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.

The World Ended And You Missed It.

I posted this on my facebook page, but figured I should post it here as well.   It’s funny, and there is no way you could all by my facebook friends. (Not yet at least.)    

Anonymous Hackers Arrested

One week after Anonymous announced a call for armed rebellion against the US, six members believed to be part of the group have been arrested and charged with hacking into corporate and government systems. (Must not be Obama Campaign donors.) The report points out that an insider who was arrested in 2011 has been helping … Read more

Question #2: Mark Vincent, Candidate, NHGOP Area 3 Vice Chair

I sat down with Mark Vincent, the Chairman of the Amherst Republican Town Committee, to talk about his candidacy for the position of NHGOP Area 3 Vice Chair.  Here is Question #2 “Were your expectations met going in as a new member of the Amherst Republican Town committee, and what did you learn?”   (If … Read more

Is A NH Public Employee Using The Internet to Sell his Political Agenda On Your Time?

What does  a New Hampshire Public employee who is also an SEIU chapter Vice President and shop steward do while working on the taxpayer dime?  If your name is Richard de Seve, (Dick de Seve, or DickNH, from Gilmanton, NH, VP of the Gilmanton Conservation Commission) you may be posting comments to the Concord Monitor online, throughout the work day, when you shouldn’t be.   At least that’s how it looks from here.

How could I suspect such a thing?  After encountering the amusing screen name DickNH at the Concord Monitor Online, I felt compelled to find out what kind online footprint someone with that handle generates.  What unfolded was a series of connections with a curious conclusion.  That a self proclaimed adjunct professor at UNH, with a law degree and former law practice, who is also an SEIU chapter Vice President and Union Steward,  employed as a Compliance Supervisor at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, might be using Newspaper Message Boards online to promote the Democrat/Union agenda when he should be doing the taxpayers business.

This has nothing to do with contraception everything to do with the governments role in mandating it.

Progressives only look across the scope of human history for propaganda.  They have no interest in the connection between yesterday, today, and certainly not tomorrow.  They are only concerned with the distance between what their spleen tells them today (grow government), and how to do that and still get through their next re-election.  Which is why, in responding to a comment to my post, Beggars CAN be Choosers, I made this point…(paraphrased)

If, during the arguments for Griswold v. Connecticut, you suggested that seeing a right to privacy in the constitution would just a few years later result in the legal practice of live birth abortion, people would have called you crazy.  And yet it happened.  Griswold begot Roe, Roe begot the abortion industry, which begot letting living breathing babies die at birth.  The right to privacy somehow resulted in legal murder.

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I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post.

Nice Deb, has a nice round up of links and commentary regarding the sham that is Sandra Fluke and the Democrats blatant redirect away from the wreckage of their leadership and Obama’s failed presidency.  (Nothing of ours unfortunately.)  And the lede is a suitable context to the other issue we’ve been covering around here at … Read more

Newt Gingrich:

THIS is yet another reason I voted for him, and hope he wins the GOP nomination.

Was Rush right? Is she a “SLUT”? Well, if you parse the word….

According to a handy dictionary, here are some of the definitions of the word: “1. A dirty or slovenly woman. 2. An immoral woman; a prostitute.”

Well…she doesn’t appear “dirty” or “slovenly.” And we have no idea whether she’s getting paid for all the sex she’s

Is this girl a slut? Who knows? Who cares?

having, so we can’t say for sure that she’s a prostitute at this point (at least not a sexual prostitute; prostituting oneself to government in order to get free handouts…well, that’s another discussion).

But wait! How about…”immoral.” Good word. One definition is “unscrupulous or unethical.”

Is it “scrupulous” or “ethical” to demand that government force religions and religious institutions to transgress their faith and beliefs? Is it “ethical” or “scrupulous” to demand that government force others pay for your birth control when doing that violates various religious tenets of those who are forced? I don’t think so. But wait!

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If You Have An Erection Lasting Longer Than Four Hours…

Ed Morrissey, over at Hot Air, has a quote worth sharing.  On the matter of Reason TV’s Nanny of the Month–an Arizona Legislator wanted to add disclaimers to air-brushed images–he makes a point about disclaimers in general and how they have become fuel for our amusement. I already laugh at the pharmaceutical ads that go … Read more

This is not political…but it’s eerie as hell….

When Skip Murphy dragooned me to blog with GraniteGrok, I said “Okay, whatever…but what do you want me to write about?” He said “Whatever interests you.” Okay, that’s mostly politics, especially in New Hampshire…but every once in a while….

