Bernie’s porn essay was laughed off by talk show host Seth Meyers and the #MeToo crowd.

Bernie Sanders is engaged in a do-or-die effort to enact four new lifetime entitlements—universal prekindergarten, universal child care payments, universal paid family and medical leave, and two years of community college.

The passengers on the good ship TCI are jumping for the lifeboats.

Like every other Vermont town, Charlotte is flush with federal cash. As of Labor Day, it will be sitting on a cool $1,131,574.22. The editor of the local paper outlines how this federal money can be spent. Spoiler alert: the yacht cruise with Beyonce is out.

In Vermont’s public schools, educators holding the reins of Progress are facing Vermont parents ready to fight for their traditions.

As if we didn’t have enough crises – now Americans need to wonder where violent Islamists will strike us next. Keeping Americans safe from them trumps the endless initiatives on climate change and racism.

Ronald Reagan observed, “Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” Here in Vermont, the diaper is about to explode.

Can Vermont be a template for healing America? Only if more Republicans lay down or act like Democrats, but that’s not bipartisan; it’s surrender.

Tom Evslin: “Vaccinated people are saving the lives of the unvaccinated by reducing the overall spread rate. If everyone were vaccinated, cases would quickly become rare and far between and then almost non-existent in the vaccinated population – fingers crossed on mutations and booster shots.”

Organic, practical, communal and united, Saturday’s Patriot Rally is what America still represents to many.

The growing nightmare of homelessness and rent serfdom began with the Kafkaesque nightmare familiar to Vermont developers – the state’s building permit “approval” process.

More debt, more debt, more debt. That’s all Pat Leahy has learned after 47 years in office.

House Speaker Jill Krowinski wonders when Gov. Phil Scott will require everyone – vaccinated or not – to wear masks indoors.

Unlike Madeline Kunin, many Democratic and Progressive feminists are silent about the Taliban’s harsh treatment of women, says an Addison County doctor who has worked and traveled extensively in the Muslim world.

“Our system has failed us. It has failed us big time. I am turning to you, the people, to get my story out so that in some small way it may help Vermonters keep our freedom. So that my story was not in vain.” – Newport store owner Michael Desautels