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.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

This week we opened with a list of possible Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’s for the week including Palin Parts, Lois Lerner, Barack’s Diet, the EPA, Eric Holder’s “shooter,” and the rising bureaucratic tide in DC. And we introduce future recurring guest…Haggie Masson. Want the entire program? Get it here! Follow us on YouTube, USTREAM, Facebook, and Twitter … Read more

Woman Raped, Tortured, and Killed Because of Democrat Policy

sanctuarycitiesI have a job for you, dear readers. You need to find and ask these people some questions. Call, email, letter to the editor, protest outside their home or office, all of the above, whatever works for you.

Senator Jeanne Shaheen. Congressperson-woman Ann McClain Kuster. Ray Buckley. Maggie Hassan. Every Democrat in New Hampshire is to be asked, “do you support sanctuary cities?” If they do not support sanctuary cities ask them what they are doing to protect women who are being tortured, raped, and murdered as a result of Democrats who do support and defend them?

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

This week we opened with a list of possible Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’s for the week including Palin Parts, Lois Lerner, Barack’s Diet, the EPA, Eric Holder’s “shooter,” and the rising bureaucratic tide in DC.  And we introduce future recurring guest…Haggie Masson.  

Local Adoption of Police Body Cameras in NH Catches State’s Attention

The Haverhill [New Hampshire] police officers who fired on [Hagen] Esty-Lennon were both wearing body cameras. Video convinced the state attorney general’s office that lethal force was justified. The family members of Hagen Esty-Lennon requested that the video of his shooting not be made public. With no rules in place, the attorney general has asked … Read more

America’s Pension Crisis part 2

ICYMI – part two of our interview with Lawrence J. McQuillan, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute and author of CALIFORNIA DREAMING: Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis. (originally aired July 18th, 2015) “In California Dreaming, McQuillan provides a beautiful case study of the way … Read more

August 8th, 2015 Hour One

IN Hour one we introduce future recurrign guest Haggie Masson, Discuss the weeks options for the WTF, and discuss the recent debates with Pete Ingemi on WCRN. Then Jane Cormier joins us to discuss current legal cases involving New Hampshire Right to Life.

August 8th, 2015 Hour Two

In Hour two we talk to David Bozell from For America about the Republican debates. Then, it’s what Democrat is running against Ayotte if not Hassan, and are any Republicans running against Ayotte? Then its the new “Grassroots Group” focused on helping Kelly Ayotte called “Commitments Kept.” What commitments, we try to work that out.

America’s Pension Crisis part 2

ICYMI – part two of our interview with Lawrence J. McQuillan, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute and author of CALIFORNIA DREAMING: Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis.    

GrokTALK! August 8th, 2015

This week we are joined by David Bozell from ForAmerica with post-debate analysis. Jane Cormier from NHRTL has an update on their court case. Susan Olsen guest hosts, and we do a 15 minute dual-broadcast on WCRN with Pete Ingemi. Follow us on YouTube, USTREAM, Facebook, and Twitter …and take us with you on iTunes, iHeart Radio, … Read more

Turns Out The PA AG Who Dropped A Bribery Case Against Fellow Dems in 2014 Is Corrupt.

Pennsylvania’s Democrat Attorney General, Kathleen KaneRemember Pennsylvania’s Democrat Attorney General, Kathleen Kane? She abandoned a slam-dunk bribery sting that netted local Democrats, because they were Democrats silly. (also here)

Well!?

HotAir!

First she blamed racism because the five videotaped Democrats were black. Then she blamed a “Good Ol’ Boys club” out to get her because she is a woman. Then she threatened to sue the Philly newspaper that published the story.

What happened next is what brings us to today.

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NH Medicaid Expansion Weighs Down State Budget

To paraphrase Theodore Dalrymple, “distress” always expands to meet the supply of publicly funded services available to reduce it. So the idea that Medicaid expansion would expand Medicaid was never in doubt. If you build it they will come. If you build it with other people’s money, and back it forever, they may come in … Read more

Victims of Circumstance

Theodore Dalrymple | City Journal The word “fell” denies agency to the young men, as if they had no choice in the matter. They were victims of circumstance by virtue of their membership of a minority, for minorities are by definition victims without agency. There is a strange parallel here with how heroin addicts explained … Read more

America’s Pension Crisis

In this segment we are joined by Lawrence J. McQuillan, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute and author of  CALIFORNIA DREAMING: Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis. “In California Dreaming, McQuillan provides a beautiful case study of the way politics operates to produce public pension … Read more

Tomorrow on GrokTALK! August 8th, 2015

This week on GrokTALK! August 8th, 2015, (9am to 11am EDT) David Bozell from ForAmerica is back with post Republican debate analysis. Jane Cormier has an update on NHRTL’s Supreme Court Case. And Guest Host Susan Olsen joins us Plus commentary on local news, politics, and culture you could only get from the bloggers at GraniteGrok.com – And maybe…a … Read more

America’s Pension Crisis

Our guest is Lawrence J. McQuillan, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute and author of  CALIFORNIA DREAMING: Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis

Thank God For The Atom Bomb?

112542-004-59879F6DOn the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb…it’s as a good a time as any to revisit, “Thank God for the Atom Bomb.”

Here’s a link to a PDF if you prefer (or here), but it is reformatted in it entirety on the Grok for your serious and measured consideration. 

Bio c/o WSJ.

Thank God for the Atom Bomb – 1981 essay by the late Paul Fussell, the cultural critic and war memoirist. In 1945 Fussell was a 21-year-old second lieutenant in the U.S. Army who had fought his way through Europe only to learn that he would soon be shipped to the Pacific to take part in Operation Downfall, the invasion of the Japanese home islands scheduled to begin in November 1945.

Then the atom bomb intervened. Japan would not surrender after Hiroshima, but it did after Nagasaki.

 

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Inclusiveness Requires Censorship?

The big story last week was a University Language guide that finger-wagged “problematic” words in order to create a more inclusive campus environment. The story went national. We discuss why removing the guide doesn’t change the culture that birthed it, then move on to our next guest to discuss the debate on legalizing drugs.

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