The Proper Role of Government

Treehugger – After Being Insulted, I Ask THE Important Question!

Again, from the same post from TH: Are British Conservatives Really Committed to Climate Action? Note the nuance of the structure of the post title – can we TRUST Conservatives? Do they really accept Climate Change – and are willing to use Government (in this case, the new and then quickly former Prime Minister Liz … Read more

Quick Thought: So What Is Government Good For? Treehugger Commenter Would Make a Good Progressive

by Skip

TreeHugger, either the writers nor the commenters, ever want to discuss what should be a fundamental question within Society: WHAT is the role of Government? So when someone there decides to squeak out an opinion on this, I jump all over it. In a post (“The Comeback of Small Cars and Trucks Is Good for … Read more

The Antidote is to vote Pixabay bluebudgie

“Hello Candidate! What is the Purpose of Government?”

by Skip

Well, it’s not EXACTLY phrased like my favorite question of “What is the Proper Role of Government?” but close enough. This set of questions for elected official wannabees is spot on. Hello candidate! POLICY QUESTIONS 1 – If you are elected to the office you seek: a) what laws will you repeal; b) what taxes … Read more

Clock watch timepiece Original Photo by Sonja Langford on Unsplash

Why Am I Spending So Much Time on the Gunstock Area Commission?

by Skip

Well, one easy reason is that I live on the backside of that Mountain. I was told by the previous owners a couple of times that their teen-aged boys would take the lift up to the top and then do the backside to home.

Democrats in Lock Step on Their Extremist Agenda

by Op-Ed

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE legislature has a proud tradition that every bill introduced receives a public hearing and gets an up or down vote by the full House.

It’s EASY to Make Shared Misery “Equitable”! – Part 4

by Skip

When the other side resorts and is left only with ad hominem retorts, it’s a WIN! Especially as you remain cool, collected, and drawing merely on foundational principles via example.

Did NH DOT Decide to Get Political If the Canadian Trucker Protest Comes to NH?

by Skip

I got a tip from a Loyal Reader concerning a State level response from the Canadian Trucker Protest that was going to Ottawa and then to Washington over Vax mandates centered on truck drivers:

Part 2: Not the Sads but the Willingness to Hurt Others

by Skip

More reactions from the Eco-Socialists at TreeHugger that I mentioned here “Are the Treehugger Eco-Socialists Having the Sads as They Realize Most People Really Don’t Care?”

Promoted from the Comments – The Proper Role of Government

by Skip

And once again, I get the chance to blame our Educational system – mostly because it is well deserved. Go ahead and ask any teacher what it is and I’m betting they won’t give you the proper answer.

Our leaders are only representatives they report to us

A Public Service Announcement for those that never learned proper Civics – Part 1,505,375

by Skip

You may return to your regular lives – hopefully enhanced for every time you run up against a person that holds an elected office. (H/T: Bookworm)

Notable Quote – So easily given up?

by Skip

To repeat: This extraordinary menace may well require an extraordinary response. Yet a month ago, could anyone have imagined that we would see the complete cessation of all church and synagogue worship in the United States? Or a total halt to citizens’ First Amendment right “peaceably to assemble and to petition the government”? Or the … Read more

Coronavirus modeling – it isn’t just Ed complaining about how bad it is.

by Skip

Grokster Ed has been doing yeoman’s work in applying the Charles Murray / IHME model that is being used to set governmental policy (yesterday’s, for example, is here). A number of people are noticing that, just like the climate models (including the favs of the UN’s IPCC), they are running “hot” in that they are … Read more

So, the Proper Role of Government also includes a mandatory of the Big Snip for men over 50?

by Skip

Or when a guy has just had their third child? Only a Democrat would believe that Government has this kind of Power even if her bill is a purposeful political stunt (reformatted, emphasis mine): Alabama Dem Introduces Legislation Mandating Vasectomies for Men at Age 50 or After Third Child The bill, filed by State Rep. … Read more

UPDATE #2: DCYF just can’t stop stepping all over itself, even in CYA mode when trying to close the case.

by Skip

I wrote about DCYF a while ago (here and here). In trying to get their side of the story, even with permission from the parents, everyone refused to talk “to the media” (being GraniteGrok).

Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig: A Victim of The Bloomberg Syndrome?

by Skip

Reformatted, emphasis mine: In 2011, Victor Davis Hanson warned of “The Bloomberg Syndrome:” “Quite simply, the next time your elected local or state official holds a press conference about global warming, the Middle East, or the national political climate, expect to experience poor county law enforcement, bad municipal services, or regional insolvency.” Mayor Craig has made … Read more

“By their debates, ye shall know them”

by Skip

OK, I’m plaigerizing, a tad, Matt 7:16 (“Ye shall know them by their fruits”) and I swapped the clauses around, well, just a couple takeaways from the two nights. I actually missed most of both of them because of meeting but I think that these perfectly summarize the mindset of the mainstream Democrat elected politicians: … Read more

Tales from the BudComm – Righting a Wrong on Food Truck Licensure

by Skip

“The people who pay taxes here.”

Or better, Tales from the Selectmen, as last night was a Public Hearing about Chapter 27, “An ordinance regulating outdoor vendors and transient sales,” which covers licensing/permitting fees for food trucks working in Gilford. I originally wrote:

Transgenderism: “…so they can replace the rights of citizens with the rights of government.”

by Op-Ed

by Tom Ambrose | I’ve been watching with both fascination and horror at the increase in news stories about letting men compete as women in women’s sports. Women fought for decades for the equal opportunity to have sports available and funded for their gender so they, too, could also compete in what was once a … Read more

US Senator Maggie Hassan (“The Red”): re-RE-defining our common language – “access”

by Skip

Wordnik: noun The ability or right to approach, enter, exit, communicate with, or make use of.

Traditionally, access to something means the ability to use it. It doesn’t have to intimate cost, price, process, or anything else. It only means I can procure it.

Notable Quote – Gerrit Wormhoudt

by Skip

If we open our minds, we cannot but realize that, for the most part, the elaborate barriers designed to minimize the role of government force in our lives have over time been increasingly ignored. Those very few powers granted to the federal government have been so broadly construed as to become meaningless. -Gerrit Wormhoudt (Opting … Read more