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.

Wikileaks Revisited: How NH’s Gary Hirshberg Worked to Torpedo Bernie’s Campaign

People don’t talk about the DNC leak and John Podesta Emails enough. Not in the proper context. Yes, we get that whole smoke-screen Russian hacking narrative but that’s falling apart before our eyes. What is not falling apart because it is real and tangible are the words of Clinton Campaign and Democrat Party operatives and donors busted for a wide range of schemes, scams, and collusion.

This includes emailing Podesta to get Clinton people and White House staffers to pressure Democrat Senators into stopping a piece of legislation that could give Bernie Sander’s several weeks of free earned media and more donations.

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Why ‘Borders’ Matter

The elites, the ruling class as Angelo Codevilla called them, lost when the peoples of the several states chose Mr. Trump to be their next President.

Their political machine which includes most of the media has been out to dislodge him ever since. Its more radical elements have ramped up the intimidation and violence.

This has heightened the average American’s awareness of a battle they entered when they stepped away from the failed institution of the expanding super-state to choose someone over which it had little to no power.

A man who ran for office promising to Make America Great Again. A President who believes not just in the sovereignty of the nation-state but that ours provides something you can find no place else on earth.

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Mueller Still has Nothing And Mueller is the Proof of That.

Robert Mueller’s mandate as special prosecutor is to investigate and prosecute legitimate cases of “collusion” between ‘Russians’ and the Trump Campaign. He has been at it for a few years now and despite the occasional media-friendly announcements of charges or indictments ‘Mueller’ still has nothing.

How do we know this?

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New Hampshire is Too White and ‘Experts’ Want to Fix It.

New Hampshire, at 94%, is the third ‘whitest’ state demographically in the country. We’re one percent more diverse, according to the people who define such things, than Maine and the People’s Republic of Vermont. The Granite State’s ‘experts’ are gathering to confer on how to fix that. Why?

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Despite “Hands Free Law” Passage NH Highway Deaths Remain High

In 2015 New Hampshire imposed a hands-free ban, which prohibits the handling of portable electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle (with a few exceptions). Since Democrat Gov. Maggie Hassan signed it every year in July we remind everyone that the legislation was a legisaltive photo-op. A “see we’re doing something measure” with no basis in fact and would provide no real-world results.

What I didn’t predict was that it might make matters worse.

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Video – Making Fun of #Woke and the Ridiculous Culture That Created It

If you search ‘Woke’ in the urban dictionary you’ll find several possibilities the amalgam of which is this. Abrupt or sudden awareness of (something) …that turns you into an annoying little douchebag.

I may have embellished a bit but not much.

The concept of ‘Woke’ is a byproduct of cultural marxism wielded by stompy-footed triggered social justice snowflakes so they can shout things like ‘Get Woke!’ #StayWoke to make them feel superior. But “woke” as a concept is not about enlightenment or understanding. In fact, it is the opposite.

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Trump Keeps ‘Winning’

It looks like the economy has managed to push aside the smothering pillow of Obamanomics.

The Commerce Department reported Friday that the economy grew at a pace of 4.1 percent in the second quarter, propelled by consumer spending in another win for Mr. Trump’s policies of lower taxes and fewer regulations.

The growth was the fastest since 2014, following first-quarter growth of 2.2 percent that was revised up from 2 percent.

The suffocating “cultural” blanket of Obamanomics is wearing thin as well.

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While Democrats Scream “Russia” Did Trump’s DOJ Run an Investigation on Them?

snoop, spying, FISA, FBI, DOJThe squiggly line (because it’s not an arc) of the Left’s Russia Rantings run from Trump was never spied on you dolt to well, of course, he was spied on you dolt. Along the path (that squiggly line) are a series of media reports filled with details that reporters should not have. Details that were leaked to the press, which happens to be a felony.

In related news, the White House announced this week that it might strip a number of former officials of their security clearance. Yes. The two things are probably connected.

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“Undocumented” Out! – “Illegal Alien” In

Citing the fact that US law makes no mention anywhere of the Obama-era term ‘Undocumented,’ the Trump Administration will use the legal term ‘Illegal Alien’ and/or their country of origin to describe them.

The word “undocumented” is not based in U.S. code, and should not be used to describe someone’s illegal presence in the country.

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One More Reason Why Ann Kuster Has To Go

Democrats squeal like greased pigs about money in politics, but this chart makes them smile.

Democrat congressional incumbent Ann(ie) Kuster has nearly three million cash on hand. And she’ll have more.

Her competitors have nothing by comparison. And no, this is not a new development. Democrat Incumbent Kuster has always had exponentially more cash to spend on elections than her competitors.

