Bend the knee, kiss the ring, bow to the statue or you won’t get the goodies.

If only…..

A young GOP candidate asks bitter critics of the Democratic win in November: did you volunteer for a Republican? Did you vote?

Shamelessly renamed ‘the Affordable Heating Act,” S5 will create a carbon tax and state bureaucracy to subsidize heat pumps and weatherization.

The wealthy will be able to enjoy our country farmlands and forests while the working class will be a new “servant class.”

This year legislators changed the name of the vetoed “Clean Heat Standard” to the “Affordable Heat Act” in an attempt to make it more palatable to Vermonters, wink, wink.

There is scarcely ever a weather year that is average anywhere.

People can’t afford an apartment or house because they have to spend too much on health care, child care, property taxes, food, clothing, heat, electricity, internet, phone service, car registration, car insurance, garbage and recycling fees, gas for their cars, diesel, and sales and use taxes.

The demand and priorities of Burlington hold strong, dangerous and inappropriate influence over the whole of Vermont.

There is a way forward with the debt ceiling – but not the path supported by the Wall Street Journal.

In New York City, ‘non-compliant’ building owners must buy carbon emissions offsets. Coming to Vermont?

Article 22 guarantees the tissue mine will remain open.

On climate action, there is a line between brave and impudent.

Many will consider me a fool for even questioning the longevity benefit of our Washington Senators.

Actually, foot-not-leg hold traps aren’t particularly painful. But try to tell an anti-trapper that.

In response to a public records request, the Vermont Agency of Education admitted it has no written evidence for mask safety.

The shortform name for this year’s version of last year’s Clean Heat Standard bill is now the brazenly misleading “Affordable Heat Act.”

This is beyond a racket.

Did Tony Fauci foresee almost every detail of the pandemic and pandemic response? Or did he actually help make it happen? Just asking….

One of Vermont’s pre-eminent tech gurus thinks 2023 could be the start of something very, very good for the world.

The logic is simple: criminals want easy victims, they do not want armed adversaries.

The homeless don’t have a home because we, as a society, have not built enough affordable housing, blogger Kevin Ellis warns his fellow Democrats.

The people of the United States elected 432 people to represent them in Congress, yet even before they start their first day at work they are completely controlled, unable to vote their conscience.

Lawsuits are challenging laws that kick parents out of the village regarding their child’s reproductive experiences and choices.

With a veto-proof and disciplined 104-38 majority in the House, the Democrats are eager to pass a renamed “Clean Heat Standard” whether Gov. Phil Scott likes it or not.

We have come a long way from the socks (or was it gloves?) that President Obama sent after Russia’s invasion of Crimea.

“Legislators can fight crime and respond to hate without violating the First Amendment or drafting me into the speech police,” a critic of New York’s new ‘hate speech’ law seeking $1000/day fines says.

What this means for Vermont is that now other high achieving schools, such as Rice Memorial High School (tuition: $12,214) in Burlington and Christ the King (tuition $5,590) in Rutland are available choices for tuitioning students. That’s a good thing.

It appears that I was mistaken in my attack of David Zuckerman, for which I owed him a meeting, and an apology.

Those Drive Electric ads you see with the huckster trying to sell internal combustion to skeptical Vermonters? The real life hucksters were in St. Johnsbury, trying to sell the Clean Heat Standard.

The boy asked, “Is there any hope that my mother and father could be together at my house on Christmas morning? Can you make this happen, Santa?”

The media is not doing their job. They helped create this mess, a former candidate for lieutenant governor says.

Increasingly, American mainstream media clamor against “Christian Nationalism.”

Bernie Sanders says corporate-owned media aren’t doing enough to cover poverty or the climate crisis.

Huge populations supposedly threatened by rising seas are actually facing flooding due to sinking land.

Lincoln’s ‘better angels of our nature’ were absent when the Vermont State Constitution was amended in 1870, 1913, and 2022.

A study by a ‘father’ of lockdown policy suggests the pandemic potential of a flu virus should be largely based upon the very high number of people who have either no symptoms or negligible symptoms. Huh?

The Big Brains running Big Tech are making Big Mistakes.

Advocates of climate change legislation believe the price of fossil fuel is too low to give Vermonters an economic incentive to switch.

Vermont House Democrats are like the dog that finally caught the car.

The problem for the eight-year-old boy is that his brain does not warp like the warped dimensions of gender pronouns.

There are important reasons why almost half the voters supported Trump in 2016 and 2020 and why so many remain loyal to him today.

The Republican membership of the House sank from 43 to 38, with no bright new faces among them.

Faux solutions will not offer real Vermont emissions reduction, nor will it make water and air cleaner or reduce ubiquitous microplastics.

If the VTGOP is to survive and thrive, we’d best be moving on.

VTDigger’s coverage of the 2022 race for Congress was not a Watergate moment.

Multi-member districts make for appallingly issue-free elections.

Democrats are already discussing huge unfunded mandates, “environmental” legislation which will drive up energy costs and hurt the environment, and schemes which will make housing more expensive and less available.

Joe Stalin said what matters isn’t who votes, but who counts the votes.

African children are forced to dig up cobalt, essential for EV batteries, with their bare hands. 

The Vermont Republican Party has now put many other important rights – parental rights (including school choice), gun ownership rights, religious freedom, freedom of speech, medical choice – in grave peril.

Passage of the Article 22 amendment now permanently shields Planned Parenthood’s abortion business from any oversight or state limitations at any time throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

In these closing days of the 2022 mid-term elections, the Red Wave must hit as a tsunami throughout the Green Mountain State.