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Saturday • October 10 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.XLI

Manchester, N.H.

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OPINION: Integrity and a Commitment to a Fair, Open Process

1 hour 1 min ago

Two quick disclaimers before diving into this post: First, this is a modified version of my comment to the board on Oct.1. I addressed them publicly and in person, so this is not some keyboard warrior controversy. Second, some school board members think pointing out bad behavior is worse than the bad behavior itself, so ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Obama’s Lie-Barry ‘IS’ the Democrat Party

3 hours 1 min ago

Just months after opening the Obama presidential lie-barry is experiencing an employee revolt. Working for a half-black Marxist isn’t apparently what the glossy brochures promised. Not a surprise, given that the actual presidency wasn’t either. Issues with workloads and benefits have led to a ‘high turnover rate’ among employees, with many more ‘continuing to leave ... Read more

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BOLDIN: James Madison’s Forgotten Blueprint

5 hours 1 min ago

How to Stop the Feds Going to the federal government to convince the federal government to limit its own power? That’s not just bad strategy and a lost cause. It’s dangerous to the Constitution and liberty.  James Madison gave us the answer – a blueprint for beating the feds without relying on the feds to ... Read more

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MACDONALD: No, You’re Not In The Wrong Body

8 hours 1 min ago

I’d jokingly suggest a trigger warning, but if you saw the headline and are that sort, you’ve already been triggered. Hey. You be you, snowflake, but it’s true. The problem isn’t your body; it’s your mind. As I noted here, You know that “I’m in the wrong body scenario.” Like you should have been born ... Read more

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MACDONALD: Twice as Hard for Half as Much

17 hours 1 min ago

I’m not sure which decade it was, maybe the eighties, perhaps the nineties, but there was a buxom red-headed (ish) comedienne with a Southern drawl. She was funny. One of her jokes was about smoking and how some people preferred light cigarettes. The punch line was, why would anyone suck twice as hard for half ... Read more

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The New England Take: Everything Wrong with Consent Culture

19 hours 1 min ago

This week on The New England Take, A. J. explains why everyone involved in the Cornell Seven situation is in the wrong and how America has lost its morality. Join the Substack: https://newenglandtake.com Email me at aj@newenglandtake.com Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, ... Read more

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MACDONALD: The Climate News Network

Fri, 2026-10-09 21:00 +0000

I typically write a few dozen articles every summer and fall about the Handmaiden media’s hyperbolic coverage of the Atlantic hurricane season. We didn’t have one this year. It’s approaching mid-October, and we’ve got our first of the year. And sure, yes, it absolutely has to have a mostly unpronounceable name. Isaias. How about Cheniquwa ... Read more

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The Casino Loyalty App That Logged Every Free Drink: How Player-Tracking Data Is Ending Up in DUI and Dram Shop Cases

Fri, 2026-10-09 19:44 +0000

In 2023, a public-health group sued to force the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to hand over anonymized player-tracking data that a state gaming statute had already required casinos to collect. The fight was about research access, but the underlying fact is the real story: casinos now keep a detailed, time-stamped ledger of what individual players did ... Read more

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How AI Answers Are Pulling Client Reviews Out of Context and Into the First Impression

Fri, 2026-10-09 19:42 +0000

AI answer engines are already quoting your client reviews back to prospects, and most firms have no idea which ones. A prospect types a question into ChatGPT or lands on a Google AI Overview, and the model stitches together a response from whatever text it can find under the firm’s name. A Google review from ... Read more

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How the Off-Channel Communications Sweep Is Pulling Employees’ Own Devices Into Securities Investigations

Fri, 2026-10-09 19:38 +0000

One text thread on a personal phone can cost a bank nine figures, cost a supervisor a job, and pull a rank-and-file employee into a securities investigation that does not care whose SIM card carried the message. Since late 2021, penalties tied to off-channel communications have climbed past a billion dollars across Wall Street, and ... Read more

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How Big-Box Retailers’ Autonomous Cleaning Robots Are Logging Every Wet Spot — and Erasing It Days Later

Fri, 2026-10-09 19:32 +0000

A fall in a big-box aisle can cost a shopper a broken hip, months of rehab, and a five-figure medical tab before the insurance letters even start. The robot humming past the produce section a dozen times a day may have seen the wet spot that caused it. It may have logged the exact minute, ... Read more

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No Federal Speed Cap: Why a Truck’s Governor Setting Still Matters After a Crash

Fri, 2026-10-09 19:25 +0000

A plaintiff’s investigator is standing in a tow yard with a laptop, a Nexiq cable, and a preservation letter that went out to the carrier the same afternoon of the crash. Before anyone talks about black ice, cell records, or the driver’s logbook, one number comes off that truck’s engine computer: the top speed the ... Read more

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The Vaccine Court Nobody Talks About: How the 2026 ACIP Shakeup and a Shifting Injury Table Are Quietly Changing Who Can File — and Who Gets Paid

Fri, 2026-10-09 19:21 +0000

The federal ‘vaccine court’ has eight judges. Eight special masters, appointed to four-year terms, decide every vaccine injury claim filed in the United States, and the pipeline feeding them is about to change in ways most people filing a claim have no idea about. That matters to anyone who thinks they were hurt by a ... Read more

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The Sponsor Is Now the One Being Interviewed: How the Return of In-Person I-864 Review Is Changing Family Green Card Cases

Fri, 2026-10-09 19:17 +0000

Is the U.S. citizen sponsor going to be questioned at a family green card interview now, or is it still just the immigrant relative? Short answer: both of you should be ready to answer, and the sponsor’s Form I-864 is the reason. Under updated USCIS guidance that took effect September 18, 2026, an insufficient Affidavit ... Read more

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The ABS Data on the Bike Is Now the First Witness

Fri, 2026-10-09 18:58 +0000

The rider’s own motorcycle is now the most detailed witness at the scene of the crash, and that changes how these cases get fought. For years, a motorcycle wreck was reconstructed from tire marks, gouges in the pavement, a bent fork, and whatever the car driver remembered. The bike itself had almost nothing to say. ... Read more

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The Clause That Can Keep a Malpractice Case Out of Court

Fri, 2026-10-09 18:54 +0000

The jury trial you assume you’d get if a surgeon left something inside you, or a nurse pushed the wrong medication, may already be gone. You signed it away at the front desk, on a clipboard, while a receptionist waited for your insurance card. The paperwork was thick. The pen was cheap. Somewhere in that ... Read more

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What Happens to Your Digital Life When You Die?

Fri, 2026-10-09 18:50 +0000

A generation ago, settling a parent’s affairs meant a trip to the bank, a folder of paper statements, and a call to the insurance agent whose card was taped to the fridge. Everything lived in a drawer. Today it lives behind a login, and the login lives in a password manager, and the password manager ... Read more

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

OPINION: The Tyranny of One Man’s Opinion

Fri, 2026-10-09 18:00 +0000

Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and executions of many whom Henry wanted out of the way, including his two predecessors in office — one of whom was St. Thomas More — and even the king’s second wife, Queen Anne. ... Read more

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Friday Meme Thing

Fri, 2026-10-09 16:00 +0000

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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OPINION: History of Bad Votes by Timothy Egan (D, Sugar Hill)

Fri, 2026-10-09 14:00 +0000

As stated in previous emails about BAD Votes by Democrats, the name of the Democrat really doesn’t matter; they vote consistently on all issues…FOR MORE GOVERNMENT CONTROL! Democrats nationally and regionally have consistently voted for more government control, leaving less control by individuals over their own lives. Here in NH, Democrats have a well-documented history ... Read more

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