Granite Grok

Fasten your seatbelts. I have some surprises for you. This article is about one nation being respectful to all other nations. What! In general, ordinary citizens don’t understand, and don’t try to understand, what goes on among nations. Possibly diplomats know the ropes, but most of us relate to foreign policy, and war only as a ...

Can this independent make the case for his people? This week, on The New England Take, independent candidate Robbie Mahrou makes the case that he is the best candidate for New Hampshire’s second congressional district by caring about representing Granite Staters, addressing the issues of the current two parties in power, and diving into issues ...

One of the fun bits about Federalism is watching Democrats hate on it until they can’t stop tripping over each other to embrace it. A great recent example is illegal immigration. Arizona, feeling itself overrun by alien invaders, wanted to protect its citizens, but the Obama Administration got in the way. Immigration enforcement, the courts ...

And hell has frozen over. Never in my adult life did I ever see myself agreeing with James Carville. Carville is an octogenarian political consultant, author, and television pundit who has strategized for Democratic candidates for decades. He is the poster child for liberal progressive thinking, and I have never encountered a topic we agreed ...

Since our faux-milquetoast New Hampshire Dems are playing at being moderates, it is worth revisiting the topic. How do you pretend to go to DC to represent New Hampshire interests when neither of you, Goodlander nor Pappas, is capable of standing up to the radicals who will run your caucus? The nut house has fractured. ...