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.

Listen to GrokTALK! Tonight from 8 to 10PM on AC Nation Radio

Tonight from 8 to 10pm Eastern Standard Time, AC Nation Radio will broadcast the latest edition of GrokTALK!   This is the weekly re-broadcast of our two-hour pre-recorded podcast for the AC Nation audience.  You can listen by going to ACNation.com and launching their podcast player form the left side of the page. This week on … Read more

GAO to Investigate Ammunition Stockpiling By Federal Agencies

AmmoThe Government accountability office (GAO) has begun looking into why the Obama administration is arming agencies with enough ammo to sustain the average war for 27 years?  Good question.  We’ve been wondering that ourselves.  Why would a guy who claimed that the country needed a civilian national security force be arming the department of education, and…as you’ll hear in the video on the jump, fisheries agents who apparently need 46,000 rounds of hollow points to…do some redneck fishin’ ?

Hollow points?

More ammunition than the military needs for almost three decades of heavy fighting in Iraq?  Hmmm.  Federal agencies need 80 years worth of “practice” ammo?  If it were a Republican president creating a civilian national security force would Democrats be dirtying their Maggie Hassan supplied adult diapers so quickly that they couldn’t change them fast enough?  You bet.  But this is Obama.  Any suggestion that he might actually be arming a civilian security force–see also: a personal army–well that would be crazy talk.

But the GAO wants to know.  And we can’t wait for the leaks to begin about how the Obama Admin is trying to pressure them to back off.

Great video on the jump–from of all places, USNews online.

 

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All New GrokTALK! -Week Ending 4-28-2013 (Updated and Bumped)

Update- Added individual segments and links to download the podcast. This week on GrokTALK! we had David Hurst on the program, the former Chairman of NHYR (as of 4/20), former MRC Vice-Chair, and the current Vice-Chair of NHYR,  and a long time leader in the conservative Republican youth movement. NH House Rep Jane Cormier stopped by … Read more

April 27th GrokTALK! Guest Segment- NH Rep Jane Cormier and Conservative Activist Don Walker

This week on GrokTALk! New Hampshire House Republican Rep Jane Cormier stopped by with long time Conservative activist Don Walker–who worked on Pat Buchanan for President–to tell us about the new Beknap County Conservative Republican Committee. We discuss why they formed it, what the committee is looking to accomplish, where they see it (and the … Read more

April 27th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – NH House Rep Bill O’Brien

This week on GrokTALk! New Hampshire House Republican, and former Speaker of the NH House, Rep Bill O’Brien talks to Skip and Steve about budgets, deficits, dishonest accounting gymnastics, devolving power from Concord and returning it to the towns and the people, and how his exploration of a potential congressional run is going. To download … Read more

April 27th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Republican Youth Activist David Hurst

This week on GrokTALK! the New Hampshire Young Republican’s (former chairman) and current vice-chairman, David Hurst, takes a few minutes to chat about conservatism, what is a young Republican, the challenges of promoting opportunity versus the lefts allure of handouts, learning self responsibility, and where NHYR is now and where it is headed. To download … Read more

April 27th GrokTALK! Skip and Steve open the Program…

This week on GrokTALK! before our guests arrive Skip and Steve talk about Bill O’Brien, making State government smaller, a local New Hampshire case where despite stand your ground a Democrat county attorney still pressed charges, second amendment rights, contracts, the government messing up prescription drugs, what happens when you are late for your guest … Read more

If it Only Saves One Life – or Just Stops a Brutal Assault…

A music store owner eventually shot and killed a man who came into the music store he ran with his wife, beat him, and then proceeded to attack his wife.  (Insert Democrat Party Buzz word for ‘Woman” here.) WPXI.com Bethel Park PA According to Bethel Park Police Chief John Mackey, Moore attacked Alfred Armen first … Read more

Content Warning – Dr Emily Women’s Health Center – What to do if a baby is still twicthing or breathing

From Twitchy: Lila Rose and her ground-breaking investigative team at Live Action have released yet another whistle-blowing undercover video showing that accused serial baby-killer Kermit Gosnell’s barbaric actions are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the murder of live babies under the guise of abortion. Watch, weep, and spread the word: Remember, … Read more

GrokTALK! is Now Available on iTunes

Through our syndicated partners at AC Nation Radio you can now access the GrokTALK! podcast directly from iTunes. Note that AC Nation Radio rebroadcasts our Saturday taping of GrokTALK! the following Tuesday from 7-9 pm EST.  The RSS will not be updated until at least a day or two after that, so if you look on iTunes … Read more

On the Next GrokTALK!

It’s Saturday morning and this means that not long from now we’ll be recording this weeks podcast- aired Sunday on GraniteGrok.com and Tuesday 7pm EST on AC Nation Radio. This week on GrokTALK! we have the former Chairman of NHYR (as of 4/20), former MRC Vice-Chair, and the current Vice-Chair of NHYR,  and a long … Read more

I Think She’d Say Something like this, Harrell!

Yesterday morning hapless Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein (The New Hampshire Democrat Propaganda Minister) tweeted this.

harrell kirstein tweet poll

PPP is left leaning and always suspect, with a tendency to over-sample for favorable Democrat outcomes, but maybe HK was just looking for a silver lining seeing as the UNH Poll, albeit with a smaller sample, came out with some contradictory results he chose NOT to share.

