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.

Maggie Hassan – Partisan Voting 98% of the Time

Tom Cronin with Ovide for Governor sent out a press release today questioning this statement by Democrat Maggie Hassan.

 “One of the things I really worked on in the State Senate was making sure that when we develop policy; everybody comes to the table to do it. … I’ve always found it really important that I can hear different views at the debate in front of me because that informs really good policy making.”

Translation: Maggie can see your lips moving but she is still going to vote like a radical left wing tax and spend New Hampshire Democrat.

Don’t believe me? Just ask some folks who served in the State Senate with her.

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Developing….Political Bias in Merrimack High School…Evolves

It may be too soon to tell for sure, but Monday was the day by which I wanted to hear about (or see) some changes in the way certain Merrimack High School teachers were favoring President Obama in class…and I have.

Not everyone has reported back yet but everything points to an effort at demonstrating some nonpartisan behavior.  Where there previously was just Obama, I am told there is now Obama and Romney.   Where this treatment was not possible, the pro-Obama messaging has, for the moment, been removed.  That was all I was looking for.  Some balance, and if that was not possible the absence of obvious bias, particularly in the instruction.

Will this first effort translate into more balanced classroom conversation lead by teachers with that previously obvious bias?

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Sandra Fluke – Ready For her Mall Tour?

About ten people showed for a Sandra Fluke rally in Nevada
Sandra Fluke knows how to draw a crowd.  Not quite as big as Tiffany at the beginning of her Mall Tour days, but hey, the North Reno Nevada Sak ‘N Save parking lot had people in it.

Fluke might want consider the inverted parallels.   She started out speaking to congress and getting national media attention, and now she’s been reduced to a roadside mountebank speaking to ten people in the parking lot of the local Sak ‘N Save.  At this rate she’ll be singing Tiffany’s first number one hit, a cover of I think we’re alone now. (Followed by ‘What could’ve been,‘).

Fluke’s “speech” was part of a scheduled day long Democrat get out the vote event.

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What Justice Ginsburg and Bill Maher Have In Common

Last week I wrote about some comments by Bill Maher that included this progressive gem: My motto is let’s kill the right people.  Sure Bill, you and the rest of the Progressive Democrats for more than 100 years…

This is a party descended from eugenicists whose support for abortion and “end of life decisions” is based on a desire to “people” their inevitable man-made utopia with only the best the human race has to offer (as defined by them), and to use the power of the state to reduce the burden of any life that could be or has come to be inconvenient to that end

Margret Sanger was not giving away contraception because women had a right to it, she did it to prevent the birth of burdensome people she viewed as genetically inferior.  She didn’t want them polluting her gene pool.

So today I am catching up on my reading and I discover a post by John Sexton in which he writes of an interview with the pro abortion Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg…

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A few Quick Points on a Monday Morning..

About that Debate?  Obama loses no matter what happens. An observation about Hillary taking responsibility for Benghazi….I bet Obama promised to nominate her to the Supreme Court in exchange if he is re-elected. (The only other thing I believe a Clinton covets more than being President.) And my spies are deployed to check the state … Read more

Obama’s (Illegal) Foreign Donor Signed Up For Events By Campaign

Bwahahahaha! The New York Post on Sunday reported Chris Walker, who lives in England, made two $5 donations to the Obama campaign. Walker used his “actual street address in England but entered Arkansas as his state with the Schenectady, NY, ZIP code of 12345.” Because of the Obama campaign’s lax online security measures, which the Government … Read more

Monday OCTOBER 29 – WATER COMMISSION MEETING in CONCORD

MONDAY OCTOBER 29 – WATER COMMISSION MEETING in CONCORD If you value your property rights you will attend this meeting of the State of New Hampshire Water Sustainability Commission on Monday, October 29, 2012 from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services 29 Hazen Drive – Concord, NH

Granite State Futures…At Concord High School?

The Granite State Futures Calendar is a great resource for finding out where these fools are planning to show up next.  Take this for example.  I’m not sure what they are doing, but it’s from 3-4 pm at Concord High School, in the Civics class.  Sounds like after school.  What exactly is this? Concord High … Read more

Guest Post: Mike Johnson – “New Hampshire, Tear Down This Firewall”

New Hampshire, Tear Down This Firewall

Mike Johnson
mnosnhoj@comcast.net
10/21/12

You have a choice, New Hampshire, an important choice, a life-style choice.

Like our motto says, you can “Live Free or Die,” a free self-reliant citizen of New Hampshire, proud of yourself and proud of your state and your country.  Or you can “Live Dependent and Die,” withering away as a slave of the Nanny State, subject to the government and an apologist for yourself, your state, and your country.

It is your option, but recognize that it may be your last choice.  The United States of America is dangerously close to the point where a majority of the voters are vassals of the state, reduced to relying on the largesse of the government for their livelihood, and economically forced to vote for the continuance of the Nanny State.  As Mark Steyn puts it, “This election represents the last exit ramp before the death spiral.”

Disagree? Consider Obama’s record:

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Follow The Bouncing Benghazi Narrative

c/o Breitbart TV, here is Brett Baier’s expose’ on the evolving White House Narrative on the Benghazi Attack Breitbart News Brett Baier Reports – Benghazi [jwplayer mediaid=”37253″]

Day(s)- O -Rest & A Local Idea You Can Share

  I was offline all day yesterday.  I will be conspicuously absent most of today as well.  Various family related activities.  My laptop is in withdrawal. My email must be backlogged into the hundreds by now. My apologies if I miss yours when I finally get back to them sometime tonight. One thing that did … Read more

Binders that Bind

Femanazis and even most leftists are like old dynamite.  One false move and BOOM!  Add to that the decline of their progressive President in the polls, and a roll call of states whose voters appear to be drifting away from their agenda and just about anything could set them off…and does.

Take binders, for example.

Governor Romney, in seeking to find qualified women in Massachusetts to consider for state cabinet positions asked for a binder of resumes from women.  This is the now infamous “Binder of Women” comment that has become the lefts latest in a long string of desperate and doomed to fail attacks upon the opponent.  Romney said binders of women!  BOOM!

But it is doomed to fail.  It is doomed to fail because while Democrats have talking points Romney has substance.

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Fabricating a False Conspiracy Narrative at Merrimack Patch?

Carolyn Dube, editor of the Merrimack Patch, engaged in a form of journalism today, after reading my post about potential political bias and ‘indoctrination’ tactics in some of the classrooms at Merrimack High School. I will leave the kind of journalism she engaged in up to you dear readers.

In her opening paragraph she establishes the tone of the piece thusly…

A Merrimack father and blogger on conservative blog GraniteGrok is alleging a conspiracy of political indoctrination and bullying among Merrimack High School teachers who he says are lobbying for the re-election of the president.

In order for it to be a conspiracy there has to be a planned coordinated effort.  But seeing as I never make this claim, and in fact, make remarks that contradict it, (directly to Ms. Dube in fact), everything after her opening paragraph is equally suspect.

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