Registration is open now for Vita et Veritas, Yale’s fifth annual pro-life conference, coming up October 6 & 7. The first conference was founded in 2013 by a team of students in Choose Life at Yale (CLAY). I envy this year’s attendees the opportunity to hear from the conference’s lineup of speakers. Thumbs up to all who are working for a culture of life in unlikely places. | More…
Round-Up: Pro-Life at Yale, Etc.
Posted in Abortion, Culture, Leaven for the Loaf
Tagged Ellen Kolb, Pro-life, Vita et Veritas, Yale
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My Appearance on Conservative Chick Chat – WSMN 1590AM
On Monday the 28th I did two radio programs. My weekly stint on Girard at Large, and an hour in Nashua on WSMN 1590AM on a program called Conservative Chick Chat.
We talked about what happened to GrokTALK!, Harvey and the Texas Flood, the New Media Militia, recent violence and of course free speech. | More…
Posted in GraniteGrok, Local NH Politics, National News, New Hampshire News
Tagged Conservative Chic Chat, Karen Testerman, Radio, WSMN
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NH Blogger Rails Against Border Patrol Checkpoints, Calls Out Libertarians
NH blogger Susan the Bruce has written an excellent post excoriating the police state and its invasive internal Border Patrol checkpoints, one of which was set up this weekend just south, curiously, of the NH Cannabis Freedom Festival. Sure enough, more people were arrested for drug possession at the checkpoint than were arrested for immigration, according to the article at the Union Leader. | More…
Posted in Drugs, Free Keene, Immigration/Illegal Immigration
Tagged Border Patrol, Checkpoints, Susan Bruce
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New Media Militia Top 5 for August 2017
August is behind us and with it 493 more posts and thousands of visitors and views. So, what among these and the nearly 200o posts before them) caught our visitor’s eyes?
Here are the top 5 most viewed and clicked posts for August 2017.
5. Go Topless Day returning to Hampton Beach.
4. White Supremacist Leader in Charlottesville Jason Kessler Was Obama Supporter – Occupy Protester.
3. Man at Belmont gun range dies from self-inflicted shot to head in ‘tragic accident.’
2. Attention Bikers using 495S in Massachusetts
1. The Flat Earth Society Has Members All Around The Globe?
Carol Shea-Porter’s “Very-Fine” Deception
On August 18th, New Hampshire Congressperson Carol-Shea-Porter proudly announced her Co-Introduction of an Anti-White-Supremacy Resolution aimed at President Donald Trump. In a press release titled ‘Shea-Porter: President Trump’s Charlottesville Comments “A Disgrace to Our Nation,” ‘ she says, | More…
Posted in Democrats, GraniteGrok, Hypocrats
Tagged Carol Shea-Porter, Donald Trump, Neo-Nazi, Press Release, White Supremacy
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Girard at Large: On Air News Read for Sept. 1st, 2017
What happens when a moose goes on a Midnight stroll on Route 1 0 1 in Auburn? It gets hit by vehicles; lots of them, apparently. According to a news release issued by the New Hampshire State Police, at about half past Midnight yesterday, fifty-eight-year-old Madgalie Wakefield, of Candia, had been traveling east on Route 1 0 1 when she struck a moose that had been standing in the middle of the eastbound travel lanes. Wakefield was transported to the Elliot Hospital for minor injuries.
After being struck, the moose went down and remained in the left travel lane. While there, it was hit by twenty-two-year-old Eli Corson, of Exeter. Corson sustained no injuries. | More…
Posted in Girard At Large, Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News
Tagged News Read, Rich Girard
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REPLY to Executive Councilors Volinsky and Pappas’ Political Hit Piece Against Commissioner Edelblut
Executive Councilors Andru Volinsky and Chris Pappas’ criticism of New Hampshire’s Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut, made me wonder, are they bothered that he’s working hard to improve public education?
Volinsky and Pappas took a swing at Commissioner Edelblut for attending political functions; however, they ignored all of the good things he’s attempting to do to improve public education in New Hampshire. | More…
Posted in Democrats, Education, Girard At Large
Tagged Andru Volinsky, Ann Marie Banfield, Chris Pappas, Frank Edelblut
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Pro-NAFTA report finds New Hampshire economy gains from treaty
The North American Free Trade Agreement supported nearly 60,000 New Hampshire jobs in 2014 and in 2015 helped facilitate $1.4 billion in exports — plus almost all of the imports that came into the state through the treaty weren’t consumed but were used to make other products — according to a report released by the Business Roundtable, a strong NAFTA defender. | More…
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Evergreen State College faces $2.1M budget shortfall, cites enrollment drop, issues layoff notices
Administrators at The Evergreen State College have announced that the embattled school faces a massive $2.1 million budget shortfall due in part to a drop in enrollment, and the institution has already handed out some temporary layoff notices as officials grapple with balancing the books.
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Posted in Budgets, Culture, Debt/Spending, Education, Snowflake U, Snowflakes
Tagged Evergreen State College, Layoffs
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New Hampshire university to take in students after Harvey
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire university is offering a free semester to college students displaced by Hurricane Harvey, 12 years after it helped a similar group after Hurricane Katrina.
Franklin Pierce University will provide free tuition, room and board to up to 20 students for the fall semester. The university made a similar offer in 2005 and ended up enrolling 14 students from Louisiana, including Jessica Orgeron, who said Thursday she was close to tears remembering the warm welcome she received. | More…
| AP
Posted in Education, National News
Tagged Franklin Pierce University, Hurricane Harvey, Students
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The New Media Militia 