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.

May 11th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Jack Kimball

Jack Kimball from the Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC, former NH-GOP Chairman and former candidate for Governor of New Hampshire, drops by to talk about Benghazi, cover-ups, the press conference held by the family of members of Seal Team Six, and the events surrounding the Seals combat deaths. Listen Here Download the segment with Jack … Read more

The Return of The Bride of The Son of SB 11 [Date of vote confirmed]

New Hampshire Senate Bill 11 will get a formal vote in the House this week, according to a post at CNHT.org.   The post states the full vote is May 22, but was sent to me with an update: the vote will be held this Wednesday, May 15th.

(Note: We received confirmation.  The vote is Wednesday May 22nd)

The date hardly matters, except as relates to our need to act against it.  To the best of my knowledge this is the same exact bill that was set aside last week.  No effort has been made to deal with the broad language that set off red flags last week.  It is still a bad bill.

There is also the question of why this bill is even needed…

CNHT asks…

“…why do Exeter and Stratham need this legislation which “permits municipalities to establish water and/or sewer utility districts and to enter into intermunicipal agreements for the establishment of such districts” considering that the Merrimack Valley Water District has been in existence since 2004 by virtue of RSA Statutes: Chapter 53-A, Chapter 33-B, Chapter 38, and Chapter 362.”

If statutory authority already exists, why introduce a bill like SB 11, with such broad language, unless you are after something more?

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Happy? Single Mother’s Day

The statistics for the real modern family are dominated by the single parent household.  The single parent household is overwhelmingly run, or not as the case may be, by a mom.  Somewhere around 84% of them are fatherless children.  Many of those never knew their father or are detached from them.

The leading cause of single-parent households is the culture.

The leading driver of culture in modern America is entertainment, media, and a socially driven secular humanism whose vanguard is the political left–who also dominate American entertainment and media.

The side effects of single parent households, just on children, an then by extension society, are catastrophic.

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GrokTALK! May 11th 2013

This week the award winning bloggers at GraniteGrok are joined by the New Hampshire state director for American’s for Prosperity-Greg Moore; Jack Kimball from the Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC; and Activist Kevin Bloom and NH House Rep George Lambert. What did we talk about? The New Hampshire state budget, the effort to pass a … Read more

Gregory Hicks Supported Hillary and Obama

According to his attorney, one of the men “speaking truth to power” on Benghazi (Gregory Hicks) is a registered Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary, then later voted for Barack Obama.  Twice.

And why wouldn’t he be?  He was the deputy chief of mission in Libya before Chris Stevens was executed by terrorists at which point he became the chief of mission. You’d expect him to be a Democrat.

Hick’s attorney Victoria Toensing, shared those details in an interview with NBC News, set to air before the hearings took place last week, but NBC was more interested in selling a partisan spin and spiked that part of the story.

This is not surprising but it begs some further consideration.

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IRS Admits to Targeting Tea Party Groups

This deserves more coverage than I’ll give it here but I am leaving for Concord to record GrokTALK!   We” consider this a primer. The right accused the IRS of targeting TEA Party groups for exception grief and scrutiny while ignoring similar groups on the left. The IRS has officially admitted to do doing this. The … Read more

Coming Up On GrokTALK!

This week on GrokTALK! our Guests will be… Greg Moore – AFP-NH State Director Jack Kimball – from Granite State Patriots and Kevin Bloom returns.   The following Week, May 18th we’ll have… From Liberty Harbor Academy -Dr. Julianne Cooper is back Former NH House Rep and Activist Jenn Coffey and Cornerstone’s Education Guru – … Read more

Questions Relating to SB 11

Senate Bill 11 made its way to the House consent Calendar without resistance.  It was there that it the bill was then pulled from consent and  briefly debated the following day, and put on probation for two weeks.  It will be back. But how did it get as far as it did given language so … Read more

Now we Know the Answer – None of the Above [Updated]

During the 2008 primary Hillary Clinton asked the question, will Barack Obama be the guy who can answer that all important “3am phone call?” We’ve seen repeatedly that the answer to that question is no but the point of the ad was to infer that if you voted for Hillary the answer would be yes. … Read more

From the Desk of Representative William O’Brien

From the Desk of Representative William O’Brien If you don’t think that State Government should grow at 5% a year while the economy is growing at 2% a year, resulting in a two-year 10.2% increase in state spending, $263 million in new taxes, $31 million in revenue overestimates, $7 million in cost downshifting to local … Read more

Press Conference: Families of Dead Seal Team Six Members

We’ll be talking about this tomorrow on GrokTALK! – (Podcast is posted on Sunday.) Whether you listen to our dicussion or not, find some time to watch this if you can.  It is long so watch it in segments if you must.  But please try to make time to watch at least some of it.

And They Can All Go Down Together

We should keep track of who among our Democrat ‘friends’ comes to the aid of Hillary Clinton.  It is known that she knew it was an attack not a protest.  A terrorist attack.  It involved al Qaeda.  That there were assets in range to help.  And she did nothing.  Obama did nothing.  Unless orchestrating a cover-up counts as doing something.  For weeks at a time.  On National Television   In ads played in foreign countries.  Even in front of the caskets of those who died as a result of their….um…leadership.

“We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing do to with.”

Make note of who serves the left’s masters like ideological chattel so they can all go down together.

Video on the jump.

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A Green Game of Chess

New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan has written a letter to Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, objecting to a legislative effort in the “Nut”-meg state to redefine what Connecticut will view as ‘green energy’ to meet their renewable portfolio standard.

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Deficit – What Deficit?

The party that is bringing civility ( see here, here, here, here, here, here (sigh) here, here, a big one right here,…) ran on the idea that the New Hampshire Republican House and Senate was leaving New Hampshire with a deficit, a presumption only “slightly” less dishonest than the notion that Democrats are civil, or half as dishonest as the idea that democrat Carol-Shea-Porter even knows the gun laws in her own state. Turns out, as usual, they were wrong.

“At this point, if spending levels come in as predicted, the state could end the budget cycle (the result of the budget passed two years ago) with a $43 million balance…”

Now to be fair, 63% of this projected Republican Surplus is from a lawsuit windfall, the rest is just taxes being caught up etc, but either way the Republicans leave the new budget writers without the need to pay for 800 million in fixed spending for which there was no revenue, with something extra for the rainy day fund.

So yeah, about that…

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It’s Like Putting Meat In a Crock Pot.

Good thing he didn’t say pressure cooker.  That could have been awkward. LeRoy ‘Cash-cow’ Carhart, famed late term abortionist, talks abortions with undercover Live Action reporters. He casually described the abortion as a “shot into the fetus” to ensure that “[i]t’ll be dead for two days before you deliver it.” He told her the injection also … Read more

Just Trying to Get In Front of a Trend

With this whole Benghazi thing unraveling we have a huge opportunity to take advantage of the narrative.  No, not the one where Clinton left her own embassy swinging in the Islamo-fascist wind before, during, and after 9/11.  No, not the one where Americans under attack called for help and no one answered the phone.  No, not the … Read more

Palate Cleanser (?) – Famous Vegan Eating Meat Again

Alex Jamieson was a vegan for 12 years, appeared in the movie Super-Size me, and has been a well-regarded prominent voice in–they actually have this–the vegan community, but she recently discovered that her body was asking her for things she was not providing.  Animal protein.  So she began adding it slowly back into her diet, … Read more

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