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ROPER: Sometimes the Sausage Not Being Made Is Uglier Than the Sausage

April 8, 2026 Rob Roper

How a non-vote exposed the Democrats’ true attitudes regarding the housing crisis When new Vermont House members receive their orientation to how things work in the legislature, one point of etiquette driven home is that it’s not good form to spring amendments to bills onto the floor without a healthy heads up. “No surprises,” goes … Read more

ROPER: Climate Council Is Afraid

December 22, 2025 Rob Roper

Last Monday’s Climate Council meeting featured a tense conversation about putting a price tag on what they call the number one “priority” recommendation in their updated Climate Action Plan. The project: a mandatory reporting system for carbon emissions from fuel suppliers and other significant emitters. The price tag, as requested by the Agency of Natural … Read more

Denied rubber satmp Original Image by tswedensky from Pixabay

MACDONALD: NE Offshore Wind Project Permit Revoked

November 15, 2025 Steve MacDonald

We’ve received another sign that there is still hope for a revocation of the Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind project. Development of an offshore wind farm south of Nantucket had been halted, thanks to a ruling by a federal judge. The reasoning behind the nod is one we’ve shared before that applies to the lease … Read more

Chemicals Are Depressing

May 1, 2025 John Klar

Toxic household exposures can’t be cured by SSRIs Many media outlets roundly criticized Bobby Kennedy for suggesting SSRIs are harmful to children. Yet scientific evidence increasingly supports that a brain chemical imbalance does not cause depression and that antidepressants are only marginally curative. A recent study now suggests depression may be caused or aggravated by … Read more

Are EVs Good or Bad for the Environment?

October 18, 2024 John Klar

The government offers large amounts of money for Americans to buy electric vehicles (EVs) to help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Many claims about EVs and their effects on the environment often seem conflicting. As with most manmade products, it can be difficult to fully measure all the environmental impacts: the … Read more

Climate Fear, Rewilding, the Green New Deal, and Other Absurdities

April 16, 2024 John Klar

One of the most prescient, intelligent, passionate voices defending rural lands and rural agriculture has been lifelong Democrat Wendell Berry (though Wendell will tell you that he has no allegiance to any one party). The current Democratic Party appears to have no use for the considered wisdom of this Kentucky farmer, just as it has abandoned Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Jefferson, and the Kennedy legacy.

Night Cap: NH Border Stores Should Stock Up on Fluorescent Light Bulbs – Vermont Ban Begins Jan 1

July 16, 2024December 26, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The People’s Republic of Vermont banned fluorescent light bulbs. Not all, but the most common and practical home and office use varies. That is bad news for Vermonters but good news, maybe great news, for New Hampshire retailers.

A Fake Energy Crisis?

March 10, 2023 Don

It’s been claimed that: “No power source is more dangerous to life and the environment than burning fossil fuels”. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Such evidence hasn’t been provided. Would returning to burning wood, peat, dung, whale oil, and animal fat be safer? No. Honest evaluations consider minuses AND benefits. If we only considered minuses, … Read more

EVs/Solar/Wind Are Devastating To The Environment

October 24, 2022 Ed Mosca

Under the pretext of stopping man-made “climate change,” the globalists/corporatists/communists are devastating the environment AND arguably using more fossil fuels upstream…

The Perfect Headline Doesn’t Exis…”Biden Sells Alaska Back to Russia So We Can Start Drilling for Oil There Again”

March 8, 2022 Steve MacDonald

At just fifteen words, this Babylon Bee headline says many things about the Left and its bizarre tendencies. Developing US reserves is bad for the environment but buying more from environmentally-indifferent Russia (plus the thousands of miles to move it) is not.

A “Small Price to Pay” for Nice Tweets.

October 22, 2021October 19, 2021 Steve MacDonald

More than a few folks have had a political come-to Jesus moment during the brief reign of F. Joe Biden I (the First). It’s hard not to with gas prices rising, inflation, shortages, and the rest of it. But are they having a real moment? Do they see the big picture?

How Long Before Your Woke Green City Bus Terminal is Burned to the Ground?

September 2, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Electric vehicle batteries ignite at an alarming rate. The best estimate of these incidents is “too often,” and of the reporting, “not enough.” Lithium vehicle batteries catch fire incidents that go under-reported. As do the enhanced environmental hazard that burning Lithium Batteries presents.

Give Michael Moore’s ‘The Planet of the Humans’ a chance

May 27, 2021 Don

We all want a clean, healthy environment. We all want inexpensive and reliable energy, from whatever source, that enables us to prosper, have a healthy environment, and live healthy lives. And, we want these for ourselves and future generations.

Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA) is Erasing History

March 20, 2021 Steve MacDonald

One of the inconvenient truths about the climate debate is advocates’ need to manipulate data. They’ve been doing it for decades. Picking starting points that show favorable rises in data. Ignoring anything that contradicts the current dogma. And Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA) is erasing inconvenient history.

US Carbon Dioxide Emissions per Capita 1949-2020

Data Point – What Other Developed or Developing Country Has Done This Well?

March 15, 2021 Skip

So again I ask, why do we need to be in the Paris Accord whose only real purpose is to suck “climate reparations” from US Citizens? It’s really a non-enforceable agreement as the world points its finger at the US and says “pay up”!

Data Point: China – Sorry About That – We Missed Our Reductions Again

March 12, 2021 Skip

WHY do we have to be in the Paris Accord? Any reduction in CO2 emissions is being swamped by China – which has promised to only come up with a figure for the Paris Accord by 2030.

7 Benefits of Traveling Within the States

September 9, 2022February 23, 2021 Guest Contributor

When it comes to travel, many people think they need to visit the other side of the world for a great experience, but that simply is not true. You can have an educational, inspiring, and exciting adventure without even leaving your own country! If you are planning your next getaway, here are seven benefits of … Read more

Ruminations on Big Corporations, Big Government and Trump

February 20, 2021 Steve Earle

Counter to some opinions I am concerned about our environment. I just don’t believe the answer is windmills and solar panels (made in China usually), nor do I think we in the U.S. are the problem except for plastics. Darn plastics are everywhere, all over everything and it lasts for like a thousand years.

Global Warming Bad News Bears, Sea Ice, and Climate Cult Narratives

July 10, 2022December 22, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Imagine an animal rights activist telling you that black bears eating trash in New England neighborhoods were signs of global warming. It’s actually a sign of people leaving trash out and bears discovering how much easier it is to find food. But that’s not how the narrative works.

Not About the Election – Well, It Is, Sort of, if Biden Wins

November 14, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The left’s plans for the ruination of our nation are vast and will come quickly if they succeed in stealing this election. Every bat-s**t-crazy left-wing idea will be on the table and then in our faces. There are many we can discuss but few are as destructive as this.