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.

Report: Climate Skeptics More Eco-Friendly Than Alarmists

Green brought to you by Carbon DioxideIn a recent report titled, “Believing in climate change, but not behaving sustainably: Evidence from a one-year longitudinal study” Cornell assistant professor Neil A. Lewis Jr., and University of Michigan researchers Michael P. Hall and Phoebe C. Ellsworth, discovered that the more alarmist you are about the climate, the less you do personally to “help it.”

The “highly concerned” cluster was “most supportive of government climate policies, but least likely to report individual-level actions, whereas the ‘Skeptical’ opposed policy solutions but were most likely to report engaging in individual-level pro-environmental behaviors,” the researchers concluded.

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The Press, Corporations, Campaign Finance, and The First Amendment

Will Democrats defend Obama silencing the press?Eugene Volokh is writing a series of articles on Free Speech and freedom of the press over at Reason. In this installment, he looks at exceptions afforded to a special class of corporate ‘speakers’ the professional press.

Under any sensible accounting scheme, an editorial supporting a candidate would cost a lot in labor costs and the editorial’s share of newsprint, ink, and distribution costs. That would often far exceed $1000; and most newspapers are of course organized as corporations. Likewise for extended coverage supporting or opposing a candidate, when engaged in by an opinion magazine.

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Female Student Could Get 6 Years in Prison for Falsely Reporting a Rape

Pro-rape Democrats and sexual-assaultSacred Heart University dismissed two football players from the team and rescinded their scholarships (essentially expelling them) without any due process based solely on an accusation of rape without due process.

The alleged victim lied and is “charged with falsely reporting an incident and “tampering with or fabricating physical evidence””

Nikki Yovino, now 20, now faces up to six years in prison if convicted of both felony and misdemeanor charges.

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Where So-Called “Trans Rights” May Violate Title IX

Transgender bathroomNew Hampshire is on the verge of denying rights to people under the pretense of providing them. The Trans bill sailed through the House under the cover of giving something to a class of persons what they already had under existing law. Rights they’ve been exercising all along.

In the process, the Legislature has handed lawyers a colossal bag of easy money while complicating the lives of thousands of business owners and hundreds of local municipalities who must know address the needs of an unknown number of claimants to these rights. Unknown because anyone can claim them at any time in a toxic culture where daring to question their veracity is equally treacherous.

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Politicization and Criminal Collusion By the FBI

comeyJoseph E. Digenova, a former US Attorney, Independent Counsel, and Special Counsel of the US House of Representatives, was featured in Imprimis (Hillsdale College) in February. The transcript, titled “The politicization of the FBI” shared detailed evidence of political corruption and collusion between high ranking members of the FBI and DOJ, the Democrat Party, the Obama Administration, and the Clinton Campaign.

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May the 4th Be With You

Yes, it is Star Wars Day Again! Celebrate however you like, including not at all. Visit an official site or any number of fan sites (you know how to Google or Bing or Yahoo! or whatever you do). For my part, I’ll leave the latest Trailer for Solo – A Star Wars Story here for you. It … Read more

You Want to Talk About Cultural Appropriation? Let’s Do that!

statue-of-liberty-2501264_960_720With all This Talk about Cultural Appropriation when is someone going to start focusing on how the Democrat party has appropriated (or been appropriated) by secular-humanist-socialist-Marxism?

It’s not American. It contradicts most, if not all the cultural foundations or tenents of our nation. So, why does the modern Democrat party, its politicians, and their mouthpieces, get away with appropriating a late 18th-century Euro-Russian worldview and forcing it down our throats?

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Update From Michelle Levell on Education Savings Account Legisaltion [Updated]

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From Michelle Levell

HUGE NEWS — Late last night the Senate tacked on the original ESA bill version to HB 1636, a charter school bill. This is awesome news!! This means it goes to House Education for a recommendation to concur or reject, or Committee of Conference.

Our objective is to get all our YES reps there for when the House votes on that. I’ll get a list to you asap for who we need to target. But this is huge!

The original Senate version is much

better financial structured (easier and a huge savings to the state), has broader eligibility with no income limits, and is the most-liberty ESA bill ever!

We’ll share that list when it becomes available.

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Tornado Watch Likely for Much of New Hampshire

Tornado Watch NH

Severe thunderstorms in parts of New York and Pennsylvania are expected to make their way to Vermont and New Hampshire later. The storms could come around 7 p.m.

