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Inside or Outside – Which is Better for Influencing Politics in NH? Part 2

July 11, 2019 Skip

Here we continue on with the second of our four part series where I and former Speaker of the House Bill O’Brien had an informal panel at Portfest on where is it best to be IF you want to get politically active here in NH – inside the Legislative process as an elected official or … Read more

Inside or Outside – Which is Better for Influencing Politics in NH?

July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 Skip

It is no secret that GraniteGrok is probably the most Liberty and Freedom minded “media outlet” in NH. It is who we are and what we do. It is also true that we are the media site that is the most friendly to the Free State Project.

Turning up the Heat: 80 Hours Into July 2019 Grok Exceeds Traffic for all of July 2018

July 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Let me begin by saying thank you. In the first 3+ days of July of 2019, we surpassed our total traffic for all of July 2018. It is news that will alarm many on the left. Good.

ICYMI – AOC, Trans, Dating, Biden, Hillary, Hurdles, Glaciers and More!

July 1, 2019 Steve MacDonald

July’s number one (well received) product from the Grok Factory was a report on how no one wants to date trans-women, and yet here we are using libraries to make more of them. Sad.

Just for the record – if you want corrections on GraniteGrok posts, you must provide proof of what’s wrong.

June 24, 2019 Skip

Yes, perhaps I have been spending too much time on FaceBook lately but I now have stuff to bring back – this is one of them. Hold onto your seats, this is a relatively unknown fact: Progressives hate GraniteGrok (and so do a number of Republicans). Now, the latter will moan and whine a bit … Read more

What Brought In Six Times as Much Traffic Year Over Year in May of 2019?

June 2, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Spring brings with it what we call the summer slowdown. People get busy outdoors and spend less time online. That looks a lot different this year than in previous years. We got more views every five days in May 2019 than we did over the entire month in 2018.

Nashua Democrat Jan Schmidt is Right to Worry about GraniteGrok’s Traffic

May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Ever since we briefly passed the Concord Monitor in average daily Alexa ranking, folks like to ask. How’s your ranking? Is traffic good? Did you pass anyone else?

A Heart Attack Couldn’t Keep Me From Blogging…(Yeah, It’s Been a Year)

April 9, 2019 Steve MacDonald

One year ago today I had a heart attack. And the only reason I wasn’t blogging on April 9th instead of April 10th is my laptop wasn’t with me at the hospital yet.

We’re Nearing A Quarter-Million Views a Month And We’re Just Getting Started

April 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Good times here at GraniteGrok.com. Our reach continues to grow. We are on pace to break a quarter-million views per month by summer. A fact that New Hampshire’s political establishment needs to know. Growth in which the New Hampshire media might take an interest. A reality that our political opponents must confront.

NH Media – abrogation of their responsibilities, or just plain biases showing?

March 31, 2019March 31, 2019 Skip

GraniteGrok was there at the Granite State Taxpayer’s NH Advantage Rally yesterday. It was important, it was a Conservative event. We covered it; we’ve got some video up already – and a little bit more to do as well. It’s what we do. So, I decided to do a thought experiment. If just “showing up” was important … Read more

Another Successful GrokMeet-Up: Manchester – Murphy’s Taproom

March 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We’d like to thank everyone who made the trip and took the time to come to our most recent GrokMeet. Great turnout. Excellent conversation. And we tried something different. A Grok Panel. All the authors who made the event took the “stage” at Murphy’s Taproom and fielded questions from our readers.

February 2019: Another Amazing Month For GraniteGrok

March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 Steve MacDonald

I’ll keep this one short. We had another fantastic month. Thousands of you are visiting us daily. Our numbers are soaring. And we want you to know that we are working hard to earn that support every day. It is an honor to us that choose to come here to see what we’re thinking about the culture and the news of the day.

Nine Years Ago Today I Published My First Post for GraniteGrok.com

February 20, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Nine years ago today, on February 20th, 2010, I published my first post at GraniteGrok.com. It was about Dan Itse’s bill to create a House committee whose purpose would be to consider the constitutionality of things. Government things. Later that same week I would write about taxes, commuter rail, Carol Shea-Porter, Paul Hodes, and Jeanne … Read more

This Weeks Facebook Poll Question – Local Schools as Gun Free Zones

February 17, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The gun-grabbers love to whittle away your ability to carry. Require permission. Make that process more complicated and expensive. Make it inconvenient to carry so that you are first forced and then get used to not doing it. Maybe get someone busted for carrying in some location where they have made it “illegal.” Use the media to … Read more

Hold The Line – GrokInterview with Kimberly Morin

February 14, 2019 Skip

Before all of the testimony on the Democrat Second Amendment infringing bills started, I caught up with the Womens’ Defense League honchos (and Groksters!) Kimberly Morin and Susan Olsen who graciously agreed to spend a few minutes with GraniteGrok. Here, Kimberly Morin shares her thoughts with me AND sends a message to Gov. Chris Sununu … Read more

Introducing Grok Facebook Polls – Into the Breach With a Question About Abortion

February 9, 2019February 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

We launched a new feature on Facebook today. Facebook polls. They will run for up to a week, and we will then report the results here, along with some of the comments left in their wake. If you are on Facebook you can follow the Grok and participate here. I can tell you we’re already stirring things up a bit.

GraniteGrok Endorses in Both the NHGOP Race for Chairman and Vice-Chairman

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019 Steve MacDonald

This may or may not come as a surprise, but GraniteGrok.com has decided to make an endorsement in both the race for NHGOP Chairman and Vice-Chairman. For those unfamiliar with our process, it works like this. We ask all of our authors to vote. There are at least twenty (most of who write infrequently). But … Read more

Road Show – GraniteGrok at the NH GOP Convention

January 6, 2019January 6, 2019 Skip

First road show event for GraniteGrok of the new year – and hoping all the new gear will help us to bring a lot of livestreaming of political yakking and coverage of what’s going on in the auditorium. We can’t guarantee sparks and fireworks like there’s been in years past but hey, who knows what … Read more

December’s Top Ten Most Viewed Posts
(And some Updates)

January 1, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Welcome to January 2019. The 2020 elections have already started (no rest), but we’re here for you. And you are here for us. Which means it’s time to take a look at what we did that got the most of your attention in December of 2018. December was a fantastic month for GraniteGrok. We had … Read more

Website Maintenance Update

December 9, 2018December 9, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Website continues to evolve in more subtle ways that I wanted to share. We’ve resolved a search error. From the beginning of the reboot to Grok 3.0 adding a search term in the search bar at the top of the page could take you off-site. This was the result of the search engine prioritizing … Read more