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.

Remember When? Yes, Actually I do!

Remember Julia.  Well over at Tumblr they have the Real Life of Julia  and thanks to ObamaCare… Julia’s got problems.  Her insurance was cancelled.  Either her premiums or deductibles (or both) are going to shoot sky high.  And she can’t use her current gynecologist.

I do remember, Katie.  In fact, we’ve got a recent example from New Hampshire we can reference.

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If You Like Your Presription Drugs You Can Keep Them

prescription -Obamacare making drugs more expensive or harder to getObamaCare (RACIST!)  increases the cost of care.  If you happen to be one of the folks with a lower premium ObamaCare will probably crank up your deductible and your annual out of pocket costs,  to $10,000.00 or more per year.

There’s nothing affordable about that.

So we can’t keep our plan if we like it, many will not get to keep their doctors or hospitals-even if they like them, and– it is not affordable.   It is the you can’t keep your plan or doctor unaffordable questionable if you will get care act.  So are you ready for another punch in the face?

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NH AG Lets David Seastrand Walk – No Charges

The New London Police Chief was using his office and his access to young women (mostly from nearby Colby-Sawyer College) to barter with them into posing nude or in lingerie in exchange for  getting their “charges” dropped.  We’ve also learned that he has offered to pay their fines as well in exchange for posing for him.

Given his 27 years on the force I speculated (here and here) that this was probably something he’d been doing for a long time, that he might not have been the only one, and that more women would probably come forward after the first charges were announced; but that he’d get-off and be allowed to collect his pension without a criminal record.

After an ‘extensive’ investigation, the NH AG’s office is letting Seastrand off the hook.  His behavior while abhorrent, is not in their minds criminal.

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House Republican Alliance Defends New Hampshire Families

CONCORD – The House Republican Alliance (HRA) today issued at statement on the proposed increase in the gas tax. Last week a group in the state house came out in support of a proposed “indexed gas tax” that would allow the gas tax to continue to rise year after year with “zero legislative over-site”. “There … Read more

The Minimum Wage is Racist

During the progressive era, there was a movement among progressives to create a wage structure within the nation.  A minimum wage.  Their desire for this arbitrary sum assigned to the cost or value of labor had a particular purpose.

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UNH Finding New Ways to Waste Money

The UNH family includes… Democrats who think that any cuts to the pathetically small 6% of the UNH Budget that is funded by taxpayers is an attack on education. Professors who get paid to do nothing for three years after exposing their junk to a woman and her daughter in a grocery store parking lot. … Read more

Medicaid Expansion – State Policy Challenges Discussed

Early on in this audio Dr. Garboyes, talking about Medicaid and the effort to expand it, brings up an essential point.  The assumption by ObamaCare and Medicaid expansion advocates is that their solution will give you health care you both want and need.   And wheter you are paying or think you are getting a … Read more

Ann Kuster’s Hypocritical Stand

Has anyone heard a peep from NOH8 Kongress-Kritter Annie Kuster weeks into Peter Sullivan’s war on women against Marilinda Garcia?  I confess to not looking all that hard, but I don’t think Kongresswoman Kuster has demonstrated equality or fairness.

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Obama Coalition Approval Plunges

Washington Times Now, little more than a year after the president’s re-election, his job approval rating has fallen among all segments of the American electorate. But it has fallen the most among those who did the most to elect him. For example, according to a new Gallup compilation, Obama’s job approval rating among Hispanic Americans … Read more

ObamaCare Is EVERY Democrat Policy Ever – Failure is Imminent

Progressives have been clubbing health care in America like a baby Seal for decades and ObamaCare appears to have delivered the death blow they’ve been looking for.  (And Medicaid expansion isn’t just a “kick em while they are down” side-show attraction.  It’s a train wreck as well.)

But healthcare isn’t the only thing they are trying to ruin.

The “ObamaCare-it to death” template of destruction is the tool of choice for every item on the Democrat agenda and they’ve been using it for years.

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Quote of the Day- George Will on This President’s Amusing Discovery

Asked about his  take on President Obama’s quote regarding the hindenbergian Obama Care role out not being his management style but that outdated big agencies are, George Will said on Fox News Sunday the following with his classic style and wit. The education of this president is a protracted and often amusing process, as it … Read more

GrokTALK! 12-7-2013 With Michael Graham, Ed Naile, and Karen Testerman

GrokTALK! New Hampshire's Conservative PodcastThis week our guests are author, comedian, contributor to the Boston Herald, and Conservative talk show host, Michael Graham. The chairman of CNHT, Ed Naile joins us for a NH vote fraud update, Skip Murphy calls in to talk Republican politics, and candidate for US Senate Karen Testerman drops in to talk about issues and her opponent Senator Jeanne Shaheen.

 

 

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Download or listen to the full podcast here

Note: Edited to repair broken audio links on 4-6-2016

Segment by segment synopsis on the jump…

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Demokrat Diktionary – ‘Welfare’

Welfare – 1. A program that spends $84,000.00 per year per family of four ($21,000.00 per eligible man woman and child) and still can’t manage to end poverty.  2. effort to empower Democrat voters in unelected and unaccountable public sector union jobs under the guise of helping people in need.

NH Democrats Protest – Scott Brown’s Not From Here. (But He Has A Better Claim Than Many of Your Registered Voters)

I dont always vote in NH but when I do I live at Martha Fuller Clarks HouseDemocrat protesters held signs outside a Republican function in Londonderry, apparently incensed about the idea of Scott Brown claiming to be from New Hampshire…

Alana Biden claimed to be from New Hampshire, long enough to vote here, then she left.  New Hampshire Democrats defended her residency claims and still do.

Martha Fuller Clark had a house full of people who live someplace else who claimed to be from here so they could vote, some who voted absentee using her address.  New Hampshire Democrats defended her (and them).

More recently the Democrat who won the special election in Nashua,  Latha Mangipudi, allowed Alysha Marie Tierney, a Democrat who has been continuously registered to vote in Ludlow MA since 2009, to claim she lived at  Mangipudi’s 20 Salmon Brook home in Nashua, so she could vote in the Granite State in Nov 2012.  Democrats not only defended that they elected her enabler to the state house.

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