Vladimir Putin NEEDS to export oil and gas. If he didn’t, he’d have threatened to cut off NATO Europe weeks ago. Call his bluff.
McClaughry: Expanding parental choice in education
The Supreme Court said the state must pay tuition to sectarian schools, if that’s what the parent wants. Because, school choice. But the Vermont Senate Education Committee chair says students and staff must be “protected” from religious schools.
Thayer: As gas prices soar, so does Progressive desire to tax more
Progressives will make our gas crisis worse, not better.
Jesses: Under Proposal 5, do Black Lives Matter?
Where’s the racial equity in black/white abortion statistics?
Granite Grok: Offensive words, take 3 million – ‘Gypsy Moth’
From now on, get used to protecting your trees from the annual infestation of the Spongy Moth.
Evslin: Stop buying Russian oil – and consider no-fly zone, too
Stop buying Russian oil? Heck yes! And, Tom Evslin won’t ‘just say no-fly zone.’
Climate plan all pain, no gain
The legislators fashioning this red-hot poker of a policy know just how painful it will be for their constituents.
Dame: Dems plan tax relief for wealthy, not for nurses, seniors, and veterans
Plenty of tax relief for wealthy parents, but none for nurses, seniors and veterans – that’s the legislative majority’s plan, Paul Dame says.
Keelan: Burlington’s Hole in the Ground
Lack of an adequate policing, a gaping hole in the city, and vacating retailers have dulled the luster of Vermont’s Queen City.
Achey: Why I voted no on the Clean Heat Standard
We soon learned we have no authority or ability to force out-of-state fuel dealers to buy Vermont credits. The only alternative was to stick a whole bunch of local mom & pop fuel dealerships with the mandate to buy credits.
Bananas: Grand Opening of my new restaurant
Chek out the restroom graffiti in Johnny’s new communism-themed restaurant.
Evslin: Ukrainian bravery will unite the US
Welcome to the Freedom Tent, Bernie! The more the merrier.
Bucchieri: S265 treats public servants like privileged elites
Advice to elected officials: if you can’t take the heat, don’t take the seat.
The ‘threat’ of American social media…..
Vladimir Putin comes clean on the Fifth Column.
Thayer: S-30 veto was right call
Less firearms restrictions on law-abiding citizens, more prison sentences for criminals.
Bradley: Zoom keeps public out of “public” hearings
The Senate and Natural Resources and Energy Committee Feb 10 online “public hearing” on hunting and trapping bills was anything but public.
Hillary’s not-so-great reset
In 2009, then-Secretary of State offered a literal ‘reset button’ to her Russian counterpart. Once again, our Democratic leaders have let the Russians push our buttons.
Tebbetts & Kurrle: VT farms need workers, capital, local food outlets
To emerge strong from the pandemic, Vermont farmers needs more workers, capital, and local outlets for their products.
Evslin: To defeat Putin, we must win the Energy War
This is a war we must win. The only hope for winning without actual fighting – and this may be a vain hope – is to take wartime measures to defang Russia by relieving European dependency on Russia’s gas and oil.
MacDonald: Biden has been funding Putin’s war machine for over a year
With his first stroke of the presidential pen, Joe Biden ensured war-making riches for Vladimir Putin. Thanks, Joe!
Moore: Scott hits bullseye with S.30 veto focus on mental health crisis
Vermont Traditions Coalition applauds Governor Phil Scott for highlighting the need for better mental health crisis management in his veto of S30.
Rectenwald: What is the Great Reset?
The Great Reset is real – Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, writes and talks about it constantly. The question is: what is it?
If only it were true….
…Alas, it will never happen.
Harvey: Don’t overlook Biden border boondoggle in 2022
Biden is the gift that keeps on giving to Republicans in 2022, especially when it comes to the US border crisis.
Jewish lawmaker weighs in on Tennessee school district banning Holocaust book
A school district in Tennessee banned a Holocaust graphic novel due to age appropriateness, and a Vermont Senator has so much time on her hands, that she must weigh in.
