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.

NH AG to Investigate Possible Election Law Violations During Primary

So the NH AG’s office plans to probe for possible election law violations after the release of the most recent Project Veritas video… WMUR | CONCORD, N.H. —The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office has decided to begin an investigation of possible violation of a state law governing voting-related conduct, depicted in a video made public this … Read more

Chris Christie Lied on National Television

A few days before Gov. Christie was driven out of the race by New Hampshire voters we had a conversation with Alex Roubian from the New Jersey Second Amendment Society about how the N.J. Governor had lied on national television about his record on gun rights. Hear what Alex had to say about the Governor … Read more

SCOTUS Puts Clean Power Plan On Hold

On a 5-4 vote the US Supreme Court has blocked implementation of the Presidents Clean Power Plan while legal challenges work their way through the courts. Let us hope that the legal system drags this one out until at least the end of January 2017. If the GOP doesn’t screw this election up we might … Read more

Now that the NH Primary is Over, What do You Think?

With 89% of the vote in, 266 out of 300 precincts reporting, Donald Trump walks away with New Hampshire. That’s not news. We knew that by mid day. So where are the real stories? Record turnout? Bernie Sanders crushing Hillary Clinton 60% to 38% is a huge punch in the neck for the Shaheen cartel and … Read more

Lisa Desjardins – PBS News Hour

PBS NewsHour included me in a story  (full interview here) but before that, political reporter Lisa Desjardins joined us for a spirited discussion. Check it out.  

Ted Cruz was Defending commerce and Free Markets…from day one

I posted this back in November (Did Ted Cruz Save E-Commerce) but it is worth revisiting because Ted Cruz was defending commerce and free markets..from day one. Follow the links and read…  PJ Media has an interesting piece on Ted Cruz when he was developing economic policy as the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office … Read more

Just In – Jeb! Bush Opposes Money as Speech, Probably Because It Didn’t Work for Him

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It is First in the Nation Primary Day in New Hampshire. Tomorrow the phone will ring less, the mailbox will not runneth over with shiny circus-like campaign literature, and the digital froth in my email, well…this morning I woke to this from NHRebellion:

BREAKING NEWS: Jeb Bush calls for Overturning Citizens United to stop Super PAC spending

Did you spit your coffee on your keyboard? Sorry about that.

The not so breaking news is that NHRebellion is a front for another item on the progressive punch-list, but this? It’s a punch line.

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10 Questions from Christopher Monckton for the Purveyors of Climate Doom.

In an article titled “The profiteers of Doom Were Wrong About Climate,” Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, Willie Soon & David R. Legates, have ten questions for the climatologists of doom. Awkward questions, like… 1: Where has the warming that the surface thermometer datasets now say has occurred in the past 18 years come from? 2: Why, … Read more

ICYMI – Desjardins, Benko, Roubian, Sandblade, and Abramson

ICYMI – PBS News Hour political reporter Lisa Desjardins; Senior Economic Advisor at the American Principles Project, Ralph Benko; From the New Jersey Second Amendment Society, Alex Roubian; Max Abramson talks NH Medicaid Expansion; and our special guest host this week is Emily Sandblade. (Player updates at 9 am Eastern) .  

Stop Medicaid Expansion

The House will vote on reauthorizing expanded Medicaid this week. Max Abramson joins Emily Sandblade to explain the dire consequences and how the House is the only place we have a shot at stopping it.    

Clintonian Feminism – “Special Place in Hell” Edition

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“I was shown the hellfire and that the majority of its dweller are women” (who didn’t support Hillary) -The Prophet Mohammad

Being a Clinton supporter means never having to say you’re sorry…for what Bill Clinton has done to women. You don’t have to say you’re sorry for anything Hillary did either, which works out great because while there is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women, there is a special place in the White House for the woman who did not help the women whom Bill Clinton put through hell.

And according to Madeline Albright, if you don’t help get that woman in to the White House, there is a special place in hell for you, young lady.

So much for modern feminism as a bastion for the ‘Choice’ argument.

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Stop Medicaid Expansion

The House will vote on reauthorizing expanded Medicaid this week. In this segment Max Abramson joins Emily Sandblade to explain the dire consequences and how the House is the only place we have a shot at stopping it. (full podcast)  

Are the Polls Crap?

We open with guest-host Emily Sandblade who knows a thing or two about math and polling to discuss what the current presidential polls likely reflect and why you probably should not ‘buy’ what they are selling.    

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