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.

Speech and Censorship

We talk about our bread and butter – free speech and how we’re better at allowing it and protecting it than our progressive friends.  

Some Little-known Facts about Abortion in New Hampshire

Don’t you think collecting abortion statistics is matter of public health? NH is one of only three states that does not report abortion statistics to the CDC. In this segment guest-host Ellen Kolb leads a conversation about stalled efforts to change that, the Republican-lead legislature’s opposition to life, and some little-known facts about abortion in … Read more

Bryan Adams is an Idiot

bryan-adamsMississippi passed a religious conscience law for Christians. (Muslims already get 1st amendment protection for their religious objections so they don’t need this.)

The new protections have rankled the sensibilities of once-upon-a-time-more-well-known-rock-star Bryan Adams who has refused to perform in the State because he thinks it would be inappropriate. People might have their civil rights discriminated against (by Christians) because they are gay. The irony? Adams just toured Egypt last month.

Being gay isn’t technically illegal there but it is, after all, a Muslim country so gays are arrested on euphemistic charges like “debauchery.” Punishment can be harsh too: The CNN story at the last link mentions one sentence of 12 years. Egyptian police are known to pose as gay men and women on gay dating apps like Grindr to try to entrap locals; humiliations like anal probes also aren’t unheard of during arrests.

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Fight for 15 Still not About Wages. Not Exactly

California is at the forefront of government interfering with the value of labor. The Fight for 15 campaign, lead primarily by unions, has succeeded in pushing up wages for some but not because anyone really cares about wages. Unionized hotel employees, as but one example, don’t get the hike — but non-union hotel employees do. Owners of … Read more

“I Should Have Known Better”

They didn’t come here to assimilate. When it comes to querying the benefits to the west of semi-Islamization, Trevor Phillips packs more of a punch than most of us. First, he’s black, which shouldn’t matter but does. Second, he’s the former head of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, one of those identity-group grievance bodies … Read more

Some Little-known Facts about Abortion in New Hampshire

Don’t you think collecting abortion statistics is matter of public health? NH is one of only three states that does not report abortion statistics to the CDC. In this segment guest-host Ellen Kolb leads a conversation about stalled efforts to change that, the Republican-lead legislature’s opposition to life, and some little-known facts about abortion in … Read more

Why Maggie Hassan Had to Know About The Sex Scandal

Maggie Hassan - I know a Secret...
“I know a secret…”

Maggie Hassan was “unemployed” in 2011 when the Phillips Exeter Academy Schubart sexual child-abuse scandal was at its peak. By that, I mean, between elected offices. She had a lot more free time. Time that could have included conversations about a teacher who had engaged in inappropriate sexual relationships with students on her husband’s campus.

Maggie and Hubby Hassan both claim Mags was not “in the loop” on that one. That he never told her about it. I find that difficult to believe, and not just because she was very likely around more often.

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Speech and Censorship

We talk about our bread and butter – free speech and how we’re better at allowing it and protecting it than our progressive friends. Here’s a little ‘taste’ from the segment above (42 sec.)… Listen to the full interview above. Full podcast here.  

Cruz Should Be Trump’s Vice President

I’ve suggested this a handful of times going back months, as a very reasonable solution to the biggest problem; stopping the Democrat party from having the opportunity to finish what Obama started. Recalling that Ronald Reagan overcame a 30-point polling deficit to defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 by winning in the Northeast, Lord said, “He carried … Read more

Governor Hassan Should Step Down

In an emailed press release Andy Martin has called for Governor Hassan to step down and withdraw from the race for US Senate. GOP presidential candidate and corruption fighter Andy Martin says that New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan and her husband Tom Hassan are guilty of criminal violations of New Hampshire child abuse statutes even … Read more

America’s Declining Influence in the Middle East

Our guest is Avi Melamed, an internationally acclaimed Middle East expert, a former Senior official on Arab Affairs and Intelligence, and the author of “Inside the Middle East. Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth.”   Here’s a quick GrokSHOT! from the segment. (Audio – 1 min 44 sec.) Listen to the … Read more

Colorado Did Vote – March 1st.

You can be mad about Colorado, just be mad at the right people, and for the right reasons. On March 1, Colorado Republicans gathered at 2,917 precinct caucuses to select delegates to the county assemblies and district conventions. If you’re a Coloradan with a view on the Republican primary, this is when you got to vote. … Read more

The Campus Rape Culture Lie…

Apr 11, 2016 Presented by CAROLINE KITCHENS Is it true that 1 in 5 women are raped on America’s college campuses? If so, what does that say about our universities and the people who run them? If not, how did that statistic get into the mainstream? Caroline Kitchens, Senior Research Associate at the American Enterprise Institute, looks … Read more

Obama-Lunch: Now With Even More Strings Attached

Michelle-o lunch

The improperly named ‘Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act,’ Michelle Obama’s signature school lunch program, is getting something of a reboot to address issues “on the ground.”

I honestly do not see what the FDA and Gov’t Inc. are upset about. Costs are up, waste is at a historic high, and kids are still hungry. It sounds like a centrally-planned disaster running on all cylinders.

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America’s Declining Influence in the Middle East

Our guest is Avi Melamed, an internationally acclaimed Middle East expert, a former Senior official on Arab Affairs and Intelligence, and the author of “Inside the Middle East. Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth.”      

Anika Smith – Silencing Journalism to Protect Donors

Anika Smith joins us to discuss the seizure of under-cover videos from the home of David Daleiden by California AG and US Senate candidate Kamala Harris. Harris’ campaign gets funding from Planned Parenthood. We talk about the consequence of using police powers to silence opponents, and potential conflicts of interest (for Harris). Here’s a quick … Read more

GrokTALK! – April 9th, 2016

Anika Smith joins us talk about the raid on David Daleiden’s home and the seizure of unreleased Planned Parenthood videos. We speak with Avi Melamed, an independent intelligence analyst and expert on the Middle East, on his new book and America’s declining influence and credibility in the region. This week’s guest host is Ellen Kolb, and former CD-2 candidate … Read more

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