The current religion of Western liberals in politics and media is censorship: their prime weapon of activism.
The current religion of Western liberals in politics and media is censorship: their prime weapon of activism.
Virtue signaling on the left and the right is just plain lazy.
Call me old fashioned, but perhaps an industry with this much human suffering isn’t in our best interest.
Article 22 would put into the Constitution the right of the State to have the final say on who can and can’t be born.
Money from Washington is like blood to the body.
Freedom for some must not decree death for others.
John McClaughry parses the difference between a democracy and a republic.
In many cases these would-be armed patriots have never attended even one town or county party meeting.
Wokeness in the military is a disincentive for many young Americans in terms of enlistment and siphons off resources needed to defend the country, a former 4-star general says.
“As a young person, I am really anxious about the future. With the looming climate crisis, racial injustice, and poverty all on the line, I feel a sense of urgency to make change for the better.”
“Growing up I was taught to treat the police, the FBI, pharmaceutical companies, banks, and big institutions of almost any kind, with skepticism. It was the same for many liberals. But today – because of Trump and his MAGA followers – we rise to their defense?,” wonders a liberal Vermont blogger.
Unless there’s regulatory reform, almost no offshore wind is going to get built anytime in the near future.
The difference is that Democrats are happy to treat symptoms, while Republicans want to treat the cause.
Becca Balint explicitly claimed never to seek PAC/lobbyist money, but she did meet with the crypto-funded PAC “Protecting Our Future” and others.
People feel like their work lacks meaning, and lacks purpose, says a twenty-something candidate for the Vermont Senate.
The City Mice don’t understand what the Country Mice have known all along: sometimes it takes a community to stop a nuisance dog.
To “use this race to tell Vermonters our election will cure climate change or provide health care for all, etc.” would be disrespectful to the voters, Joe Benning advises Lt. Gov. adversary David Zuckerman.
If the SOS program were enacted, a parent-controlled savings account would be established for each participating child.
If college students can grasp the idea that energy choices should be evaluated using multiple criteria, why can’t legislators do the same?
The Climate Council, charged by the Legislature to find funding sources for reducing carbon emissions, is now discussing out loud and on the record an “economy-wide” carbon tax. Media interest? Anyone?
The State of Vermont failed to adequately publicize a public hearing on a controversial landfill runoff plan, and then didn’t answer many important questions, a critic of the plan says.
It’s a false notion that Article 22, the ‘reproductive liberty’ constitutional amendment facing voters in November, resembles Roe V. Wade – and Anne Donahue proves it.
Becca, is my right to personal reproductive liberty supported in my rejection of the Covid injections?
Vermont’s Rip Van Winkle fell asleep after 9/11 and just woke up, to discover the waking nightmare gun violence, drug overdoses, a housing crisis, a pandemic and (apparently) rampant racism in the once-bucolic Green Mountain State.
Like a parasitic worm, Vermont Progressives have taken over the body politic of the Vermont Democratic Party.
“Paul Dame failed to inform voters of candidate deception, opting instead to underestimate the consequences of Madden’s bid for office. He has now publicly blamed me and Ericka Redic for his failure, a narrative being perpetuated by media outlets on both the left and right,” Anya Tynio writes.
Fair, timely questions to ask someone running for the Legislature if/when they knock on your door.
Mr. Madden openly admits his original intention was to decline the Republican nomination if he won the primary and run as an Independent. In the event, he failed to follow the requirements for nomination as such and now pretends “we have a lot in common.”
The stretches made by this shameful “investigation” are truly worth a read by Vermonters, John Klar says. Get a bag of popcorn and settle in.
President Biden’s plan to give away energy-efficient air conditioners may be a relief during heat waves – unless power grid’s increasingly shaky status requires rolling brownouts or blackouts.
In the name of kindness and generosity, government can demand more and more of its citizens’ hard-earned income.
