We’ve already lost so much. Could loss of more gun rights be next?
Jeffries: the next Covid casualty?
Strong: Faith not Fear
A Vermont legislator in the thick of the battle for vaccine and mask mandate freedom is also a pastor’s wife. And she has a word for Vermonters facing an uncertain 2022..
Evslin: changing crops will solve VT farming woes
Changing crops is Vermont’s only hope.
Top News ’21: Essex student and CRT critic fired from lifeguard job (June 17)
It takes a village to attack a teenager.
Alex Katsnelson was fired by the Village of Essex Junction from his position as a lifeguard at the Maple Street pool due to his public opposition to Critical Race Theory as taught at Essex High School.
Hansen: Do as you’re told and don’t question
Debate about mask mandates was intense during a recent WDEV radio program.
Top News of ’21: Left’s hatred escalated post-Trump (March 5)
John Klar writes on March 5 – “Donald Trump has passed from view, but the virus of New Leftism is thriving and easy to see. And what is visible is that it is a bitter, seething contempt, far wider than any one man.”
Nuggets from Vermont’s ambitious Energy Plan
According to the new state energy plan, Vermont should drive and heat electric. It should also have reliable electricity. Can we have both?
Gregoire: lawmaker’s nude fitness photos explained
The nude fitness photos were meant to highlight the beauty of the human form.
Robbing economic rescue to fund Climate Plan
With a carbon tax no longer a viable option, the Vermont Climate Council now wants to raid federal ‘recovery’ money to fund its aggressive anti-carbon campaign.
Lott: Is ensuring election integrity anti-democratic? Facts say no
In most democratically-elected countries, voting requires photo ID. Absentee voting is rare. Where allowed, Strict ID is required. But mention these safeguards in the U.S., and the progs call you racist and regressive. What’s going on?
Mazur: Daunte Wright should have been in prison
The man shot and killed by Minneapolis cop Kim Potter never should have been out on the streets.
“Science,” uh-huh
Another gifted artist among Vermont Daily Chronicle readers submits his first political cartoon.
Cady: Fear justifies hate
Hearing echoes of the Holocaust in some Vermonters talk about solving the unvaccinated problem.
The case for Christmas
Christmas unites believers and non-believers in the promise of generosity and goodwill.
Vaccine injuries: More than a number
Reported adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines have dramatically increased.
Gen Z paying the price for pandemic policies
Our youngest Americans are paying the price for government’s indiscriminate policies enacted due to Covid-19.
Burlington mayor: Council makes new police chief hire unlikely
Kinda hard to hire a new police chief when the Burlington City Council won’t let Mayor Miro Weinberger pay him/her enough or delegate authority to discipline officers.
Dame: GOP visibility, donations increased
Fundraising is up and plans for growth will be announced shortly, the new VT GOP chair says.
Congress-critter-watching……
Watching Vermont’s Congress Critters on social media is like watching wildlife on a backyard camera.
Post: BBB would cost $4.95 trillion
Willem Post isn’t shedding any tears over the demise of the Build Back Better bill – if, in fact, it’s really dead.
Roper: Climate Council no clue how to pay for ‘plan’
The Vermont Climate Council has plans a’plenty for carbon reduction but neither the money nor the workforce to make them happen.
Sanders’ slick socialist semantics
Selling socialism under the guise of liberalism, Bernie’s 1976 dream is becoming a reality.
Evslin: Dems, GOP both fear next election stolen
Democrats and Republicans alike fear the next election will be stolen. They’re both giving us all plenty of reason to worry.
Medicare: Four years to insolvency
Medicare – the federal health insurance for retirees and others – will be insolvent by 2026, an expert predicts. What then?
Klar: Small town Vermont voter fraud uncovered
Email exchanges show grooming for illegal voting.
Connelly: Covid response not about personal rights
Arguments about mask wearing are akin to children arguing about bedtime.
Lynch: Continuous shaming of the unvaccinated
Shame and blame are the name of Scott’s vax ‘encouragement’ game.
Herron: Balint wants executive branch to usurp her power
Vermont Senate Majority Leader Becca Balint doesn’t understand the role of the Legislature. Would she continue this error as a Congresswoman?
For third time, elites try to rid rural Vermont of residents
For the third time in less than 100 years, urban elites are trying to empty rural Vermont of its poor people. (Fourth, if you count the eugenics legislation.)
Kelley: Poor, rural students are being cheated
The Legislature’s school funding formula harms rural, poor students, former Hazen school board chair says.
Respirator expert: the safety hazards of masks
Nuclear power plant respiratory gear expert talks from experience about what real mask protection looks like, and what it doesn’t.
Hansen: The Fine Line Between Making History and Trouble
Vermont women are expected to wait their turn while the men hold the big seats.
No parental OK required for State of VT kiddie condom giveaway
Parental permission has gone by the wayside in Vermont, as the state ushers in condoms for all.
Response to William Schubart: who gets to decide hate speech?
Just who are the hate speakers?
John Locke reminds us about Consent of the Governed
What would the father of modern liberalism say about today’s delegated government?
Rand Paul leading the way to freedom
Sen. Rand Paul is one of the few Republican leaders really challenging the Fauci/Biden vaccine policy.
