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.

“Hispanics should..make sure that all their kids are learning to speak English.”

January 31, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Tom Brokaw made a very successful living off of free speech and freedom of the press. Now he’s apologizing for making perfect sense. While on the air for Meet the Press he said something with which a vast majority of American’s agree. “Hispanics should work harder at assimilation. They ought not to be just codified in … Read more

NYC Complains About Menu Prices After Minimum Wage Hits 15.00/Hour (Coming Soon to NH?)

January 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We’ve been reporting periodically on New York Cities Fright for Fifteen. That’s the by-product of the fight for fifteen. An arbitrary Left-Wing wage hike that prices low-skilled labor our of jobs, employers out of business, and customers out of restaurants. The Big Crapple just hit the magic numbers (15.00/hour) and guess what?

Quick Shot: Some House Democrats Want Ocasio-Cortez Primaried in 2020

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) the nutty socialist socialite, the Neiman Marxist, a working girl who stormed the halls of Congress after defeating an entrenched Democrat, is pissing off her own party. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has infuriated colleagues by aligning with a progressive outside group that’s threatening to primary entrenched Democrats. Now some of those lawmakers are … Read more

Attack on Chartered Public Schools

June 6, 2026January 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Educational options are under attack on multiple fronts. Not only are some legislators seeking to completely repeal the Education Tax Credit Scholarship program that supports low-income students, they are trying to make it nearly impossible for chartered public schools to operate. One of these attacks is HB 711, a bill that would gut funding for chartered public schools. … Read more

Getting To Know Members of Antifa

January 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Why we should get to know Antifa? We should get to know the individuals who operate political organizations. What they say is often what attracts us to their organization. What they do reflects their organization, the organizations that associate with them and the individuals who support them and act in concert with them. So let’s … Read more

South Dakota Passes Constitutional Carry – Gov. Says She’ll Sign it!

January 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

While New Hampshire Democrats attempt to take new Hampshire backward on the issue, South Dakota is poised to become the 14th State with Constitutional Carry. On Tuesday, the South Dakota state legislature passed a bill allowing for permit-less concealed carrying. The bill now goes to the desk of Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), who has already expressed support for … Read more

If Abortions Are Not Your Core Business Why Would ‘Clinics’ Close if They Can’t Perform Abortions?

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

How often have we heard the left tell us, emphatically, that abortions are only a small slice of a clinic’s health care pie? Most of their business – they insist – results from providing contraception, screenings, non-abortive services. If that is true then why are litigants in a Louisiana case insisting that if clinics can’t perform abortions they’ll close?

NH Health And Human Services Employee: “Those Rotten A**Holes Need to be Punched In the Face”

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services employ one Jeffery R. DeRego. When provided the opportunity to remark on the Covington Catholic reporting from DC, he did. The NHDHHS Training and Development manager said, Those rotten a**holes need to be punched in the face when they start that shit, on camera, and driven … Read more

Turn in your guns the government will take care of you

Democrat Rosemarie Rung Takes a Shot at Republican Jeanine Notter – Misses the Mark

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire House Rep. Rosemarie Rung wants to be Merrimack’s, Sherry Frost. A Democrat who thinks they are saying inciteful things but can’t see just how stupid they came out. She’s already done the dumb deed on national security. Now she’s making a fool of herself on State House ‘Security.’

Quick Shot: Israeli Scientists May Have Found a Cure for Cancer

January 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

This would be amazing if true. For starters, most anti-cancer drugs attack a specific target on or in the cancer cell, he explained. Inhibiting the target usually affects a physiological pathway that promotes cancer. Mutations in the targets – or downstream in their physiological pathways – could make the targets not relevant to the cancer … Read more

Trump Takes on Russia and China Over Venezuela

January 21, 2020January 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The Chinese have accomplished a lot. They stole all of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton’s emails from her illegal server in real-time. They planted a spy next to Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein for decades. Some Chinese citizens sued Terry McAuliffe and Hillary’s brother Tony for fraud. And since Mr. Trump got elected, they’ve started to come … Read more

NH Democrats Propose New Carbon Tax on Gasoline, Heating Oil, Gas, Coal, and Wood

March 13, 2019January 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Democrats are proposing a tax that would hike the price you pay for gasoline, heating oil, propane, and electricity produced by coal, oil, gas, or wood. All of that. And, everything else. The bill calls for a fee based on the per-ton emission of carbon dioxide, starting at $20 per ton in 2020 … Read more

Virginia Democrats ‘Find God’ If It Will Keep Guns Out of Church

January 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The fabricated notion that there is a separation of Church and state is sacred to the left. By which they mean, the government shall forever meddle in religious business but keep your faith to your damn selves.

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Eversource Decides The State of NH Can’t Force It To Make You Pay More For Electricity

January 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Utilities, like governments, are monolithic edifices upon which waves of populist “outrage” love to crash. These sinister cabals exist to better themselves at our expense. They live to serve only themselves. And while that is always true of governments and perhaps Comcast, Eversource has done something to if not break then at least fissure the perception … Read more

Quick Shot: Reminder for Public Transit Rail Junkies – Your Fix Never Gets Less Expensive

January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Commuter rail for New Hampshire is probably one the stupidest ideas on which the left will not give up. There is no sensible application but one. Help New Hampshire residents leave the Granite State to work in Massachusettes. It has no practical application for us. Most of the state lives nowhere near it. Will never … Read more

Looking for Snow in New England?

January 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

My yard is frozen. The thaw-freeze cycle has significant tracts covered with ice. I still have snow, but not a lot. Got snow? Caribou Maine has record amounts of it. Caribou, in far Northern Maine, is in the midst of its snowiest January on record. So far, just over 50 inches of snow has fallen … Read more

“Diversity” Culture Clash – Muslims Vs. Gays…

July 13, 2023January 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

England has broken new ground in the culture war. A Muslim woman has removed her child from a school with predominantly Muslim children. Why? They are teaching something called CHIPS.

NH Doctor Tells MA Police He Doesn’t Need a License To Carry a Firearm- Goes As You’d Expect

January 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Kang Lu of Spofford, New Hampshire was detained by Police in Auburn Massachusetts. Lu was operating his Prius in the Bay State without a working rear license plate light. A minor infraction that escalated quickly. Police said when Lu was asked to step out of his vehicle, a large fixed blade knife was observed on his … Read more

The Number of Gun-Rights “Sanctuary Counties” in the U.S. Grows

January 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We’ve struck this cord a few times in the past year. States with Democrat majorities passing gun-grabbing bills are running up against a wall of irony. Local police chiefs or sheriffs who refuse to enforce their unconstitutional laws. They are declaring their jurisdictions sanctuaries for gun owners from their unconstitutional gun laws.

The Secret to Sustainable One-World Government is …Local Control?

May 9, 2019January 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The UN’s Sustainable (everything) Initiatives are several of many globalist one-world-government efforts. Like Climate change, they exist to redistribute wealth (and power) created by evil capitalism while poisoning it’s well. Think Regional Planning Commissions (RPC’s) who are local but think global. They pretend the priorities are yours, but they are actually regional governors imposing global ruling class … Read more