Jim Sexton: “More people who self-identify as Republican, then vote for and support the left/far left agenda has nothing to do with more Republicans in the Statehouse.”
Roper: Don’t let Gavin Newsom decide what kind of car Vermonters can buy
California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, via executive order is dictating what Vermont vehicle consumers can and cannot buy, if we go along, but we don’t have to.
Don’t Be A Boob: The Bananas Formula For Babies
Fake news reporter Johnny Bananas says the story of the demise of formulating babies is greatly exaggerated.
Evslin: Pandemic Lesson #2 – Experts are too narrow to make policy
There is no simple “the science” according to which a leader can govern.
McClaughry: Biden’s Ministry of Truth
This is a partisan government office created to pass judgment on any speech that might diminish support for the Biden Administration’s program and performance.
Eshelman: Let’s Go, Superintendent Millington
Tyranny is tyranny, and the only solution to stopping or escaping it is universal school choice.
Kauffman: Prop 5 goes far beyond the claims of Governor Scott
Governor Phil Scott promulgates a perception of Prop 5/Article 22 that is not based in reality.
Keelan: Where are all the young men and women?
In Vermont, we have many young people, perhaps upwards of 20,000 or more, who are disengaged from a workforce that reportedly has over 26,000 open positions.
Peter Welch behaves like Joe McCarthy, former student says
Last month, Welch put out a statement on his official congressional website stating “It’s long past time we created a dedicated government agency to regulate and address the wide range of issues raised by social media platforms…That’s why I am working on legislation to create a federal agency to do just that.”
Page: Mr. Mayor, what about the stabbing and two weekend shootings in your city?
Elected officials issue press releases about mass shootings in other states as Vermont’s drug violence grows and our police leave.
Silverstein: when breast cancer becomes ‘chest cancer’
Thoughts on powerhouse Patricia Posner commentary on the erasure of the feminine lexicon.
Evslin: StarLink stress tested in Ukraine
Whether you’re fighting Russians in an Eastern European country devoid of working power lines or just RV’ing in low-cell country, Tom Evslin says his favorite LEO satellite system might be just the thing.
Strong: Senatorial ignorance about abortion amendment speaks volumes about Pandemic Legislature
If a serving state senator doesn’t know what Article 22/Proposal 5 is – not even its name and general intent let alone its potential impact – how well informed do you think the average voter is?
Hansen: After CHS veto, repeal climate catastrophe law
Humility will be required to admit that the Global Warming Solutions Act is a failure; courage will be required to repeal it.
Sanders: Forget filibuster, pass abortion law
Sen. Bernie Sanders wants a national law supporting legal abortion and he’s willing to waive the filbuster to get it.
Peterson: Mascot bill laughable, if it weren’t so sad
The school mascot bill is all about cowering to ‘woke’ parents.
Fernandez: Howard Dean can’t prove Elon Musk ‘full of hate’
Howard Dean doesn’t trust Elon Musk to handle Twitter fairly because he’s full of craziness and hate.
Antley: THC caps reduce cannabis mental illness, to dependency
The Vermont House listened to the science and not the dependency-pushing Big Marijuana industry when it kept THC caps on legal retail marijuana.
Smith: Clean Heat Standard helps big corporations, hurts the poor
H.715 misrepresents the word “Clean”. 350vt’s analysis of H.715 shows that more than 50% of it will be met by biofuels. The biofuel marketplace is exploding globally, trading the damaging effects of fossil fuels for the damaging effects of biofuel production.
Not saying they’re connected…..
The Vermont Legislature recently passed a long-sought ethics law.
Republican Ingalls defends Democrat Chittenden over BETA attack
Not often a Northeast Kingdom Republican defends a Chittenden County Democrat.
Keelan: There is just no place to live
Don Keelan explains why housing is scarce and new housing almost non-existent in Vermont.
Hit & Run
Hit & Run Visual Commentary by RW Geer
Evslin: I was wrong about ‘The Science’
I urged vaccine requirements for air travel and some professions like medicine thinking that vaccinated people were largely not spreaders. I was wrong. The “science” was wrong.
