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.

By Whichever Ways And Means Make It Possible

September 26, 2018March 11, 2013 Steve MacDonald

From Ed Naile at NH Insider…

The Republican War on Women campaign was a secret code phrase for: women get to pay more for gas – especially those single moms who like big government.

For you single mom’s out there (Ed’s title was ‘Single Mom’s Love the Gas Tax’), or any women at all, or even women who were not born women but feel like a woman, after getting slapped across the face with the Obama middle class tax increase at the beginning of the year, papa gubmint now wants to chew on a little more of your weekly revenue here in New Hampshire, with an 83% hike in the gas tax.

Welcome to the 83%…

Don’t worry. You can probably exchange your gas receipts for some free birth control and a download of all the Obama’s Speeches.

Demokrat Diktionary – Tax Cuts

September 26, 2018March 11, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Tax Cuts: Money you earned legally that the Democrats did not take from you (yet). Example. You earn $1000.00 dollars. The government takes $200.00, but it could have taken $500.00. In this example, the Democrats gave you a $300.00 dollar tax cut. (They actually gave you a 500.00 tax cut because none of that money is really … Read more

Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me One Hundred Times….Call Me A Republican Senator

September 26, 2018March 10, 2013 Steve MacDonald

The Sunday Union Leader has a staff editorial in which it comes to the defense of Senator Ayotte accepting and attending an invite to dinner with Mr. Obama and a number of other ‘Ranking’ (see also Rank) GOP Senators.

To suggest that there is no value in conveying that message to the President in person, in a casual setting in which a working relationship might develop, is to misunderstand the way politics works.

Last August, Sen. Tom Coburn (who attended last Wednesday’s dinner) came to the defense of the Tea Party during an interview on MSNBC. Among his points was that Tea Party activists “understand that you’ve got to have human relations to get along in this world.” It is amazing and disappointing that so many activists on both sides think that progress is made by refusing to work with anyone in the other camp.

This is the way politics works, except in the case of Mr. Obama’s politics, this only works for him.

Reality Television. Documenting our Cultural Race to the Bottom…

September 26, 2018March 10, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Hypocrisy…the Duality in ‘Americur

September 26, 2018March 10, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Drones in the Middle East, drones on American soil, Libya coup d’etat support, Egypt insurgency weapons support, Syria coup support.

Sounds like the first term of Mephistopheles himself (Dick Cheney), right?

The American Left has no soul. Period. Watching some of the reaction to Rand Paul’s filibuster last week, it is now perfectly clear that the Left’s rhetoric and protest about “Bush’s War” was only about Bush and against the Right; it had nothing to do with principle, liberty, or right and wrong. That’s the problem with the Left – particularly the Far Left – they blindly follow memes (social and political) and they criminally ignore malfeasance from their own team.

Funny thing is, though…

Ask Democrat Carol Shea-Porter About Vaccines For New Hampshire Kids

September 26, 2018March 9, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Back on February 26th, in the midst of the blame Republicans for Obama’s Sequester narrative, New Hampshire District One Congressperson Carol Shea-Porter tweeted this.

The sequester would automticlly cut 30 million dollars from the section 317 program run by the CDC that sends money to states to support vaccination programs.

Carol thought you might want to know, probably after someone told her to tell you, that cutting 30 million from the Section 317 program would be, like, bad.

So if cutting 30 million would be bad, would cutting almost 60 million be almost twice as bad?

Do NH Democrats Want To Pass A Law Like This One In Germany?

September 26, 2018March 8, 2013 Steve MacDonald

German family seeks asylum in America, Obama Holder say kick them out — Should Eric Holder Deport this Family?

With few exceptions, the progressive liberal Democrats would love to have a law just like this in New Hampshire.

Homeschooling was made illegal in the country in 1938 (…) and the law has never been repealed, but rather strengthened. In 2007, the German Supreme Court ruled that the country’s mandate that children be sent to public school is necessary to “counteract the development of religious and philosophically motivated parallel societies.”

