Monday • December 22 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.LII
Manchester, N.H.
It feels like Electric Vehicle buyers get about as much information as COVID vaccine recipients, which is not much. Like the side effects of ownership. Loss of value, high insurance costs, pricey repairs for minor accident damage, loss of range in the cold of winter.
It’s not pretty.
Cold temperatures dramatically reduce an electric car’s range.
The colder it is, the more a car’s range will suffer.
18 popular EV models analyzed lost an average of ~30% of their range in freezing conditions.https://t.co/giOJfui1ps pic.twitter.com/i0dKvGty3j
— Brian Gitt (@BrianGitt) December 17, 2023
The cold affects fuel and combustion vehicles, but not anything like this, and when you need more fuel, it takes a few minutes, and off you go. EVs, even at superchargers, take from 15-30 minutes to many hours, depending on how much of your money you invested in the vehicle purchase by the look of it.
Add to this the odds – increased during winter – of long delays on highways surrounded by idling vehicles with no chargers in sight.
If you want an EV, there’s a lot to think about, not the least of which is that the emissions aren’t reduced; they are just offshored. You are not helping the planet, you are just feeding a false narrative. And you are welcome to it if you are spending your money, but that’s not how it is. From components to finished products, the government has meddled in the marketplace with other people’s money.
Add to this the increased pressure on the grid, which can or will drive up rates for everyone, and we’re all paying for this monumental mistake. So why not help your neighbors afford to heat their homes and just buy a conventional vehicle? You won’t regret it. It’ll last longer, be cheaper to fix, and get repaired faster, and when you get low on charge (fuel), there’s no shortage of places to “fill up.”
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The CDC’s new model for public schools will be called community schools. In this model, public schools will offer mental health and medical services to students. This has already begun with the infusion of the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS), which is SEL-Social and Emotional Learning.
What does this mean for students in a public school? They are now subjected to pseudo-psychology instead of learning how to read and write.
As schools begin shifting to this model, we are already finding serious problems:
1) Two young NH children were vaccinated this year even though their parents sent strict instructions that they did not want their children to receive the vaccine.
2) A parent in Maine was surprised to find out that his daughter was given a bag of Zoloft pills at the School-Based Health Clinics without his knowledge or consent. (SBHC) The side effects of Zoloft include suicidal thoughts. After addressing this with school administrators and withdrawing his daughter from the school, he was visited by Child Protective Services. Eventually cleared by CPS, many now question if this was retaliation.
3) Michael King from the Massachusetts Family Institute reported that a 16-year-old girl was implanted with a birth control device in her arm without her parent’s knowledge or consent. The implant required the girl to undergo a medical procedure in order to place the implant in her arm. This was done at the SBHC.
4) Students in New Hampshire who’ve visited their school counselor have had their personal mental health information shared with vendors hired to report to the federal government on the MTSS-B.
If all of this wasn’t bad enough, now we have NH Republican Senators proposing legislation that allows school districts to contract with a healthcare provider, health system, or community partner to establish a school-based health center for the purpose of providing services to students beyond the scope of school nursing services. Since when is it the goal of Republicans in the Senate to set up the CDC’s School Based Health Clinics?
This proposed legislation does include a provision that requires parental consent, but this does not guarantee parents will be notified or have to consent. It is possible they will ask parents to sign a blanket permission slip at the beginning of the school year without realizing that they are handing their children over for treatment they would not approve of. Parents are required to sign a lot of paperwork at the beginning of the school year. Some may believe that this would simply allow their children to be seen if they are running a fever or for a stomach ache.
According to the SBHC in Maine, they do not need parental consent to treat a child because they receive funding from the federal government.
How far can this go? In East Stroudsburg, PA, 6th-grade girls were forced to undergo a gynecological exam without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Some people are willing to go that far, believing parents should have no part in these medical decisions for their children.
Since hospitals struggle to keep hospitals staffed, does it make sense to pull staff from these medical facilities? Schools already provide nursing services to their students. Can you imagine requiring more of these medical professionals to staff these SBHCs?