Dame: Stop the ‘mystery tax’ on energy
No one who voted for the Clean Heat Standard can tell you how much it will cost, what the impact will be, or if it will actually work.
Elkins: appalled by division in GOP
Josh Elkins, a Franklin County resident considering running for office, is appalled by the division he saw at the GOP platform meeting last Saturday.
Madden: We Need Liberation from the Two Party System
The mutual disgust with how ineffective and corrupt this system is happens to be one of the few remaining areas of agreement between the left and right.
Stahler: Devil in the details of Clean Heat Standard
The Clean Heat Standard is fraught with both unknowns and unrealistic goals, so the Legislature should wait for the March, 2023 report to answer important questions.
Ministry Of Truth Announces Target Of Today’s Two Minutes Hate Is Tucker Carlson
The Two Minutes Hate crescendoed in wild jeers, hissing, weeping, and gnashing of teeth as the screen proclaimed, “TUCKER CARLSON: PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE.”
McClaughry: Peddlar of Shumlin’s failed single payer gets $400K to run One Care
Someone who tried and failed to make Peter Shumlin’s single payer plan work has been hired to run One Care, the ACO running health care in Vermont.
Reversing Roe: what it would mean for Vermont
The Dobbs Court specifically condemns the Roe Court for overreaching, but the abortion landscape that lays ahead reveals what Roe sought to avoid.
KGB, DGB
Visual commentary by Dan Jeffries about the plan by U.S. Department of Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas for a Disinformation Governance Board to monitor and suppress ‘disinformation’ by American citizens.
Families must disclose income to schools
A Vermont pupil weighting bill passed by House and Senate requires every family to disclose income to local school districts.
McClaughry: Nuclear power revival?
With some climate hawks admitting closing nuclear power plants wasn’t such a hot idea, John McClaughry of the Ethan Allen Institute expresses hope for a nuclear power revival.
Chittenden: Beta flap shows need for flexible regs
With every regulation, there are places where the rules don’t work – like an airport, where you can’t put parking behind their buildings (because that’s where the planes go).
McClaughry: EVs and child labor
Amory Lovins tells John McClaughry his concern about child labor and EV batteries is right on – at least for now.
Kerrin: Burlington Progs pushing legal prostitution on Vermont
Prostitution legalization is being pushed by an out-of-state group with the help of Montpelier lobbyists and Burlington Progressives.
Kauffman: no-one is listening to parents
The Vermont Family Alliance questions why parents are being kicked out of the village regarding their children’s “reproductive liberty” decisions.
McClaughry: Ghosts guns and murderers
Ghost guns account for one percent of murders, prior offenders for 90%.
Yacovone: Let lawmakers work from home
Forcing legislators to work at the Statehouse in this age of remote work makes little sense, a Morrisville lawmaker says.
Evslin: Neither high energy costs nor dependence on Russia are acceptable
A few smart moves here in the U.S. will reduce CO2 emissions, energy costs, and reliance on oil from Russia and other bad actors.
Angry birds in a time of twits
Thunk – thunk – thunk – it’s the sound of an angry bird world.
U.S. Senator: Give nations billions for climate change “or we’ll look like jerks”
John McClaughry reports that a ‘climate hawk’ U.S. senator from New England says that unless we give billions to foreign countries for climate change adaption, “we’ll look like jerks.”
Patrissi: Doctor, ex-cop Meyers unwelcome at Dem debate
“Deafening silence” describes how the four invited candidates in the VT Digger April 13 Congressional debate reacted when asked to advocate for the inclusion of fellow candidate Louis Meyers.
McClaughry: Un-elected officials would set heating fuel ‘tax’ rate
Since when do appointees set tax rates?
Digger won’t print pastor’s letter protesting Prop 5 freebie ad, cites ‘misunderstanding’
VTDigger says a Sheldon letter writer critical of their providing free advertising to a pro-Prop 5 group “may have a misunderstanding of this matter.”
Keelan: Legislature seems out of touch
What Vermonters DON’T need from the Legislature is added stress on our police shortage and energy costs.
Roper: Senators admit Clean Heat Standard is a carbon tax
Just before approving the Clean Heat Standard bill, two key Vermont senators agree: John McClaughry got it right, it really is a carbon tax.
