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.

How Much More Does The State Deserve Your Money Than You?

Keep in mind that New Hampshire Democrats want to spend your money to achieve  immediate government growth of about 9-10% Boston.com Dennis Delay of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies told the Senate Ways and Means Committee Tuesday that New Hampshire’s recovery from the Great Recession is lackluster. … Delay predicted the state’s … Read more

Louisiana Follows Kansas On Federal Gun Law Nullification

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Last month Kansas–those radical flatlanders–passed a bill that nullified a wide range of federal gun laws for weapons manufactured and sold within the state’s borders.  Holder and the gun ninnies were naturally put off by this.  (Feds no like when u nullify their unconstitutional power grabs.)

The Missouri House has also passed legislation to send a message to its governor that “…rejects all federal acts that infringe on a Missouri citizens’ rights under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.”

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The message sent throughout the building was anger towards Governor Jay Nixon and the Department of Revenue. They’re angry because their conceal carry information was sent to the federal government twice. Many tell ABC 17 News being a conceal carry holder for several years, this was an invasion of their privacy. 

And now the Louisiana House has passed its own bill, similar to that in Kansas.

House Bill 45 (HB45) would exempt firearms manufactured and remaining in the state of Louisiana from federal law, federal taxation or federal regulation, including registration.  It passed by a vote of 75-20.

The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Joseph Lopinto, finds its foundation in a proper understanding of the commerce clause.

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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

When It Rains it Pours

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As an after-thought to my post on SB 11 yesterday–which has stirred up some interest around the Grokosphere and well beyond–I went looking for some details about the environmentalist/regionalist motivations with regard to water and sewer.   It is a huge subject many parts of which we’ve touched on at the Grok already; you might say the socialist/central planner/ enviro-crowd is all-in on controlling water as the next best means to controlling us; so I’ll focus on the one thing that caught my eye while surfing (ha!) for details on the latest progressive New Hampshire-bureaucratic water grab.

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May 4th GrokTALK! Segment One – Skip, Steve, Susan…

Here’s segment one of the May 4, 2013 Grok-a-Saurus, Grok-a-Topia, GrokTastic, Grok-a-Palooza. In the first segment Skip and Steve are joined by GrokBlogger (Grokster) Susan Olsen. Some of the topics include Plan B, Stella Tremblay, Erica Lafferty, Kermit Gosnell, Trolls wishing death upon you and your family, Donuts, grand-kids as petri dishes and more.  Segment … Read more

May 4th GrokTALK! Segment Two – Skip, Steve, Susan Olsen, and Mike Rogers…

Here’s segment Two of the May 4, 2013 Grok-a-Saurus, Grok-a-Topia, GrokTastic, Grok-a-Palooza. In the second segment Skip and Steve have been joined by GrokBloggers (Groksters) Susan Olsen and Mike Rogers. Some of the topics include Stephen ‘Scared’ Shurtleff, HB135 and little old ladies, Bloomberg meets the Pizza Nazi, range practice, Armed and Fabulous 2013, trying … Read more

May 4th GrokTALK! Segment Three – Skip, Steve, Susan Olsen, Mike Rogers and Rick Olson

Here’s segment Two of the May 4, 2013 Grok-a-Saurus, Grok-a-Topia, GrokTastic, Grok-a-Palooza. In the Third segment Skip and Steve have been joined by GrokBloggers (Groksters) Susan Olsen, Mike Rogers, and Rick Olson. Some of the topics include, the Blue Lagoon, Iceland’s Geezers, Making America safe for 6th grade Sex, The Bible, de-nuclearization of families, Sex … Read more

May 4th GrokTALK! Segment Four – More From Skip, Steve, Susan Olsen, Mike Rogers and Rick Olson

Here’s segment Four of the May 4, 2013 Grok-a-Saurus, Grok-a-Topia, GrokTastic, Grok-a-Palooza. In the Fourth segment Skip and Steve have been joined by GrokBloggers (Groksters) Susan Olsen, Mike Rogers, and Rick Olson. Some of the topics include, not being punished with a baby, Benghazi talking points, honoring the dead, Barrett Austin, the customs sequester, currency, … Read more

What Difference at This Point Does it Make? As it Turns out – Quite a Bit!

Clinton What difference at this point
The honorable Hillary Clinton? Not so much.