Bananas Master Class: ‘Wicked Smaht’ or How to Intellectualize
This is New England after all, home to Boston and Burlington, connected by a super highway littered with brainiacs who still have a favorable opinion of Joe Biden, Ghislaine Maxwell, and mask mandates.
Roper: Oops! Big part of Climate Plan unconstitutional
The dormant commerce clause in the U.S. Constitution forbids the State of Vermont to make out-of-state fuel wholesalers buy clean heat credits.
Bucknam: State of Vermont ‘white supremacy’ training perpetuates Dred Scott racism
Mandatory ‘diversity’ training for state employees actually perpetuates the vicious stereotype of blacks as helpless victims.
It’s Time For A Change
Political Cartoon by VT Underground
VT Underground: How many businesses did Freedom Truckers burn down?
Flemming: Senate Rental Registry bill debate colored by visions of ideal government
An influential Vermont state senator explains why more government is the answer to Vermont’s housing crisis.
Thayer: Marxism a disease, Saturday learn about cure
If Marxism is a disease, what’s the cure? Hear more this Saturday in Williston.
Letters to the Editor: Parents rise up / Dem threat to public safety, free speech and elections
A former South Burlington lawmaker says parents are (finally) waking up and throwing the woke bums out of school board positions. And a Sandgate woman says the GOP needs to keep its eye on the ball of protecting public safety and Constitutional freedoms.
‘Endemic’
The latest political cartoon by VT Underground.
Evslin: Without nuclear power, subsidizing electric cars might hurt environment
What greenhouse-gas-good is electric transportation if the power comes from burning fossil fuels?
Bananas: MASTER CLASS – The Art of the Cancel
If you’re ready to join the vanguard, Red Guard or just can’t stand the thought of other people thinking they get to think their own thoughts, Johnny Bananas has a Master Class for you.
Vermont, the Beckoning Country
Vermont, the Beckoning Country. Cartoon by JB.
Keelan: the first black American saint, maybe
Now that MLB great Jim Kaat of Manchester is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, it’s time to consider a candidate for sainthood, Don Keelan says.
Biden’s Inflation Problem is everyone’s problem
Joe Biden may be blowing up the cost of living. But it’s more than just his party’s problem. It’s affecting everyone.
Richardson: Allow early, off-label Covid-19 treatment
Let doctors prescribe the medicine they think their patients need.
Bananas: Church shopping in Vermont
Fake news reporter Johnny Bananas goes church-shopping in Vermont.
Fernandez: President Lincoln’s great sense of humor
While Lincoln had his critics, his sense of humor disarmed even the most serious of antagonists.
McCoy: Tax break for $203,000 earners, but not military retirees? No way
The Legislature has a choice: help military retirees, debt-loaded college grads, and the poor – or give a tax break to people earning $203,000.
Roper: Potentially deadly consequence of Clean Heat Standard
Driving small fuel dealers out of business with no immediate replacements could have deadly consequences.
Prop 5 serves interest groups, not parents, kids or taxpayers
Prop 5 is sweeping and vague – fodder for interest groups to get the courts to do whatever they want, bypassing the good of parents, children, and taxpayers.
Scott: new housing IS workforce development
The worker shortage and the economy won’t get better until we get serious about building new housing, Phil Scott said.
Peterson: Would Prop 5 legalize CNN producer’s alleged sexual ‘training’ of minor?
Why wouldn’t a nine-year-old with Prop 5’s constitutionally protected right of ‘reproductive autonomy’ have the right to be ‘trained’ to have sex? A legislator asked the question on floor of the House yesterday.
Burlington Progs unsafe, unreasonable
The central complaint against Progressives on the Burlington City Council is that they have become completely unreasonable, which is making the city unsafe.
“Are these folks blind to the irony?”
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger didn’t think ‘black lives matter.’ Not the woman who once wrote ‘we don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.’ and who addressed meetings of the Ku Klux Klan.
Parental consent can be parental coercion, teen marriage ban sponsor says
Children deserve to be free of marriage, says the sponsor of a bill being discussed today in a House committee.
Klar: Roe balanced lives of mother & child – not so Prop 5
John Klar says Roe V. Wade at least tried to balance the needs of both mother and child, and Prop 5 leaves the child totally unprotected.
