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Morning Update: The Free Piano Scam

August 5, 2026 The Morning Update

Today on the Morning Update, instead of talking about Democrat or government scams, we’re tuning up a new one. The Free Piano Scam. Why? I keep getting emails offering me a free piano. No one in my house plays, and we don’t do the same either. Here’s a quick look at this one. Watch on … Read more

Morning Update: How About a New AI Scam?

December 9, 2025 The Morning Update

Today, on the morning update, a quick look at some AI scams, including one that has captured (dare I say, kidnapped) the FBI’s attention. Links: Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. … Read more

Advice: If the Government Calls Don’t Answer

April 22, 2021 Steve MacDonald

My landline is not long for this world, but that is no longer the last beachhead for spam or scam calls. They call your mobile too, though I have the same rule for both. If the number is not identifiable, you get voicemail no matter how badly you want to extend my vehicle’s warranty.

NH DOJ Has Page for COVID19 Scams But No Mention of Scams Run by State Government

January 18, 2021January 17, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Not every unscrupulous cad succeeds in running for public office. Many of them freelance. Those ‘scammers’ don’t use the law to separate you from your property or your rights, so they are outlaws. And in NH, your state too, I expect, we have a page to alert us about unauthorized COVID19 scams.

The Lincoln Project Was an Exercise In Graft And Not Much Else

October 30, 2021December 10, 2020 Auntie Vaquser

Recent research reveals that the Lincoln Project not only failed to move anyone politically it has admitted that this was (more or less) never the point. It collected and spent billions in what amounts to masturbation and money-laundering.

California Follows New Hampshire – Uses Carbon Credit Scam Fund For ‘Budget Bail Money’

June 19, 2019 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire is famous for its dedicated funds. Dedicated to whatever the spenders in Concord need when revenues don’t come in as predicted. For the record that’s primarily a Democrat problem but it’s a problem with a purpose.

BlogQuestion of the Day: Free? Free? Free?

April 24, 2019April 24, 2019 Skip

“All these Democratic candidates want free college for everyone. Which one worked for free as a professor?” Actually, have any of them ever worked professionally for free? I’m not talking about the lawyers in the bunch doing the occasional pro-bono work, or the others doing something free on an occasional basis. The question is, how … Read more

“Medicare for All” – Soviet style healthcare

September 27, 2018September 13, 2018 Op-Ed

“…Dems are forgetting to tell you that private insurance will be banned under their scheme”

by Betsy McCaughey

President Barack Obama made a stunning policy shift Friday, endorsing Medicare for All — a single-payer health system for the nation. Most Democrats contending for the 2020 presidential nomination and many Dems vying for congressional seats this fall are backing it, too. Beware: They’re pulling a bait-and-switch. The phrase Medicare for All sounds as American as apple pie. A new Reuters poll shows 70 percent of Americans respond to it favorably.

Yet the public isn’t getting the truth about what it means.

I Just Received an Email from Capt. Steve Rogers. I Kid You Not.

September 26, 2018August 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

I know there are gullible people and I get that folks don’t know what they don’t know but this is hilarious. A very serious email from Capt. Steve Rogers. No, not Captain America, the Steve Rogers who used to be a Nigerian Prince who has a secret fortune to share if I am willing got subject myself to identity theft.

Has California Decided That Coffee Doesn’t Cause Cancer After All?

September 26, 2018June 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Back on April 1st, we reported on a ruling by a Judge in Los Angeles. A non-profit had sued 90 coffee companies claiming they had violated Prop 65 which required them to warn customers about a chemical in brewed coffee (acrylamide) that could lead to cancer.

Two months along and something has changed.

Danish Meteorological Institute: Arctic Sea Ice Volume at 11-Year High

September 26, 2018June 4, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Ice-Free Arctic narrative continues to struggle as both expert, and armchair predictions come up “short” again and again. The Danish Meteorological Institute reports that Arctic Sea ice volume is above the 15-year mean and at an 11-year high.

Some may say, so what?

Healthcare In New Hampshire: A Brief History

September 26, 2018May 4, 2018 Op-Ed

By Aaron Day

Today the Republicans lead the charge to re-authorize Obamacare Medicaid expansion. The budget for New Hampshire for the past 27 years is built on a funding mechanism that borrows billions from children and ignores making real structural changes. Our healthcare system would be better and less expensive if we didn’t rely on the Federal Government and opened up the state to free markets in healthcare.

Here is a brief history of how New Hampshire got here. We will have to deal with this eventually. It is up to us to decide if we will address proactively or from a position of absolute crisis.

RGGI…still a Scam (Audio)

September 26, 2018February 16, 2012 Steve MacDonald

RGGI Picking your pockets In my quest to mix it up , how about Blogs on Tape? Here’s the audio version of “RGGI…still a Scam,” my GrokTALK! special presentation about the ongoing effort to end the scourge of the Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative. (or something…)

If you’d prefer the print version the full transcript is on the jump.

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Is The NH Dem Petition Against Baldasaro A Fraud?

September 26, 2018October 12, 2011 Steve MacDonald

If you missed it, a State party Democrat (David Robinson), speaking for a left wing Veterans group (VoteVets.org) is part and parcel to an effort by the New Hampshire Democrat Party to petition House Speaker O’Brien to remove Republican Al Baldasaro as Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. None of the reporting to date, other than here at GraniteGrok, has identified the group or Robinson as Democrat-backed or connected. But there’s news about the petition they plan to give to O’Brie n.

If you go to Change.org, you can see the petition set up by the New Hampshire Democrat Party, but the list of signatories is not accessible just by visiting the petition page. One thing we do know however is that of the ten names we can see, seven of them are from out of state.

Green Choice

September 26, 2018April 20, 2011 Steve MacDonald

…this is a tax that can increase without ever seeing a public hearing. No one will testify. No one you vote for will be held to account for the tax increase. You will just pay more.

Meet Terie “Billion Dollar Deficit” Vu.

September 26, 2018April 12, 2011 Steve MacDonald

NH Journal is reporting more fear-mongering from the left, and from the usual suspects. Teri “Billion Dollar Deficit” Norelli (D- scaring women and children), is promising us that the Republican Budget will ‘put peoples lives at risk.