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.

Progressive Zombie

I’m certain Fergus Culllen and I disagree on a great many things, but I have to admit — I like this editorial in the Union Leader: Liberal Jackie Cilley, Progressive Zombie.   He writes some unknown truths about Democrat Candidate for Governor Jackie Cilley, the accidental State Senator, offering up some insight into things she … Read more

About All That Ron Paul Business…

I’m not following the story about the minority faction of Ron Paul delegates to the RNC.  I don’t watch debates or conventions…it’s easier to wait for the highlight reels.  But I see updates on Facebook and email threads on the topic and I have two thoughts.

First, it is obvious that for months the Ron Paul supporters have been plotting to get their guy the nomination anyway, even though he didn’t get enough national delegates to guarantee him a speaking spot.  They have been begging delegates to vote Ron Paul for months. But the problem with Ron Paul is not Ron Paul at all, it is his supporters, and it always has been…which brings me to point two.

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Rand Paul at the RNC –

Trying to squeeze in speeches as time allows.  Condi Rice, Susana Martinez, and this guy.  Someday, if no one screws it up for him, this guy would probably make a good president.  

Seminar Callers on Immigration

I put on talk radio when I’m going to be too busy to do any reading at lunch.  Thanks to declining hearing I miss most of it anyway, but today I caught a caller on the Rush Limbaugh program who was concerned that the speakers at the RNC were not addressing the issue of immigration, … Read more

Read My Lips…

Not to put too fine a point on it, if “point” is even the correct word, but do you know any women who base the scope of their human rights on their labia?  I don’t.

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There Are No Republicans For Obama

There are no Republicans for ObamaBack in 2008, and I may have shared this story before, I was discussing with a longtime friend my conclusion that then candidate John McCain was not really a ‘Republican.’  He could not understand why so I asked my baptist minister friend…”there are a lot of ‘interpretations’ of Christianity, and for the most part each is reasonably accepting of the others…but isn’t there a point at which what it is they are “practicing” is no longer Christianity?”  He said yes.  I said, “OK, same with being a “Republican.”

Believing in abortion, global warming, stifling paid political speech (to name a few) and…most importantly, the very strong belief that the federal government must regulate things from a central location, to mandate policy to the states and the people from on high….that is what progressives and socialists do, no matter what they call themselves.  That is not what it means to be a Republican.  We have a different party for people who think that way.  They are called Democrats.

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Obama Dumber Than Dan Quayle

Tim posted this on media bias, but there are parts too good to leave to the chance that you’ll follow the link to IBD (which you should.) It wasn’t like he (Quayle) repeated the mistake in all 57 states, or more precisely in Beaverton, Ore., in May 2008; or while traveling on the “Intercontinental” railroad … Read more

Mia Love…”We Built It.”

As a suitable followup to my post on there being no Republicans for Obama, here is Conservative Republican Mayor Mia Love (running for the US House in Utah), on the American Story and how “we built it.” (c/o Hot Air)  

Ask A NH Democrat…About Racism

I bet you a majority of the Democrats in New Hampshire watch MSNBC.  So the next time you see one ask them if this is racist? In lieu of airing speeches from former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, a black American; Mia Love, a black candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah; and Texas senatorial hopeful … Read more

Government Motors To Idle Volt Plant

GM will halt production on the Chevy Volt for a month, idling the plant from September 17th to Octber 15th, according to USA Today.  No one is willing to speculate on why, but I think I can clear it up. The car is a piece of crap. It costs too much.  It doesn’t deliver on … Read more

Obama Tribute to Neil Armstrong…Is About Obama

Courtesy of the Daily Caller…looks like Team Obama found a use for this stock photo from four month ago.  (The quote underneath it might be new.)  Yes, let us remember Neil Armstrong with..a picture of Mr. Obama. I wonder what he’s thinking about?  Maybe how NASA’s division of Muslim Outreach is doing or if they … Read more

Pledge Zombie Apocalypse

Taxes and Democrats The pledge politics lie and broad based taxesDemocrat Candidate Jackie Cilley is trying to rally the extreme left of the already extreme left in the New Hampshire Democrat party by pretending to be a moderating voice for tax policy.  Her distinction without a difference (other than that she is being direct about her desire for a broad based tax) is that the idea of taking a pledge to veto (or vote against) any sales or income tax is unfair.  That every option should be on the table.

As pointed out here, this is extremely disingenuous because this is the only policy in which she or any of her supporters (or any Democrat) wants to “have a conversation.”  But it is worse than even that.  The facts behind the pledge zombie antics on the lefts left are, as in most cases when dealing with Democrats, lying by omission.

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Rape is not Rape….When It Is A Democrat

Juanita Broaddrick Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick. Lisa Myers, NBC News, on Juanita Broaddrick’s interview about being raped by Bill Clinton. – “The good news is you’re credible. The bad news is you’re very credible.” Bill Clinton endorsed New Hampshire candidate Maggi Hassan.   New Hampshire Democrats love their rapist, Bill Clinton.  Democrats all over the … Read more

Kill Mitt Romney…The Facebook Page

Joshua Scott Albert must be pining for some attention.  He just put up a Kill Mitt Romney Facebook Page. Albert is known for putting up pages in support of cop killers, and otherwise pretending to be ‘edgy’ under the guise of getting peoples attention. I’m a big fan of edgy, and pushing the envelope, but … Read more

Push It Real Good

Push It Real Good

Seems like Ken Hawkins (NH Senate Candidate, D-9 ) is getting a little pushy lately, and is working from the dark side of campaigning.

Residents of Bedford, along with current Senator Ray White (read his letter here), have complained that Hawkins’ campaign is conducting negative “push polling” – against current Senator Andy Sanborn – and it’s not entirely clear if it is being done on the up-and-up.

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You’re Messin’ With The Wrong People

Democrats are not just hypocrites they are violent ones.  They excuse themselves from the rule of law and the rule of decency, any rule at all actually, if it in any way obstructs their blind pursuit of political power, or the advancement of their extremist agenda. Today’s lesson comes from  Massachusetts where Democrat (and candidate … Read more

Blue Cheese

You read that right.  It’s Blue Cheese.  Just ask Wal-Mart. And in case your curious as to just how ‘blue’ it is, take a look at the ingredients…   If you want Bleu Cheese, made with Bleu Cheese…Great Value might not be the brand you are looking for.  Of course, this could be the French … Read more

A Lesson For New Hampshire From The University of Virginia

The University of Virginia has declined a campaign visit from Barack Obama, who is looking for a venue from which to promote his re-election bid for President of the United States. The scheduled date would coincide with the second day of classes, and require them to shut down adjacent buildings that would cancel 186 classes … Read more

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