If we think transitioning to renewable heating and transportation is inconvenient or possibly a little more expensive, just look around at what we will be facing if we don’t. Can we afford not to?
There is no worldly Utopia on offer by the WHO, only more degradation of individual liberties and national sovereignties. And if the WHO wants to be jabbed with my sharpened stick, then “Molon Labe”.
U.S. solar power advocates accept blackouts and wildlife habitat destruction, even as China builds a new coal-burning plant every week.
At what point do people stop listening to “experts” who have never been right about anything, but are costing us trillions of dollars implementing policies based on their long history of incorrect conclusions?
Once a politician is found to have sold his integrity for a price, he cannot be further trusted to retain higher office.
Where Cancelled is good and Banned is bad!
No Labels is an organization which is working to get on the ballot in every state so that they can run an alternative, non-extremist slate.
The deeper issue is that global corporations and industry have been poisoning people and the earth for centuries.
It’s no secret that disaster responses have a knack for favoring the economically privileged, resulting in a hierarchy of suffering.
In the first year of the expanded hotel program, the number of Vermonters counted as homeless more than doubled, to 2,590 in 2021 from 1,110 in 2020. In 2022 the total jumped again, to 3,295.
Sometimes I think I’m the only person around who is worried about this coming catastrophe.
For Trump-supporters, “the enemy of my enemy is Kennedy”…unless he wins the Dem primary or runs as an independent, in which case all bets are off.
“For many deeply religious people, the guilt of having brought that child into this world will last a lifetime.”
A Protestant denomination that claims to follow Christ passed a pro-abortion resolution this week that describes aborting unborn babies as “health care” and pro-life laws as “sexual violence.”
In Vermont we have seen government business delegated permanently to independent companies and sizeable nonprofit organizations in just a few decades.
Scientific environmental debates are important. Breathless news stories about “global average temperatures” and “hottest month on record” are not.
Door to Freedom has been launched “to help people make sense of a rapidly changing world, and inform them of efforts by the W.H.O. to govern public health worldwide.”
We could have been spending our taxpayer dollars on things like shoring up roads and bridges, strengthening culverts, upgrading sewage treatment facilities, investing in first responders, et alia.
Those flooded out of their homes face a particularly hard time because Vermont is already critically short of inexpensive housing. Some may join the ranks of the long-term unhoused even though they were, literally, staying above water before.
This is neither about democracy or national security: it is about quick corporate profit.
We expect that the excessive flooding and silt will destroy a large share of our produce and livestock feed. In our hilly State, some of our most fertile farmland lies in river valleys. Countless fields of corn, hay, vegetables, fruit, and pasture were swamped and buried.
Campaign for Vermont spells out the details and pros and cons of the controversial bill to raise legislative pay and benefits.
I thought under-sixteens were old enough to choose live-changing pharmacological gender transition or mutilating surgery.
“Operation Sober Popeye” was the covert military weather modification program to “make mud, not war” during the Vietnam Conflict.
Supporting small farms and supporting cows – that is a winning environmental triumph which conservatives must make their own.
The water level at southwestern Vermont dams was high, but not record high, when seen by one eyewitness.
If a book wouldn’t make it past a parental control content blocker, it probably doesn’t belong in a school. That’s not banning, it’s making a decision about what’s appropriate for children.
The two traditional parties don’t like each other but they don’t want any opposition to their duopoly either.
We are “One Race, the Human Race” and we all behave the same ways, for good and bad.
Britain always seems to be one step ahead of the United States – for good or for worse. And in this case, it isn’t good.
PETA is implicitly calling for millions of livestock to be euthanized (and/or never created by terminating breeding) in the name of saving them. This also applies to domestic animals.
Parents who notice and complain, says columnist.
Money can buy a lot these days, even a detailed, step by step, blueprint for the formation of a “Network” designed specifically to break down regulatory barriers and create policy to achieve the goals you desire.
The leader of the Vermont AFL-CIO. publicly blasts Biden, extremist Democrats.