Something comes up. Like this. The picture on the left. The human heart. That is, something that may be on the verge of being obselete, and in the process the  human species may end the necessity of having…any heartbeat.

I know. Science fiction, right? But an article that just appeared in PopSci.com surely blew my mind. Here’s the deal….

In late 2003 Dr. Bud Frazier—a famous heart doctor at Texas Heart Institute implanted a newly approved…uh…”turbine pump” in the chest of a young man from Central America. It was designed to assist his diseased heart, not replace it. He was told to come back to the hospital for “frequent checkups,” but neither he nor his family was fully conversant in English, so “the young man walked out of the hospital and disappeared. When he finally showed up eight months later…

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Beggars CAN be Choosers

Sandra Fluke as Veruca Salt - I Wan't it Now!
I want Contraception Now Daddy!

Welcome to Veruca Salt Nation where beggars can be choosers.  Where  a 30 year old “law school student” aka-professional activist gets trolled before the fawning media by DC’s Democrat party leadership, (right on time!) to pretend she is a victim.  Her name is Sandra Fluke, the new face of the Democrat Parties Veruca Salt Nation.

“I want my taxpayer funded contraception now, daddy.”

And why not?  We are the 99.   Children up to age 26 are encouraged to seek a free ride, extended to age 30 (apparently) in Ms. Fluke’s case.  Just another step on the ladder to full dependency.  And while you are asking for things why not a constitutional right to Monistat–along with hot tubs, tropical getaways, and rooms for two–because if you are going to waste taxpayer funded contraception dollars the way the government wastes everything else, you should do it someplace nice–but the occasional yeast infection might be more than just a fluke.

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Democrats Do Not Want You To Be Free

According to Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College…

“Limited Government is necessary if you are going to have a representative government.  You can’t have a representative government unless you have a big, strong, independent, vibrant society, that can be represented, that is independent of the government that represents it.”

With people being who people are, this makes perfect sense.  We are not angels.  And human beings are not to be trusted in the defense of their own cause because they are prone to take advantage or each other.   And history has shown time and again that bigger governments inevitably result in fewer freedoms.  So we can see who favors less actual freedom–not the false rhetorical, hopey-changey, social justice variety–by looking at who encourages dependence on a larger central government.

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Obama’s enemies list…why was it horrible when Nixon did it, but okay when Obama does it now?

From the Powerline blog, via Instapundit: “WHY CAN’T THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION MAKE ITS CASE WITHOUT DISSEMINATING HATE?” “Have we ever had an administration like Barack Obama’s? An administration that tries to benefit from pitting Americans against one another? An administration that uses its billion-dollar slush fund, not to mention the resources of the Executive Branch, … Read more

Andrew Breitbart, RIP

  He was a very nice guy when I met him. A very regular human being. Not full of himself at all. Very down to earth. He thought the Free State Project was a neat idea too. Although he didn’t know much about the FSP, he had heard about it prior to when I showed … Read more

Introduction to the Constitution (Conclusion)

Here is the concluding session of the Hillsdale College Introduction to the Constitution. (Part 5) To see earlier versions posted on Granite grok, here is  Part One,  Part Two,  Part Three, and Part Four.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JJnWoDskkHU   (Sorry – MP3 Version was too large to add to the post) Please visit Hillsdale College and register … Read more

My Buddy Ed “Nailes” Middle East Policy.

My friend Ed Naile, blogger at NH Insider, and Chairman of the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers, in a recent blog post titled I’ve Been Working On My Own Middle East Policy!, posits a solution to the problem of Muslim extremist attacks on Americans wherever they may be.

If we are going to deal with Islamists on a regular basis like we have since 1805 or so, maybe we should use some tactics that may be more on their level of understanding, like Thomas Jefferson did.

If by accident or by mistake some Korans get burned and it results in week long riots and murder of Americans, then apologize like hell about the Korans.

And when it comes to Islamic terrorists killing Americans WE should go nuts.

How about some huge marches on American cities objecting to any slight against an American? (Photo shop the marches, they will never figure it out.)

Open up some silos, arm some fighter jets, float a battleship up next to some coveted object, bomb some power plants, harbors, refineries, dams, or other modern structures real Islamists don’t really need in the first place.

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Breaking News – Michigan GOP Changes Allocation Of Delegates

ABC News headline states: “Michigan GOP Changes Delegate Rules, Gives Primary Edge to Romney” and the Associated Press states “Michigan GOP changes delegate award after vote.” Last night there was an unannounced closed-door secret meeting of the Michigan Republican Party credentialing committee. During the meeting, they voted 4 to 2 to allocate delegates differently than … Read more

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