There is no respect for parental authority by those who promote the CDC’s Community Schools. While this legislation includes parental consent, even with consent, mistakes have already happened in New Hampshire. When you remove parents from their children when receiving medical care, you can expect more of that.
It is shocking to see these sponsors on SB343: SPONSORS: Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Gray, Dist 6; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Rep. Wolf, Merr. 7 It is important that you act now.
Contact the Republicans in The New Hampshire Senate and demand that they kill Senate Bill 343. If you can, MAKE a PHONE CALL!
Call these Senators AND send them an email asking them to KILL SB343.
We do NOT want the CDC model in our public schools.
Carrie.Gendreau@leg.state.nh.us
Timothy.Lang@leg.state.nh.us
Jeb.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us
James.Gray@leg.state.nh.us
Daniel.Innis@leg.state.nh.us
Ruth.Ward@leg.state.nh.us
Denise.Ricciardi@leg.state.nh.us
Kevin.Avard@leg.state.nh.us
Sharon.Carson@leg.state.nh.us
Keith.Murphy@leg.state.nh.us
Howard.Pearl@leg.state.nh.us
Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us
Daryl.Abbas@leg.state.nh.us
William.Gannon@leg.state.nh.us
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Globalists and, closer to home, the Bidenistas have turned the bullish!t up to eleven in an effort to break the world. They are itchin’ for a fight, like an angry drunk poking you in the chest until you get mad enough to take a swing.
But what if they fall down and pass out before things get that far? Victims of their own excess.
The green machine (at least in America) has been printing record-setting sums of fiat money, handing it out like candy at a parade. Piles of it have gone to feed their other green machine: the climate cult—lots of prop-ups, handouts, gimmes. Use the allure of free or easy money (it is neither) to force the Climate agenda down everyone’s throat, but they’ve run into a problem. The printing press prop-ups have created inflation and generational debt, which impacts the cost of everything.
You can only steal so much from so many – most of them not yet born – before the thing falls down. And I get that this is the point. Cloward Piven. Collapse everything. But the Climate scam wasn’t supposed to go so soon.
Falling DownOne of the big green jewels in the UK’s “end functional modernity” crown can’t COP a break. It has announced its impending insolvency.
AMTE had a long history in developing lithium cells, making some of the first examples in the 1990s. Recently, AMTE said it tested cells that can be charged fully in six minutes in a breakthrough for charging technology.
However, it has been making a loss. It did not get the firm orders it needed from carmakers and other potential customers, or a patient investor that could fuel an expansion in production.
AMTE’s fate mirrors that of Britishvolt, another would-be independent UK gigafactory.
Britishvolt was the brainchild of former investment banker Orral Nadjari, who saw the looming demand for batteries from carmakers in the UK and a gap in the market for an independent producer, planning a £3.8bn factory in Blyth, Northumberland.
But it ran out of funding after borrowing became more expensive.
As reported earlier, automakers are spending less time promoting EVs because there’s no way to make money back, let alone profit, in the current economy, even with fiat money handouts. As such, many are dialing back EV builds, which has a ripple effect in the other propped-up divisions necessary to reach the climate utopia. They can’t afford to operate as is, either.
Take Phoenix Solar. A solar company based in one of the sunniest places in the US. It has filed for bankruptcy.
The Nov. 9 WARN filing contained a letter from Erus CEO Abraham Sabbagh to Erus Energy employees, which was obtained by Phoenix Business Journal on Dec. 8. The letter stated that the company was ceasing operations and laying off workers on Nov. 3, citing challenging conditions in the residential solar industry including elevated interest rates, utility permitting delays and lower installation rates.
“Over the past six months, the company has pursued a number of restructuring initiatives while also actively pursuing a sale, but those efforts have not been successful despite best efforts,” Sabbagh wrote. “It has become clear after discussions with the company’s secured lender and a prospective purchaser that a sale as a going concern is impossible.”
