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.

Followup- HB 1117 The NH Bill To Ban Cell Phone Use

I wanted to write a short follow-up to this post on why a New Hampshire bill (HB 1117) that proposes restrictions (a ban) on cell phone use by drivers is a waste of time. 1) Distraction causes accidents, but studies suggest that there is little or no evidence demonstrating that talking on a cell phone … Read more

Did Police Commissioner Thomas Pappas Violate The NH State Supreme Court Rules of Conduct?

Aduck-tread Duck Gate David Campbell Drunk ranking Democrat House Rep from Nashua, David Campbell (D-Quack!), mows down some Mallards in his BMW in front of the Crown Plaza Hotel.  He hears the police are on route so he hightails it to his law office about 1000 feet from that same hotel.

He calls Nashua City Police Commissioner and longtime friend, Thomas Pappas, who drives to Campbell’s law office (1000 feet from where police have probably already arrived),  picks him up, leaves the scene, and hides him.  He then waits for a shift change (until after midnight–two hours later) to call the cops who (work for him) to ask if they want to talk to to David Campbell about the incident at the hotel

The officer on the case has already gone home, Campbell is sleeping it off at an undisclosed location, and never gets around to calling police until 18 hours after the Ducks died.

So why bring it up…again?  The New Hampshire State Supreme Court maintains “rules  of conduct and discipline” that Thomas Pappas has probably violated.

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Dogs and Guns and Democrats…Oh My!

People who are unfamiliar with dogs or have never owned one, are more likely to be intimidated or even afraid of them.   While people who are familiar with dogs, grew up with them or own a dog, understand them, know how to read their signals, and have the sense to have some respect for what they are capable of, particularly when they meet one they are not familiar with.

Guns are the same way.  People who are unfamiliar or who have never handled or owned a gun are intimidated,  wary, even frightened of them.  While lawful gun owners, hunters, sport shooters, and  folks who feel the need to own a gun for self defense are more likely to understand them, and have the sense to have some respect for what any gun is capable of particularly when they are introduced to one they are not familiar with.

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Democrat’s “Drop-Out” Chickens Coming Home To Roost?

Schoolhouse(This was written on April 1st, 2013 and left in the drafts folder.  I thought I ‘d dust it off. )

Former New Hampshire Governor John Lynch liked to talk about how his administration had overseen a historic decrease in the number of kids who dropped out of public school with a mission to get that number down to zero.  Not such an absurd idea when you consider how it is that he managed the ‘reported’ decrease it in the first place.

Lynch and the Democrats simply changed the name and the definition of a “drop out” and stopped counting anyone who dropped out by any other name.

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Civil Asset Forfeiture – A NH Cash Grab You Are Helpless to Prevent

aa-asset-forfeiture-great-oneAccording to the Institute for Justice, New Hampshire seizes an average of $900,000.00 dollars a year in private property under Civil Asset Forfeiture laws, which give law enforcement the power to permanently seize and keep your cash, cars, property, any asset at all, by simply claiming that it is suspected of being involved in a crime.

You do not need to be charged with a crime nor go to trial.  Law enforcement can seize your property; take your car, kick you or your family out of your home.

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GrokTALK! – Interviews at Andrew Hemingway Event in Manchester

Last Thursday, Andrew Hemingway made a formal announcement that he was challenging Maggie Hassan for Governor of New Hampshire.  GraniteGrok was there, and ICYMI, here is some GrokTV! video of Andrew’s announcement,. (Video of other speakers can be found here.) We also recorded three interviews, with Rogers Johnson, Joe Kenney, and Andrew Hemingway. There were … Read more

Welker Curse Moves To Denver

Wes Welker leaves for Denver.  Denver has a great season, gets to the Super Bowl and chokes. It’s the Welker Curse. It’s.  It’s…Un-Manning.

I Got To Second Base with a TSA Screener

In recent years, both my wife and my Mother-in-law earned ‘the right’ to wear this t-shirt while travelling. The TSA also scared the crap out of my pre-teen daughter, who was with them. Thank you TSA. (The young lady pictured is not my mother-in-law, wife, or daughter, in case you thought to ask.)

