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It’s Time For A Change
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.
Pathetic start to the 2022 session
The decision to go remote for “just” two weeks puts the Vermont Legislature off to a pathetic start.
Keelan: Don’t be a cop in Vermont
Just what Vermont’s critical police shortage needs: a new law that would make it much easier for crooks to sue the cops who apprehend them.
School masking not so black and white
While there is some evidence to suggest that masking in schools is an effective mitigation measure, it is not backed by the most rigorous research.
Jeffries: the next Covid casualty?
We’ve already lost so much. Could loss of more gun rights be next?
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.
