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Vol.XVII • No.XVI
Manchester, N.H.
If you were thinking about traveling the world. Eric Adams and New York City have opened their own travel agency. An opportunity to get a one-way ticket to anywhere in the world as long as you don’t come back to New York City.
The city has been sending migrants who were booted from city shelters to a Manhattan “reticketing” office devoted to booking plane tickets to anywhere in the world. Some migrants have chosen to fly to destinations like Colombia or Morocco.
“With no sign of a decompression strategy in the near future, we have established a reticketing center for migrants,” City Hall spokesperson Kayla Mamelak told Politico. “Here, the city will redouble efforts to purchase tickets for migrants to help them take the next steps in their journeys.”
It is an interesting idea. Claim you have no room (and maybe you don’t). Offer them a spot in a Bidenville refugee camp. Or – would you like to fly to some other location on planet Earth? My question? Doesn’t that add to the problem of global warming?
And how do you prevent randos who speak a foreign language from showing up in the Big Crapple and acting like illegal aliens? They act like foreigners until they get shuffled off to the reticketing office, where they will give you a ticket to any destination. You just have to pay your way back, assuming you want to come back. And perhaps you don’t.
Biden and the Democrats have treated America like a rental car. It’s in terrible shape. And while the rest of the world isn’t that different, you might be able to find somewhere else to hang out until the world is done burning.
Or is this plan one that should be adopted everywhere? Too many illegals? Offer them plane fare to someplace else. Share the wealth. Spread the love.
We are the world. We are the people.
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The 2010s and 2020s will undoubtedly be known as a tumultuous (to say the least) period of history for children. Somehow, we as a society have normalized treating children as some sort of material item to be exploited for our own gain.
Whether it be monetary, for likes and views, or to make ourselves appear in a certain way, it seems to have become an accepted part of life.
For one such example, in the late 2000s, a man named Shay Butler started off what would become a huge, money-making phenomenon known as family vlogging. He has his own legal troubles associated with his YouTube fame, but there is a more recent example of which we can take note. Ruby Franke from Utah was arrested in late August after her child escaped – yes, you read that correctly and alerted neighbors to their situation. Police found two children bound, malnourished, and locked in a safe at her colleague’s home.
Franke and her sisters all have had a hand in family vlogging, amassing a fortune off of the exploitation of their children even before birth. They have admitted at times that they bribe their children to be on camera, but more often than not, it seems that family bloggers, in general, assume their children will simply play the role day to day. They are filmed potty training, bra shopping, in doctors’ offices and hospital rooms, and sometimes their parents even resort to mockery – telling their children they can do something they want if they lick their mother’s armpit on camera.
So, using this family vlogging fame and fortune as an example, is it any wonder that so many don’t even seem to think children have their own autonomy? That they simply exist for their parents’ pleasure and personal gain? We see parents jumping on the newest bandwagon with their children all the time, whether it be for something superficial or something irreversible. One might wonder if they pause to consider if that’s really what their child wants/needs or if it’s just what will get them extra likes and followers on toxic social media.
My children’s generation will have many stories to tell, I fear.
If you are someone who sees the issues that children today face, please stand and advocate for them. They need someone in their corner who is willing to speak up.
If you would like help with getting started, please stop by the Statehouse in Concord on Saturday, November 4th at 11 a.m. to hear a handful of speakers discussing firsthand knowledge of grooming, abuse, indoctrination, and more. Children are the future! Let’s come together and do what we can to protect them.
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Katie Anderson never felt comfortable being a woman or with the idea of becoming one. It was something she would outgrow, but not before the internet and the system convinced her she could be male.
Katie shared her story last night at the Mountain Base Brewery in Goffstown to a crowd and curious room—the journey of a confused young woman who went from hormone therapy to gender surgery and back.
Katie says she never felt like she never fit in growing up, had little interest in boys, and had always been a classic example of a tomboy. At one point in high school, she took what she called the lesbian test. She said it had one question. Would you have sex with any of the boys in the room with you? Her answer was a resounding no, which was not clinically relevant. The test was oversimplified and rigged, but she assumed she was a lesbian.
After spending a bit too much time seeking affirmation on YouTube (these days, it’s TikTok or Instagram) and trying to address her growing discomfort with her sexuality, she began a social transition. She started dressing like a boy, asking her friends and family to refer to her as such, and using a boy’s name she’d chosen. This led naturally to thinking she could or should become one, and she started testosterone treatments.
It all affirmed her idea about her identity, but she did mention how the path to regular testosterone self-injections was too easy. The system never challenged the idea, and maybe it couldn’t or didn’t want to. There was very little in the way of therapy or mental health analysis; they just took her at her word and pushed forward. They taught her how to self-inject the hormones.
And the drugs made her feel happy. Happier than she could remember being. As it turns out, testosterone will do that, and the happiness is not real. But after a year of treatment, she pursued the physical transition. She got top surgery first, a double mastectomy, which further affirmed the identity she had chosen. But there was a new problem. Pain.
The testosterone had weakened her uterine muscles, and she was in constant discomfort. This was normal, they said, the cure for which could have been to stop taking testosterone, but no one appears to have suggested that. Instead, she signed off on a hysterectomy, and why not – she was a boy, after all, which the doctors then screwed up. She almost died from internal bleeding but survived and seemed content with the outcome.
One day, however, at some point after that, she suddenly felt like she was supposed to be a woman and decided to detransition.
Katie talked about the various steps in transition and how each one created a high that ended as if it were an addiction. One that, after all the treatments and surgeries, stopped giving her that affirmation. She would plateau, take it to the next step, and plateau again. There was nothing else to do to keep the high going.
Alluding as well to the high rate of suicide for transitioners and perhaps how hitting that wall drove them to try and kill themselves. Especially if you begin to have doubts, it is easier to contemplate suicide than detransitioning.
Not only is it physically and emotionally demanding, but there is no medical or mental health support, and the community turns against you immediately. Being you is not what they support. They want you to be them.
Katie stopped taking testosterone after “the haircut,” and saw a doctor, and started taking estrogen. She wanted to be and feel like a woman again.
