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.

Is that Jesus or Just More Fake News from “tropical storm” Florence?

September 27, 2018September 20, 2018 Steve MacDonald

It’s not every day you get to see Jesus. How else do you explain walking on water (twice) just behind this reporter who is up to his knees in the stuff? H/T RCSB

Where We Stand In NH Digital Media Right Now

September 27, 2018September 19, 2018 Steve MacDonald

While Creepy touchy Uncle Joe Biden considers a run at a job where you might get to nominate Supreme Court Justices (maybe he’ll send a letter asking Dianne Feinstein to be his VP) GraniteGrok has been steadily climbing the internet digital-print-media ladder in New Hampshire.

The Most Liberal State Has the Highest Poverty Rate – NH Still Lowest in the Nation

September 27, 2018September 19, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The U.S. Census released its most recent data on Poverty in America last week and surprise, surprise, surprise! The far-left land of Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Tech Giants, and Hollywood Gazillionaires continues to have the highest rate of poverty in the nation.

A place where homelessness has skyrocketed alongside the massive burden of the welfare state.

Southern New Hampshire University Wants Campus Groups’ Social Media Passwords

September 27, 2018September 19, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The lead in today’s Manchester Union Leader is SNHU requires all clubs to reveal passwords. That sounds Orwellian.

SNHU says it is to protect the continuity of the communities. There are a number of approved campus groups that have languished since the page administrators have graduated. By collecting the login credentials they can ensure that new admins have access to keep the groups updated. And this sounds reasonable until you get to this bit.

Notable Quote – Maxine Waters: “What if we get rid of him?”

September 27, 2018September 19, 2018 Steve MacDonald

“There are those who say, ‘What if we get rid of him? Then we’ve got that Vice President and he’ll be worse.’ I say knock off the first one and then go after the second one. We have the power.”

James O’Keefe “Unmasking The Deep State”

September 27, 2018September 18, 2018 Steve MacDonald

James O’Keefe will be dropping new video ~~next week~~ . In advance of that, he announced (teased) the target of his next undercover Journalism “expose.” The Deep State.

The leakers, the insiders, the people in the bureaucracy working for government agencies who work to undermine the government from within. Mr. O’Keefe says Project Veritas will be doing some unmasking of their own.

Here’s his announcement.

If You Live in America, and You Hate America, You’re a Damn Fool

September 27, 2018September 18, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Bill Kane has some words to share. I know. Who is Bill Kane, you ask? He’s this guy who took two minutes to tell you something you need to hear.

To give you a taste, he’s been all over the country and he thinks America is great. He also thinks that if you live in America, and you hate America, you’re a damn fool. And he’s right.

Weather Channel Guy ‘Fighting High Winds’ More Fake News

September 27, 2018September 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

A quick preface. Florence is a hurricane. It’s causing flooding, wind damage, and as more and more people flock to live in these areas the risk to lives and damage to property increases. That is their choice. And so it this.

A weatherman reporting for the weather channel is having a rough go. He’s trying to do his report in what appears to be very high winds. Leaning forward, and shifting his stance to stay upright. He’s really working it. Thespis would be proud. Because while he’s giving his performance, two guys walk into the back of the shot and for some reason, the winds are different where they are.

This isn’t “Trump’s Hurricane” – He Inherited it.

September 27, 2018September 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The media is all aflutter with the implication that Mr. Trump and his destructive exit from the Paris Climate agreement is responsible for Hurricane Florence. If not the hurricane itself then it’s intensity. If not the intensity then the risk to human life and (what will undoubtedly be reported as) record high property damage.

There’s only one problem.

Libertarian Student Activists Take Credit for Primary Wins in New Hampshire

September 27, 2018September 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) says it put 25 door-knockers on the Ground for the primary, knocking on 75,000 doors, in support of candidates running for the New Hampshire House.

“Every Operation Win at the Door race that YAL mobilizes door-knockers for is an opportunity to send principled, liberty-minded individuals to state legislatures across the country,” the press release stated. “Every candidate we endorse and deploy for is slated to become a champion for our ideals in every chamber they enter. We are building the future bench of liberty candidates for federal office.”

So, who did YAL support?

On September 20th You’re Going to Get a Message from the President

September 27, 2018September 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

On September 20th around 2:20 pm ET your cell phone will get an emergency alert from the President of the United States. Don’t worry. This is only a test.

WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alert(WEA) on September 20, 2018 (primary date) or October 3, 2018 (secondary date).

Where Colleges Ignore Free Speech Violations and the Legal System Helps

January 28, 2019September 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

I’ve had a few things to say about free speech. More than a few. Campus “speech” is one of the more common places to land. The inclusion and diversity movements (hypocritically) invest so much time and energy limiting speech to a very narrow set of approved words and ideas that the fruit is heavy and very low.

But University administrations, as it turns out, are no better. They’ve taken to using the courts to keep from having to protect their own student’s first amendment rights.

Fake Hurricane News – CNN Busted

May 4, 2023September 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Anderson Cooper reports from hurricane ‘ravaged’ [insert name here] wearing waders and up to his waist in water. But that’s only because he chose to stand in a ditch along the side of the road. His cameraman and technician, as you’ll see in the following image, are only up to their shins in water.

Hey Nike! – Wasn’t Tonya Harding The First One to ‘Take a Knee’?

September 27, 2018September 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Net Neutrality – Because ‘They’ Want To Bring It Back!

September 27, 2018September 15, 2018 Steve MacDonald

When the Trump administration encouraged the FCC to pull the plug on a Government regulated internet, they did just that. They got the government out of your “digital bedroom.” The usual suspects were outraged. But you don’t want the government regulating the internet like a utility. Not under any condition. And that includes crafting new regulations to control how entities like Google or Facebook or Twitter behave in the free market.

Let the marketplace work it out because it will.

Hogg Fit to be Tied Over “Haley’s” Pricey Drapes. Problem? Obama Admin Bought Them.

September 27, 2018September 15, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The New York Times buried a Hogg trap inside a recent article on Ambassador Nikki Haley. The headline reads, “Nikki Haley’s View of New York Is Priceless. Her Curtains? $52,701.” A Rootin-Tootin Media Hogg named David saw that and whipped out his virtue-signaling sicks-shooters to unload on the U.S. Ambassador to the UN.

There are starving children in America everyday and you have the audacity to misappropriate thousands of tax dollars for your own lavish lifestyle. Resign immediately.

Six paragraphs into the Times piece we find out that Haley, Trump, and The State Department “inherited the extravagant window coverings” from the previous administration.

Some Unpleasant Truths About Democrats and “Republican” Tax Reform

September 27, 2018September 15, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Democrats voted against tax reform. One of the narratives of choice was that the middle-class tax cuts were not permanent.

Democrat congresswoman Kuster’s press release on why she opposed the reforms is typical.

“I support real tax reform that starts with middle-class families and small businesses,” said Congresswoman Kuster. “Unfortunately, the plan forced through Congress by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell is a missed opportunity that overwhelmingly benefits corporate special interests at the expense of the majority of Americans. The fact that provisions for the middle class expire while those for corporate special interests are permanent makes clear Congressional Republicans’ priorities.”

But aren’t Democrats the only reason tax cuts for the middle-class had to expire.

Taking a Step Back

August 29, 2025September 14, 2018 Steve MacDonald

I wanted to let you know that I am going to be tied up on a few projects for the next 6-8 weeks and will be taking a step back from GraniteGrok. We are coordinating our efforts to fill in the gaps. More editorials, op-eds, and guest posts. I will post a few things here … Read more

Notorious RBG Not Happy With Kavanaugh Confirmation Histrionics

September 27, 2018September 14, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, speaking at George Washington University Law School, expressed a lack of appreciation for the partisan show that consumes the Supreme Court Justice Confirmation process

“The atmosphere in ’93 was truly bipartisan. The vote on my confirmation was 96 to 3, even though I had spent about 10 years of my life litigating cases under the auspices of the ACLU and I was on the ACLU board,” she continued.

NH House RINO Reduction ‘Therapy’ Nets Results in 2018

September 27, 2018September 13, 2018 Steve MacDonald

One of the grassroots goals in 2018 was to find and support candidates to replace Republicans in the New Hampshire House who had either fallen off the ‘platform’ wagon or were never really on it. Incumbents who, for whatever reason, decided that their party registration is more a guideline than a rule. Orm in a few cases, just the letter you put in parentheses after your name to get elected to office in a Republican-leaning district.

Better candidates to replace these occasional republicans were recruited and supported in for lack of a better word ‘targeted’ districts. At least eight that I know of were successfully retired.