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.

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Poll Results: Should School Districts Be Allowed to Establish Gun Free Zones?

February 22, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The State legislature is considering a bill to allow each school district to decide whether or not they’d like to ban the possession of firearms on campus. The right to establish Gun Free Zones. We’ve got tons of coverage on (HB564): Skip recorded all the testimony. You can find it on site (Groksters, others against, and those … Read more

Bernie to the Leftist Candidates Trying to Out-Left Each Other: ‘ Hold my Latte’

February 21, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Bernie Sanders is a real communist. A rich bastard who never worked a real day in his life. He is profiting off the graft of government and promoting more of the same. He’s been at it longer. He’s even been to the motherland and he likes what he sees. Want’s it for US. And now that he’s joined the clown-car of Democrat-Socialists vying for the opportunity to lose to Donald Trump, the Left has taken on a whole new meaning.

Trending – Leftists Making Up S**T to Smear Conservatives (Malia Obama Edition)

February 21, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Nick Sandmann’s ritual pillorying by the press was a story they invented with the help of a liberal activist who is about to be sued. As are they. All because of their bias and an opportunistic rush to judgment; Trump supporters are racist. But none of it was true.

Poll: 48 Percent of NH Democrats Prefer an Old White Guy For President

February 21, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Joe Biden continues to poll better than any Democrat candidate for president in New Hampshire. And he’ not even running yet. Boomstick Biden has not formally announced he’s exploring the possibility. Who is their second choice? Bernie Sanders. All those female candidates and the splash or three of color and NH Dems prefer two old white guys.

Father of Kamala Harris – Her Pot Story is a Fraudulent Stereotype, Identity Politics

February 21, 2019February 21, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Kamala Harris, like the rest of us, has a dad. Hers happens to be (ready for this?) an economics professor at Stanford. Economics professor. Stanford University. And he’s upset. No, not about her socialist-Democrat waterboarding of basic economics. He’s calling her out for her fraudulent stereotyping of Jamaicans.

Quick Shot: Hate Hoaxer Jussie Smollett Charged With Class 4 Felony

February 21, 2019 Steve MacDonald

‘Actor’ and part-time hate-hoaxer (also acting) Jussie Smollett has been charged in Chicago for faking a hate crime and wasting police time. “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has now been charged with disorderly conduct for filing a false police report, the Cook County States Attorney says. Disorderly conduct is a Class 4 Felony. CBS 2 Legal … Read more

Nine Years Ago Today I Published My First Post for GraniteGrok.com

February 20, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Nine years ago today, on February 20th, 2010, I published my first post at GraniteGrok.com. It was about Dan Itse’s bill to create a House committee whose purpose would be to consider the constitutionality of things. Government things. Later that same week I would write about taxes, commuter rail, Carol Shea-Porter, Paul Hodes, and Jeanne … Read more

SCOTUS – 8th Amendment Applies to States And Asset Forfeiture

February 20, 2019February 20, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the 8th amendment’s prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states in a case on asset forfeiture. It’s not a close call. The vote was 9-0. “Held: The Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause is an incorporated protection applicable to the States under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.”

Voter Owned Campaign Finance Bill A Waste of Time and Money

February 20, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The so-called campaign finance reformers are at it again. This time they’ve got a behemoth of a bill only Rube Goldberg could love. A massive, convoluted tome that adds a mountain of rules that would only impact six political races in the entire state. The Governor’s race and the state’s five Executive Council seats. SB 304- FN-A is AN ACT … Read more

President Trump Pulls Plug on California’s High Speed Rail Project

February 20, 2019 Steve MacDonald

If you’ve missed this weekday political “TV drama,” it’s juicy. California Governor Newsom pulled his National Guard troops off the border. His state is suing the Trump Administration over the National Emergency Declaration. And, they are not building that High-Speed Rail line from Los Angeles to San Fran.

Nick Sandmann Lawsuit Against the Washington Post asks for 250 Million in Damages

February 20, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We told you it was coming and here it is. The first official lawsuit by Covington Kid Nick Sandmann seeks damages of 250 million dollars from the Washington Post. The exact sum Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos paid to acquire the ‘democracy dies in darkness’ sensationalizer of fake news. Attorneys for Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann … Read more