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.

Carol Shea-Porter Sits on the Committee That Oversees VA Health Care

ICYMI – Carol Shea-Porter sits on the Military Personnel Subcommittee… The Military Personnel Subcommittee is responsible for military personnel policy, reserve component integration and employment issues, military health care, military education, and POW/MIA issues. This subcommittee makes sure that our troops and their loved ones are receiving the first class benefits that they deserve. (Emphasis mine.) … Read more

ObamaCare – Where Gender Matters

Have a seat sir, someone will be right with you… A report that aired on Asheville, NC ABC affiliate WLOS on Tuesday detailed the plight of college student Shelby Higdon, who under ObamaCare was refused medicine because of a gender mix-up within the ObamaCare provider’s system, which according to Higdon could not be fixed due … Read more

Obama Answer on VA? Study

Looking for an Answer from Obama on the VA?  He did hold a press conference yesterday.  President Obama says he is mad, though it is more likely because this VA thing has made him look bad, and doesn’t he have someone who has someone who tells someone else to take care of this kind og … Read more

CVA and The VA Management Accountability Act – Make NH Proud!

Concerned-Veterans-for-America-Circle-LogoSince the last week in February I have had the pleasure of working with Concerned Veterans for America, making calls to NH vets regarding mismanagement at the Veterans Administration – specifically targeting poor performing administrators.  Well, I guess that issue has hit the front pages in the last few days.  Good thing it finally did, so President Obama could be made aware of the problem – so says his spokesman.

In any case, lots of people talk about politics and some people do things within their capabilities.  This issue would be one of those opportunities for an average person to make a difference.  If you want to help, all you have to is contact the CVA.  (Come on! I’m making it easy on ya.)

 

Dear Ed,

Tonight, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly (390-33) passed the VA Management Accountability Act-

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GrokTALK! May 17, 2014 – A Canadian Warns Us About ObamaCare

Canadian Health Care Advocate Shona Holmes joins us from Ontario province. Shona was a health care refugee who had to travel to the US for life saving surgery before ObamaCare.  She shares that story, gives us some background on the kind of propaganda that the Canadian government has been peddling to Canadians about pre-Obama Health … Read more

Will GSP Use Dark Money to Fund OSP (OUR State Project)

dark_moneyThe big news in Dark Money this week are some documents left behind in a public area after Democracy Alliance (DA) held a super-secret meeting to discuss the buckets of cash they get from left-wing millionaires and billionaires and to which far left organizations they support. It lists their network, who they support, what those groups do (every one of them promotes progressive candidates or progressive issues), and there was even a list of donor names.  I have the whole list.  It is proving to be very useful.

But to my point.  One of the organizations prominently on display in these documents is ProgressNow.  They are part of DA’s aligned Network and the plan is to funnel 1.6 to 1.9 Million dollars to them in 2014.

ProgressNow is important because they planted one of their out-of-state funded franchises in New Hampshire a few years back.  That progressive bivouac goes by the name of GraniteState Progress (GSP).

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Check Your Liberal Privilege

Debbie Hallberg at American Thinker beat many of us to the punch when she introduced the phrase “Check your liberal privilege.”  It is the perfect response to the politically correct and culturally corrupt Liberal hypocrisy on the matter of white privilege.  But she doesn’t just come up with a catchy phrase. Hallberg first revisits the … Read more

The Benfit of Federalism – Michelle Obama School Lunch Program Teaches Kids About Central Planning

school-food-going-to-waste-photo by john davis taken 10/18/2012
Image credit: john Davis

Liberals like to use government to force their worldview on others, from as high up and as far away as they can, preferably with layers of bureaucracy between you–the more people to finger for their own failure the better.  So when Michelle Obama spun her domestic web of progressive meddling across the public school lunch landscape she ‘learned them’ something important about top down, one-size-fits-all central planning.  She also planted a seed; there are benefits to federalism versus top down federal mandates.  No matter whom you blame the latter on, central planning never works as promised.

Progressives blame kid-hating Republicans and greedy businesses for the revolt against Mrs. Obama’s failed policies. But the truth is right around the corner in our students’ cafeterias. Districts are losing money. Discarded food is piling high. Kids are going off-campus to fill their tummies or just going hungry.

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We’ve Been ‘Brown-Listed’

Rick Olson gives a great example of what it means to be “Brown-Listed.” “Last night, I went to Concord to the Holiday Inn for the Gun Owners of New Hampshire monthly meeting to challenge Scott Brown on his Second Amendment Positions. Just to be clear, I was personally invited by GONH President Mitch Kopacz. Upon … Read more

GrokTALK! May 17th, 2014 Jane Cormier on Free Speech in NH

House Rep. Jane Cormier joins us to discuss the decline of free speech in New Hampshire.  Bills like SB 120 and SB 319 are coming out of the Republican Senate to the applause of the Democrat House, all to the detriment of free speech. Jane brings up the likely unconstitutional nature of these bills and … Read more

What Else Obama And Shea-Porter Might Have In Common

VAObama 2007

“After seven years of an Administration that has stretched our military to the breaking point, ignored deplorable conditions at some VA hospitals, and neglected the planning and preparation necessary to care for our returning heroes, America’s veterans deserve a President who will fight for them not just when it’s easy or convenient, but every hour of every day for the next four years.” (emphasis mine.)

Then-Senator Barack Obama, November 12, 2007

Obama 2012

During Monday’s daily press briefing, press secretary Jay Carney told CNN’s Jim Acosta that the president and his staff were first made aware of the scandal through his network’s coverage of the matter.

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Copeland Resigns

Was it becasue Mitt Romney said so? Mitt Romney, the former GOP presidential nominee and a former Massachusetts governor, owns a home in Wolfeboro and had called for Copeland’s resignation, saying “the vile epithet used and confirmed by the commissioner has no place in our community.” Then there’s this from the same AP article; does … Read more

Polar Ice Sets New Record

Antarctic polar ice extent has set another new record, defying alarmist global warming claims. Surpassing the greatest month-of-April ice extent in recorded history, the new record throws cold water on alarmist claims that the Antarctic ice cap has crossed a melting point of no return. … Alarmists try to scare people into believing a “catastrophic … Read more

Media Lesson – Post “Racism” on Obscure Facebook Account First To Get Desired National Attention

facebookGiven recent events in New Hampshire I am curious why the national media isn’t interested in this story about a Local Democrat reported on a Long Island news affiliate.  Three staffers overheard New York State Democrat legislator Ellen Birnbaum, say this…

 “This is a bad neighborhood because African-Americans live there. Very few people would want to go there.”

Locals asked for her to resign but she said she’s not planning on it.  Sound familiar?

So where is the full court press of national “outrage” that was directed at Wolfeboro, New Hampshire?

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GrokTALK! May 17th, 2014 Segment One

In segment one we explore the NRSC – National RINO Support Committee, Jeanne Shaheen’s thoughts on Islam and Boko Haram, Trey Gowdy’s questions for the media on Benghazi, the militarization of the Obama Cabinet vs the second amendment, and what the left fills their Godless vacuum with…

Hiding VA Waiting Lists Probably Goes All The Way To The Top

VAEarly on in the fight against the government takeover of Health Care (Health Insurance/ObamaCare) the VA was frequently used as an example of what could inevitably happen.  While the VA hospitals are a great idea, in practice, they are like any other government-run entity.  The private sector could do much better for less.  And we predicted, as did many others, that the wait lists for services, and death panels–which is what the wait list becomes after so-and-so decided who gets care when and who does not (for whatever reason)–would follow.

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