Want to read the entire paragraph?

New John McCain Poster

September 26, 2018March 8, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Via Jon Gabriel on Twitter.

Drone Hypocrisy?

September 26, 2018March 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Sitting here, watching the 13th hour of Rand Paul’s Senate filibuster, I see a lot of angst on Twitter about Senator Kelly Ayotte’s conspicuous absence from the #StandWithRand party in the US Capitol.

Now, I wasn’t able to watch the entire event, so I am not sure if Kelly showed up earlier to add her input. However, her absence, immediately following her “Cool Kid” dinner this evening with Obama at the swanky Jefferson hotel, is certainly concerning.

Ruth Gulick – A Belknap County Democrat Morality Tale

September 26, 2018March 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Once Upon A Time

Democrats say the darnedest things. Take NH House Rep Ruth Gulick (D- Aesop’s Fables), whom Skip recorded at a recent Belknap county budget meeting. Ruth shared a little morality tale with those present, with regard to budgets and responsibility.

In Ruth’s version the county taxpayers have a moral responsibility to the employees whom they pay. That responsibility includes ensuring that the employees continue to enjoy the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed, regardless of any other circumstances. Put simply; she objects to taxpayers (or any of their elected representatives) asking those employees to pay more for their own benefits.

Not a surprise coming from a Democrat, until you hear how she went about it.

Does the Gas Tax Bill The NH House Just Passed Violate the State Constitution?

September 26, 2018March 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

NH House passes gas tax in violation of NH Constitution

The short answer is yes. Yes, it does. (The long answer will be nothing but excuses from its proponents.)

Part II, Article 6-a, states that any money raised through gas taxes (gas road tolls), must be used exclusively for public highways and “no part of such revenues shall, by transfer or funds or otherwise, be diverted to any other purpose whatsoever.”

[Art.] 6-a. [Use of Certain Revenues Restricted to Highways.] All revenue in excess of the necessary cost of collection and administration accruing to the state from registration fees, operators’ licenses, gasoline road tolls or any other special charges or taxes with respect to the operation of motor vehicles or the sale or consumption of motor vehicle fuels shall be appropriated and used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of public highways within this state, including the supervision of traffic thereon and payment of the interest and principal of obligations incurred for said purposes; and no part of such revenues shall, by transfer of funds or otherwise, be diverted to any other purpose whatsoever.

So HB 617 is unconstitutional.

This Was the Moment When the Rise of the Oceans Began to Slow…”

September 26, 2018March 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

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My title is from the now infamous line from the narcissistic in chief, Barack Obama, where he announces that by choosing him, the planet could begin to heal.

I’m not feelin’ the healin.’

It also turns out that the rise of the seas (what little there was) began to slow in 2002/2003, and have been heading downward ever since, despite CO2 continuing to rise, or the carbon-dioxide emitting wind bag, Barack Obama, yapping through his non-stop campaign as Commander in Thief.

THE NETWORK FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCES…

September 26, 2018March 7, 2013 Steve MacDonald

THE NETWORK FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCES NH EDUCATION TAX CREDIT SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION SESSION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: KATE BAKER

PHONE: 603-785-0174

EMAIL: KATE@NETWORKFOREDUCATION.ORG

THE NETWORK FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCES NH EDUCATION TAX CREDIT SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION SESSION

SOMERSWORTH, NH – The Network for Educational Opportunity (NEO), announces a Scholarship Information Session to be held March 14 (Thurs.) at 7:45 at Tri-City Christian Academy’s Open House, bringing school options and scholarship information to families.

Thanks to a law passed by the New Hampshire legislature, families may be eligible for financial need-based scholarship awards to pay tuition at an independent/private school, a public school outside of their district, or for homeschooling expenses. This has created a flurry of interest from families in need and levels the playing field, giving low-income children the opportunity to attend a school they would otherwise not be able to afford.