Bucknam: H659 supporter wrong about GOP ‘pure hatred’
It’s not ‘hatred’ to oppose a bill that allows children to make serious, lifelong changes to their bodies without parental permission.
Thayer: Public school parents, claim your right to know
Parents of school children need to know and claim their right to know what the8r children are learning.
Burning bush updated
Moses and the Burning Bush, as imagined for the Woke Age by Dan Jeffries.
Imprimus: The Continuing Importance of Thomas Sowell
Today’s public charter schools, which often have predominantly low-income black and Hispanic student bodies, are successors to the high-achieving black schools that Sowell researched more than 40 years ago.
Dame: H715, the Upcoming Mystery Tax
The Clean Heat Standard would intentionally make every kind of home heating fuel more expensive – but we just don’t know how to calculate the increase, or what the total amount will be.
Do we really want to change the Vermont Constitution? Part 2
Prop 5 will open a constitutional can of worms on women’s health, mothers’ rights, and fathers’ rights.
Mazur: ‘Voting mules’ cast 5 million ballots
A film by Dinesh D’Souza claims ‘voting mules’ were paid for harvesting and delivering millions of ballots in the 2020 election in key battleground states.
Bernie Sanders On BLM Founder: ‘No One Should Get Rich Enough Off Politics To Buy Multiple Homes’
Buying a $6 million mansion is an “outrage,” said the junior senator from Vermont from one of his three homes.
Luebke: there’s a Fox in Vermont’s Election Hen House
The Vermont Secretary of State’s office “found no problem” with a Progressive House Caucus leader opening sealed ballot bags on Election Night, a Pawlet Republican says.
The Case for Easter
History and logic are on the side of the most otherwise fantastic event in human history.
Dame: Dems, Progs think parents are the problem
House Bill H.659 would allow elementary school children to take hormone blockers and other gender drugs against the will of their parents.
McClaughry: Senate bill attacks tuition choice
S219 puts tight guardrails on tuition choice, especially to “egregiously religious schools.”
Brook: consumers need more recycling info
From the consumer’s point of view, recycling in Vermont leaves many important questions unanswered.
Babylon Bee: AOC Drafts Legislation Opposing Ghost Guns – ‘Ghosts Don’t Even Need Guns Since They’re Dead Already’
Ghosts are scary enough already, AOC claims.
Hansen: Clean Heat Standard increases carbon emissions and class divide
The Clean Heat Standard penalizes the already chronically-abused Vermont middle class.
VT Underground: The Great Tribulation
VT Undergound is waiting for the final gavel to fall.
Kerrin: VT sex trade tied to drug gangs, and it’s everywhere
The City of Burlington won’t acknowledge this charter change sets the stage for prostitution decriminalization statewide.
McClaughry: Bill McKibben backtracks on nuclear
A decade ago climate activists like Bill McKibben were hair-on-fire to close Vermont’s largest producer of carbon-free electricity. Now the 350.org thought-leader is having second thoughts.
Bananas: Wash your brain for good personal grooming
JB describes many helpful techniques for a good brainwashing. You’ll feel so much better when it’s done.
VT Underground: What is a woman?
This used to be an easy question….
Hansen: facilitate, don’t force energy transition
Who benefits from the forced transition to electric vehicles? Who loses?
McLinden: Qualified immunity protects you and me
Qualified Immunity is not intended to give police a free pass in violating the rights of others. It is intended to protect officers from a flood of frivolous lawsuits that would make it difficult and potentially financially ruinous to perform their jobs.
Keelan: a second home in the mountains
It’s not for sale, and the $10 million annual upkeep of this summer home doesn’t include the security service. But that three-hole golf course is really something.
VT Underground
Just so I understand….
Thayer: Budget growth of $1 billion in just one year unsustainable
The Democratic leadership’s priorities need major adjustment. Stop trying to be all things to all people.
Dame: Dems in Legislature wants to control flagpole in Barre
The Donut Democrats continue to prove they have lost the middle by putting ideology ahead of constituents and true freedom and unity.
Fernandez: Bernie at large and considered dangerous
Bernie’s idol was the early 20th century demagogue who said, ‘patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.’