She talked at length about how there are medical codes for transitioning but none for detransitioning, so there is no reliable data on how many detransition. Many stop taking hormones or choose to behave socially as their birth sex. No doctors or clinics are involved in that process, and it is unclear what details they’d collect or share if you did.
Katie also noted that social media is one of the biggest problems with confusing kids about sex and gender issues. That the community is very one-sided in its support. And that health care focuses more on transitions than detransition.
I’d agree. In New Hampshire, it is illegal to counsel anyone away from transition. You can only affirm a patient’s curiosity even if they want help being comfortable with their birth sex.
That’s not therapy. It doesn’t help. And it is why so many who stumble into the gender sphere end up trying to kill themselves. The so-called support of the community is tenuous and inadequate. Having others affirm your choice to be like them does not provide long-lasting comfort. The difficulties of chemical and surgical transition can be a burden, as is knowing that if you think you made a mistake, you might be on your own for the return journey.
Katie also reminded us that she began her journey as an adult but that these days, there is a lot of pressure on parents and children to transition, to which she objects.
I also agree. Adults who want to take this journey can consent to the consequences. Children have no idea what those are, nor can they adequately be made to understand. Parents who accept or encourage this are guilty of child abuse. Generally speaking, until more people bring lawsuits against therapists, doctors, and hospitals that push kids into these unalterable changes, the practice will continue to be profitable enough to assume the risk.
Make it too expensive, and it will stop.
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Auburn, NH – On Monday, October 30, 2023, the New Hampshire Supreme Court, on their own initiative, scheduled oral arguments for November 29, 2023, at 9 a.m., in a highly-anticipated election law case of Daniel Richard vs. Governor Chris Sununu, et al.
Involving the executive and legislature branches of government repeatedly violating the voting rights of Mr. Richard and the people of this State by altering the mandatory election provisions of the Constitution of New Hampshire established by the people by legislative fiat. This case poses the following questions.
Daniel Richard, a constitutional scholar from New Hampshire, has brought a case against the state, which claims that N.H. election laws have been illegally altered by the executive and legislative branches of the state government over the years without the consent of the voters, thereby making the legislature’s actions unconstitutional.
Richard contends that the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, section 4, delegates to the legislatures of the several states the duty to establish the time, manner and place for holding federal elections. The United States Supreme Court’s recent opinion decided June 27, 2023, in Moore v. Harper, 600 U.S.___ (2023) now reinforces Mr. Richard’s case, as Moore v. Harper is now a binding precedent on all election law cases in the 50 states.
“Nothing in [the Elections] Clause instructs, nor has this Court ever held, that a
state legislature may prescribe regulations on the time, place, and manner of
holding federal elections in defiance of provisions of the State’s constitution.”
Cited from Arizona State legislature v. Arizona independent redistricting
commission, 576 U. S., at 817–818 (majority opinion) Pg. 18… Moore v. Harper, 600 U.S.___ (2023)
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Reformatted for readability.
NEWS RELEASE
Contact Information:
Daniel Richard
95 Rockingham Road
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drichard186@gmail.com
603-315-5755 direct
Release Date:
October 31, 2023
For Immediate Release
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The site of this year’s Groktoberfest was the Londonderry Fish & Game Club, situated on the outskirts of suburban Litchfield, NH, located a few miles from Manchester. The surprisingly warm weather hosted a not surprisingly resolute group of faithful conservatives in the outdoor environs where the live free or die crowd was surrounded by a cavalcade of patriotism and purpose aimed at preserving America and its values.
Situated under the club’s conference-sized veranda were many attendees there to raise funds for New Hampshire’s most read and distributed conservative publication, GraniteGrok. What is a Grok, you wonder? Grok is a neologism coined by American writer Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Used colloquially, it means “to understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.” Granite Grok is the brainchild and labor of love of its founder, Skip Murphy, who started it as a blog only to see it grow in popularity. It is now the most-read conservative publication in New Hampshire, with many millions of views and readers from around the globe.
Co-owner and editor of the Grok is Steve McDonald. Steve is an award-winning blogger, Managing Editor, and owner of GraniteGrok.com. He serves on the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and is a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, was a founding member of the New Hampshire Republican Volunteer Coalition, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.
The Master of Ceremonies for the event was Jeff Chidester, who set the tone by speaking eloquently about the call for action fulfilled by the Grok and its contributors and supporters. The purpose of the event, beyond raising funds to expand the capacity at the Granite Grok, was largely to gather like-minded culture warriors as brothers and sisters in arms. The irony of many conservatives is the desire to be left alone, however, that inclination is largely responsible for our current situation, where we see red states turning purple and bluer by the day.
Among the many vendors in attendance were representatives for the Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy campaigns. Many of the kiosks offered free literature on the Constitution, concern for protecting children in schools, and the rising trend of Marxism in American politics. Such groups as Camp Constitution, run by one of the day’s speakers, Hal Shurtleff, sat alongside like-minded activists from the NH Constitution Party, the Free State Project, Back to Basics LLC, Defend Our Kids, and the John Birch Society.
The keynote speaker for the event was former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Mr. Lewendowski rolled into the event in Trumpian fashion behind the wheel of a sleek black Shelby Mustang accompanied by one of his sons. After listening to several speakers raise awareness of the various concerns their organizations focus on, Mr. Lewandowski, a former NH police officer, took to the dais and reminded the crowd what was at stake and who they were up against.
Reminding everyone of his candidates’ unlikely win over “crooked Hillary” and controversial defeat at the hands of “the Biden regime,” he shared a variety of stories from the campaign trail, including his role in helping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secure his most recent term in office.
The overriding tone of his speech was to reiterate what has become obvious to anyone following American politics from the right. We are facing an opponent who is not beholden to American values as we know them, including honesty in reporting (the media) and the recent weaponizing of institutions of power from law enforcement agencies to rogue judicial officials bent on activism rather than protecting citizens’ constitutional rights. He concluded by reminding everyone the next election is the most important election we will ever face, which he admits is a cliché thing to say at political gatherings, however, his tone was unmistakable. Perhaps it was that he included “we won’t have a country” if we lose the next one. Was this hyperbole to hype the crowd, perhaps? Only if you’ve not been paying attention to the realities he’d already covered.
