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.

Welcome To Megan Fox Island

Here’s a palate cleanser I just grabbed off Yahoo.  It is a PSA to encourage Brazilian boys to learn English.  Now if we could only get Democrats and the Teachers unions to let us abandon the dual Spanish speaking curriculum and just teach everyone in English…in America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erBuKFX2wd8&feature=player_embedded  

So When Will Democrats Start Calling Me A Free Stater?

Free State - Seeking Liberty not left wing narrativesAll Democrats have narratives.  New Hampshire Democrats are no different.  The typical left wing narrative is designed to brain wash you by using the media to repeat the latest chest-beating tantrum, using sound bites, puff pieces, editorials, and press releases, to create a long term perception disguised as truth.  Did I mention that New Hampshire Democrats are no different?

There is a new narrative in New Hampshire.  This narrative infers that, despite the Democrats own treacherous policy record they are still a better gamble than those other people who are just plain scary.  Really scary.  Extremists.  Those… Free Staters.

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Not Just Running Against Obama

John Nolte at Big Journalism makes a great point here.  One of the characteristics we must demand from the GOP candidate is an ability to take on the Liberal media.  The liberal media is the 10th man on the ball field.  A big, hulking, unavoidable, powerhouse of left-wing narrative fueling adrenaline that cannot be avoided.  No matter how hard we try, some people still watch, listen, and believe what those morons have to say about Republicans, and issues, and ignore what they will not say about Democrats.  If the nominee is not prepared or capable of going toe-to-toe with the palace guards  they had better get capable or regardless of how good they would be if elected they’ll get McCained and we’ll get four more years of Obama.

While I am still holding out hope that someone else might enter the race, until such time there is only one candidate willing and able to fight that war.  It’s this guy.

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Order Your Susan Emerson Commemorative Boo Hoo Towels Today!

The RINO from Rindge, House GOP 69 percenter Susan Emerson, has sponsored a bill to stop bullying in the State legislature.  No.  I am not. Kidding.

The Union Leader reports that HB 1533..

“….would allow the Attorney General’s Office to investigate allegations of bullying in the Legislature, rather than current rules that allow such allegations to be investigated by an ethics committee.”

The paper claims the bill has 97 Sponsors, while the bill as submitted has just a handful of support; moderates pretending to be Republicans, pining no doubt for the days when more people voted for their spineless ilk and they actually had some kind of voice in State government?   (Too harsh?)

This bill does not fix that problem, no bill could.  What it does do is create an atmosphere built on tension and self imposed censorship, where healthy debate and disagreement becomes almost impossible without fear of being branded a bully backed up by the threat of a $2500.00 fine (per incident) and the stigma of criminal proceedings.

Mom!  He’s Bullying me!

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Where Stands Jeanne Shaheen on the Keystone Pipeline?

PIPLINEThere are at least ten Democrats, six of them US Senators, who support the Keystone XL pipeline (List on the jump).   Private investment, jobs, commerce, property taxes, and did we say jobs?

How about millions of barrels per day of that black stuff we still have to buy coming from Canada, a chance to get less from countries like Venezuela?

US Refineries will convert that into fuels like Gasoline of which we are a net exporter.  No interest in meeting global demand with US manufacturing?

What about Heating oil prices ?  These are always a big concern in New Hampshire.

Where stands Jeanne Shaheen?  I still don’t know.

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Even to a Mushroom, Facts Are Stubborn Things

I encountered a Tweet-Hole yesterday.  Some liberal mushroom thought they had something to add to the vote fraud debate and sent me this.

what about vote fraud in Iowa

The link takes you to a Media Matters article in which the author loosely speculates about close races and claims of voter fraud.  We are apparently meant to assume that fraud has occurred because the race is close.  Media Matters, the Soros funded left wing mouth piece of the Democrat party, is simply trying to create conflict between factions to cause division.  Sasha2000 seems to think that this non-issue in Iowa is the same thing as New Hampshire poll workers, caught on video, giving ballots to whomever walks up to the table and provides a name that happens to be on the checklist.

More likely sasha “the mushroom” 2000 has only heard the left wing spin on the video.  What follows is both predictable and priceless.

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Perry Drops Out

Not sure I need to say much more, but when has that ever stopped me? Perry had a huge advantage but squandered it by being too casual about the public debate personae.  The end result was the crash and burn of an otherwise competent conservative with far fewer negatives than the rest of the field … Read more

They call it Cramming Costs Down, I Call it Returning Local Control (and Local Responsibility)

We sent a Republican super-majority to the New Hampshire State House to deal with the profligate spending and incompetent accounting of the Democrats.   We can all disagree on the specifics of the outcome but one fact is clear–they did what we sent them there to do.  State government is no longer growing in excess of our ability to pay for it.   Spending is in line with revenues.  Real cuts have been enacted to state government.    No more Left wing lead Midnight tax and fee jamborees, searching the Granite couch cushions for new revenues to replace the “missing” ones.  Frugality is more the order of the day.  Without Democrats at the levers, the oppressive power of the purse has stopped accumulating in the State Capitol.

And if you had not noticed, the progressives in both parties are very unhappy about that.

