Steve MacDonald

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

Jennifer Robidoux Resigning As President of NH Right to Life Effective March 1st

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The current President of New Hampshire Right to Life has announced she is resigning effective March 1st (Friday). She cites a difference in visions for the organization between herself the Board of Trustees. Here is her notification, emailed to their mailing list late yesterday. My dear friends, It is with a heavy heart that I inform you … Read more

Stop the Presses Democrat Majority State Senate Supports Wasting Money On Commuter Rail

February 26, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Public transportation is an expression of the state’s right to define how you get from A to B. Not just how but when and where. The modern commuter rail fantasy fits this profile. It is a long-standing dream of the Left. To throw your money down a hole for government controlled ride-sharing. Whether you can use it, want to, or not.

Will Party Leaders Turn On Comrade Mueller If Report Does Not Say What They Require?

February 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

In communist countries, you do what the party leaders tell you or bad things happen. In America, if Democrats do not get what they want you could become enemy number one. And Democrats want something about which to talk. They need the Mueller Report. Or do they?

New Hampshire Pelosi Radio (NHPR) Reminds Us – It’s the Democratic Party – Is it Now?

February 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Decidedly liberal-leaning Public Radio in New Hampshire has a message for us. Those Democrats are not members of the Democrat Party. They are the Democratic Party. For at least 80 years, some Republicans have referred to their major opponents as members of the “Democrat Party,” not by its name — the “Democratic Party.” It’s a jab … Read more

Dana Loesch Responds to Oscar Awards Pap: “There are no Borders or Walls that Can Restrain Ingenuity and Talent”

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Other than Spike Lee’s tone-deaf anti-Trump rant there wasn’t much “political” in this years Oscars. No, I don’t watch them. I read about it later. And there isn’t much to report. We’ve got Lee’s moral choice between love and hate virtue-signaling which is more than just empty rhetoric. He’s got some racial baggage. Larry Elder rolled it … Read more

Will Virginia Decide Due Process Applies To Rape Allegations (at least for Democrats)?

February 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Remember Justin Fairfax? Virginia’s Lt. Governor is twice accused of sexual assault. Democrats running for President have told him he should resign. #MeToo, and all that. Democrats all over the place wanted him to step aside. But Fairfax said no. He continues to claim his innocence and likens his situation to an old fashioned lynching. A rush to judgment with no due process.

Nashua Democrat Rep. Deb Stevens Insults Constituent on Mental Health Issue

August 31, 2023February 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

A constituent of Democrat New Hampshire House Rep Deb Stevens sent her an email. She asked that she oppose HB481—a bill to legalize, tax, and regulate cannabis. The constituent pointed out her concern about the connection between marijuana and schizophrenia. Rep. Stevens was not very kind in her reply.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Her Own Super-Hero Comic

February 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Before the Democrat Party establishment assassinates her and blames Trump voters (or Republicans in general). Before any martyrdom (even an accidental one) is used by the same Democrats to lionize her to advance the same agenda on their terms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets own super-hero comic.

Why the Press Isn’t Complaining About How Lousy NH’s Income Tax Refunds Are This Year

February 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

There has been a rise in reports about how some folks may be disappointed in their Federal tax refunds this year. It’s a media collusion narrative. The goal is to get people to buy into the idea that those Trump Tax cuts weren’t that great. But if the government took less of your money what happens?

Emerson Poll: NH Youth Love Bernie, Trump Trounces Weld, Shaheen-Sununu Tied

February 24, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We’ve had our share of polls of late. Mostly Democrat. Taking the temperature of locals as to which cookie-cutter socialist wanna-be Trump challenger they’re most drawn. Until today the leader in every poll has been the aged but otherwise reliable but creepy (and undeclared) candidate Joe Biden. Did I say until today?

Farm Industry Forced to Employ (gasp!) Legal Immigrants and Americans

February 24, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Hiring and paying illegal immigrants is illegal. But then, so is offering them sanctuary in your city, county, or state: shared borders, Federal law, and all that. So, I’m not sure how the farm industry is getting away with paying illegal workers unless they are all Democrat owned. Or, is this some of that unscrupulous … Read more

Climate Lawsuit Against President Trump Dismissed by US District Court

February 24, 2019 Steve MacDonald

A US District Judge is refusing to assume a judicial right to supervise the Executive Branch on every little matter of environmental policy. Or, to claim that the Constitution includes a due process right to a “life-sustaining climate system.” The Clean Air Council and two minors ask me to declare that the United States of America, the … Read more

Milton Friedman Has a Message for NH Democrats on Poverty and the Minimum Wage

February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Search ‘Minimum Wage‘ on these pages, and you will find a wealth of information on the issue. Learn about New Hampshire’s unique advantage on the matter. And how its promised expansion is little more than virtue signaling by Democrats whose ideological ancestors invented it to keep people down. Something it continues to do today everywhere it is tried.

Troops on the southern border - can they use deadly force?

New Facebook Poll Question: Use of Deadly Force to Protect the Southern Border

February 24, 2019 Steve MacDonald

With the introduction of military personnel to patrol the southern border, the question had to be broached. What about deadly force? They may be there providing support. Working on engineering. Protecting workers installing barriers. But no matter how much marketing or PR you may see about other roles soldiers are a projection of force. To that … Read more

QuickShot: Permitless Carry Clears Oklahoma House

February 24, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Two weeks ago we reported on Oklahoma’s HB2597 clearing a house committee. The bill would allow permitless carry in the state. Last Wednesday the bill cleared the State House and moved to the State Senate. A bill in the Oklahoma Legislature that would remove licensing and training requirements for handgun owners cleared the state’s House of Representatives on … Read more

NH Gun Confiscations on Deck

February 23, 2019February 23, 2019 Steve MacDonald

If they can’t take your guns outright, they’ll chip away at your gun rights, one year at a time, one bill at a time. And when they finish, the possibility of the Police coming unannounced at 5am to confiscate your guns will be very high and very real. Folks, it’s already happening elsewhere in these United … Read more

We Tried Collusion. There’s no Collusion. Let’s Try Obstruction, Coup-Coup-G’Joob

February 23, 2019February 23, 2019 Steve MacDonald

As we wait under the shadow of an impending Mueller report it seems pertinent to make a few points. They wasted over two years pretending to look for collusion between Trump and, pretty much anyone (but mostly Russia). This served one purpose. Keep the media’s Trump-Hating Gattlin’ gun loaded with negative press. The media continues to … Read more

Parents Sue Local School District Over Anti-white, Anti-male, Anti-Christian Discrimination

February 23, 2019February 23, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The Social Justice movement has penetrated your local schools. Like an invasive weed, its tendrils are climbing into the curriculum, establishing itself in the collective conscious. A dogma that turns on an anti-white, anti-male, anti-christian bias. Its true goals demand it.

Handful of Counties in New Mexico Are Declaring Themselves Second Amendment Sanctuaries

February 23, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Faced with a slew of restrictive anti-gun laws counties across the nation have begun declaring themselves second amendment Sanctuaries. Places where unconstitutional state-level anti-gun laws will not be enforced by either county police or local law enforcement. In keeping with our coverage a few of these “transitions” the latest news comes from New Mexico.

Vermont Legislature Wants Taxpayer Funded “Free” College Education

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 Steve MacDonald

It is the sign of a weak mind to immediately assume that a problem, real or imagined, is due to inadequate government funding. It is also the sign of a socialist or a Democrat. And since we’re talking about that state to the left of New Hampshire, this begins to make whatever passes for sense in the People’s Republic.