After a few more speakers, both Skip and Steve McDonald addressed the crowd, thanking them for all of their support and reiterating the words of the previous speakers. They also cast a vision about the future of the Granite Grok, which now includes a VermontGrok looking to galvanize their friends to the west.
Sadly, we were also informed that Skip is stepping down in his full capacity to deal with family matters that are more important than his political activism. Steve is more than capable of steering the helm of this ship. However, Skip has long been the soul that guides its conscience. As a matter of conscience and in spirit with true conservatism, Skip isn’t in the game for sport but for the love of all he holds dear – human freedoms, civic liberty, God, country, and family. To use another cliché – he puts his money where his mouth is.
Speaking of money, if you’d care to join the cause, you can support the Grok in a variety of ways by volunteering to help contribute articles, covering your local politics, working phones, going door-to-door for Grok-supported candidates, as well as donate financially via their website.
The Chronicle would like to welcome the Groksters to Vermont, where we have more than enough “green” mountains to climb as a body politic.
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The Renewable Energy Standard Group Committee met again on October 25 to hash out what next year’s laws regarding energy policy will be, and again, utilities managers questioned the ulterior motives behind how some of the proposals seem to be favoring certain actors. And this crony favoritism, they say, will come not just at greater expense to electricity ratepayers but also at the expense of the very climate-related goals the Standard is supposed to be about.
Bill Driscoll of Associated Industries of Vermont told the group, “In order to be achievable while minimizing costs and maximizing reliability [of electricity service], you really need to have as much flexibility as possible [in where you source generation]. You really need to have all the tools on the table…. The more you constrain that – in other words, ‘it doesn’t just have to be clean, it has to be renewable, or it has to be small renewable, or new renewable, or in-state’ – the more you’re going to introduce the risks of increased costs and also the potential for reliability issues without making a difference in the climate goals.”
While everyone in the room seemed on board with reaching a 100% clean energy goal for the state, not everyone seemed to be as interested in meeting those goals as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible. Rather, the agenda of some, the utilities managers strongly implied, was to steer purchasing, construction of new energy sources, and subsidy dollars to “certain people,” even if that means more cost to ratepayers and taxpayers while making the state’s greenhouse gas reduction targets harder to meet.
As Driscoll concluded, “The concern is, the more you do that, the less this is a climate policy and more… a policy that benefits a smaller and smaller group of interests in terms of developers…. In fact, if anything, the more restrained you make it, it’s more expensive and more challenging to meet those climate goals.”
Ken Nolan of VPPSA had similar concerns, stating, “As we break down into tiers and say only certain resources qualify here or there, we’re actually picking winners and losers, and we’re diverting technologies to certain technologies and certain people. That makes it more expensive and harder to manage, and significantly more overhead for the utilities to meet our compliance and the regulators to make sure we’re meeting our compliance.”
There’s a tendency in Vermont in the legislature for ‘command and control,’ said Nolan. “That we have to tell people what to do, or they’re not going to do it. And I think we do a disservice to the ratepayers when we dive into the weeds and try to get very specific in how we define things versus, to some degree, relying on the market.” [Side note: ‘command and control’ government is another way of saying ‘authoritarianism.’]
Senator Chris Bray (D-Addison) questioned Nolan, “Is the current RES a command and control piece of legislation, or is it creating a target and letting utilities choose their own path?”
“I would say Tier 1 is much more choose your own path,” replied Nolan. “Tier 2 is very specific. It has to be less than five megawatts, connected to the distribution system, built after 2015. If I’m GMP, that is probably not very onerous because I have a huge territory. But if I’m Orleans or Hyde Park… that’s a pretty high bar. And it drives you to make certain decisions and work with certain people. And I don’t know that it brings any additional benefit to the climate conversation.”
Driscoll called out the group, “If this is going to be a portfolio that is intentionally designed to benefit specific technologies or scales of development or whatnot, then I think we should be open about that.”
He’s exactly right, but this group is not going to be open about that. An easy and obvious question for any of the four elected lawmakers on the committee would be, “Who are the people we’re forcing you to work with?” but they’re not interested in that level of transparency.
As detailed in my earlier article on this topic, Conflicts of Interest in the Renewable Energy Standard Working Group, the members of VPIRG, The Sierra Club, The Conservation Law Foundation, and Renewable Energy Vermont all represent directly or indirectly the very “people” the law is steering resources to. It is a true scandal that legislators allow lobbyists for politically connected special interests (in many cases, big donors to those legislators and/or their Party) to sit on these committees and write policy.
Nolan questioned, “How much command and control do we really need versus simplifying this conversation and getting to the meat of what are we trying to accomplish? If it’s climate change and greenhouse gas reduction, then let’s talk about the resources that qualify for that and let the utilities figure it out.”
Of course, the problem for the special interests on the committee is that allowing the utilities to figure out on their own the most cost-effective and reliable way to meet the clean energy goals of the state would likely mean bypassing the higher cost, less reliable products produced by their financial benefactors. And we can’t have that! Even if it means Vermonters pay more for our electricity, are more likely to suffer blackouts, and are less likely to meet the target dates for greenhouse gas reduction, which, by the way, puts taxpayers on the hook for multi-million dollar lawsuits that will be brought by some of the same special interest groups sitting on this committee writing the law.
This folks, is your government at work.
Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.
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The more Nikki Haley speaks, the more you understand that she really is NO different than the people running the Biden regime. Her latest, (Ukraine and Israel are equivalent), is exactly the argument the Biden regime is making.
NO, Nikki, Ukraine, and Israel are NOT equivalent.
Ukraine is a despotic, oligarchic corruptocracy, not a democracy. Zelensky has outlawed political opposition, taken over the media, imprisoned priests, and he and his cronies have made themselves rich(er) with American aid. Yet here is Miss Nikki telling us that if we don’t support Zelensky and his ilk, we are on the side of evil:
Mark my words. Those who would abandon Ukraine today are at risk of abandoning Israel tomorrow. They’ve lost sight of who our friends are, who our enemies are, who is good and who is evil. That is NOT who you want in the Oval Office! #RJCVegas
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) October 28, 2023
And, by the way, contrary to what Nikki and her UniParty pals have been telling us, Ukraine is losing … BADLY:
JUST IN – Time Magazine reports that Ukraine struggles to rally financial support after its failed counteroffensive and amid allegations of widespread corruption.
