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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.

“What To Cut”

Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire, a coalition of Granite Staters who support public policies that create jobs, limit government, lower taxes, and improve the economy, has released its first television advertisement, which will begin airing today. Titled “What to Cut,” the advertisement focuses on Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s deciding vote to pass Obamacare and the …

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Tune-In to GrokTALK! Tonight.

Just a reminder…GrokTALK! is re-broadcast every Tuesday evening on AC Nation Radio  from 8-10pm. This week our guests are Rick Olson Jr., President of the New Hampshire Wildlife Federation and the current President of the Londonderry Fish & Game Club,  New Hampshire Republican House rep JR Hoell, along with Susan Olsen, Mike Rogers, Skip Murphy and …

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Eastwooding The New Hampshire State Senate On Roll Call Votes

If party designations connote principles, and party pledges imply performance, and we extend that assumption to the relationship between electoral action and legislative response, then it should not be beyond the pale to expect the elected to provide proof of individual effort toward securing the principles and pledges upon which their election to office was …

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Notable Quote – On “Reorganizing” the Republican Party

“…it is probably enough to observe here that in the nature of things the exercise of personal government, the control of a huge bureaucracy, and the management of an enormous mass of subsidized voting-power, are as agreeable to one stripe of politician as they are another.  Presumably they interest a Republican or Progressive as much …

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Treaties, Irony, and Gun Rights – Oh My!

When second or third world Muslim Freedom fighters want to overthrow a controlling oppressive government, the Obama administration is Johnny-on-the-spot with…well…guns; other peoples money for guns or training in the use of guns, or some such thing.  But when American citizens want to exercise their second amendment right to lawful gun ownership (at their own …

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GrokTALK! June 1st, 2013

This week on Grok Talk!… Skip, Susan and Steve talk about the upcoming CNHT Picnic, the Obama Bus, Press scandals, SB11, Anti-globalists, Harrell Kirstein, Patrick Abrami, Granite State Futures and their listening sessions, Jerry Garcia, enabling legislation, and microphones that are not golden. JR Hoell, New Hampshire Republican House rep,  stops by to talk about …

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Hassan-a-Saurous Bugetus Excalmitous Ignoramus Overexaggeratus

Grant Bosse has a great piece over at NH Watchdog that addresses the hyperbole of New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan on the state budget and its priorities.  Hassan has decided to ignore the striking similarities between her budget, the House version, and the Senate version, and has instead chosen to release her talking points to …

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