MUST-READ! Krauss: Young soldiers and the false narrative of racial division
MUST READ: A flight to an Army graduation ceremony shows the author that America’s ‘terrible racial divide’ is a false narrative.
“No one deserves what Covid does” – Dartmouth ICU chief promises equal care
The ICU director at a New Hampshire hospital promises the best of care for Covid-19 patients – vaccinated or not.
Benning: has public vitriol “crossed a line,” making new law necessary?
A Caledonia County Republican wonders if the current level of vitriol justifies passing a new law protecting public officials and employees from threats.
Jeffries: The voice of his generation
It’s all a matter of perspective.
And because it’s Friday….
Because Bernie’s in it. Because it’s Friday. Five Times August updates an old 60’s protest song with “The Anti-Fascist Blues.”
Roper: Why all single-member legislative districts?
Single-member legislative districts best promote the representation of the voter by the elected lawmaker.
Coming to post office near you…..
Vermont Daily Chronicle political cartoonist Dan Jeffries imagines a Wanted poster. Meanwhile, the Vermont Senate is considering a bill giving up to five years in jail for threatening (among others) school boards and other government officials.
Moore: Coming in from the left
A traditional Vermont liberal finds herself suddenly agreeing with people from the “other” side.
Thayer: Hard look at the Vermont House and Senate
The Vermont House and Senate continue to pile laws upon the people, resulting in inflated government and massive overreach.
Keelan: Nonprofits control taxpayer money, without much oversight
Vermont’s nonprofit sector is bigger than manufacturing, construction and tourism. For which it can thank the taxpayers.
Bananas: Master Class on How to New World Order When You’re Old
Resistance is futile! Get on board with the New World Order, says Johnny Bananas. It’ll be grand.
Dame: Dems pulling fast one on redistricting
House Dems are lining up testimony for town feedback on redistricting weeks before many town boards even have a chance to meet. Due diligence, or rush job?
Covid ‘real numbers’ higher among fully-vaxxed; Covid rate higher among ‘partially unvaxxed’
VT Stands Up breaks down Vermont’s Covid data. It urges more State transparency about the supposed
‘pandemic of the unvaccinated.’
Evslin: Biden hiked price of oil, now Russia rolling in dough
The Biden administration quickly made oil and natural gas more expensive. Now war-mongering Russia is reaping the profits. Good job, Joe!
Licata: No mas to ‘Critical Social Justice’
Liberalism is at risk of being replaces by this new illiberal era, in which there is an increasingly authoritarian definition of social justice.
Hansen: Mass delusion fuels data, policy disconnect
How does the ‘mass formation’ delusion affect Vermont? Med school grad and health care policy expert Meg Hansen discusses.
Bucchieri: Prop 5 puts teeth in MEN’S reproductive rights
Some day a court may use Prop 5 to decide that making a man pay child support for a baby he wanted the mother to abort violates his ‘personal reproductive autonomy.’
Yacovone: If only there were a bill to help the lost souls
A veteran Vermont legislator and public servant regrets that there are human problems that legislation just cannot solve.
Master Class: How to Karen Like A Boss
Taking your Miss Bossy Pants game to the next level.
News item: solons ponder mascot mandate
The Vermont Senate has tacitly decided there will be no mask mandate. But it might pass a school mascot mandate.
Arnn: The Way Out
by Dr. Larry Arnn Here are two questions pertinent to our times: (1) How would you reduce the greatest free republic in history to despotism in a short time? and (2) How […]
Dame: While Dems control State House, real school choice only for the wealthy
As long as Democrats have control of the State House, they will never give school choice to anyone but the wealthiest Vermonters.
McGuinness: We must demand transparent Covid data
If Vermont hospitals collect vaccination data on patients, why can’t the Vermont Dept. of Health tell us how many Covid-19 deaths were unvaccinated?
Mazur: Hoovervilles and Bidenburgs
Similarities between Hoover and Biden increase as the U.S. descends from prosperity into – whatever awaits.