Meanwhile, much of New Hampshire is under a wind advisory as heavy wind gusts threaten the state. Some of Southern New Hampshire avoids the wind advisory, but is under a hazardous weather outlook.

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Some Voters Are More Equal Than Others

voterfraudThe old “loophole” argument is back at it again when it comes to voter fraud in NH. The “powers that be” who will not prosecute out-of-state voters have determined there is no law mandating a NH driver’s license to vote in NH. That is their current excuse.

This simpleton argument has no merit, but it does sound good – if you like out-of-state voters stealing a recent US Senate Seat election for Maggie Hassen.

Here is the specific language of RSA 654:1 regarding who can vote in NH.

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Sen. Cruz Issues Statement Regarding Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Presentation on Iran’s Nuclear Program

CRUZ-GESTURE-FLAGFrom Cruz.Senate.gov

HOUSTON, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued a statement following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s revelations about Iran’s nuclear program:

“Today’s stunning revelations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu powerfully demonstrate why the Obama Iran nuclear deal is not just unfixable, but truly catastrophic. The Prime Minister’s presentation was remarkable—unprecedented—and worth watching in full. Through extraordinary intelligence operations, Israeli agents captured over 100,000 secret documents and files from Iran. These Iranian documents prove that (1) for two decades, Iran has conducted a clandestine nuclear weapons program; (2) Iran lied repeatedly, and brazenly, denying that secret program; (3) the Obama nuclear deal was predicated on that edifice of lies; and (4) Iran is today in violation of that deal.

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420 Protesters Troll Gun Grabbers in Concord, New Hampshire

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The Libertarians recently had the pleasure of sharing “protesting space” with Teacher’s Union organizers at the New Hampshire State House. The Big Money Union shindig was a shill for the Democrat-Socialist gun-grabbing narrative. The 420 folks were there to smoke weed and punk the Union hacks whose solution to just about everything is more government control over law-abiding citizens. Which is really weird in this context. Their motivation for applying more of that control is Parkland which only happened because of the epic failure of blessed government at every level.

You’d like to think that “teachers” have more capacity to learn but to the assembled, it seems that the progressive carapace prevents the penetration of any evidence that contradicts the agenda.

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Has the Professional Left Silenced You? They Will if You Dare to Disagree

Conservatives vs ProgressivesDemocrats don’t know what they don’t know and they only have themselves to blame.

Why are so many Democrats shocked when a Republican is elected president? Because, as they themselves say, they “don’t know anyone” who voted for the Republican. The primary reason for this is the people in their life who voted for Donald Trump — professional colleagues, and even friends and relatives — are afraid to tell them.

Sadly, this treatment works in a much broader sense to advance liberal narratives and often promote progressive policies, especially at the local level “where get out the vote” means find ways to keep your opposition at home, so they win by default.

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A Font Deserves More Faith than The Party Platform (among other things)

Jennifer Horn started out as a Tea Party Conservative. Defend the Constitution. Fight the Establishment Ruling Class. No Government Health Care, blah blah blah. That very quickly went by the wayside. Way (way way way way) by the wayside. She’s still faithful to Times Roman 12pt, though. Feel free to take that wherever you like.  

Day 20: Any Pain in Your Neck or Jaw? Yes, From Chewing.

Bread_Vegetables_Fruit_459477_3840x2400I don’t spend much time talking about my life in these spaces. But talking about a heart-attack can save lives. Everyone I speak with about this agrees because far too many people, men mostly, ignore the symptom or behaviors that lead to having one and despite all the skill and technology of modern medicine, a stopped heart can’t always be restarted.

Mine didn’t stop it just yelled at me. A lot. And I listened.

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“the unique mayhem that gun violence afflicts upon this nation.”

Global Mass shootings per capitaIn 2009 president Obama framed -gun violence in America as unique. That’s a liberal talking point to advance a gun-grabbing agenda meant to give the federal government a force-majority over its people. But taken out of that context it is true. Gun violence accounts for only a fraction of all violence in the United States. And when compared to the rest of the world is unique in that there’s a lot less of it on American soil.

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North Korea Says It Will Drop Nuke Program If…

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We’ve heard this before but not in a long time.

Keeping diplomatic developments coming at a head-snapping pace, the South Korean government said on Sunday that North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, had told President Moon Jae-in that he would abandon his nuclear weapons if the United States agreed to formally end the Korean War and promise not to invade his country.

What’s different?

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