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.

New Hampshire Joins 18 State Coalition Looking to Screw the Rest of the Nation

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On November 4th the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office issued a press release announcing that it will join “24 States, Cities, and counties” in defense of  the EPA’s clean power plan (CPP). There are 18 states involved in this ‘defense’ posture, half of whom are already bound up by a the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. These RGGI states have been paying higher electricity rates for years as a result of the sort of carbon trading schemes and regulations that CPP would impose on the entire nation.

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Game of Loans

“Why does student debt keep going up and up even as it’s harder and harder to find a good job with a college degree? And why does it seem that the more aid the government and colleges give, the less it helps? Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, shows how politicians and universities have … Read more

Carly Fiorina

Republican candidate Carly Fiorina joins us to discuss cutting government jobs and the spending that goes with them.  

GrokTALK! – Carly Fiorina

We opened up “shop” early this week so we could spend a few minutes with Carly Fiorina on cutting government jobs and the spending that goes with them. The  entire podcast is available here. GrokTALK! is a Mobile-Ready Broadcast  

Here we go again: another liberal narrative burned to a crisp

Michelle Malkin | Written by Doug Powers Here we go again: another liberal narrative burned to a crisp. Over a two-week period in October, an arsonist targeted seven churches in the St. Louis area — including several in Black Lives Matter protest hotspot Ferguson, Missouri. The Atlantic magazine, invoking the “long history of terrorism against … Read more

November 7th, 2015 Podcast

This week we are joined by Carly Fiorina, from the Western Energy Alliance – Tim Wigley, State Senate candidate Leon Rideout, and former NH House Speaker Bill O’Brien- on a primary challenge to Sen. Kelly Ayotte.

GrokTALK! November 7th, 2015

This week we are joined by Carly Fiorina, from the Western Energy Alliance – Tim Wigley, State Senate candidate Leon Rideout, and former NH House Speaker Bill O’Brien- on a primary challenge to Sen. Kelly Ayotte. (We did have issues with the live audio feed. This is the podcast of the entire program, which we … Read more

Kathleen Kane Taking The State of Pennsylvania With Her

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Search Democrat AG Kathleen Kane for more history but long story short, she’s a bad girl. After dropping a bribery sting because it netted state Democrats she’s lived the storied life of a corrupt attorney general who has since been indicted for a leak scandal, perjury, and corruption. She can no longer practice law – her license has been revoked. So what does the state’s highest lawyer do when she can no longer practice law?

Since all three branches of state government began moving against her over the past year,Kathleen Kane has released hundreds of sexually explicit or otherwise crude emailsthat had been sent or received by current or former public officials on their government accounts.

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A Religion Without God

Modern liberalism is best understood as a movement of would-be believers in search of true faith. For much of the 20th century it was faith in History, especially in its Marxist interpretation. Now it’s faith in the environment. Each is a comprehensive belief system, an instruction sheet on how to live, eat and reproduce, a … Read more

Tomorrow on GrokTALK! – November 7th, 2015

We open shop early tomorrow (8:30am EST) to welcome presidential candidate Carly Fiorina back to the program. We’ve also got Tim Wigley from the Western Energy Alliance on energy and the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. NH Rep. Leon Rideout joins us on his race for the NH State Senate.  And former NH House Speaker and current … Read more

Saudi Arabia And the US Senate Team Up To Screw Hybrid And Electric Car Owners

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Shutterstock Image c/o watchdog.org

Back in May I published an article with Watchdog.org based on the Department of Energy 2015 Energy Outlook Report. According to the data it is difficult for Hybrid and Electric cars owners to recover the higher purchase price of a vehicle when gas prices are $3.90 a gallon.

Depending on the model it would take anywhere from 13 to 46 years to save enough money in gas to cover the higher purchase price and maintenance for EHV or PHEV technology. That was with fuel prices estimated at $3.90/gallon and electricity estimated at 0.12/kwh.

I don’t know what you are paying but I’ve been paying closer to $1.90/gallon for a few months now and I can’t remember every paying 0.12/kwh for electricity. Thanks to Obama and Company’s Clean Power Plan, if the courts don’t block it or kill it, no one will ever pay that low a price per kilowatt hour again. That’s a big set back for HEV/PHEV owners if ever there was one. The pay back period has easily doubled in just a few months thanks to gas prices. With a shadow tax coming on electricity, doom!  

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Why Should Almost Everyone Have at Least Some Basic Firearms Training?

Why should almost everyone have at least some basic firearms training? Well, think of all the time and money we’ll save JUST on education… when almost everyone knows what a gun actually looks like. CBS Boston | SOUTHBRIDGE (CBS) — The Southbridge Middle/High School was locked down Wednesday afternoon after students reported seeing a weapon. The building … Read more

Democrats Keep Losing Under Obama…

While NH Democrats mull their circumstances (as luck would have it their state GOP leadership counterparts are morons) the rest of the nation continues to reap Republican successes as a result of 7 years under Obama. Under President Obama, Democrats have lost 900+ state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats. That's … Read more

Knife Wielder Stabs Students Until Someone With a Gun Shows Up [Updated]

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Image Credit: CBS Sacramento

Originally posted 11-4-2015

If one of these knifed students were allowed to carry a firearm the perforating perpetrator would have a) stabbed fewer people before being shot and b) would have had to look (at least a little bit) harder for a different gun free zone assuming they knew the odds at UC Merced were not that good.

A suspect stabbed five people on a university campus in central California Wednesday morning before police shot and killed him, authorities said Wednesday.

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Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton – “Drink You Away”

This…was pretty damn awesome. Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton sing “Tennessee Whiskey” followed by (the performance of the night?)”Drink You Away.”  I happened upon it by accident (part of the CMA’s) but stuck around to listen. It was time well spent. (Updated Video link) https://youtu.be/tqkPhTJMQDg

Congratulations to Rich Girard

Our congratulations to Rich Girard. He successfully ran for and was elected to the Manchester Board of school committee. We look forward to his reports and updates from his new position on the School board.

Polling Update c/o RCP

Trump still has the lead in NH but in Iowa and nationally Dr. Carson is ahead by a hair.  RCP’s average break down has Carson followed by Trump, Rubio, Cruz, Fiorina, Kasich, Paul, and then the rest.  NH RCP averages have Trump leading by +14 followed by Carson, Rubio, Kasich, Bush, then Cruz. Here are the … Read more

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

So many possible WTF’s and so little time but we make time. Here are some of our nominees for the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot of the week.  

Wrong About Rights?

Salvo | “…rather than look into the matter to determine whether some true injustice lies beneath a particular disparity (Was there theft? Is there ongoing oppression?), proponents of the new social justice pronounce the disparity itself to be the injustice. In a feat of monumentally poor thinking, reminiscent of the child who wails “No fair!” … Read more

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