Fernandez: FBI foolery over synagogue kidnapping recalls Burlington B/D/S effort
Discussing the ludicrous statement from the FBI that the Texas synagogue hostage situation was not “related to the Jewish community.”
Editorial: Prop 5 and our listening Legislature
Prop 5 will be decided by voters on November 8, not by a masked, Zoomed House committee tomorrow night.
McClaughry: Gov. Scott’s Diamond Mine
Phil Scott has hit the mother lode: vast amounts of federal dollars borrowed, at interest, from current and future taxpayers of our great Republic.
Nurse haunted by instruction to treat late-term abortion survivor ‘like a specimen’
A retired surgical nurse details a horrific experience in California 48 years ago of being handed a breathing survivor of a late-term abortion – and then being told to ‘treat it like a specimen.’
Evslin: ‘Affordable housing’ must address Act 250
Why isn’t middle-class housing being built to meet the aching demand? Tom Evslin points to one BIG reason: Act 250 makes it unaffordable.
My Anti-Racist Struggle Session
Vermont fake news reporter Johnny Bananas wakes up with a bad case of racism.
Warner: Mass formation psychosis – it’s a thing
Mass formation psychosis has paved the way towards totalitarianism. Will we go down that road?
Evslin: Build the grid back better – switch to DC
So many of our household appliances – not to mention our solar panels – already run on DC. Why not just make the switch on a grid level?
Eshelman: Tinfoil hats and Covid vaccines
Putting on the tin foil hat and heading down the rabbit hole to Covid Conspiracyland….
It’s Bananas: The Mascot Dilemma
Rather than excel at sports and academia, our schools now strive to excel at grievances. First in line, mascots!
Mazur: Fighting inflation and solving debt
Discipline now, or disaster later.
Keelan: a country doctor turns in his stethoscope
An ode to Arlington’s retiring family physician, Dr. Michael Welther.
Facebook censors VT fuel dealer post about Climate Council
Facebook won’t let a Vermont fuel business inform readers about the Vermont Climate Council. The owner of Proctor Gas is not happy.
Gaffney: Kunin wrong on abortion and filibuster
Men can’t get pregnant, even if former Governor Kunin writes it to be true.
Evslin: Out with the cows, in with the trees
Reforesting Vermont’s declining, phosphorus-producing dairy farms would be a cheap, effective way to meet the state’s carbon reduction goals.
McKibben to Biden: decree things Congress won’t pass
Liberals worried about real threats to democracy should look first at Bill McKibben.
Herron: ‘Bullet Point Becca’ long on rhetoric
Becca Balint will throw out bullet points on issues but will give no substantive details on how her policy spending will fix them.
Act Now To Save Democrats!
Meanwhile in Vermont, the Democrats running the Vermont State House have disregarded a non-partisan, good-government plan to break up two-member House districts. Good in principle, bad for Democratic outcomes in the next election.
Evslin: when Zoom freezes over, free way to find out whose fault it is
Computer nerd Tom Evslin has written a program to determine why your Zoom is freezing.
The Peril of the Federal Billions
No-one – except John McClaughry – is asking what we will do when the flood of federal money ends.
Letter: Condos’ defense of election integrity at odds with facts
Secretary of State Condos says voter integrity measures are meant to reduce the vote. Rather, they are prudent and fair efforts to ensure free and fair elections.
Letter: Progressives/Socialists in legislature introduce child tax credit for parents earning $400K
The VT tax code is being changed to include non-taxable welfare payments to taxpayers with children.
Vermont at high risk of gerrymandering: national report
It will come as no surprise to people following the Democrat-controlled House Gov’t Ops dismantling of Legislative Apportionment Board recommendations that Vermont is at high risk for electoral district gerrymandering.
Ignoring popular recommendation, House committee rushing two-person House districts
Using the distraction of Covid, Vermont Democrats are ignoring a popular plan to eliminate two-seat House districts in favor of the partisan-favoring status quo.
Donahue: Proposal 5 threatens health care provider conscience protection
Proposal 5 would protect any abortion, for any reason, until the moment of birth. Doctors and nurses whose consciences forbid them from taking the life of the unborn would have no protection.