• A top Ukrainian presidential advisor warns that "people are stealing like there's no tomorrow" when asked about… pic.twitter.com/imPkikcLxs
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) October 30, 2023
Another $60 billion is about to go to Ukraine despite the fact that (1) the U.S. is broke and has to borrow the money, (2) Ukraine is so corrupt that its own officials admit "people are stealing like there's no tomorrow", and (3) there's no prospect for winning the war.
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) October 31, 2023
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Chris Sununu has been shepherding various Republicans (not named Trump) around New Hampshire. Chris Christie and Ron DeSantis are two examples. And the buzz is that these candidates are vying for an endorsement as if that will help them in the NH primary.
Do they know how much Mr. Sununu likes microphones and cameras in his face, especially from the national press? Ooh, they are paying attention to me! Aren’t I special? And what if I endorse someone?
“If I make an endorsement, I make an endorsement. Don’t put too much stock in my endorsement,” Sununu said while praising Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), whom he is campaigning with on Tuesday. A town hall in Seacoast will feature both DeSantis and Sununu this evening.
“The race is actually wide open. I think there’s three or four candidates that are clearly surging ahead. There’s six or seven, I don’t even know how many we’re counting at this point in the race,” Sununu told the Messenger during a campaign stop in Londonderry alongside the Florida governor.
I can read a poll, so I can’t say exactly who it is Sununu thinks is surging. And the race is not wide open unless by race you mean for second place, the handful of pigeons picking at Trump’s primary crumbs.
To be clear, and I’ve said it many times, I’d like it to be closer. We get more from everyone when we have an actual contest, but the current lay of the Republican Primary land has the former President as far ahead today as he was several months ago. In some cases, further. The more we see of his challengers, the better it has been for his polling.
Related: DeSantis PAC Defending Sununu Is NOT Going To Win Him Republican Primary Support in NH, and Here’s Why?
So, I’m not sure what a Sununu endorsement does except shine more attention on Chris Sununu.
Although primary ballots won’t be cast for months, Sununu’s endorsement could help close the gap in the polls that Republican candidates are striving for as Trump holds a massive lead. The latest poll from USA Today, the Boston Globe, and Suffolk University showed Trump at 49% with New Hampshire voters, with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley at 19%.
Haley is no closer than DeSantis a few months back before he had a campaign collapse, retool, and reemergence. He’s done better since then, and he’s got impressive roots and tips. His supporters show up. They make noise. It’s exciting, and he’s got a decent record and says all the right things.
I haven’t seen Haley on the campaign trail (yet), but she was the best UN ambassador in my lifetime. That works internationally, but what about domestic bliss? I’m not sure she’s there yet.
Chris Christie is less electable than Trump if you play that game, especially in New Hampshire. He is unpopular with Republican primary voters, and there is no getting around that.
As for Sununu, a few months ago, he said his mission was to beat Trump, and part of that task meant he needed to convince some of these candidates to get out. Mike Pence dropped out over the weekend, but he’s only giving up 1-4 points to someone who is not Donald Trump, and they – whoever they are – need something closer to 30 points to make it enjoyable.
I like interesting. It is better for the debate. But if anyone thinks Chris Sununu’s endorsement will stir things up in New Hampshire, they should be prepared to be disappointed unless he endorses Trump. As I noted here,
[I]f they want Trump to lose, Sununu needs to endorse him. Sununu endorsed Chuck Morse, and he lost, then supported the guy who beat Morse – Don Bolduc – who lost.
Sununu endorsed Geroge Hansel in the NH CD-2 primary, and he lost.
Sununu endorsed Matt Mowers, he lost.
Chris Sununu even endorsed people we thought would be good, like Rich Girard and Victoria Sullivan. They both lost. So, you see my point?
Governor Chris won’t be endorsing Trump. New Hampshire’s five families and the GOP DC establishment would divorce him. But I can’t see him not endorsing. He’s gotten too familiar with the idea of being invited on Corporate media talk shows to miss the opportunity to do it again.
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One of the textbook marketing flops of all time was the Ford Edsel sedan, which was heralded as the hot new car in the late 1950s. All the automotive experts and Ford executives said it was a can’t-miss. Henry Ford (the car was named after his son) guaranteed hundreds of thousands of sales.
But one big thing went wrong. Nobody ever bothered to ask car buyers what THEY thought of the new car. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: Energy Companies Are Laughing At Predictions Of ‘Peak Oil’)
Turns out they hated it. So, instead of sales of 400,000, Americans bought 10,000, and the model was embarrassingly discontinued.
The obvious lesson for the industry: you can’t bribe Americans to buy cars they don’t want. Given the all-in approach mentality for EVs at Ford and GM, it’s clear that Detroit never got this message.
Last week, Honda and General Motors announced an end to their two-year collaboration in building a platform for lower-cost EVs. Honda execs said it was “too hard.”
Amazingly, less than 10% of all new car sales are EVs over the last two years. This is despite the fact that the U.S. government is writing a $7,500 check to people for buying an EV, and some states are kicking in $5,000 more.
The Texas Policy Foundation calculates that all-in EV subsidies can reach $40,000 per vehicle. It would practically be cheaper for the government to purchase a new gas vehicle for every American car buyer.
Meanwhile, the news is even worse for wind and solar power. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that “clean energy” investment funds are tanking, with some down as much as 70% in recent months. Solar has been one of the worst-performing industry stocks this year.
This collapse is happening right when Exxon and Chevron have engineered a combined $110 mega — acquisition to expand oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin in Texas — one of the biggest oil fields in the world. They both just reported their largest profits ever.
They and their investors are looking at the real-world data, not green energy propaganda. In 2023, the world has used more fossil fuels than any time in human history, even as the developed countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars trying to stop oil, gas, and coal.
