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MacDonald: Are You Part of This Growing Success Story?

I’ve been learning some interesting things about how Google’s website traffic calculations work, and it explains a lot. A more realistic view comes from my hosting company, which tracks the actual number of unique IPs per day after filtering out bots, spam, and other similar traffic. They do this in part because the cost of … Read more

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MacDonald: A Few Unwanted But Necessary Changes

With a few weeks left, it does not appear as if we can even get close to our fundraising target. I wanted to raise $20,000 and we are not even close. I attribute this to my inability to fundraise or to ask people who can probably afford it to write checks, but I am grateful … Read more

Quick Note About Donating By Check …

We are way behind on our latest fundraiser, but that’s always the case. Nothing new. We’ll figure something out, or GraniteGrok will have to do less based on the budget we have. It wouldn’t be the first time. SO thank you so very much to those who have given and given again. You can imagine … Read more

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Podcast: GraniteGrok Calls Them Out!

Idiotic Southern Poverty Law Center Thinks Small Government is HATE? The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists Granite Grok, a New Hampshire-based new media outlet, on their “Hate Map” as “Antigovernment General” (whatever that means). Steve MacDonald, Managing Editor of ‪@granitegrok‬, talks about how the SPLC has abandoned its honest roots to become a Marxist … Read more

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Five Reasons Why You Should Write for GraniteGrok

Why should you write for GraniteGrok? Something happened that the news media isn’t covering and you want to cover it for posterity like The New Hampshire Pro-Aborts Have Lost Their Mojo. You have sources and information you don’t want to lose like Top 10 Reasons Why the NH Buffer Zone Law Must Be Repealed. You … Read more

Under The Weather

Yes, my output has been stymied—from writing to sharing regularly to social media updates. I am wrestling with a barrage of cold symptoms I had somehow managed to avoid for over three months. Since November, someone in my house has had a cold or flu-like something. Fevers, coughs, sniffling, sneezing. It’s been relentless. They’d get … Read more

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Operational Update

Greetings, readers of the ‘Grok, and thanks, as always, for spending time with us. I wanted to provide a quick update on the site and some upcoming adjustments. We are still planning to add dates or date flags for the content on the archive/category pages. It’s mostly a scheduling thing with the design team. Second, … Read more

Daily ‘Grok Newsletter Update [Update!]

[Update] I Must have done something right. For reasons I do not understand, I received a newsletter today, and I hope you received yours. Let me know if you are getting (and continue to get) the Newsletter (or not) over the next few days, with an understanding that it might be temporary. We still need to … Read more

Groktoberfest Micro-Interview with Don Ewing

“One left to do!” And that is how I left my last video with Mike Rogers – and this is the last one. As with the others before, my singular question to Don (also a long-term Grokster) was (paraphrased): “What is the most important thing that GraniteGrok has brought to NH”? So, at Groktoberfest held … Read more

Quick Update On the Site Update

We ran into some issues with the initial launch of this iteration of The ‘Grok and had to do some tap dancing back and forth to fix them. I won’t bore you with details, but it wasn’t fun for me. We went live again at about 8:16 ET this evening. We seem to be stable … Read more

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