Not even China wanted to buy it? That’s got to be concerning to the Leftopians. Meanwhile, the legal community, bouncing about brokenly in the sidecar of this rickety-energy-transition, has also failed to provide judicial support for their nonsense. A court in Oregon just tossed the State’s illegal Climate Protection Program.
The court’s decision focused on a clear disclosure requirements of the statute – the failure of the Environmental Quality Commission to meet disclosure requirements. This focus on procedural integrity is crucial. It ensures that any significant regulatory changes, especially those impacting major industries and the economy, are made transparently and with due diligence. The court rightly prioritized the rule of law over the substance of the program itself, much to the chagrin of the end justifies the means activists. …
The court rightly noted that “substantial compliance” is not sufficient. Actual compliance with statutory requirements is non-negotiable, especially when it comes to regulations that have far-reaching implications for industries and consumers alike.
Also, from the left Coast,
The PCFFA, under the representation of Sher Edling, filed a lawsuit alleging catastrophic impacts of climate change on their crab fishing grounds. However, when the legal battle was moved to federal court, the association abruptly dropped the case. This raises questions about the actual substance and intent behind such lawsuits. Was this lawsuit genuinely seeking justice, or was it another example of using the legal system for publicity and political posturing?
We’d agree that it was the latter, and that seems to be the case. Flooding the zone with headline-grabbing lawsuits attracts the wandering internet mind long enough to make an impression upon which no one is expected to follow up. In the case of the PCFFA case, the tactic should have been blatantly obvious.
The internal discord within the PCFFA and skepticism about the lawsuit’s validity were evident from the outset. Some members of the association themselves pointed out the irony of suing fossil fuel companies while relying on their products for their fishing operations.
“How do we run our engines without oil? How do we fish without oil? Electricity? I’m a small vessel. I’m only 68 tons and my God, I don’t know how that would work.’” (emphasis added)
How indeed. Boats and planes share the battery size and weight problem (as would heavy equipment). To get even moderate amounts or range, you need a capacity that makes float or flite improbable, if not impossible. Lithium packs in vehicles represent a significant increase in total weight whose impact on infrastructure is missing from most if not all, total carbon footprint calculations for EVs.
Are we giving up seafood, ocean, and airline freight, not to mention cruises and passenger air? Yes. If you read the New Green Deal, that’s precisely true. Only an elite few would retain access to transportation above the technological level of a bicycle, which is a sacrifice no one outside the first world is stupid enough to consider.
If you don’t understand why, take 7 minutes to watch the video at the end of this post. It not only doesn’t work, isn’t affordable, and doesn’t green the planet – “It”being any or all of their supposed solutions – the people doing the most emitting without whose sacrifice this exercise is pointless – aren’t going to play along. Neither, it seems, are an increasing number of Westerners (even those who have tried), as the cost of a government-forced energy transition is undermined by the reality of the shoddy and irresponsible economic policy required to force it into being.
I’m sure they’ll keep going. The goal is to break everything. But it has not been a good few months for the Climate Cult.
Merry Christmas to us. For now.
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Those of us who love this country still believe we can survive this downward spiral started by Obama and consummated by Biden. These two men and their Leftist Party of Doom have done their best to destroy America as we knew it.
They disguised their plan by giving it a fancy name: Fundamentally change America. Change they did, as they tried to take America driven by an unbridled group of visionaries and turn it into a dependent populace who rely on the government for basic sustenance. It was popular at the beginning. A charismatic Black President and adoring media sold the message, and young people bought into the hype. Born of the movement was the Radical Left and the Squad.
Their plan had two weaknesses. The strategy of negativity had no legs. America was not ready to be a land of failure and desperation. They chose the wrong messenger. The team led by the aging bungling Joe Biden and the totally feckless, Black Kamala Harris could not relay the Progressive message, and the failure of the most incompetent, diverse Administration ever put together proved that the New America was doomed to failure. 2023 will be remembered as the year America woke up and saved itself.