All of this is to say that there in NO “global energy transition” going on. If there is one, it’s away from green energy, not toward it.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and chief economist at Freedom Works.
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu and I agree on several things. Lowering taxes (or eliminating them) is good. Shoring up protections for the right to self-defense is critical. And refusing to fund Berlin’s Burgess Biomass boondoggle was the right thing to do.
Last week, the governor’s veto of another legislated Burgess bailout survived an attempted override. A bailout that was only made possible with Republican votes, so it wasn’t just Democrats doing us dirty. Sununu did us a favor, and the failure to override seemed likely. You only need a handful of ignorant Republicans in this legislature to promote a bad idea, but you need a lot more of them to make it stick the landing after a veto.
The override tried to vault the veto but failed to achieve the necessary height, what I’d call an example of the process working, and it has drawn a bit of ink in the media, local and national. Depending on what you think about it, you’ll agree or disagree with this take or that. But Burgess was never going to make money. It was a money pit (the rates necessary to show a profit the fiscal equivalent of gang rape). The jobs it creates destroy them elsewhere in the economy. Environmentalists don’t even like burning wood for power. Taxpayers and ratepayers would forever be bailing the thing out to pay more for their electricity.
You might as well burn money, which – given the trajectory of the Biden economy, may soon be cheaper, so – taking a hint from Grokster Ian Underwood – we’d suggest that anyone who feels that strongly about saving those jobs bail them out themselves.
Back in June, I explained how this might work. You could pay the employees to do nothing and save New Hampshire ratepayers and taxpayers millions more than trying to keep the facility online.
I don’t know what Burgess Biomass employees make or the five-score timber folks, but can we agree it’s probably less than 100,000 per year?
If we gave the Biomass folks each 60K to do nothing (which is the national income average), it would cost 1.8 million. Add the 200 timber workers, and that’s another 12 million. Paying them not to increase our electric rates would save New Hampshire ratepayers over 135 million dollars on top of the reduced cost of electricity from not having to pay higher rates.
We’d continue to save more, even if we had to extend the severance for several years, than if Sununu signed HB142.
When it costs less to subsidize inactivity, that thing you want has problems. Burgess biopower has problems.
The problem with building a business model on what amounts to a government subsidy is that one’s survival depends on favorable treatment by politicians. That’s never a good place to be.
Burgess wound up with a worse deal than it had initially anticipated. After ratepayers had been forced to pay it $100 million above market rates for electricity, any future payments above the market price had to be refunded. It hit that cap years earlier than expected, thanks to technological advances that lowered the price of natural gas. It then exceeded the cap, necessitating repayments to ratepayers, which it could hardly afford.
We can probably agree that Democrats, by majority, are the more enthusiastic advocates for bailing out Burgess (along with Market Meddling Republican NH Senators Jeb Bradley and Kevin Avard – to name but two). From where I sit, neither has much trouble raising money to exercise political force to take ours. What if they just skipped the middleman and funded Burgess themselves?
It would never happen because people like that never throw “their” money down these holes. They run for elected office to use the force of law to feed these bottomless pits with the fruit of our labors. And while Burgess is in limbo today, Bradley and the Dems still have an itch in their green pants to get this done.
The Burgess Bailout will be back, and we’ll need Sununu to veto it again before he ends his service in the Governor’s Office.
HT | JBartlett
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The American left clucked its collective tongue when Ron DeSantis sent illegal aliens to their Leftist sanctuary cities and states. DeSantis was forcing the Leftists to acknowledge the cost burden their policies impose on border states. DeSantis was correct to do so.
The Left howled about playing politics, using human beings as props, that his action was simply wrong, un-American, and reckless. But did you know there are Latin American Marxist dictators doing exactly what DeSantis has done?
Who do you think is sending the illegal immigrants to DeSantis in the first place? He has to get them from somewhere before he sends them to their Leftist sanctuary cities and states. Why are they not howling about that? Why is it okay for Leftists to send illegals to our southern states?
Nicaragua’s communist leader is gathering people from Haiti and Cuba and flying them to Nicaragua. From Nicaragua, he puts them on the Ortega Express headed to the United States.
Charter airlines have flown tens of thousands of migrants out of Haiti. Ditto Cuba. There have been 172 flights carrying tens of thousands of people to Nicaragua. Recently, local Nicaraguan media reported that 27 charter flights from Haiti landed in Nicaragua in two days.
Ortega is engaged in “migrant warfare.” It’s not my term, it comes from the Associated Press. The man Ronald Reagan dubbed “the little dictator” is dropping migrant bombs on America. And Ortega is making a pretty penny off his migrant express, working in bulk levels, focusing on quantity.
The AP spoke to three Haitian migrants who took the charter flights. They doled out between $3,000 and $5,000 a seat to leave Haiti in hopes of reaching the United States.
Ortega has an opportunity to make a lot of money by increasing the number of flights as migrants fork over airfare for his charter flights while he satiates his desire to destroy the U.S. The point: There are state actors making money from Biden’s fecklessness, our open border.
Mexican and Colombian officials also make money – through bribery, extortion, and exorbitant travel prices.
Ortega et al. get the money personally from their human trafficking. We get flooded with illegal immigrants and their associated costs. And the political Left acts like it’s not happening.
Shouldn’t Biden be sanctioning Ortega et al.? Is this the future you support? Was this what you voted for in 2020? Will you vote to stop it in 2024?
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Logan Clegg was found guilty by a jury last week of multiple charges relating to the murder of Stephen & Djswende Reid. The trial was held in Merrimack County Superior Court, Concord, New Hampshire.
Juries are unpredictable. Would the jurors have come to this conclusion had they not broken for the weekend and potentially been susceptible to outside pressures from a community rocked by the murders of a couple and no known motive?
There are a lot of inconsistencies in the Logan Clegg case that make one wonder whether the Reids’ murder was an orchestrated hit job, whether Logan Clegg was a hired shooter, whether he acted alone or whether he was the wrong man but framed to bring about a fast conclusion to satisfy citizens of Concord. His defense attorney maintains they got the wrong guy. There are certainly indications that she might be right.