What Difference at this point does it make? Well, Democrats might want to stop hitching their wagon to Hillary 2016.

In light of recent details compiled from State Department and White House emails that show how Clinton and Obama (State and White House) scrubbed the CIA details on Benghazi, it makes all the difference in the world.  What started as a planned terrorist attack, complete with al-Qaida operatives in the mix, on 9/11, that killed four–including our Ambassador to Libya–was reduced to a spontaneous riot that got out of hand because of a YouTube Video.

One more time.  Smartest President Ever?  Really?

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Just How Dumb Are They?

When the front man for the Government, a guy who complains when the checks and balances keep him from doing whatever he feels like doing with this power,  says stuff like this… Still, you’ll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s the root of all our … Read more

Great, Just What We Need, More Anti-Republican Crap

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When I first announced the return of GrokTALK! a few weeks ago, in pursuit of likely guests, the very first response I got on my status update from a Republican Facebook page was, “Great, just what we need, more anti-Republican crap.”

In some respects yes, but not because the objects of our remarks happen to “claim” to be Republicans.  It would be a result of their behaving as something other than a Republican.  (And yes, I probably am a better arbiter of who is or is not behaving like a Republican, as we shall see shortly.)

And while we (I will include all of us on the Grok) are more than willing to accept the 80-20 rule in a general sense, there are specific issues and some votes that are just too important to let slide.

And when Party leadership itself does stupid things, yes–we will be all over that, as any regular reader already knows.

Here’s a recent example.

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Chemical Weapons Used In Syria…

Chemical Weapons Used In Syria…by the rebels. The UN is reporting that the Syrian rebels used sarin gas. U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria’s civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday. The United Nations … Read more

Concentrate on Solutions. It’s a Win-Win situation.

Larry the Cable Guy

This has been around a bit, and I can’t seem to find any evidence that it is not from Larry the Cable guy, and it made me laugh, so here you go.

Everyone concentrates on the problems we’re having in this country lately: illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida ..

Not me. I concentrate on solutions for the problems. It’s a win-win situation.

1. Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
2. Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levies.
3. Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.

Any other problems you would like for me to solve today ? Yes?

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SB-11 Everyone Votes Yea So Far…But Should We Say Nay?

A reader brought this to my attention.  SB-11.  It would allow for enhanced water districts via neighboring towns or municipalities to form intermunicipal water or sewer districts above and beyond (in addition to) existing ones, for the purpose of shared interests with regard to these utility services.

A few problems that come to my attention immediately.   First, there is a new “regional” board or commission for every association of towns or cities who cooperate under this bill to address projects of regional interest; another board spending money should be viewed with suspicion.  Second, they will be able to bond debt; another board with the power to create debt should be viewed with suspicion.  Third, it is not clear whether people who do not use water or sewer might still be on the hook for assessments or fees collected to fund this new level of municipal government.

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Rep Itse ‘Stands His Ground’ on “Honor Your Oath.”

Freemont Republican House Rep Dan Itse responds to previous letters and editorials from the Union Leader and Chuck Douglas–in the Union Leader–regarding the Honor Your Oath Rally and the persistent effort by them and others to insist that this was just another gun rally whose premis is flawed. Rep Itse does a fine job of … Read more

Are NH Democrats just Making Stuff Up about Background Checks?

There are more lies about background checks coming from the New Hampshire Democrat Party than truths and no polling can possibly explain the disparity unless the polls are flawed, skewed, or just made up.

Ninety percent of New Hampshire citizens cannot possibly be in favor of  Manchin Toomey background checks when less than 90% of all Democrats are willing to push the meme themselves.  And given that 100% of Democrats don’t agree with the narrative this makes the math required to justify the number impossible.

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May 4th GrokTALK! The Complete Podcast

It’s the Grok-a-Saurus, Grok-a-Topia, GrokTastic, Grok-a-Palooza. This week the award winning bloggers at GraniteGrok were joined by more Bloggers from GraniteGrok; Susan Olsen, Mike Rogers, and Rick Olson. What did we talk about? Muslims, Stella, Plan B-as part of a complete breakfast, Shertleff, The Flu, Anonymous hate-spewing left wing trolls, death threats, Mountain Dew, Gosnell, … Read more

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