Believe me, as I am a witness. The State of Vermont is BROKE.
The European Union is looking into technologies involving large-scale interventions into natural phenomena like sun rays or the atmosphere, as part of its new strategy for tackling climate change.
It’s an iron law of economics that, given enough time, there is no limit to demand for free stuff. When programs are extended beyond the emergency which gave rise to them, people do become dependent.
The legislature’s enactment of the “Community Resilience and Biodiversity Protection Act” is another troubling example of how massive, radical changes in Vermont are being engineered these days.
Law prohibits discrimination against persons, not ideas.
“I felt as if I was so beneath [Balint] in class and experience that she did not bother to relate to me as a human being,” a Poor People’s Campaign pilgrim to Washington, D.C. said.
The Republican Party’s traditional beliefs: smaller government, less taxation, unregulated capitalism, less gun safety controls, free trade, no unions, and fiscal conservatism, are being overshadowed.
“In my view, if right-wing Supreme Court justices want to make public policy they should quit the Supreme Court and run for political office.”
Scott noted in his weekly press conference hours before he issued his official veto that the current redemption process is a “Rube Goldberg” contraption that actually puts barriers in the way of recycling
Maybe VPIRG’s time would be better spent hiring lawyers to make Big Oil pay instead of changing law in Vermont to achieve their goals at the expense of Vermonters.
Congressman Hunt proposes that in July, we remember all the things that make America unique and exceptional on the national/international stage.
At Polyface Farm in Virginia. I spoke about the pervasive theme in scripture, and in biology, of humanity’s connection with the earth and farming.
The careerist bureaucracy actually performs the major executive functions of the national government — leaving the bureaucracy pretty much unaccountable to anyone.
The hard freeze means significant losses for growers and those who make their living off fruits and vegetables. The extent of the damage may not be known for months but indications are discouraging.
The most encouraging part of the evening was seeing three individuals from the concurring Pride Joy protest among the 105 in attendance, taking in Walt’s presentation.
Democrats have once again passed a law that encourages everyone to go out and buy a gun immediately – before you can’t.
Robert’s father with a “particular intensity” directed Robert to read The Plague by Albert Camus. Robert says he read it three times to decipher the message.
A win/win for the politicians on both sides of the lake, but for the Taxpayers, of course, it’s lose, lose, and lose some more.
With the enactment of the Democratic budget over Gov. Scott’s veto, Vermont may soon be another disappointing example of runaway, unsustainable spending.
Once a pregnancy has begun, there are two people with rights to bodily integrity. That is the issue that no one is willing to recognize and struggle with.
Sen. Ruth Hardy (D-Addison): “Women make, what is it, 82 cents on the dollar or so, compared to men.” She regrets the Senate failure to override the legislative pay hike veto not for herself, of course, but “on behalf of our future sisters in the Legislature.”
In a move that has allowed Vermont and UVM to join the vanguard of money-attracting experimental gender hormones on prepubescent children, a 2015 “initiative” pushed that envelope deep into the Green Mountain State.
If you want to do something new, AI is not nearly as helpful. It can’t remember what it never knew.
None of the veto votes was even close.
Even though Bitcoin has a lot of potential and advantages, it is important to use care and do your study before using it.
A recent EAI event featured famed columnist George F. Will, and was largely attended by conservatives. A different cross-section of Vermonters gathered for RFK’s visit, hinting at the possibility of a growing alliance of populist support for an authentic maverick.
In stark contrast to today’s “media”, the following is a true, accurate, honest account of what happened in Lyndon, VT on Sat. June 10, 2023.
Naomi Wolf stands out as a walkaway: a dyed-in-the-wool liberal feminist who woke up to the lies of her government.
When the scope of the legislative session is so broad its length could extend indefinitely, and in other Deep Blue states, they have become full-time year-round positions with salary and benefits.
The suit is designed to protect Vermont’s natural resources and schools that have been affected by contamination from the chemicals.
