Steve MacDonald

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

Notable Quote: A Lesson For Tax and Spend Democrats?

by Steve MacDonald

“…Despots we see, do plunder their subjects, though history and experience tell them that, by prematurely extracting the means of profusion, they are in fact devouring the seed-corn from which the future harvest of revenue is to spring.” -Thomas Babington Macaulay  

Classroom Political Bias in Merrimack New Hampshire

by Steve MacDonald

It’s not the first time that reports have reached my ears of obvious political bias in the classrooms of the Merrimack School System.  Tales of Middle School English teachers using their classrooms to promote the “science” of global warming we’re not uncommon, and while annoying not prevalent enough to demand action. The most recent circumstance … Read more

The Newspaper Ad Revenue Collapse

by Steve MacDonald

This more or less speaks for itself. Feel free to form up into work groups and report back after lunch. Or you could just lean back in your chair and bask in the glow of alternative media (aka-choices) beating up the dinosaur media like an SEIU thug on a Tea Party Protester.

Ask A NH Democrat – About Free Speech

by Steve MacDonald

Free Speech FlagA private citizen made a lousy YouTube video about six months ago.  A few days ago islamo-fascists used it as a vehicle to inflame Muslim uprisings.  Under the cover of same, Americans were killed, or in some cases executed.  The Obama Administration’s response to the killings was to send the police out in the dark of night and collect the man they believe responsible for making the video.

Muslims, living in third world arm-pits, are familiar with this strategy.  People disappearing in the night when they have displeased those in power by saying something that has made them look bad.  They do not have free speech.  But we do.  Well, we are supposed to.

So ask a New Hampshire Democrat…

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NH Democrat Face Plant – The 800 Million Dollar Deficit

by Steve MacDonald

Yes, this is going to keep coming up.  All the way to November. (excerpt on the jump)

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We The People

by Steve MacDonald

Democrats Celebrate Turkish Air Force at Convention

by Steve MacDonald

An apology is likely forthcoming, after it is revealed that, like the Soviet Black Sea Navy ships sailing behind the speakers at the Democrat National Convention, the fighter jets pictured above…not US either.  So their tribute the military was essentially…a complete fail.  (#FAIL)

The Daily Caller nails them on this here.  The jets are Turkish F-5 fighters.

You’ve got to hand it to the Democrats though.  Had complete control of the government for two years.  They still control most of it with the Democrat Controlled Senate still blocking anything and everything that might embarrass Obama.  Their candidate for President is the current commander and chief for the US military, and always the Smartest Guy In The Room™ ,but they still can’t manage to use photos of actual US military hardware in their convention for his re-election.

It’s priceless.

In case you forgot, the picture is on the jump…

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Bill Maher Made A Film That Mocked Islam

by Steve MacDonald

I never saw the movie (almost no one did) but according to Breitbart.com the last 20 minutes of the Bill Maher angry-atheist-Christian bashing is free speech vanity film, Religulous, makes a “damning case against Islam. Maher’s films tumbled in and out of theaters a few years back while–Osama was still above water–without any incident on … Read more

There is no Forward with Obama (c/o A Notable Quote – John C. Calhoun)

by Steve MacDonald

“..as individuals differ greatly from each other, in intelligence, sagacity, energy, perseverance, skills, habits of industry and economy, physical power, position and opportunity,–the necessary effect of leaving all free to exert themselves to better their condition, must be a corresponding inequality between those who may possess these qualities and advantages in a higher degree, and … Read more

Obama Legacy

by Steve MacDonald

We’ve had 43 straight months of unemployment above 8%, gas prices have risen more than 100%, national debt has exceeded $16 trillion-plus, and the average family’s net worth has fallen 40%. Forward!  

If The Attack on The US Embassy Wasn’t Pre-planned…

by Steve MacDonald

...then why scrub the memo issued by the US department of State, dated September 6th, announcing no credible security threats to our embassies on the anniversary of 9-11?   That’s right, a blogger caught the change and posted it.

The US State department issues a memo to its embassies indicating there are no credible threats for the anniversary of 9/11.  There are no marines stationed in Benghazi to protect the ambassador.  The administration is insiting the attack was some random act of outrage over some obscure six months old you Tube video.

But the Libyan President says he has no doubt the attack was planned months in advance (also here).  Al Qaeda is now claiming it was a planned retribution.   A Local security official in Libya says he warned the US of the deteriorating security situation 3 days before the attack.  Attackers worked in concert, with heavy weapons, knew where to be and where to go.  The Serbian consulate wants to know why the Obama administration posted a Gay ambassador in a Muslim country.  And now the original State Department memo no longer includes any mention of there being no credible threats, that Al Qaeda was not “plotting any kind of attack overseas” on the anniversary of 9-11.