“I want to emphasize that I made a mistake in my interpretation of election law, in assuming I could run as an independent if I won a primary and then declined the nomination,” Liam Madden said.
All the unborn baby needs is one breath of air and it’s off to the races – a new living, breathing member of the human race.
Show The People the documents, Mr. Attorney General.
The Congressional Budget Office says interest costs will become the fastest-growing category in the federal budget, thanks to growth in both debt base and interest rates.
“In every single race that Democrats were given a chance, they chose the candidate furthest to the left and repeatedly rejected their moderate or centrist candidates.”
With terms like sadist, psychopath, and abuser used to describe community members, it is no wonder that such an event has now occurred twice. The surprise, perhaps, is that it took so long.
Just as parents educated children at home for generations before the modern age, so can parents today. They must exercise confidence and look to themselves and their own knowledge to aid their children.
“But organized green interests want your money; voters want a warm feeling from being told they’re doing something about climate change (as long as it doesn’t involve a carbon tax).” – Holman Jenkins
I am suggesting and encouraging all Town and City Clerks, City Councils, Select Boards and Boards of Civil Authority institute a policy to hand count one sample race after the 2022 General Election vote in November.
At the very least, the Great Barrier Reef’s recovery is a symbol of hope for all of life on Earth.
Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos urges all Vermonters to plan wisely to participate in what he calls a ‘once in a generation’ primary.
COS backers say Vermont lawmakers are terrified by an Article V Convention of States to set term limits, stop irresponsible spending, and reduce government overreach.
To force a Big Pharma product on an individual goes against the entire basis of our country’s existing social contract.
Because Big Pharma doesn’t control all research, the world now knows the results of a Brazil study of 88,000 subjects showing ivermectin reduced Covid-19 mortality 92%.
It’s been nearly a year now since the newly organized group, VTGrassroots.com, sponsored its first Celebrate America event, with China specialist Gordon Chang as our keynote speaker.
The latest Biden spending bill will increase inflation while accelerating destruction of the ecosystem, boosting China’s manufacturing economy, rewarding wealthy corporate cronies, and ignoring the food supply and distribution crisis any child can see looming.
Joe Biden’s latest huge spending bill would add 86,000 agents, doubling the size of the IRS. Audits away!
New England has subtracted 5000 MW of generation since 2013, and added 3000. Not good news for the next Polar Vortex.
A longtime House Democratic leader and committee chair coached non-Windham residents to vote in a town voter decision on whether to close the local school.
The Vermont Climate Council is coming up with another ‘climate plan’ that will make heating fuel and gasoline even more expensive. But the Council isn’t the real culprit.
The shock of a feminist woman like Camille Paglia defending traditional masculine traits is both ironic and appreciated.
On more than a few occasions, I have been asked if it is difficult to write a column or find material about which to write. Yes and no.
Tinkering with the Constitution by adding vague, undefined terms invites unelected judges to interpret the vague undefined terms, a former Vermont prosecutor says.
When two black people on a St. Albans ‘inclusion’ committee disagreed on whether to endorse a BLM sign, the more conservative black person was not only outvoted, but was eventually tossed off the committee.
Rep. Lee Zeldin predicted – correctly – that the man who assaulted him would be released without bail under an idiotic New York law.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
Just because you call a dog’s tail a leg, doesn’t mean it is one, the first Republican president said.
Pro-abortion legal theorist Judith Javis Thomson said in 1971 the abortion debate comes down to the question: Can one person kill another person because that second person’s existence is going to be burden to the first person for the next nine or fewer months?
A former social worker with sex abuse victims who was himself a victim of ‘grooming’ describes what the term means and how it is perpetrated today.
There are only about 5000 electric vehicles on Vermont roads today, and the grid can’t handle charging them all during a week of high but not unprecedented summer heat.
The U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely to be persuaded by an Bernie-inspired executive action about a “national climate emergency.”
We need to cut regulations that have caused our housing crunch.