It’s not indicative of anything other than that she is there and entrenched in the swamp, doing swampy things that make lobbyist cronies smile.

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“I get we like to fight for what’s right, but I wish it were channeled against our common foe”

The NHGOP recently held scheduled an event at a venue owned by a notorious Democrat donor. Skip took them to the woodshed. They didn’t care for that. In one email exchange he forwarded to me from someone who sounds like they are inside the State Republican Party (or carry their water) we got this response.

I really try to wrap my head around the circular firing squad we so often engage. I get we like to fight for what’s right, but instead of just fighting for fighting’s sake, I wish it were channeled against our common foe.

Help me out here? Who exactly is this common foe? How do we recognize them?

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Facebook Doodlings…Reading it Off the MSNBC TelePrompTer To Prove My Point

A good friend of the Grok recently shared my post on how Tax reform is not just about money; it is about trust. He posted it as a status update on the Closed Group ‘Brookline NH Elections’ on Facebook. He got this response.

Keith F. Thompson: “The tax cut for ordinary Americans is temporary, while the tax cuts for corporations and the very wealthy are permanent. “Average” Americans have already seen their tax cuts disappear like vapor. Inflation, cuts in services, a MASSIVE increase in the deficit, and now, chaos from this maniacal trade war. My tax cut was smaller, and didn’t survive the rise in gas prices.”

Here’s what I offered in response.

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I Wonder What this Does??

Don’t mind our “appearance.” We’re fooling around with some settings as part of the migration process to Grok 3.0, and sometimes things take a strange turn. What’s that pithy “If you want to make an Omelette” saying?

Ninth Circus: Open Carry Protected Under the Second Amendment

The Ninth Circuit Court (three judges not the whole circus) just ruled “that, by the logic of their Peruta vs. San Diego (decision), if concealed carry is not a right, then open carry must be:”

With Peruta the 9th couldn’t find a “right” to concealed carry. Along comes Hawaii which has been making it impossible to open carry “legally.” What’s left?

Three Judges on the Ninth Circuit have concluded that if their court finds both these prohibitions lawful while you could “keep” arms you could never “bear” them. Because “Second Amendment” you can’t prevent or prohibit both.

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Tax Reform Is Not Just About Money. It’s About Trust. And Democrats Don’t Trust You.

Heritage Tax Reform NHThe Heritage Foundation has published a nationwide calculator that reports the tax savings for the average taxpayer in every congressional district in the country. Being an average taxpayer, I took an interest. And not just to know how much lower will my tax bill be thanks to Mr. Trump and Republicans but what does that mean in actual dollars?

How much of my money were Democrats fighting to keep in DC, and how much are they going to take back the first chance they get?

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Granite Grok Passes the Keene Sentinel – Time to Go After The Conway Daily Sun

Traffic Stats In our ongoing quest to build our reach and ranking as a top-five New Media presence in New Hampshire, I’m proud to announce that Alexa shows us climbing past the Keene Sentinel to the number seven spot in our watchlist.

This is great news because seeing increased traffic in the heat of summer is an excellent indicator of what we can expect come fall and winter.

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Bill Charges States Who Try To Tell New Hampshire Businesses To Collect Their Taxes

grumpy cat taxes for a feeIf you are one of those 45 states that are not New Hampshire that may ask a business based here (with no presence there) to collect your sales taxes for you prepare to pay the price. Literally.

For starters, any taxing jurisdiction, before they can approach a New Hampshire business and say, “I think you have sold something to one our residents, pay up,” that taxing jurisdiction will first have to register with the New Hampshire Attorney General and pay a fee.

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McDonald’s Drops the Hammer – Ordering Kiosks in Every Store by 2020

mcdonalds sign - Unions ending jobs inviting technology to replase peopleSpurned by meddling Democrats crying for government intervention in the value of an hour of labor McDonald’s began testing Kiosks in Europe. That expanded to here and there and over there.

But the time has come. No more fiddling around the edges. The trial period has ended. McD’s is putting self-serv kiosks in every restaurant on the planet within two years so kiss all those entry-level jobs goodbye.

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Poo Flinging Monkeys in Masks “Attack” Jewish Immigrant For Supporting Trump

poo flingingIn the Left’s new world order you are not allowed to disagree with progressive doctrine even if you are a Jewish immigrant of 30 years who creates jobs that employ immigrants.

Asher Shalom is a legal immigrant from Israel and businessman who employs many immigrants. He recently opened a new cafe in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles. Locals and the business community were welcoming until it became known that Shalom had shared something on social media which showed support for Trump’s immigration policies.

Tolerance and diversity except for Trump.

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