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Sun, 2024-09-01 20:00 +0000
The University of New Hampshire released a poll (The Green Mountain State Poll) on how Vermonters feel about the economy, taxes, and the high cost of living. While an overwhelming majority of Republicans think it stinks and is getting worse, and a majority of Independents tend to agree, 25% of Democrats said, “Nah, things are ... Read more
Sun, 2024-09-01 18:00 +0000
Accumulated over several days and it grew too big for a meme post. Before I dig in, please do see Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. And my latest non-meme/non-link, actual essay-essay: Revisiting Hashem’s Wisdom – Granite Grok >>>>>=====<<<<< 2024: WOAH: Far-Left Presidential Candidate Cornel West Says Kamala Bribed Him to Drop Out, Offered Him a Job and ... Read more
Sun, 2024-09-01 16:00 +0000
By Tom Mullen | Mises Wire – During election years, incumbent presidents are routinely blamed for every societal ill during the previous four years. And almost nothing is riper for the picking than a significant rise in consumer prices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), prices are currently increasing at a rate of ... Read more
Sun, 2024-09-01 14:00 +0000
Another special interest group, Citizens Alliance, has released a legislative scorecard today. Like others that the Grokster known as “Spike” has said I’ve “gone scorched earth on,” this group is no different. There are 68 reps in their “good standing” category. Of those 68, 18 are enemies of 91A. Without further delay, here they are: ... Read more
Sun, 2024-09-01 12:00 +0000
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNE) has been complaining for months about how it won’t make as much money as it likes—a “shortfall,” they call it. The response is to threaten services and whine about the political climate in a part of the country where states enshrine a right to their services into their ... Read more
Sun, 2024-09-01 10:00 +0000
Sadly, we have to drive the point home every day that this woman is trying, and perhaps successfully, to fool a nation into thinking that she is anything else than what we know from her time in politics. In the words of Kamala Harris, “Let’s get one thing clear: I am not flip-flopping on every ... Read more
Sun, 2024-09-01 02:00 +0000
Human dreams of predicting the future have a special playground in forecasts of market prices. Whether the market is tulips, pork bellies, stocks, real estate, or cryptocurrency, the urge to know the future direction of the economy is as ancient as bartering. A question facing Americans in 2024 is whether that desire to influence the ... Read more
Sun, 2024-09-01 00:00 +0000
I watched Kamala and her sidekick, Tim, and felt my blood pressure rise to where I probably needed medication but not the insulin that Harris thinks all seniors are on. She loves to talk about bringing down prescription prices, but it is only insulin that she points to, and it was Donald Trump who initiated ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-31 22:00 +0000
The DNC Convention was a COVID-19 super-spreader event. Reports suggest almost everyone who attended knows someone who contracted COVID-19 at the convention. They’ve been sharing their woes on social media along with images of positive tests. Please excuse my Shadenfrued, but the most “mRNA-vaccinated” collective of human flesh on planet Earth can’t stop telling us ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-31 19:50 +0000
Monday was the first day of school in Vermont, and this weekend, we celebrate Labor Day – two milestones at which point voters, so says conventional wisdom, start paying attention to politics. Let’s certainly hope so because live ballots will be mailed out to all voters on the checklist in less than a month! While ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-31 18:00 +0000
By Kevin Tyson – In the landscape of political philosophy, the concept of the social contract plays a pivotal role in understanding the relationship between individuals and the state. Central to this theory are the ideas of positive and negative rights, each representing fundamentally different obligations of the individual, government, and society. While positive rights require the state ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-31 16:00 +0000
Rumor has it Geno Marconi opposed developing offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine. I have also heard from fishermen (through a third party) that Geno opposed the redevelopment of Rye Harbor, which would wipe out the shacks and kick out local business owners. If that’s true, it is no mystery why Geno was put ... Read more