All dogs go to Heaven
A Montpelier flower shop’s best customer service rep leaves behind a tail-wagging legacy of lessons in love.
Keelan: 254 climate goals for your New Year
Weatherize 90,000 Vermont homes by 2030? The VCC must have never heard of the phrase “situational awareness.”
Cleaning out your pockets with the Clean Heat Standard
Out with the TCI, in with the Clean Heat Standard – the renewable industry’s latest scheme to make Vermonters pay for their products.
Jeffries: real reason behind holiday supply chain woes
Cartoonist Dan Jeffries unravels the complex problems causing the 2021 Christmas holiday supply chain problem.
Searching for healing, common ground
Fractured Vermonters can find common ground in our common, human rights.
Behind closed doors, Proposal 5 leaves Roe v. Wade in the dust
Proposal 5’s dark possibilities: abortion throughout all nine months, underage abortions, gender transformation, sterilizations, and more.
McClaughry: CNN blames ‘a car’ for Waukesha mass killing
Just say it, CNN: a BLM supporter murdered six people by hitting them with a car.
Lawrence: why does Digger author dislike Trumpsters?
Ron Lawrence asks why a VT Digger write demonizes pro-Trump Republicans.
Johnny Bananas: a merry little Christmas tune brought to you by COVID
The 12 Days of Christmas goes COVID!
McClaughry: Capital gains tax hike would stifle innovation
Democrats are now proposing to sharply raise capital gain taxes, which would kill incentives to invest in new businesses.
Evslin: vax freedom has consequences
In Singapore, vax resisters must pay for their Covid-19 treatment. With freedom comes responsibility.
Felker: There is no such thing as collective liberty
“Collective” liberty or individual liberty? Burlington GOP chair urges city council to choose the latter. It doesn’t.
Roper: Town A residents can vote in Town B election? Say it ain’t so!
What’s worse than non-residents deciding local elections? State election officials who don’t understand Vermont election law or have no interest in enforcing it.
Bananas: beware the Moronic Variant
Delta, Omicron, yadayadayada. The Moronic Variant is among you – you moron!
Krauss: less electoral beauty pageant, more job interview
Elections should be like job interviews – a time to ask politicians the tough, important questions before you decide whether to hire them.
Keelan: The season of giving with fossil fuel fees
The collapse of the TCI is an early Christmas present. But our joy may be short-lived.
Climate warriors hope ‘Clean Heat Standard’ succeeds where carbon tax, TCI failed
The carbon tax struck out. TCI struck out. Next up at the plate: the Clean Heat Standard.
Dodge: St. J lawmaker hypes climate fear
Citing scientific facts gets you precisely nowhere against the entrenched Vermont media and government-renewable power complex, J.T. Dodge learned. But he’s not giving up.
Iselin: The snare of the COVID vaccine
Dr. Michael Yeadon former V.P. and chief scientist at Pfizer, says the Covid vaccine agenda is ”evil”. Dr. Robert Malone, the actual discoverer of mRna technology, advises people not to take the vaccines.
McDonald: Let’s be honest about public employee compensation
A public employee pension liability of $4.5 billion and growing can’t be ignored any longer.
Krauss: New pool of candidates needed to lead Vermont
Vermont needs new leaders. Vets, moms, and coaches make good natural leaders, a retired legislator and human resources executive says.
McClaughry: a socialist faces reality
A socialist author warns fellow believers to get ready for a long, hard slog.
Bananas: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Rioting Safely
For your rioting, safety wear at least one bullet-proof layer so as not to get “Ritten-housed.”
Mayor Weinberger comment on Kyle Rittenhouse shows disdain for facts, law, Constitution
Miro Weinberger’s take on the Kyle Rittenhouse decision disdains the facts, the law, and the Constitution.
McClaughry: Thomas Jefferson and public debt
Thomas Jefferson would abhor the large-scale printing of paper money by our current federal government.
Mazur: Debt $300 billion and rising
Federal interest payments consume $300B of our taxes and it’s projected to grow faster as debt and interest rates increase.
Warner: Demagogues, drama a recipe for disaster
Perhaps the most overlooked role in the drama is that of the rescuer. Rescuers are often well intended ideologues or narcissists who confuse their rescuing help as an excuse to play God.
Sec State’s office trying to cut red tape in professional regulation
Vermont must continue to streamline professional licensure to meet its workforce needs and to make the state an attractive, competitive, and rational place to work and live.
Flemming: Cut down forest to build solar panels?
Cut down carbon-eating forest to make room for a zillion solar panels? Mebbe not, Climate Council told.
Licata: deconstructing America’s founding principles with lies
Progressivism is a euphemism for socialism, and today’s “progressives” rejects reason, rationality, and open debate.
Stella: No to Municipal Mask Mandate
Medical mandates under Emergency Use Authorization – including the forced wearing of masks – are illegal and unconstitutional. And there are physical downsides.
Keelan: The unifier has not been unifying
Ten months into the Biden Presidency, and the country is more divided than ever.
A Johnny Bananas World Exclusive: the search for Brandon’s diaries
Fake news reporter Johnny Bananas is reading Brandon’s diary. Suddenly, there is a knock at the door.