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Heritage Action Score Card – New Hampshire

The Heritage Foundation, a cool place Conservatives love, has a legislative scorecard that they update regularly.  So I figured I’d scoot over and take a look.  I admit I was disappointing by the results.   NH NH Sen. Kelly Ayotte R 80% NH 1 Rep. Frank Guinta R 73% NH 2 Rep. Charles Bass R … Read more

Remember When The Tea Party Threw Smoke Bombs At the White House?

From Jonah Goldberg yesterday, over at NRO’s The Corner. Remember When The Tea Party Threw Smoke Bombs At the White House?  Neither do I. The Secret Service was responding Tuesday night to an escalating protest that may have involved one or more smoke bombs being thrown over the White House fence. I know Suckley and … Read more

NH – Where (More) Vote Fraud Really Has Been Around For Years

Vote Fraud has been prevalent, and hidden from New Hampshire voters, for years.   In fact, I know of a very large binder at a certain office in Concord, filled with evidence of voter fraud.   Evidence like this.

During the 2000 election 19 people claimed residence at #159 Bear Brook Road.  Nineteen people, all living and voting from one address?  Yes, all 19 registered to vote in New Hampshire, all from the same address.  As it turns out, none of them were actual New Hampshire residents.  In fact, there was no #159 Bear Brook road.  There was no #159 Bear Brook Road because there was no Bear Brook road.

The mandatory voter list purge that followed the 2000 elections produced 19 returned voter list letters, with 19 names of registered ‘NH’ voters, all for the same non-existent address, registered to vote in the November 2000 elections. They were all long gone by the time the letters were returned, votes cast and counted eight months before.  No charges were ever brought.  No one was ever tracked down.  Not by the NH AG at least.

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Democrat Election Law Flashback! (It’s not just Voter Fraud…)

The New Hampshire Dead People party (NHDP) has made voter fraud easy so they could commit it at will while continuing to insist there is none.  And proof is not proof.  Getting a ballot without even a challenge is not an example of how easy it is to ….get a ballot without being challenged.

Another example of that is sign stealing, which also violates election law, unless you are the husband of a Democrat NH State Senator, captured on film, in the act of stealing campaign signs.  We don’t have voter fraud, even when we have it.  So we must not have sign stealing democrats either.  But we do.  (Geoff Wetrosky…you are on deck buddy–Geoff came from out of state to steal signs and votes, while living in then NHDP Chairman Kathy Sullivan’s house, and no one was prosecuted for that either.)

So since no one ever get’s prosecuted, I’d like to celebrate voter fraud-deniers awareness month with another example of left wing disregard for election law.  Originally posted in November 2010, it’s ‘Ray Buckley’s Norman Rockwell’…

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WH Knew Before Solyndra Workers Flew…

Solyndra Crime Scene Photo- Mr. Obama pretend to be inteested in how he wastes your money
"And over here Mr. President, Is where we wasted another hundred million..."

The Solyndra Scam continues to develop and Hot Air has the dropon the latest document dump from the White House.  That’s Ed Morrissey’s headline up there.  And this is all just another political cover up courtesy of the Democrat party.

The Obama administration pressured Solyndra to keep quiet about impending layoffs until after the November 2010 election and we have this nifty little paper trail to prove it.

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The NHDP Presents…The Voting Dead

The New Hampshire Democrat Party and democrat legislators everywhere, in association with Granite State progress,  Granite State Fair Tax Coalition, the UCC, NHCC, and every other so-called by-partisan-but-in-reality-left-wing-front-group pretending there are no problems with vote fraud in New Hampshire, present a new made for fraud miniseries….The Voting Dead.  Watch for it…at every future election in … Read more

To all NH Taxpayer Activists – A message from Ed Naile

From Ed Naile: To all NH Taxpayer Activists: The Drudge Report has a story today about James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas investigative journalists asking for NH Open Primary ballots as though they were registered voters in New Hampshire.  The Project Veritas journalists posed as voters using the names of deceased NH residents of the … Read more

New Hampshire Dead People (NHDP)

Rather than risk losing thousands of votes in college towns all over the state–votes cast by propagandized out of state residents to keep tax and spend democrats in office–standard left wing rhetoric has always demanded that any evidence of holes in the voting process be met with screaming at the sky, attacking opponents, crying about … Read more

Harrell’s New Gig?

  I got a Direct Message from New Hampshire Democrat Party Propaganda Minister Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein last night.  I guess Jersey Shore got himself a new gig.  He’s promoting weight loss programs on Twitter now. This is not much different from his previous job helping State government lighten your wallet.  

New Hampshire Advantage Strikes Again

“New Hampshire is a very cost-effective opportunity for us to build out and grow the company,” he said. “Definitely that facility, NH Advantage - Freedom, low taxes, low crime, low poverty, high quality of life, high average income, and more.staying in the area where we’re at, provided the most business advantages for us and that growth.”

-Enterasys President and CEO Chris Crowell in the Union Leader.

Enterasys is moving 540 jobs to Salem New Hampshire from Massachusetts and adding about 80 more as part of the move.  They want to stay in New England, and New Hampshire offers them the best growth opportunity to do that.   Hell yeah, it does.

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