The vehicle on the left is the hybrid electric/combustion Chevy Volt.  Due to disasterous sales the price has been dropped 12.5% from a staggering  $39,995 to $34,995.  YTD Chevy has sold 11,643 Volts to customers who are supposedly clammering for alternative power vehicles – at least that is what you hear when Obama talks.  At 100K miles the battery in…

So I took the occasional stroll over to BlueMassGroup to see what kinds of liberties they want to outlaw now and I find an article from ProgressiveMass about the new rules that will overhaul the welfare system of Massachusetts.  The article is titled ‘New Assualt on the Poor’.  One of the rules that ProgressiveMass finds most disturbing is that the…

As I scanned the Boston Herald online this morning I came across an article by Dave Wedge titled ‘State May KO UFC Fights’.  I thought for sure that nanny state Massachusetts may stop the UFC fights due to the violent nature of the sport.   Although it has greatly improved over the years it remains a sport of incredible violence.…

With the vote by so many Dems today against an amendment requiring that one proove that they are a Mass resident to receive MA benefits I am thinking about applying for parking stickers in a wide array of cities and towns.  Will save on parking costs and who cares if I don’t live there! Who’s in for applying without residency…

( – promoted by Paul R. Ferro) Geoff Diehl’s recent post http://redmassgroup.com/sh… mentions the annual CEO Magazine survey of then views of corporate CEO’s on the business climates of each of the 50 states.  No surprise that Massachusetts ranks near the bottom (47th).  But this year, CEO Magazine has posted comments from the CEOs. What is really telling is that…

In a private meeting of Massachusetts lawmakers, a number of new gun control ideas have been floated. Apparently, one hot new idea is to require gun owners to purchase liability insurance.  As my local NPR affiliate explained it, the idea is that people more likely to commit crime will have to pay higher premiums, and so they’ll find it prohibitively…

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I am reading Walter Isaacson’s doorstop biography of Steve Jobs. As he is being kicked out of Apple in the mid-80s, Jobs decides to form another computer company (NeXT) and takes five top performers from the Macintosh team with him. This could not happen in Massachusetts because of the enforcability of non-compete clauses here. It is a major block on…

( – promoted by Rob “EaBo Clipper” Eno) Jeff Semon is from Lexington, MA and a Candidate for U.S. Congress in MA-5. Please visit www.jeffin2012.com for more information.…

If either the US Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) or the US House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) become law, political blogs such as Red Mass Group (RMG) & Blue Mass Group (BMG) will cease to exist. The congressional anti-piracy bill, if passed, would not be content to “censor” & “criminalize” the internet. It would kill it. So says…