The biggest obstacle for the Left is Donald Trump. Trump is too powerful and resilient to fall regardless of what the Left uses in their attempt to put him down. Trump has an ego and arrogance about him that fuels his enemies, but he also has the will and bravado of a warrior that stimulates his followers. He enrages his believers and gives them the impetus to fight back against the efforts of the Left. With every punch and kick he absorbs, his popularity and ratings grow. The Left is creating the monster that will take them down and unleash a Conservative fury that will rebuild this country and set it on a course to a new and exciting future.
As I read this article, it seems like the ramblings of a foolish idealist. But as a passionate observer, I scribed over 1200 articles about America’s politics. I witnessed the futility and emptiness of the Democrat bench and the rising of a new, brilliant, and driven Republican team. The fall of Kevin McCarthy may have been just what the Party needed. Though the process was ugly, the outcome may have been just the cornerstone to support the New Conservative Republican machine that will be the engine of the resurrected America. Mike Johnson, the quiet man from Louisiana, was an unlikely but timely choice to replace McCarthy and lead the Right.
Saturday Night Live parodied Elise Stefanik’s questioning of the three female presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT, but Stefanik may have the last laugh. The YouTube video of her dress down of these three elites has more hits than any other video of Congress. Yes, she embarrassed the three, but better still, she exposed them. These three Woke women proved to be Racist, antisemitic charlatans who were more interested in DEI than excellence. The Penn president has resigned, the Harvard head is under fire, and can the MIT leader be far behind? Stefanik embodies the new Republicans. They are young, intelligent, brave, and driven. They are patriots who love this country and are ready to fight to bring her back. It is exciting to watch and rewarding to see the results of their efforts. They may seem slow to react, but they operate with methodical precision, which is in stark contrast to their irrational counterparts on the other side of the aisle. Whether it is Biden, Newsom, or Hochul in 2024, the end of the Obama Transformation is near.
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Wake up to the dangers of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 is up for congressional reauthorization before the end of the year. Congress must stand up for the Fourth Amendment and stop the FBI and NSA violations of personal rights to privacy by passing Senator Rand Pauls bill S.3372 to abolish FISA.
Question our weak and suspect Congress that jeopardizes these inherent rights to protection from federal abuse. Ask: was this unconstitutional Orwellian Act propagated and sold to Congress and the American electorate as a true effort to monitor foreign agents as its name implied? Or was it a serious criminal intent to betray the constitutional protection of the 4th Amendment and authorize federal abuse of power?
Whatever the intent, the fact remains the criminal purpose resulted in taking away the blessing of security that our people have because of the Fourth Amendment. FISA infringes this Amendment’s protection, crucial to liberty, that, in essence, demands” … the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant.”
The JBS.ORG, Federal Legislation Alert — why we need to pass the “Stop FISA Reauthorization —- Support The Fourth Amendment Restoration & Protection Act,” (S.3372) introduced by Senator Rand Paul, gives us a small sample of what life would be like without the Fourth Amendment:
“FISA was purportedly enacted to help protect against terrorist attacks, but it is rampantly being used by the government — including the FBI and NSA — to spy on American citizens in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. For example, in 2021 alone, the FBI ran about 3 million “U.S. person queries” using Section 702. Tellingly, FBI Director Christopher Wray is vocally opposing any requirements to obtain a warrant.”
Friends of Liberty at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), established in 2007, tell us that federal Surveillance bosses practice a shameful brand of patriotism with these violations of the people’s right to be secure: “Significant privacy and civil liberties risks also include the scope of permissible targeting, NSA’s new approach to upstream collection, a new sensitive collection technique that presented novel and significant legal issues approved by the FISC (Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court) 2022,…” Furthermore, it is well known that FISC’s overseeing of requests for warrants lacks transparency and constitutional due-process protection, and they fail to hold federal agencies accountable.