New Hampshire’s junior senator, Republican Kelly Ayotte, has also seen her favorability rating largely unchanged since February. Currently, 50% of New Hampshire adults have a favorable opinion of Ayotte, 25% have an unfavorable opinion of her, 9% are neutral and 16% don’t know enough about her to say. Ayotte’s net favorability rating is +25%, up from +23% in February. Her net favorability remains high among Republicans at +74% and low among Democrats where it is at -21%. Her net favorability rating among Independents has also stayed steady at +38%.

Emphasis mine… because in the UNH poll she owns Republicans, and most importantly …with independents she is +38.  No point in sharing that, eh Harrell.  But while we’re ‘sharing, that UNH poll had some other important news that might be of even greater concern to Democrats like Kirstein, given that Ayotte is not facing re-election next year and New Hampshire’s two Democrat congress-critters are.

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Gambling Addiction

From the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling…

The “no proof” meme was laid to completely rest yesterday at hearings before the community impacts subcommittee of the House special joint SB152 committee. Here is the Nashua Telegraph’s story on these hearings.

Dr. Rachel Volberg, the world’s most widely published gambling addiction expert, presented the most current data from her 2012 meta-analysis of all 202 gambling addiction studies worldwide conducted since 1975. These findings disappoint both pro- and anti-casino advocates, but the findings are abundantly clear:

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Farmington New Hampshire Democrats…About That Hate Group Thing…

The Farmington New Hampshire Democrat Committee web page includes a post titled “Southern Poverty Law Center Report Finds ‘Patriot’ Groups Surge As Anti-Obama Fervor Grows.”  There is an image with a link to a HuffPo post written by Janelle Ross which quotes the the Southern Poverty Law Center, and concludes that…

The number of anti-government “patriot” groups, including paramilitary hate organizations, reached an all-time high in 2012, fanned by President Barack Obama’s reelection and talk of gun control following the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. (SPLC)

They are all hate groups now.  Nice.

What I found most interesting about all of this is that if you search the Farmington New Hampshire Democrat website for any reference to pro-LGBT activist Floyd Lee Corkins, who–based solely on the SPLC’s designation of  the Family Research Council (FRC) as a ‘hate group’–went there with the intention of “killing as many people as possible.”

What?  That’s not hate-enough for you?

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Stellllllaaaaaaaa!

Democrats are not (NOT)  suggesting that Democrat Dick Patten resign–he is accused of stalking and what amounts to sexual harassment.

“A city man has received a temporary stalking order against Rep. Dick Patten, D-Concord, after the man complained Patten allegedly tried to kiss him and was repeatedly calling and texting him, according to the Concord Monitor, which broke the story Tuesday.”

(The Democrats may have managed to spike that story about Dick in major media so it would not outshine the Tremblay remarks that they wanted to push.  No comment on that either.)

Democrats did not suggest that Rep Cynthia Chase resign when she said straight out that Democrats and the state government could use the power of the state to”…make the environment here so unwelcoming that some will choose not to come, and some may actually leave.”  The Castro brothers would have loved that.   And that was awfully embarrassing to New Hampshire.  Chase is still in office isn’t she?  Oh yea…here she is, a few weeks ago, doing the “peoples” work.

But they are trying to get Rep. Stella Tremblay to resign for simply remarking on Glenn Becks web site that the government is somehow involved in the goings-on with the Boston Marathon Bombing.

So Dick may be guilty of a crime.   Cynthia Chase is guilty of fomenting legislative tyranny.  Stella is guilty of exercising free speech and not trusting the government.   It’s a typical day in the hypocrats tyrannical, left-wing, homosexual bullying neighborhood.

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Did WMUR Spike A Story About A NH Democrat In ‘Hot Water?’

I was cruising my news-reader and came across this story from WMUR, News 9 Manchester NH.

2 NH Reps in Controversy

Not long after that, (within the same hour) only slightly later chronologically in the news feed, we see this content posted by WMUR…

State Rep criticized for bombing comments

When you try to link to the first story, about both a Republican and a Democrat in hot water…that story no longer exists.  It was spiked.  All we have left are Stella and the fingerprints from a story about some Democrat we can no longer find.

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Who Can You Trust?

Stella Tremblay, a New Hampshire House Republican (Auburn), is on the media chopping block for being a little bit Alex Jones, and bit too much Glenn Beck.  Seems she posted some remarks on Beck’s site that comport with conspiracy theories regarding the Boston Marathon Bombings, and the Federal Government’s Complicity.

Posted to Beck’s site–as reported by HuffPo…

 Just as you said would happen. Top Down, Bottom UP. The Boston Marathon was a Black Ops “terrorist” attack. One suspect killed, the other one will be too before they even have a chance to speak. Drones and now “terrorist” attacks by our own Government. Sad day, but a “wake up” to all of us. First there was a “suspect” then there wasnt. Infowars broke the story and they knew they had been “found out”.

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About That 90%

jayne and veraFor those inclined to continue the relentless regurgitation of democrat demagoguery about how many Americans want more federal gun control, well–there’s this, from that bastion of right wing extremism, USA Today.

Americans are more narrowly divided on the issue than in recent months, and backing for a bill has slipped below 50%, the poll finds. By 49%-45%, those surveyed favor Congress passing a new gun-control law. In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll in early April, 55% had backed a stricter gun law, which was down from 61% in February. …

Not to worry.  The anti-executive order President of the people will be doing anything and everything he can with executive orders to give the people what they do not seem to want.

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