinking, “So what, she’s been a private citizen for almost 2 years, and everyone eventually turns 70, assuming that they live that long.”  Annie was an adoption lawyer, and family court is in ... Read more

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Today, on the Morning Update, Nike, which has a Cinderella story in the athletic shoe business, is back to sweeping up cinders after a long series of bad ideas that cost them $ 230 billion in cap value in just a few short years. Did they pull a Bud Light? Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble ... Read more

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