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.
This week the Supreme Court set a major and exciting precedent by striking down over 100 years of New York law when they found that New York’s pattern of restricting gun rights to its innocent and law-abiding citizens was unconstitutional.
These experimental injections do not prevent Covid or transmission of Covid, so vaccinating a child will not save an at-risk family member.
Out of nowhere appeared a towering and tattooed figure wearing what looked like a yarmulke fashioned from a water buffalo.
Advocates might claim some progress in producing neurotic reactions in teenage Swedish girls and 60-something New York architects.
Protecting children is expensive, but worth the cost.
As we say at Bananas Academy, you don’t have that highly evolved monkey brain for nothing, it’s made for Bananas!
June 19th is a day for promises made and promises kept.
Farming and support for agriculture was well represented under the Golden Dome this year, Vermont’s chief executive for agriculture says.
Because of his government power, Lysenko had power over both Russia’s agricultural practices and the scientists who might speak out against him. This would prove to be disastrous for both.
With such a massive change in leadership and members about to occur, maybe it is time to rethink how the Legislature is elected, operates, and is compensated.
President Biden and Congress have turned a blind eye to fast-emerging trust fund deficits.
Gregory FitzGerald admits he strangled his wife to death in 1993. He was sentenced to life without parole. But due to some apparent courtroom errors, he may soon go free.
Even if you drive a Tesla and aren’t feeling the pain at your own pump, you can be sure that those costs are still making its way to you through every Amazon delivery truck that still runs in diesel.
For years Vermont’s climate change warriors have urged driving up oil and natural gas prices to force consumers to weatherize, and switch to alternatives such as “cold climate heat pumps” and advanced wood pellet furnaces.
In his gushing over VTDigger, Walters neglects to mention the most positive media development of the past few years: the inception of conservative media in Vermont.
A capacity for local food production means that when times get tough, Vermont will have affordable nourishing food and will limit hunger in our communities.
Elected prosecutors have a major role to play in holding police accountable for misconduct. That can include pressing criminal charges when police abuse their power and violate civil rights – something prosecutors rarely elect to do.
Replacing fossil fuels with environmentally-unfriendly biofuels, without clear limits, would have created serious problems.
When it’s just plain dangerous to shut down nuclear power plants, baby formula factories, and schools “due to an abundance of caution.”
Considering that shootings have also taken place at many locations outside of schools, I wish to encourage law abiding citizens to become proficient with firearms and to carry them whenever possible.
I got to thinking, the level of Lake Champlain varies by six feet over the course of each year, and that’s been going on since Champlain first visited here in 1609.
Democrats act as if the solution to school shootings is to either take some guns away from all people, or take all guns away from some people.
DEF is an emissions control liquid required by the EPA in diesel engines manufactured after 2010 as an “aftertreatment technology” to reduce vehicle emissions.
Although advocates of Proposal 5 often cite respect for Roe v. Wade as a rallying cry, what they are calling for is, instead, a radical departure from that Supreme Court precedent.
I am writing to seek help with my dog who has been revealing himself to be a bigoted, racist, transphobic, bully, and I don’t know what to do.
Why was Sen. Patrick Leahy at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos last month?
It’s easy to advocate for things that prove you’re on the “right side,” even when what we should be doing is telling more complex stories.
Ms. Jankowicz is a voluble and sharp tongued 33 year old social media activist from the nether regions of the Democratic Party, eager to wield the hammer of the Biden Ministry of Truth.
The only thing using the wrong tool of the Clean Heat Standard would accomplish would be to drive a substantial portion of our population into financial distress.
For the benefit of the institution of a citizen legislature, please accept the temporary financial discomfort, serve your time honorably, and then go back to gainful employment as thousands of legislators past and present have done.
Many of the modern pharmaceutical drugs used to treat these specific conditions carry warnings that people taking them may experience suicidal or homicidal thoughts.
Justice Alito noted especially, among the cases overturned, the notorious Plessy v. Ferguson decision (1896) that upheld racial segregation on railroad coaches.
Could fascism be stealth – hidden in plain sight, sold to the people by offering protection, security, services, justice and aid?
The WEF meeting began to fill with the A-list of the super-rich, so elite you won’t find their numbers in the Yellow Pages because they exchange them in their little black books on Epstein Island.
The many organizers behind the Clean Heat Standard are intelligent, committed to the doctrine of climate change, and have substantial in-state and out-of-state financial resources.
As far as the chances of dying in a mass public shooting, the US stacks up favorably vs. most European countries. Our rate still falls in the bottom half.
Banning assault weapons won’t do much more than tick off conservatives.
