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.

Quick Note To Those Seeking A Reasoned Political Debate

The first step would be to advance a theory where government didn’t have its fingers in every single pie. If the state left more decisions to local and individual control there would be a lot less to debate, and less heated rhetoric, because it would be none of the political classes damn business.

Follow The Big Blue Bread Crumbs

Democrats are hypocrites. Need more proof, just look to Obama care, and the billions it has handed out to big business, Big Union business in particular Yes, a union is a huge business, one that donates tens of millions to democrats.

Peter Kucmas for NH House of Representatives

Serving Lyndeborough, Mont Vernon, New Boston, Temple, and Wilton    Dear Voters, Why vote on May 17th 2011? Because your vote truly matters… My name is Peter Kucmas (Kuchmasch). On May 17th, 2011, I humbly ask you to please cast your vote for me in the special election for State Representative in District 4 for … Read more

GrokTalk! Saturday May 7th , 2011

GrokTalk!Live Streaming local and National News with opinion you could only get from GraniteGrok.

EMail: GrokTALK@GraniteGrok.com     Call us!  603-524-7478

This week…

NH State Senator Gary Lambert. On today’s program Senator Lambert will will talk to Skip about his position on RGGI and why he is against repeal. Campaign site, State Senator page

Chuck McGhee – from Resident power.  Resident power (A GrokTALK! Sponsor) is a new company trying to take advantage of the deregulated electricity market to bring cheaper power to New Hampshire’s homes and businesses.

Dr. Cooper -Liberty Harbor Academy (pending confirmation): Liberty Harbor Academy is a new and different concept of high school designed for the student who the traditional academic model does not fit.

Ann Marie Banfield – Working with experts in education from across the country, she offers valuable insight into problems and successes in education.

A Grokster or two?  You never know who might call in. Hey! You could call in. Join us.

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Where’s The Beef!?

My second thought after hearing about Prince Charles’s remarks on US beef consumption–I won’t share the first, it’s not proper–was “where is the nearest cheeseburger?”  The cheeseburger is perhaps the most perfect culinary delight ever conceived.

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All Hail King Reggie (RGGI)

…you can make excuses, legislate give backs that will only grow the taxpayer funded bureaucracy to manage them, tie our exit to yet another outside power (like some other state), or just bend over and kiss King Reggies….ring. Yes.  All hail king Reggie.  Long may he tax us without fear of retribution.

RGGI Must Die!!

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is a Tax. It is broad based, affecting every aspect of our lives. And it is a tax beyond our constitutional control. These added costs, this tax, is set outside the state and can be affected by third parties and secondary markets, none of whom answer to any elected or appointed official in that we can elect or remove form office. No one will ever get to testify at a hearing before any of these actors moves to increase our taxes; they will simply go up with the cost of credits sold through RGGI.

Elvis, Osama bin Laden, and Jim Morrison Walk Into A Baskin Robbins….

ElvisAs a rule, the lefts interest in photographs of the dead are limited to political hits on opponents, or moody propaganda pieces for the anointed one. (Obama honors war dead–look, see–pictures.)  So can releasing the pictures of an ex-Osama provide some political advantage today? 

I feel comfortable stating right out front that I don’t think they’ll show us any pictures unless Obama looks as if he’ll lose in 2012.   They will make excuses and hem and haw, to intentionally create another conspiracy theory; that Osama is being held on the same sound stage where we faked the moon landing–or…something like that. 

And they will do it because the political distraction of pictures unseen, and a death unconfirmed, dragged out for months or years, has the potential to create a "deather" movement that can be used to distract the American people from a larger problem; high unemployment, rising inflation, and the return of stagflation and the misery index.  At least in theory.  Mr. Obama does need all the misdirection he can get, and any situation that pits his word against that of others, where no hard evidence exists to refute him, fuels the mission statement and puts meat on the bones of the narrative; his detractors are a bunch of wacky racists looking for a reason to smear Dear Leader.

So a photograph, like a birth certificate which exists but that has only been confirmed by reputable sources, is the perfect foil for the legions of cynics who realize that most everything that comes from the mouths of this Executive branch are more like the words of Satan; if not outright lies, they are half truths riddled with omissions, and always with a shelf life.  No "body," hidden pictures…even the most pragmatic person will feel inclined towards doubt.

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Bin Laden is dead & Liberals Are Being…Hypocrites–Surprise!

Flip flop!They make it easy, and Bin Laden is no different.  Their hypocrisy emanates from them like the stench of stale sweat. So it is impossible to give them any credit because we all know that the only reason Osama’s death was made public late on a Monday night was because someone probably leaked it; this Executive branch does nothing without first plotting out the political ramifications and optimizing the benefits; it’s why it often takes them days to respond to any event.

So Osama is dead.  Go team.  But will we stay the course to get the rest fo them?  Probably not.  So what better time than now to remind ourselves about the hypocrisy; and we look no further than MoveOn.org (H/T to Ace of Spades) and the democrats who ran adds attacking Republicans for politicizing 9/11 and Bin Laden.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ — A new TV ad attacks Republican attempts to use the fifth anniversary of 9/11 to resuscitate the President’s popularity and help Republicans hang on to control of Congress.

MoveOn.org Political Action’s thirty second spot is planned to begin airing nationwide on cable this week. The ad buy is $100,000.

The ad, "Exploiting 9/11," reminds Americans of the now discredited claims and promises made by the President and Republican leaders in Congress about the connection between 9/11 and Sadaam Hussein; the capture of Osama bin Laden; and making the country safer by invading Iraq

Who want’s to put money on the left buying ad time to use Bin Laden and 9/11 to "resuscitate the presidents popularity"–now that president is Obama? Will there be cries of outrage–yes, but only for those of us who dare point out the contradictions.

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