Does a community feel safer when someone, anyone, is locked up after a murder or a rape? Does a community actually care whether the right person has been charged and convicted?
In the 1980s, the Central Park Five were convicted of beating and raping a female jogger in New York. Donald Trump infamously put out ads in several newspapers asking for them to be killed and for the reintroduction of the death penalty.
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“At the time of their arrests, they were between the ages of 14 and 16 years old.
While all five had initially confessed to participating in the Central Park attacks (confessions from Wise, McCray, Santana and Richardson were videotaped), the teens and their attorneys insisted they were coerced by investigators into giving false statements during interrogations that lasted hours.
In a 2016 op-ed published by The Washington Post, Salaam claimed the interrogators deprived him and the other teens of food, drink and sleep for over 24 hours.”
“Despite maintaining their innocence, the Central Park Five’s contention that their confessions were coerced didn’t gain credibility until June 2002, when Matias Reyes claimed sole responsibility for raping and beating Meili.
Reyes, a convicted murderer and serial rapist, was serving a minimum 33-year prison sentence when he confessed to the crime. His DNA matched genetic material found at the crime scene and he provided details of the assault that led investigators to take his claim seriously.
Reyes also committed a similar assault on a woman in Central Park two days before Meili was found.
The NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney’s Office then began separate reinvestigations of the Central Park jogger case.
Reyes, meanwhile, could not be tried in the case because the statute of limitations had expired.”
Thirty Four years later, the tables of justice have turned. Now, the Central Park Five are victims/survivors of wrongful convictions, and Donald Trump, who spent tens of thousands on ads seeking for them to be executed, is facing over 90 charges.
Elsewhere, Anthony Broadwater insisted for decades that he was innocent of the rape of “The Lovely Bones” author Alice Sebold. She described the crime in her memoir “Lucky.” Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison, denied parole at least five times because he wouldn’t admit to a crime he didn’t commit. He passed two lie detector tests, all to no avail. The New York State Supreme Court Justice Gordon Cuffy only vacated the rape conviction and other counts related to it after a producer who was going to adapt “Lucky” started to question the narrative:
Part of the reason Broadwater’s attorneys, J. David Hammond and Melissa Swartz, got involved in the case is thanks to Tim Mucciante, who was involved in a project to develop a film adaptation of “Lucky.”
Mucciante “had doubts that the story was the way that it was being portrayed in the film,” said Hammond, which led him to hire a private investigator who is associated with their law firm.
I have questioned the criminal investigation and trial of Owen Labrie (held in the same court as NH v Logan Clegg — Merrimack County Superior Court, Concord). I have provided ample material evidence of police and prosecutor malfeasance to the New Hampshire Attorney General and others which demonstrate that Owen Labrie was framed and that there were attempts by one of his accuser’s/state witness’ attorneys to bribe him in order to extort millions from St Paul’s School.
My research led me to discover the criminal investigation and 1994 trial of Father Gordon MacRae, who is still in Concord Prison 30 years later. He claims he is innocent, too. Wall Street Journalist Dorothy Rabinowitz and former FBI agent James Abbott also concluded that he is not guilty.
New Hampshire courts have ignored the exculpatory evidence just as they’ve ignored looking at the malfeasance (now documented with the US Senate Judiciary Committee) in the Owen Labrie trial. Malfeasance was a factor, I believe, in the decision for former NH AG Michael Delaney to withdraw from consideration for judgeship on the First Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this year. (He was accused of tampering with state witnesses, about which the prosecutor was informed but ignored and allowed them to testify).
Police officer James F McLaughlin was known well before Father Gordon MacRae’s arrest and prosecution for his dishonesty and misconduct, but New Hampshire & the players in its judicial system have protected him. Not only was McLaughlin protected, but he was given a lifetime achievement award in 2016 while his protegé (PD Julie Curtin), who framed Owen Labrie, was recognized for her work in “justice for the victim,” which included creating a dishonest narrative, hiding exculpatory evidence, witness tampering and helping so-called “victims advocates” and local attorneys profiteer and racketeer.
Does anyone really trust New Hampshire’s criminal justice system any more?
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Somebody needs to tell the truth. Democrats Communists see mass shootings as opportunities. Opportunities to disarm law-abiding Americans. Of course, they lack the courage to say so expressly.
Instead, the Democrats Communists tell us we need to “do something,” “take action,” “show courage,” blah, blah, blah … and needless to say, their solutions would NOT have prevented the mass shooting, but would prevent law-abiding Americans from defending themselves.
The recent mass shooting in Maine, like other mass shootings, involved an individual suffering from mental illness and advice to law enforcement:
According to information apparently supplied to Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office by the Maine National Guard, the man spent 14 days at a psychiatric hospital in July before being released.
Nevertheless, here is the leader of the Democrats Communists in the New Hampshire House doing what Democrats Communists always do after a mass shooting … exploiting it to further their agenda of disarming law-abiding Americans. Matty Wilhelm and his ilk are despicable.
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Kamala Harris appeared on 60 Minutes this week—another campaign appearance on what used to be a News show. After the last two weeks of Joe and Kamala appearing on the Sunday night show, CBS should announce the Biden/Harris re-election campaign has bought the News Magazine.
The softball questions in both interviews were pathetic and showed how far the media has fallen. Granted, most of the 60 Minutes staff are former journalists if they ever were. They have lost any integrity and are now just tools of the Left, or in this case, the White House. 60 Minutes should be forced to offer equal time for Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr.
The Southern Border questions emerged, and the Vice President went simultaneously into defensive and offensive mode. She did not address the 7 million unvetted illegals but immediately went after Congress and the broken immigration system. First, what is happening in remote areas of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California has nothing to do with our immigration process. The people crossing illegally into our country, with or without Cartel assistance, have no interest in legal immigration. The legal process takes too long for these folks, and crossing the Rio Grande is a more expeditious method.