Push is on to end all school choice rather than let some parents choose Catholic schools for their kids.
It’s all there in a recent U.N. policy statement.
It can be easily demonstrated that climate change, however serious, is not an incoming giant meteor.
The secret is out about Vermont. It is no longer just a pristine state with rolling hills, quaint villages, farms, and thousands of miles of unpaved roads. Its underbelly is now clear to all.
The supermajority Democratic legislature confronts a popular Republican governor. Consider this combination of facts…
The state will automatically deduct 5 percent of said employees’ paychecks (increasing to 8 percent over time), putting the money into that account – without the employees’ consent!
Is the ESG movement intentionally obscure? No doubt. Should those of us interested in individual rights and freedom learn more about it? Absolutely.
The more outrageous and destructive an idea might be, the more it is embraced.
I don’t need my preschool grandchildren, great grandchildren, or grand nieces and nephews receiving any sort of curriculum across the gender and sexuality spectrum.
A former Lamoille County resident regrets her liberal, “gender-affirming” past.
Technocracy is rule by an elite of ‘technical experts.’ It’s happening right now, in Vermont.
Unfortunately, odds are it won’t be.
PETA and other animal rights organizations purport to talk for cows, but their voices ring hollow: the plan is not to release cows but to slaughter them.
The Vermont Democratic party of twenty years ago might have considered a Kevin McCarthy-like compromise. But many worry that Vermont Democrats of today left that orbit a long time ago.
What about doing it the other way around? We need housing more than we need solar panels.
Ireland has announced plans to cull hundreds of thousands of cows to comply with European Union climate policy. Indeed, cows are the heroes, not the villains, in rescuing the climate.
The majority of selectboard members chose not to hear discussion, nor raise the issue publicly other than to make it the meeting’s last agenda item.
As readers and voters, we bear the responsibility of holding Goldman, as well as every Democratic representative who failed to adequately plan for this crisis, accountable.
Part of the problem regarding embezzlement, especially here in Vermont, is the trust we place in those accountable for the funds of the state’s 6,000-plus nonprofit entities.
We elect representatives to, as the title suggests, to “represent” us. Not to disregard us.
The Governor and his administration have been asked repeatedly to present a plan to transition people from the motel program into other housing. There has been no plan presented by the Executive Branch.
Peterson “voted NO because the FY2024 budget burdens Vermont taxpayers with far too many raised taxes and fees.”
Expanded federal powers over food under the Commerce Clause have too often favored large corporate interests over local and individual liberties. That is surely not what the founding fathers intended.
In this article, I will distill global and national efforts that set up what we are seeing in Vermont and how these efforts lean towards grooming of our precious children at a very young age.
The Democrats may have the votes to override Phil Scott’s vetoes, but at least the governor is going to extract maximum embarrassment when they do.
We need to remember that which is too often forgotten—that just throwing money at a problem has never solved the problem it was intended to solve and has often created new and unforeseen problems.
This reporter/fan has been watching the Celtics since Bill Russell became the first African-American to coach in the NBA in 1966.
A considered response to “Rohit Sharma: Trapping is not a management tool. Let nature take its course.” published in VT Digger.
Jordan Peterson is a man who doesn’t just wear the uniform but fulfills the duty.
What these Vermont legislators cannot grasp is that relying on electric heat is just not feasible in a Vermont winter.
John Kerry announces controlling farms is needed to prevent climate change…
Burlington has more solar power than any city east of the Mississippi, Mayor Miro Weinberger listed as one of his tenure’s accomplishments.
Despite their numerous denominational, doctrinal and stylistic differences, one thing churches in the Upper Valley seem to agree on is avoiding politics in the pulpit. Why is that?
The one clear fact is that Vermont cannot forever spend millions of dollars a month supporting a homeless population, that doesn’t care to do anything in return.
The very nature of womanhood is under attack yet again, and by proxy so is manhood.
Forget the hype on either side. AI is a tool that can and will be used both for good and evil. Evslin thinks the potential outweighs the risk.
