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.

Never Beg

September 26, 2018April 6, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The left can’t just disagree. They seek and exploit any sign of weakness to destroy political opponents. Skip Murphy and I explore the topic by jumping off an article in Taki Mag by David Cole titled, “Memo to Laura Ingraham, Never Beg.” Follow this program on Facebook

At Least We’ll Be Rid of the Kale Smoothies

September 26, 2018April 6, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Last night Skip shared a bit of liberal mythology he tripped over at Tree Hugger which struck me as curious. The perp in chief of that ongoing serial fiction got his jimmies rustled over the width of the sidewalks in New Utopia. That’s where we’ll all be living. In cities, all happy together. But we can’t get there from here with sidewalks that are not wide enough for at least two kale-smoothie slurping hippies to travel side-by-side. That just won’t do.

My first thought was that, if anything, big, sprawling, urban heat islands with or without kale-smoothie slurping hippies (in any”forward” moving formation) are actually man’s most meaningful contribution to warming any part of the planet and why would an enviro-wacko concerned about the planet want more of that?

Vicente Fox and Nigel Farage – Nationalism v. Globalism

September 26, 2018April 6, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox and Nigel Farage, the former United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader, debated the merits of nationalism and globalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. The conversation, hosted by the Steamboat Institute, was part of a nationwide tour of college campuses.

The Interviews – Week Ending 3-31-2018

September 26, 2018April 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The week’s interviews in one convenient podcast and yes, I forgot to post these last Saturday, so here they are. Follow this program on Spreaker.

A “Shooting” You Won’t Hear Much About From The Main Stream Media

September 26, 2018April 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Someone shot three people on the YouTube Corporate Campus this past week, and you should not be surprised if you knew nothing about it.

The perp is (or was) a female Iranian immigrant (refugee) vegan, animal-rights activist angered by being under-monetized, demonetized, and just plain-old marginalized by the video “sharing” behemoth.

Her name is Nasim Aghdam.

What kind of name is that for a psychologically disturbed white-loner NRA gun-nut?

The Totalitarian impulse did not die with the Soviet Union

September 26, 2018April 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

I think that the entirety of the modern American Left’s agenda can be summarized in the words of Theodore Dalrymple, who notes,

The totalitarian impulse did not die with the Soviet Union, but rather fractured into many different monomanias. The freedom that many people desire is the freedom to limit other people’s freedom, which they find much more gratifying than the mere expression of their own opinion, which has at most the effect of throwing a pebble into a pond, causing a ripple that soon disappears and is forgotten. Surely I am more important than that, and my opinion deserves to dictate to others?

Marxism…

September 26, 2018April 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Marxism doesn’t work no matter what age, sex, or color you are. – Guy in a Tavern waiting on his wings.

Ed Naile: Newbury,NH Responds to a Right to Know Request

July 15, 2024April 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Ed Naile has his right to know request back from Newbury, New Hampshire, We review the details and explore the options when a town (inadvertently?) violates your constitutional rights. Check out the blog post of this podcast for more ways to listen.

What Ed Naile Found in The Manchester Voter Checklist

July 15, 2024April 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Ed Naile got his hands on a copy of the Manchester, New Hampshire voter checklist. He joins me to explore some familiar names he discovered that are still in there. More ways to listen here.

Ed Naile: Newbury, NH Responds to a Right to Know Request

September 26, 2018April 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Interviews – Week Ending 3-31-2018

July 15, 2024April 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The week’s interviews in one convenient podcast and yes, I forgot to post these last Saturday, so here they are. More ways to listen here.

Will EPA End California “Tax” on Everyone Else’s Automobiles?

September 26, 2018April 4, 2018 Steve MacDonald

For years California’s higher mileage requirements for passenger vehicles have forced manufacturers to offset those costs with higher prices for car buyers all across the nation. But the EPA is dumping Obama CAFE standards for model years 2022-2025 defaulting to the current average of 34.5 mpg.

A legal fight is expected from CAFE-Clingers and Brownistas in Kalinfornistan.

Gun Bill Clears Hurdle in New Hampshire House

September 26, 2018April 4, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Susan Olsen has an update on SB500 which finally cleared a committee hurdle in the New Hampshire House and could get a floor vote next week. Follow this program on TuneIn

[Updated] Maintenance is Complete – AND…..Still a Bit More Work Needs to Be Done

September 26, 2018April 4, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Update: Posts have been reloaded back to Mar 31. SHould have the rest minus a few here and there by tonight. ********** We have completed the planned maintenance but still need to backfill a week’s worth of content. I will be picking at that over the rest of today. There are only about 80 articles … Read more

Gun Bill Clears Hurdle in New Hampshire House

July 15, 2024April 4, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Susan Olsen has an update on SB500 which finally cleared a committee hurdle in the New Hampshire House and could get a floor vote next week. For more ways to listen visit the original blog post, here.

Tell Governor Sununu No!

September 26, 2018April 3, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Teachers Plan Rally in Concord to Discuss the Terms for Your Surrender

September 26, 2018April 3, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The NEA is planning a rally in Concord later this month. Kimberly Morin joins me to discuss their terms for surrender, a few contradictions, and some interesting side-lines about the day of the planned event. Follow this Podcast on iTunes

New Hampshire Young Democrats Phone Bank to Protect Voter Fraud

September 26, 2018April 3, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The New Hampshire Young Democrats Facebook page has a status update seeking help to make phone calls to stop HB1264. They mean to prevent efforts that could stop “out of state students” “from voting in New Hampshire.”

These are the same Young Democrats who will not phone bank to end the injustice of high-priced out-of-state tuition rules which directly contradict their justification for letting those non-resident students vote here in the first place.

Let’s dig into that contradiction, shall we?

London Murder Rate Beats New York as Stabbings Surge

September 26, 2018April 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Times UK Headline says a lot about what happens when you make it illegal to defend yourself.

“…as stabbings surge.”

Deprived of one tool human nature, emboldened by the state’s disarmament policies, proceeds unhindered in the shadow of a government as incapable of protecting its citizens as Scott Isreal in Parkland (who had an officer on site).

Scott Pruitt and EPA Scrap Obama Era Fuel Efficiency Mandates

September 26, 2018April 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

EPA chief Scott Pruitt just sent a message to consumers and car makers that he’s okay with them deciding what sort of fuel efficiency they want in a motor vehicle.

He just scrapped Obama’s Federal CAFE Standards.

In a statement, Mr. Pruitt said the program, known as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE standards, fell victim to politics during the final days of the Obama administration. He said his predecessors at the EPA rushed through rules governing fuel economy for model years 2022 through 2025, and that those rules simply aren’t realistic.