Dana Loesch…to Guest Host on ‘The View’

Dana Loesch on the View?  That should make the Super Bowl look like a debutante’s ball. From Joe For America.com TheBlaze TV’s Dana Loesch will be guest hosting ABC’s “The View” on Monday — that is, if the anti-gun group Moms Demand Action doesn’t get its way. Additionally, the far-left Media Matters has also come out of the woodwork … Read more

“The Architect” Should Try Calling George Soros if He Needs Some Money

Breitbart is reporting that Karl Rove’s phalanx of Tea Party hating political projects has seen an 98% decrease in fundraising since he “officially” raised his flag against the movement.

As Politico notes, though, “Rove added a third group to the network in 2013, forming the Conservative Victory Project to counterbalance the influence of Tea Party and conservative grassroots forces in GOP primaries.”

Since then, as Breitbart News reported, “Rove’s organization has been so tarnished among the conservative base that candidates fear donors will not contribute to any group associated with him.” Aware of this, Rove’s Crossroads network has reloaded with groups that share donors but are technically not affiliated on paper with them.

Tony Lee – Breitbart

Rove’s Conservative Victory Project, whose only goal is to defeat conservatives, is doing the Hillop Public Solutions jig–creating additional groups with no direct association, but run by Rove’s people and fed from the same pot of cursed gold.

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GrokTALK! with Guest Aaron Day – Chair of the RLCNH

Arron Day from the RLCNH joins us to discuss the ObamaCare expansion in New Hampshire via the Federal government’s failed Medicaid program but before that we touch briefly on some local news including the Hemingway announcement, the License plate scanner bill, Media Matter’s poking its nose under the NH vote fraud tent, and some tidbits … Read more

Obligatory – UNH Had to Have 25 Million More Taxpayer Dollars For Students and Education…or Something.

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Look What $65K buys you at UNH – A Logo for their new $25 million dollar Stadium.

New Hampshire Democrats cried like lost children when the O’Brein legislature cut some of the public funding to UNH, as did UNH (naturally),  so one of their first priorities for teary-eyed Democrats when they took back the House was to waste 25 million dollars of our money by giving it back to UNH.

The emotional narrative for justifying a 25 million dollar hit to taxpayers in a stagnant economy was so they could give it to the deep-pocketed UNH, was to insist we had some kind of collective obligation to students and higher education… or something.

Here.  UNH chief lobbyist President Mark Huddleston shares the narrative, as if he were reading it off Harrel Kirstein’s NHDP propaganda palm card…

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Data Point: Jeanne Shaheen the Liberal Queen

GovTrackUS.com has a neat little feature where they show the “Ideology Score” of members of Congress (Senate, in this case) in a scatter plot diagram. This score is based on sponsorship and co-sponsorship of bills, not the member’s voting record.  It doesn’t even factor in the content of the bills – it simply plots ideology … Read more

GrokTALK! Start’s Live Streaming Today!

It is our intention to begin live streaming GrokTALK! starting with today’s show.  You will be able to view the program live from 9a to 11a EST. We are also adding a format change. Various affiliates who are or will re-broadcast GrokTALK! would like me to produce shorter segments.  Shorter segments are more likely to … Read more

GrokTALK! Live February 1st 2014

This Week on GrokTALK!, from 9-11am, our guests are the Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, Aaron Day; former NH House Speaker Bill O’Brien; and then Michael Maharrey from the Tenth Amendment Center will be on the phone* with us to discuss state effort toward nullification of Federal overreach both here and … Read more

GrokTALK! February 1st, 2014 with Aaron Day, Bill O’Brien, Susan Olsen, and Michael Maharrey

GrokTALK! New Hampshire's Conservative PodcastDespite a few growing pains with the format scheduling change (we will now post the whole program and then 15 min segments for easier digestion), and the introduction of the Live Stream (if you missed it, we will be Live Streaming Weekly now, right here, from 9am to 11am), today’s show was fantastic with Susan Olsen, Aaron Day, Bill O’Brien, and Michael Maharrey from the Tenth Amendment Center.

Listen to the Podcast

You can Watch the Recorded Live Stream Here

(see if you can guess how many times I tug at my shirt..(sticky hot in that room)

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