Next, Vice President Kamala Harris was given the project of solving the Southern Border situation nearly three years ago. She has not brought one solution to the table. Harris has yet to visit the Border. She made cursory visits to Texas and California but has yet to present a remedy or solution to Congress. As a function of her job and as President of the Senate, she can convene the upper House of Congress to debate and formulate a plan to correct immigration. It is far easier to criticize the efforts of Congress, and as long as they are doing nothing on the problem, she has an automatic answer to anyone who broaches the subject. Deflecting is more effective for the Vice President than solutions. That is why she has an approval rating in the 30s.
She was asked a fascinating question on the 2024 race. Ben Whitaker asked the VP why Biden is running against a former President with over 90 indictments and is virtually tied. You and President Biden should be up by 30 points. This underhand softball question was from a news journalist or someone posing as one. Kamala responded that as we get closer to the election, people will start to pay attention to the details and that she and Joe will have a significant victory.
This interview was designed to bolster the status of the Vice President, who many claim is dragging Biden down and should be replaced on the ticket. The criticism that Harris is receiving today shows the interview backfired miserably. Whether on the Border, Israel, Ukraine, gun violence, or the 2024 election, Kamala Harris responded with indirect monologs that showed her weakness on every issue. Joe Biden may have passed her prime. Kamala Harris showed America on Sunday night that she has no prime. Harris is the poster child of the mediocrity of the Biden Administration.
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Having worked in every sort of restaurant, I am very forgiving. I get it. Full service, fast food, delivery, I’ve done it all. I also tend to tip above average even though I live a modest lifestyle because I get it. Even subpar service is worth something. But on Saturday, our server plumbed new lows.
After the worst service I have ever received anywhere, I tipped 0.30 cents. It wasn’t good. Not even worth that 0.30 cents, bad. We couldn’t beg our server to pay attention to us. Our food went to someone else, so dinner took forever to arrive. Our server never told us or apologized. She was AWOL. We only knew because my wife overheard a different server at a table next to us mention they’d been given the wrong order, which they’d started to eat.
It was ours. Okay, crap happens. I have been there and done that. But no sign of our waitress. I could see her across the room, waiting attentively on others, but I could not get her attention.
When she first brought our drinks, we asked for water. Our late food arrived before we saw a glass of water, and we had to remind her when she finally swept by on her way – I can only assume – to help someone else. You guessed it – she did not bring out our late food. And it was easily 30 minutes to get the water. She never apologized for late food, late water, or ignoring us and was effectively MIA the entire time we were in the restaurant.
We eventually got her attention to ask for take-out containers, and she forgot. I flagged her down, and by the time we got them, it had been 15 more minutes since we’d asked. She did apologize for that, but it was too little too late especially when every other server was buzzing about checking nearby tables often while she was missing most of the time.
Maybe it was me, but that’s not how this works. Even my wife was displeased.
My food was delicious, and the drinks were fine, but everything about how we were served was worse than lousy.
We paid cash and rounded up to the nearest dollar, took our leftovers, and went home. I feel bad about that, but there was no other way to send a message. You do not get rewarded for something like that.
Her loss of income was deserved, in my opinion, but servers typically deserve a decent tip, certainly in this economy. So when I see things catching on that will likely detract from that, it gets my attention. This story was from the UK, but it is apparently a thing in California (and very likely other liberal ghettoes), and I can see it catching on with the climateers as a way to assuage their guilt at the expense of others.
That is, after all, the game.
Customers have reported charity donations for a scheme called Carbon Friendly Dining being added to restaurant cheques, on top of service fees.
The scheme, an initiative backed by retail consultancy Lightspeed, aims to tackle global warming by charging each cover £1.23 to pay for fruit trees to be planted in developing countries.
You can ask to have the fee removed, which most may not bother to do, and maybe they should. Carbon Offset schemes are money laundering confidence scams. Much like how the emissions and pollution created by green energy are greater but offshored to the third world countries where carbon-friendly dining says it will plant some trees.
So, trees are good for the planet again? Is there a consensus, or is this just some more green wool you can pull over people’s eyes?
And how much is left for trees after you pay the people who run it and other operating costs? Assuming it plants anything. As noted, carbon capture forestation is often reimagined as cutting down fewer trees than initially planned – if even that.
The forest carbon offsets approved by the world’s leading certifier and used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations are largely worthless and could make global heating worse, according to a new investigation.
Whether you think the add-on is helpful for the planet or not, it increases the cost to the consumer. Many will not care (and should), but somewhere, that fee will – I suspect – eat into the server’s gratuity.
Most waitstaff bust their ass in a job that is typically entry-level, low wage, with high turnover. Now and then, you get a professional who has done it for years and likes the job. They are amazing and rewarded for providing exceptional service. And, of course, everyone has an off day. But adding charges is never a great idea, and in the end, I suspect this will affect tips, not because of the service but because of the unnecessary added cost.
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The real “leaders” of the NHGOP … the lobbyists, the consultants, the GRIFTERS … don’t want to win. They want to make money. It’s clear that the issues that are important to GOP voters matter little to them as they pontificate and advise us while raking in the cash from their ivory tower dachas.
Open borders to them means desperately needed new, compliant workers for the globalist corporations they serve. Criminalization of political dissent is what GOP voters deserve for having the temerity of not bending the knee but instead continuing to support Trump.
So it’s no surprise that they are proud of Mike Pence for LOSING … because Pence, like these NHGOP “leaders,” didn’t give a damn about actual GOP voters. He was running to keep their grift going:
Not a Mike Pence guy, but he has acted through his campaign with honesty, grace and decency. And he told the truth. Thanks to him for playing the game the right way.
— Tom Rath (@polguru) October 28, 2023
I was fortunate to have a few private opportunities to speak with @Mike_Pence these past few months. Appreciated his thoughtful approach and gracious demeanor. Particularly grateful for his leadership in support of Ukraine and Israel. A good man. https://t.co/8LSeKQBuHp
— Jim Merrill (@JimMerrillNH) October 28, 2023
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New Hampshire’s First in the Nation Primary is a shallow pool with deep meaning, and a lot of folks like to dip their toe in that water. The ballot is often long on names no one knows. This year will be no different, but then it will.
The Democrats don’t have a primary, but then they do.