McClaughry: Legislature pushes big changes in last six weeks of biennium
The Legislature is moving fast on big items with longterm consequences for Vermont property owners and taxpayers.
Dodge: Why change the Vermont Constitution?
Prop 5 is an open door for ideologies about multi-gender marriage, surrogacy, gender changes, insurance coverage, education, sex trafficking, competitive sports, and healthcare to name a few.
Klar: ‘Environmental justice’ bill creates More Imperfect Union
A Senate bill redistributes the cost of environmental pollution from the city mice to the country mice. Because, Vermont’s systemic racism.
Ryan: pot store burglaries may be cartel power play
If/when Vermont legal pot stores are hit by robbers, Vermont law enforcement should take note of lessons learned in Northern California: the thieves might be Sinaloa cartel operatives trying to rub out the competition.
Klar: In Vermont, can’t say ‘let’s kill all the lawyers’ anymore
If S265 passes, best be careful what you say about politicians – you could be sent to jail, John Klar says.
Frenier: there’s a solution to religious/woke school dilemma
Vermont officials seem surprised to learn that many Vermont taxpayers, myself included, do not want their tax dollars used for woke indoctrination.
Editorial: Balint and Ram talk big about housing – but have no right to
Two Democratic senators who want to go to Congress say a bill they passed shows they care about creating affordable housing. The bill, and their voting records, say otherwise.
Roper: VT short 4300 weatherization workers needed to make ‘clean heat credits’
There needs to be a measure of reality for “clean heat credits.”
Bananas: Help Wanted – GRASS for my dog
Save Rynancy!
Sexton: no fake Republicans
Fight the abortion and anti-gun culture and everyone who supports it – including the fake Republicans.
Roper: Scott admin pushes Senate for follow-up Clean Heat Standard vote
Will Phil Scott drop the veto hammer on the Clean Heat Standard if it lacks a follow-up report? Time will tell.
Babylon Bee: Psaki Reminds Reporters That Biden Doesn’t Speak For The President Of The United States
Fake news site Babylon Bee reports on the growing chaos in Ukraine – and in Joe Biden’s statements about it.
From VT Underground:
Jim Jeffords was a Republican when he was elected, but not when it counted when the US Senate chose the next majority leader. Since then, Vermont conservatives have been gunshy of liberal Senate candidates. Will 2022 be different?
Dame: Laws should make government affordable, accountable, flexible
There are three things that fundamentally separate Vermont Republicans from the Progressive Democrat alliance that currently controls the legislature; affordability, accountability and flexibility.
Evslin: Fracking saved our freedom
Without fracking, we’d be at Putin’s mercy. And Iran’s.
Colburns: Climate Action Plan will put VT farmers out of business
Shame on the 96 House legislators for voting against waiting for a year for a report on the impact of the Clean Heat Standard.
Despathy: discrimination and segregation during the “pandemic of the unvaccinated”
The unvaccinated in Vermont have endured massive verbal and emotional abuse from state leaders, experts, neighbors and community members.
King: Famine looms. Why won’t political elites say so?
There is a rough road ahead for the world. Our political class isn’t leveling with us.
Martineau: My View from Montpeculiar
Reaganism: “Either You control your government, or it will control You.” Hear that, Burlington?
Thayer: What it means to be Republican
Since the inception of the GOP in 1854, Republicans have supported “We the People,” not “We the Government.”
Fernandez: No media coverage, but the Israel-Palestine conflict still rages
While Russia is portrayed as the vicious predator over a smaller state, the liberal media consistently portrays the small Jewish state of Israel as the unjust regime.
Evslin: We cannot afford for Ukraine to lose
Evslin on how to defeat Putin.
Is the Electric Vehicle for you?
EVs require nickel produced in a Siberian slave labor camp and lithium mined from polluting Tibetan mines. Still feeling virtuous about buying one?
Sanders names names on corporate greed
While the world complains about Russian oligarchs, Bernie Sanders is crying ‘outrage’ on their American brethren.
Dame: Pretending crime doesn’t exist
Over the past two years Democrats in Montpelier and Washington have tried to ‘reduce crime’ by making fewer things a crime!