Bowen: Move on from failed vax, mask policy
Vermont, the heavily vaccinated and masked state, has much higher illness rate than mandate-free Texas and Florida. Time to admit they were right and we were wrong about natural immunity.
Peterson: mask mandate legislators voted for unhealthy abortion, marijuana laws
Mask mandaters in the Vermont Legislature seem unconcerned about the health and safety consequences of the abortion and marijuana laws they passed.
Cuba not very, very good for beisbol players
Cuba raises terrific baseball players. But like many ambitious young Vermonters, they don’t stay.
Davis: Why this gun owner is a Libertarian
Over time, our gun rights were bartered away by Republicans and the NRA, Gun Owners of VT and Libertarian Eric Davis says.
VT ballot law ignores safeguards
While dismissing concerns as ‘disinformation,’ VT Secretary of State demanded and got a mailed ballot law that ignores safeguards for election integrity.
Turner: six ways to get Vermonters working
Former lawmaker Don Turner outlines six ways Vermont can find workers for the 23,000 open jobs.
Siegel: New homeless hotel rules should consider danger of hypothermia
As winter approaches, state officials overseeing the homeless hotel program should take seriously the risk of hypothermia in temperatures over 20 degrees.
Page: Vermont and Verona
Vermont, Verona.
Evslin: Election results show how much Trump hurt Republicans in 2020
“Many of the swing votes for Biden in 2020 from independents and moderate Republicans (like me) were actually anti-Trump votes,” Tom Evslin says.
Pro-pot billionaires funded misinformation
Pro-pot billionaires like George Soros are behind the hard push to legalize the retail sale of marijuana.
Hansen: what happened in the first 100 days
As NIAID Director (a position he has held since 1984), Fauci circumvented the moratorium by offshoring the banned research to China, while keeping the federal government in the dark. He and his colleagues would bury this fact by wielding pseudoscience (to establish a natural origin for the virus), and ridiculing skeptics as conspiracists and anti-Chinese racists.
Jeffries: “Let’s Go Brandon!”
Political cartoonist Dan Jeffries imagines the selectboard rebranding the town of Brandon, Vermont. What could go wrong?
“A very special day” in Virginia, former VT state senator says
The impossible is really not impossible, former Vermont state senator Mark Shepard writes from his home in Virginia.
McClaughry: Holding legislators accountable
McClaughry expounds upon the virtues of single-member districts.
Lefebvre: running for GOP vice-chair
Rep. Samantha Lefebvre will seek election as vice-chair of the Vermont Republican Party this Saturday in Montpelier.
Jeffries: Angel on His Shoulder
Political cartoonist remembers former Vermont Gov. Richard Snelling – and what he might have said about mask mandates.
The Season of the Political Witch: Manipulation, Intimidation, Domination
We are in a season of manipulation, intimidation, and domination.
Dark origins of Grimm’s fairy tales
The little-known, diabolically dark, gruesome, and gory ingredients of Grimm’s fairy tales.
My search for Brandon
In a fit of flabbergasty, I yelled out blasphemously, ‘Let’s Go Brandon!’
Flemming: the Mack Truck headed straight for you
High taxes, unapproved by Legislature. Bans on heating and cooking with gas and oil. Fewer cows! Electric vehicles ONLY. Gosh, what’s not to like about Vermont’s proposed “Global Warming Solutions”?
Condos: Beware mal-information! Trust only primary, official sources
“Mal-information” can lead to violence, Secretary of State Jim Condos says. So ‘look only to primary, official sources for your information.’
Dr. Reider: pushing Covid shot on children is medical abuse
Is it ethical to use children as a means to protect the old and frail, particularly when that strategy has never been proven? Haven’t they sacrificed and suffered enough?
Evslin: Climate crowd should count trees, too
Vermont’s REAL carbon numbers show we’re already well on our way to meeting stringent goals.
Keelan: Renewable power anything but ‘local’
The climate mongers want Vermont to stop sending energy money out of state. Problem: almost all of the wood pellet, hydro and nuclear power we’ll need to replace fossil fuels must be bought from out of state.
Davis: Alec Baldwin was responsible
Alec Baldwin personally broke every single rule of basic firearm safety that exists, the president of the Gun Owners of Vermont says.
Climate Council Crack Up
A Mack truck of expensive climate reduction recommendations are coming our way. State officials are already preparing for the worst – electorally speaking.
Spence: single-member House districts benefit minorities
The Vermont Legislature should walk the talk about systemic racism and do away with multi-member House districts, which minority leaders in Vermont and nationwide say do harm to minority representation.
Eshelman: bipolar America
America oscillates between moral arrogance and ritualized self-abasement.
Weaponizing the IRS
If Biden REALLY wants to stop tax evasion among the rich, why would he target bank accounts and transactions of $600?
McClaughry: school choice would lower heat on CRT
Vermont’s professional class of educators agrees: decisions about our children’s education are too important to be left to unqualified parents.
Evslin: how many have died due to booster delay?
Inaction by the Biden administration is killing people willing to be vaccinated by denying them the shots they need.
