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.

When Failure Is More Than Just An Option

When failure is not just an option it is an obligation, government must surely be involved. CA passes assisted suicide during suicide prevention week. Will the US Navy need an Uber? Inconvenient facts about gender and combat. Did Clinton’s private server improve security? And giving High School Diploma’s out like a participation trophy. GrokTALK! is a … Read more

WTF: Senate Republicans – Losing is Winning

It was a busy week for the call sign Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. We had five or six solid contenders. But did this one take the crown? Senate Republicans fumble a show-vote on the Iran Treaty then declare a day later that losing is winning.  

Remember The Media Coverage of Below Normal Temperatures in July?

The media has many weapons. Among them “are such diverse elements as… fear, surprise, ruthless inefficiency, and a almost fanatical devotion to the narrative.” May the Pythons forgive me for the editorial license, but then this is a story about editorial license.

It’s about the weather, dummy, or is that FOR the weather-dummy? Once respected institutions like NASA and the NOAA, the NCDC and others, take what every meteorologist and climatologist can see in the live data then, to quote Dr. Roy Spencer,

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WTF: Senate Republicans – Losing is Winning

It was a busy week for the call sign Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. We had five or six solid contenders. But did this one take the crown? Senate Republicans fumble a show-vote on the Iran Treaty then declare a day later that losing is winning. GrokTALK! is a Mobile-Ready Broadcast You can also get this weeks … Read more

Is ‘The Iran Deal’ Right For You?

Side Effects include… H/T Warner Todd Huston c/o Publius Forum [David] Zucker has created a new website called www.iransideeffects.com that you HAVE to see. The video is a pastiche of all those crazy drug commercials that tell potential customers about the horrible side effects of the drug.  

GrokTALK! – September 12th, 2015

We are joined by Canadian Health Care refugee Shona Holmes, talk show host Rich Girard , and Max Abramson gives us a primer on bills up for a veto override vote this week in the NH legislature.  

GrokTALK! September 12th, 2015

We are joined by Canadian Health Care refugee Shona Holmes, talk show host Rich Girard , and Max Abramson gives us a primer on bills up for a veto override vote this week in the NH legislature. GrokTALK! is a Mobile-Ready Broadcast

Why Can’t Governor Hassan Just Answer the Question?

Max Ledoux from Riccochet.com reminds us that NH’s governor has take money from Planned Parenthood, wont investigate them, nor can she answer a simple yes or no question. “Have you seen the Planned Parenthood videos from Center for Medical progress?”  

Patriots Grumble Thread – Week 1

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The Pajama-boy Steelers came to Foxboro last night and beat themselves. Don’t let anyone tell you any different.

In the middle of a drive where every play netted the Steelers a first down or more they insert a trick play that cost them yards, and momentum. (Headsets or not they got that one in there, didn’t they?) A few more bone-head moves later and they missed a field-goal.

Rinse, lather, repeat.

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September Didn’t Used To Be This Hot….Actually, It Was Hotter!

According to people paid to promote man-made climate chaos theory September did’t used to be this hot. Actually, September used to be hotter, and more often. The period from 1920-1950 had more hot Septembers in the US and more September heat waves (with consecutive days over 100 degrees), with smaller urban heat-islands than we have today.  Nothing in the 21st century comes close.

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Tomorrow on GrokTALK! September 12th, 2015

Tomorrow on GrokTALK!  – September 12th, 2015, (9:00 am to 11 am EDT) Rich Girard on his election for Manchester Board of School Committee Shona Holmes: it’s about access to healthcare not access to health insurance. Veto Override Day Bills with Max Abramson + The Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, News, Opinion, and weather…without the weather. (Maybe we’ll squeeze in something … Read more

GrokTALK! – Why Can’t Governor Hassan Just Answer the Question?

Max Ledoux from Riccochet.com reminds us that NH’s governor has take money from Planned Parenthood, wont investigate them, nor can she answer a simple yes or no question. “Have you seen the Planned Parenthood videos from Center for Medical progress?” Listen to the entire program here. GrokTALK! is a Mobile-Ready Broadcast

GrokTALK! – The Centennial Monetary Commission Act

We continue with Forbes Columnist and former Reagan special Counsel Ralph Benko on Alan Greenspan, the Fed, and the need for candidates to discuss, explain, and for politicians and voters to support the Brady Centennial Monetary Commission Act currently in Congress. Listen to the entire broadcast here. GrokTALK! is a Mobile-Ready Broadcast Part I with Ralph Benko

You Can’t Separate Labor Force Participation From The Unemployment Rate

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America’s national unemployment rate is 5.1 percent. The country added 173,000 jobs in August. The press is trumpeting our economic success. Happy days are here again, or are they?

A record 94,031,000 people have left the US work force. But 5.1 percent unemployment, you croon. Sure, it sounds great if you have a job or if your job is to croon about low unemployment, but to 94 million Americans that number is a lie.

The work force or labor participation rate and the unemployment rate are intimately connected and the former is far more telling than the latter. We see this in the unemployment numbers in New Hampshire from July of 2014 to July of 2015.

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