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You Are Racist Just For Running

by Steve MacDonald
Mitt Romney - Candidate for President - but is he a racist for running
Mitt Romney - How Dare You Run Against This President

This is not an earth shattering observation but seeing as I was just making this point last weekend I figured I should post it.  What did I say?

That it was only a matter of time before the media started trying to explain how “just running” against this incumbent president (Mr. Obama) is racist.

To Quote Elrond from the Lord of the Rings…’It has begun.’

At The Chris Matthews Hour of Hate the Left has laid the foundation for this argument with the notion that simply running against a sitting President (like say, Obama) shows disdain and arrogance.  Honestly, what was Mitt Romney thinking?

This is the first step toward the broader narrative.

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Remembering Democrat Rule – No Taxes Means More Taxes

by Steve MacDonald
About That “No Tax Pledge” Candidate Hassan…
About That “No Tax Pledge” Candidate Hassan…

In 2007 New Hampshire Democrats assumed complete control of state government.  And much like the Democrat rhetoric in the current 2012 campaign, back in 2007,  their first budget,  New Hampshire’s first budget over 10 billion dollars, was billed by the Democrats as a budget that “addresses our state’s priorities without new taxes.”

Addresses our ‘State’s’ priorities.  Without new taxes.

They lied.

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Is UNH Using Their Letterhead To Play Politics?

by Steve MacDonald

A recent letter from UNH President Mark W. Huddleston, emailed to  persons associated with UNH, appears to be asking recipients to pressure (maybe engage and encourage is a better term) the New Hampshire legislature into restoring budget cuts made last session to the University system.

I have no issue with “Huddleston the activist” doing that on his own time, but Politicking on State University Letterhead?

That’s a no no.

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Ask New Hampshire Democrats…Will You Let Obama Seize our Guns? (Fixed Link)

by Steve MacDonald

President Obama, who promised to pursue gun control under the radar, has fulfilled that promise.Oh No Guns....and magazines...and ammo

Obama has expanded civil-forfeiture rules making it permissible for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to seize weapons from citizens without the hassle of due process.

This effectively gives Attorney General Eric Holder, of Fast and Furious fame, extended power over guns and gun-related property.

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What $6.6 Million In Campaign Donations Buys You In Obama-Land

by Steve MacDonald

Jeffy Katzenberg bundles 6.6 Million for Campaign Obama and, coincidentally, manages to get a meeting with the Communist Chinese Vice President, after which Katzenberg is allowed to build a Studio in China.  But it gets better.  Apparently Obama is not the only socialist whose pockets he is lining.  The SEC is investigating whether Katzenberg may have bribed communist officials to ease the process of getting his new DreamWorks studio built in Shanghai.

Bribing is not uncommon in Communist China. but isn’t this off-shoring?  Is there a shortage of US officials Katzenberg could bribe aside from Obama?  And why is he building a huge studio in China?  California too expensive?

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Will Video Almost No One Has Seen (About Mohammad?) Be Used to Control Internet?

by Steve MacDonald

Attacks on 9/11 we knew were coming, a video no one (inflamed) has or will ever see that inflaming Islamists, dead Americans on foreign soil, and repeated claims that in America, the government can’t control everything that goes up on the internet… Sounds like an excuse for Democrats to argue that the US government Should. … Read more

Feeding The Crocodile

by Steve MacDonald

Mike Rogers (from somewhere in the working world) sent me this….

Feeding the Crocodile - Obama's Muslim Foreign Policy

Lisa Benson – Townhall.com

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Who, When, Where…Were Voters Turned Away In New Hampshire…for Not Having ID?

by Steve MacDonald

The uber-left-wing group Democracy Now is claiming that “some” primary voters were turned away in New Hampshire on Tuesday because they did not have photo ID.   Democracy Now blames “confusion over the new law” as the culprit.  I’d be more inclined to suggest that this is a load of crap.

Who was turned away?  When?  Where?  Democrats across the state of New Hampshire had pre-organized poll watchers to observe and (hopefully) record exactly that problem…so where is the video?  Where are the interviews?  Who are these “voters,” and why were they not simply referred to the moderator or supervisor of the checklist to clear it up, or to just sign an affidavit declaring domicile in the event that anyone forgot their ID.  The law includes that provision.  The idea that no one in any of the “so-called” polling stations where voters were “supposedly turned away” didn’t know this is absurd.

I can only guess that Democracy Now didn’t know about this or did’t care.  They have nothing but that doesn’t matter becasue this is probably just messaging support for the ACLU & League of Women Vote Stealers ignorant effort to get the law suspended for November.

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Obama Golf Counter Update.

by Steve MacDonald

As Mr. Obama rides cross country attending more fundraisers and campaign events than any president in history (historic presidency indeed; historic campaigning, historic debt, historic deficits, historic unemployment; historic number of people on food stamps…yadda yadda yadda..)  he still seems to be finding time for Golf. That’s right people, “Fore” more years–he should have bumper … Read more

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