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Steve MacDonald

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the Managing Editor and co-owner of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

GrokTALK! Live Streaming March 15th, 2014

This week our guests are current Strafford County Chair (former state rep) Bill O’Conner from Saber PAC, Connecticut Citizens Defense League President Scott Wilson, and Grok Commenters Allen, and Radical Moderate. Live broadcast by Ustream

GrokTALK! March 8th 2014 – Can We Get Out From Under Medicaid Expansion?

In Segment Four (after a short bit on Bitcoin) State Senate Candidate Kevin Avard from Nashua joins us and the big questions are, why did the legislature embrace a Federal expansion based on lies, bad-faith, deception, debt, and contempt for the citizens? Who (if anyone) will have the courage to sunset Medicaid expansion in New …

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Do Some Women Like Being In Abusive Relationships?

Hollywood says yes.  Cable and Broadcast Television says yes.  If you asked most therapists and social workers, they’d probably say yes.  Inner cities are filled with women and single moms who seem to be trapped in a series of domestically challenged or abusive relationships.  But I think I can give you definitive evidence that this …

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Really “Fixing” Health Care Coverage Could Be the “New” New Hampshire Advantage

If you want to keep people off Medicaid, or food stamps, or welfare, you need to improve their employment prospects.   This works best with little or no public money or political interference.   Business flourishes in the sun, so the shadow of the bureaucracy must be as small as possible. We also know that the more …

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Climate Change No Longer Even On The List of Things Americans Are Concerned About

Right after 28 clueless Senate Democrats held a pajama Party (Up4Climate) on the floor of the US Senate to lobby a California Billionaire for campaign donations, Gallop released its March 2014 polling on what Americans think are the most important problems facing the US. “Climate” didn’t even make the new list. (Update: Extreme Shaheen is …

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Do Special Elections Have Special Consequences?

An interesting thing happened on Tuesday in Hanover, New Hampshire.  They had an unusually lopsided turn out for the race between Democrat Mike Cryans and the Republican victor, Joe Kenney. Cryans got 91% of the votes.  Just for perspective, Kim Jong Un got 9% only more in his ‘election.’  We’re pretty sure that ballot was …

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