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.

The University Diversity Scam

UNH CampusThe University of New Hampshire is always begging for taxpayers to backstop its budget. We can’t promise we’ll keep tuition down, UNH insists, without your help. This from the ‘culture’ that pays $17,570.00 for a cafeteria table.

UNH is also ranked number one for students with loan debt after graduation, mostly because the cheap loan monopoly run by the feds allows UNH to charge more. Adding taxpayer bailouts only exacerbates the problem.

So, what to do? Heather Macdonald has an excellent suggestion.

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Senate Dems Want to See What’s in ObamaCare Replacement

Senate Democrats beclown themselves over the Trump Administration’s planned transition from ObamaCare (We have to pass it to see what’s in it) to a replacement. The Trump Team owes it to the American people to explain how they'll provide health coverage BEFORE they repeal it. https://t.co/CrLdcGNBKk — Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) December 6, 2016 I think … Read more

NBA Larry Bird Highlight Video – Awesome!

The NBA released a new Larry Bird highlight video (Dec. 7 is his birthday). If you like basketball, the Celtics, or Larry Bird, this is a must watch. I grew up with Larry and the Celtics Dynasty of that era and I recall Bird being amazing but not this amazing. Check it out. NBA-NBC Sports

To Democrats Still Bitching About the Election…

To Democrats bitching about winning the national popular vote and losing the electoral college (one more time). What was your pre-election day strategy? Was it to win the electoral college vote (win the state’s electors) or to just win more of the national popular vote in Democrat enclaves like California and New York? Let me … Read more

Obama Frustrated That He Didn’t Take Our Guns

What he said, “If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I’ve been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common sense gun safety laws,” Obama told … Read more

If Money Isn’t ‘Speech’ Then Boycotts Should Not Work

In the midst of a hookah induced haze (minus the hookah and the haze), something occurred to me. Out of the blue, if you like. The left (and now the right) uses boycotts as speech wherein the denial of commerce is exercised as a political act against a particular business. You deny them your dollars … Read more

Why Are Leftists Such Pansies?

Andrew Klavan I think President Barack Obama is the worst president of my lifetime: an incompetent ideologue who made the world and the country worse. The economy is not as bad as it was directly after the crash, but it is much, much worse than it would have been had it not been weighted down with … Read more

It isn’t Easy Being Green

South Australia has learned a hard lesson. It not only isn’t easy being green, it is ill advised if you’d like to stay in the First World club. The South Australian Government, the world’s green energy crash test dummy, appears to have thrown in the towel. In the wake of economically damaging outages and vigorous … Read more

Nuclear Chickens Come Home to Roost

We tried to warn them this could happen. It’s unlikely Mr. Reid had a President Trump in mind when he pulled the so-called “nuclear option” trigger three years ago, changing Senate rules to eviscerate the use of a filibuster to block presidential nominees. Harry’s lack of depth perception before he had his “exercise band accident” … Read more

Watch Banned Prager U – Video “Born to Hate Jews”

Prager U UPDATE (Monday, Dec. 5, 1:40pm EST): YouTube has entirely removed PragerU’s new video with Kasim Hafeez, a British Muslim who is a pro-Israel activist. In the video, Hafeez explains how he overcame the anti-Semitic indoctrination that radicalized him from an early age. Within hours of the video’s release Monday morning, YouTube flagged it … Read more

So…Trump Actually Won Nevada

nevadaTell me if this sounds familiar.

A total number of 17,086 votes were cast in [Clark County, Nevada,  District 15] for both Republican and Democrat candidates. However, when confirmation letters were sent to the voters in the District, the US postal service returned mail from 9,200 of these voters.

Vaughn found that many of the people who are listed as deceased are still on the active voter rolls. Many of the returned mail came back with 5 people living in a vacant lot with no mail receptacle.  Edward Snowden, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and dozens of movie stars were registered to vote in District 15 according to Mr. Vaughan.

And it’s not like Nevada isn’t familiar with charges of fake registered Democrat voters.

In New Hampshire, they use “same day registration” or let out-of-state residents use college dorms or local addresses to vote. Progressive activists send in absentee ballots or vote from non-existent properties. It is so prevalent and has been for so long that I called the New Hampshire for Trump after the election based on that reality and Hillary’s slim margin.

Well, I’m giving Trump Nevada too.

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Hampshire College is Flying the American Flag Again (Begrudgingly)

hampshire college flagHampshire College is flying the American flag again.

Hampshire College, which had previously removed its American flag after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Election Day, has returned the flag to its usual position on campus.

The flag went to half mast after Hillary lost, then was burned.  Rather than replace it and fly it properly the College decided to encourage a discussion of the flag’s meaning.

As if a community flying it at half mast after an election (*a violation of the school rules if I read this right) and then burning it didn’t suggest that such discussion has been under way for a very long time.

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Is There A Price to Pay for Reaching Across the Cereal Aisle?

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When confronted with people who do not believe as they do, Liberals screech, insult, intimidate, protest, boycott, threaten, and riot. Progressives use these tactics on individuals, groups, organizations, and corporations to advance their social issues agenda or to silence or punish opponents.

Take no prisoners. Resistance is futile. Never stop even after you get your way. This is how the minority party exerts a majority force even though most of the zip codes across the fruited plain lean the other way. We here at the Grok have been refusing to be cowed for over a decade and taken the fight to them at every opportunity. Some are suggesting that it is time for more of us to do the same, and take at least one page in particular out of the progressive playbook. 

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I Think ‘Sanctuary’ College Campuses Are a GREAT Idea

student-walk-out-pic-copy_1479354443209_49913000_ver1-0_320_240College Campuses that want to declare themselves as sanctuaries for illegal aliens are a great idea and here’s why.

  1. Because they are violating Federal law, all tax dollars and federal grants can and should be terminated.
  2. Any university accepting students who are paying with federal student loans is subject to this scrutiny
  3. ICE will know where to look for the illegal immigrants. Once found they can be sorted, kept, or deported, based on existing law.

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Bride of Crankenstein – The Return of Speaker Jasper

NH House Republicans voted yesterday to keep Democrat Elected Republican House Speaker Shawn Jasper. He won by just a few votes, then is reported have begun ripping into the 49% of his caucus that wanted someone else. Perhaps Chris Sununu can have a word with him about not mistreating the only people in the room who … Read more

Kellogg’s Values Now Include Cop Killing?

Kellogg got some more explaining to do. “The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which maintains strong financial ties to the Kellogg Company, has provided at least $930,000 in support of the controversial work of the Black Lives Matter organization.” Kellogg Inc. is uncomfortable advertising on Conservative Websites because they don’t align with their values. Values that include … Read more

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