Democrat candidates are still registered to be on the primary ballot. Joe Biden is not one of them. He changed the schedule. They kicked New Hampshire to the curb. He is “The first sitting White House occupant in history not to appear on the primary ballot of his party in New Hampshire.”
It has got people yapping about how bad the idea is. He’s left himself open to the very embarrassment he was hoping to avoid, hidden behind the lie that New Hampshire is not diverse enough. He’s doing South Carolina first becasue NH doesn’t represent the Democrat party, and he’s blaming the DNC.
The president’s reelection campaign informed New Hampshire Democrats Tuesday in a letter obtained by CBS News from Biden campaign officials that while he’d like to appear on the ballot, Mr. Biden “is obligated as a Democratic candidate for President to comply with the Delegate Selection Rules for the 2024 Democratic National Convention” set in motion earlier this year.
Biden told the DNC – as its deranged muppet leader – to change the schedule. They did. And now “the buck stops here,” Biden is passing it like he always does. It has unnerved the local Marsixts. They are organizing a write-in campaign.
Related: 3,542 Democrats Switched to Independent So They Could “Interfere” in the NH Republican Primary
Why? Biden could still lose New Hampshire, and that’s not good for incumbents. And there are other names to choose from. Names no one knows. But they will be on the ballot.
Mixing the enthusiasm of a pre-adolescent gazing up at a T-Rex likeness and the happy warrior joy of his political hero Hubert Humphrey, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) let out back-to-back “wows,” signed his declaration of candidacy and paid the $1,000 to appear on New Hampshire’s presidential ballot. …
“I learned to love my country right here in New Hampshire,” Phillips said, recounting to the photographers, reporters and state officials cramped into the Secretary of State’s capitol office his summers spent at a camp in the White Mountains. (The camp is technically in Maine though along the New Hampshire border, as the Union Leader reported.) He also revealed his inscription on the paperwork: “I love New Hampshire.”
Phillips has vowed, if elected, to return the first Democrat primary to New Hampshire. That will attract a few jilted lovers to his altar. But not likely enough. The Biden write-in campaign, headed by long-time Dem party leader Kathy Sullivan – she who housed out-of-state vote stealer Jeff Wetrosky – will rally a lot of scribbles for Biden. She’s got this idea that he needs to win. Her State party can’t let it slide even when the National Party has moved forward and away from the Granite State.
And isn’t that what Democrats do? Every existing tradition and institution must be smashed. You need ashes before your utopian phoenix can rise. Joe Biden has done them a favor. He has lifted the rock of a 123-year tradition and pitched into the river. No longer burdened, Granite State Dems are free to salute the new primary order.
They’ve got a case of Primary Fundamentalism, and it is not very progressive of them.
You’re not conservatives. Let it go.
HT | Politico
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And so another week begins…
Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition. Last week’s Friday Edition.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
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Speaking from strength.
Green is the new red.
Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future
You cannot coexist with those who deny your right to exist.
Case in point.
Not just Gaza. The entire enemedia is one deception after another. After all, when you control the information flow, you control what people believe. We found that out – in spades – in the Covid scamdemic.
The truth about Saint Floyd of Fentanyl is out… not that it will make any difference to the Faithful.
Why, it’s almost as though they knew something was coming.
In case you are curious. Here.
Operation Sea Spray, and many others.
IIRC PA showed Trump ahead over a half million votes. Overwhelming lead. Overcome. Impossible.
But… but… but that can’t happen here.
Gag me, no. What concerns me especially is that there will be a push to have this be the standard… and not tell anyone.
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Pick of the post:
Many good ones but this one struck me. We have – or are about to have – FOUR carrier groups in the Middle East theater.
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The world of education is vast and intricate. While many educators enter the field with the primary objective of imparting knowledge to the next generation, the sector itself offers a range of opportunities for career growth. One of the most impactful ways an educator can propel their career forward is by obtaining a Master’s in Education. In doing so, the world of educational leadership, with its myriad of opportunities, beckons.
Deepening ExpertiseA significant benefit of pursuing an online Master’s in Education is the deepening of your academic expertise. As students of this advanced degree, educators delve into the intricacies of pedagogical theories, explore novel teaching methodologies, and develop a more profound understanding of curriculum design. With this specialized knowledge, educators don’t just teach; they also influence how education is delivered in contemporary classrooms.
Becoming an Educational LeaderMany educators have the desire to shape not just individual classes but entire institutions. With a Master’s in Education, you are well-prepared to step into roles like educational coordinator or principal. These positions are pivotal in setting the tone and direction of schools, ensuring that every student gets an opportunity to thrive. With a firm grasp of both the theoretical and practical aspects of education, graduates can lead with confidence and vision.
Curriculum Design and DevelopmentThe education sector is not static; it evolves with societal changes, technological advancements, and the ever-shifting needs of learners. A master’s degree often provides educators with the tools to participate actively in curriculum design. They get to shape what and how students learn, ensuring relevance and engagement. By having a hand in creating the roadmap of education, they can ensure a more tailored and effective learning experience for all students.
Policymaking and AdvocacyBeyond the confines of the school or college, there’s a larger stage where the direction of entire educational systems is determined – the realm of policymaking. Graduates with a master’s in education frequently find themselves in roles where they advise on or craft educational policies. Their insights, based on rigorous training and first-hand experience, are invaluable in framing rules and guidelines that can shape the future of education.
Training the Next Wave of EducatorsEvery year, a fresh batch of aspiring educators enters the field, eager to make a difference. Those with a master’s in education often find roles as teacher trainers or college professors. In these capacities, they get to mold the next generation of educators, passing on their expertise and ensuring that the legacy of quality education continues.
Exploring Educational TechnologyThe digital age has brought a wave of technological tools tailored for the educational sector. From advanced learning management systems to AI-driven educational apps, there’s a lot happening. A master’s degree equips educators to understand, evaluate, and integrate these tools effectively, ensuring that students benefit from the best of both traditional and modern educational practices.
The decision to pursue a master’s in education isn’t just about adding a qualification to your resume. It’s about embracing the multitude of opportunities the field offers. For those with a passion for education and an aspiration to lead, this advanced degree can be the key that unlocks several doors.
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