Help stop the federal surveillance of private citizens and prevent attacks on political opponents by the current administration. If President Trump’s rights can be violated, who is next? The power of “We the People” must speak. Educate yourself by going to JBS.ORG. source, The John Birch Society, having stood the test of time, is the most powerful weapon to counteract this imminent tyranny. Join us and tell Congress you cherish your inherent right that your home is your castle and demand they cosponsor S.3372.
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Maybe ask yourself this question … what wouldn’t people who support an obviously absurd court decision obviously intended to prevent Trump from being elected POTUS a third time do to prevent Trump from being elected POTUS a third time? The obvious answer … NOTHING. Of course, they would like us to keep believing that presidential elections are exercises in democracy and our votes matter, BUT if necessary they will go full Lenin on us.
The actual insurrection was the soft-insurrection that began even before Trump was elected in 2016 and culminated in the rigged election of 2020. In case you have forgotten, maybe you should review a succinct (albeit only partial) summation from Sean Davis:
They tried to prevent Trump’s election in 2016 with illegal spying and the bogus Steele dossier. They used a lawless FBI operation to cripple his presidency. They impeached him twice. They accused his Supreme Court nominee of running a secret gang rape cartel. They shut down the country over a flu, then lied about its origin, illegally changed ballot laws, burned American cities to the ground, stole the 2020 election, and then imprisoned anyone who protested it. Now they’re trying to put Trump in prison, and if that fails, they’ll throw him off the ballot. You can fill in the blanks on what they’ll consider if neither of those options work.
This is such a massive cope from people on the right still operating under the insane assumption that the Left won’t do *everything* possible to prevent Trump from becoming president and assuming the powers of the office.
They tried to prevent Trump’s election in 2016 with… https://t.co/F5RUKyxVvV
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 20, 2023
If you think this all ends after an appeal to the United States Supreme Court … YOU ARE DELUSIONAL. It won’t end unless and until Republicans actually fight back and Republicans will NOT do that because far too many of their “leaders” support the Left’s objective of preventing Trump from becoming President. An example of actually fighting back:
DeSantis and the Florida legislature should throw Biden off the ballot for having engaged in rebellion/insurrection by dissolving the Southern border and abetting invasion of the U.S., and by using his corrupt DOJ/FBI shock troops to shred the law and Constitution and terrorize…
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 20, 2023
But, as we already know, that is not going to happen. DeSantis and Haley and Christie all intend to participate in totally rigged, banana-republic Colorado primary.
Yet most Republicans continue to pretend that the 2024 election is going to be an actual election. Pathetic, totally pathetic.
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This is from a conversation in the comments below one of Steve’s recent posts. It seems relevant to a lot of what’s happening just now, so I thought I’d post it separately.
Where [many people] see lots of different problems, I see only a couple that underlie all the others.
The first — not to sound like a broken record or anything — is confusing consent with majority rule, acting as if those are the same when, in fact, they are nearly opposites.
The second is confusing form with function.
Legislatures pass laws, and eventually, people start to think that as long as the legislature follows certain formalities (introduce a bill, hold hearings, vote, send to the executive for signature), then whatever they enact must be a valid law.
Judges issue opinions, and eventually, people start to think that as long as the judges follow certain formalities, then whatever they want to rule on must be a valid precedent, i.e., ‘the law.’
Regulators issue regulations, police issue ‘lawful orders’, presidents and governors issue ‘executive orders’, and all of these are considered to have ‘the force of law’. And so on.
People seem to have completely given up the idea that if government officials try to exercise a power that their written constitutions — their job descriptions — do not delegate to them or clearly prohibit them from having, then what they say or do isn’t binding on anyone.
Imagine how different things would be if people were willing to look at laws, regulations, orders, and judicial opinions coming from government officials and say:
Look, we can read our constitutions as well as you can, and what you’re trying to do is so clearly outside of the legitimate scope of what you can do that we’re just going to ignore it. And if you try to force the issue, you’ll meet with armed resistance.
I think this is exactly what the Second Amendment means by ‘the security of a free State.’
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