Keith Longmore’s comments on the St. Albans Belonging, Equity and Inclusion committee show he wanted to help – even though he disagreed with the majority’s conclusions.
No wind developer or owner has taken any responsibility for the damage caused. Instead, they deny there are any problems.
If you believe CNBC, Vermont ranks 31st in business climate among the 50 states. But if you believe the Tax Foundation instead…..
“Despite the complete lack of evidence, this lie has gripped certain groups in the electorate and is at the center of the divisiveness driving a wedge between Americans,” Secretary of State Jim Condos said.
The hills are alive with those who may not have our best interest in mind.
The driver of a logging truck deplored by Lt. Gov. candidate Joe Benning responds to his campaign statements.
Myers Mermel has proposed a 10% hospitality tax on out-of-state skiers in Vermont to subsidize lift tickets for Vermonters.
For many investors in public and private companies, Ernst & Young was one of the last bastions of trust.
In Burlington, so-called progressive reforms have sprung up only to backfire on neighbors and harm the most vulnerable in our community.
It started when I refused to use the preferred pronouns of my second grade teacher.
No secret why media and Democrats aren’t talking about the economy this year.
Winter 2022 is coming, and these children of the green energy summer are not prepared.
My big problem is Biden’s declaration that “we can’t allow an out of control Supreme Court….” Oh? Who is this “we”?
There isn’t some group of mysterious boogeymen with waxed mustaches plotting our demise.
We must be a brave, little state, because as public health and human rights are trampled here and elsewhere, others are studying our example as they perhaps never have before,” says the head of VBSR.
I can’t see why using a mailbox rather than a drop box causes a hardship to any would-be voter, especially in urban areas.
Proposed initiatives to produce a healthy, diverse, and resilient agricultural ecosystem will require $90 million over five years.
If you’re dumb enough to think Jeffrey Epstein killed himself but smart enough to keep your mouth shut lest you get Arkancided, you have a serious future as a useful idiot.
The possibility of two former Montpelier mayors representing Washington County as state senators while Barre has none strikes me as fundamentally unfair and wrong.
Parents are being kicked out of the village regarding their children’s reproductive values and experiences.
Children who are different are often bullied, ignored, or punished in government schools.
The number of semi-auto rifles (like the AR-15 and others acquired since 1994 has increased from 400,000 to 20 million.
We as neighbors can finally work together to address the tragedy of unwanted pregnancies in a humane, and more effective, way.
A righty New Hampshire observer says the lefties are vandalizing the Vermont State House because of years of Democrat rule, Democrat control of media, and Democrat control of education and culture.”
Germany shouldn’t have shut down its nukes, but it did – and became even more dependent on Russian natural gas for generating electricity.
Just to make the fight fair.
Biden is committed to putting oil refineries out of business.
Republicans stand an excellent chance of winning this coming November, because for years the Democratic party has been hemorrhaging support from the white working class and is now losing support from Latino, Black and Asian workers as well.
A picture emerges of certain types of people at the control of the communist engine, starting with its authors and culminating with its executors.
Current and former state senators have been silent about the Night of Shattered Glass at the Vermont State House.
Biden’s plea for peacefulness was lost on the Big Blue Rage Machine the Democrats have been operating.
For most people abortions are last choice options, and I would argue that the reason we see most abortions happening among disadvantaged communities is because these are our neighbors with the least amount of choice.
Even the late, pro-choice Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Roe V. Wade was not just and should not have been issued.
The Republican National Committee is taking credit for the court defeat of non-citizen voting in New York City.
Last week’s decision moves much closer to a Vermont state requirement that all parents – not just tuition town parents – must be given their choice of approved public schools, non-sectarian independent schools, and sectarian independent schools.
The knee-jerk reaction that we need Prop 5/Article 22 in response to the Dobbs decision is based on very misleading information about a radical position.
Ethan Allen fought for Vermont to become the 14th State believing the Union would better protect individual liberty, but that noise you hear is a dog-headed saber rattling in its scabbard.