Does Facebook ‘misinform’? Sure. Should government decide what’s misinformation? A citizen from Kirby says no.

Like some Germans of not so long ago, will we just sing a little louder?

To selectively abort based on a Down Syndrome diagnosis is eugenics writ large.

As seen with Ahab, God does not give a pass for government to commit evil acts. Neither does He to those who empower government bad-actors.

Any lawmaker who votes for a plan that will harm the environment, cost jobs, and NOT save the planet is committing political hari-kari.

Every act of Hubris is subject to Nemesis. Another insight by http://www.granitegrok.com cartoonist Nitzakhon.

There’s nothing wrong with a company created to take advantage of business opportunities made possible by political decisions.  It’s somewhat less creditable when the owners of the company cash in on what they and their coworkers spent millions of dollars to get politicians to put in place for a decade to enable their big payday.

“Without the willingness to print differing views of the world, all we have is a propaganda machine,” the St. Johnsbury author of a recent three-part series on vax freedom says.

The United States Post Office has a strategic plan to make first class delivery slower. Adoption of this plan followed a $10 billion pandemic-related grant. Only in Washington!

Public health leaders begat this new disregard for disease-acquired immunity because rational reasoning is not politically expedient in a pandemic.

Vermont climate planners care ONLY about emissions reduction. If biodiversity suffers, that’s not their problem.

The country will be deeply damaged if there is enough evidence of fraud that the result of the coming presidential election is legitimately in doubt.

When climate feds called this July “the hottest July on record,” the Associated Press duly trumpeted the claim. Oops. They missed 1935 (and several other years).

Many thanks to cartoonist Nitzakhon and Granite Grok (New Hampshire’s conservative news and commentary website) for allowing republication of this cartoon. Submissions from Vermonters are welcome.

I can’t imagine how much work and cost it must be for a publicly-traded company to extract its carbon emissions. 

Hospitalizations and deaths – the most accurate yardstick of harm by Covid-19 – shows white Vermonters have suffered more per capita than blacks. Listening to government officials and media, you’d think the opposite was true.

Cartoon by Nitzakhon, republished from http://www.granitegrok.com.

A consultant to the Vermont Climate Council won’t recommend carbon-free ‘next gen’ nuclear power as an option worth considering. Turns out he owns a solar power company. Draw your own conclusions.

Fentanyl, bioweapons, and nukes are among the PRC’s deadly weapons, China policy expert Gordon Chang told a Williston gathering September 11.

Apologize for eugenics, push for abortion. Will our Legislature never learn?

As state and national government grow faster and faster, a Cambridge native and selectboard member praises the virtues of Slow Government.

Democrat leaders’ caterwauling about a Vermont Right to Life seminar shows they fear health care providers demanding conscience protection. It also shows their fealty to Planned Parenthood.

In the last two years many civil liberties have been curtailed. Where will it end?

We can all agree that containing this virus must not inflict irreparable damage on the developing minds and bodies of children. Masks optional!

Who are the REAL purveyors of “a growing narrative coming from outside of our borders”? The parents complaining about CRT, or the Santa Monica High School grad pushing it?

The Feds can’t control news coverage at the southern border.

A member of the Vermont Climate Council spilled the beans: even if Vermont gets to zero emissions, it won’t improve the environment at all.

To meet just an interim carbon reduction goal, the number of EVs on Vermont roads will need to increase almost 12-fold. Heat pump use will need to increase 71%. Sure hope the power doesn’t go out….

Much of Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion will bypass the voters and go directly to nonprofits.

Tonight, the City of Burlington will decide whether to support the boycott, divestment and sanction of the State of Israel.

Remembering 9/11

Bernie’s porn essay was laughed off by talk show host Seth Meyers and the #MeToo crowd.

Bernie Sanders is engaged in a do-or-die effort to enact four new lifetime entitlements—universal prekindergarten, universal child care payments, universal paid family and medical leave, and two years of community college.

The passengers on the good ship TCI are jumping for the lifeboats.

Like every other Vermont town, Charlotte is flush with federal cash. As of Labor Day, it will be sitting on a cool $1,131,574.22. The editor of the local paper outlines how this federal money can be spent. Spoiler alert: the yacht cruise with Beyonce is out.

In Vermont’s public schools, educators holding the reins of Progress are facing Vermont parents ready to fight for their traditions.

As if we didn’t have enough crises – now Americans need to wonder where violent Islamists will strike us next. Keeping Americans safe from them trumps the endless initiatives on climate change and racism.

Ronald Reagan observed, “Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” Here in Vermont, the diaper is about to explode.

Can Vermont be a template for healing America? Only if more Republicans lay down or act like Democrats, but that’s not bipartisan; it’s surrender.

Tom Evslin: “Vaccinated people are saving the lives of the unvaccinated by reducing the overall spread rate. If everyone were vaccinated, cases would quickly become rare and far between and then almost non-existent in the vaccinated population – fingers crossed on mutations and booster shots.”

Organic, practical, communal and united, Saturday’s Patriot Rally is what America still represents to many.

The growing nightmare of homelessness and rent serfdom began with the Kafkaesque nightmare familiar to Vermont developers – the state’s building permit “approval” process.

More debt, more debt, more debt. That’s all Pat Leahy has learned after 47 years in office.

House Speaker Jill Krowinski wonders when Gov. Phil Scott will require everyone – vaccinated or not – to wear masks indoors.

Unlike Madeline Kunin, many Democratic and Progressive feminists are silent about the Taliban’s harsh treatment of women, says an Addison County doctor who has worked and traveled extensively in the Muslim world.

“Our system has failed us. It has failed us big time. I am turning to you, the people, to get my story out so that in some small way it may help Vermonters keep our freedom. So that my story was not in vain.” – Newport store owner Michael Desautels

A retired Vermont National Guard officer worries that prime Afghan heroin laced with Chinese fentanyl will be easily smuggled across the southern border past Customs and Border Patrol workers preoccupied with the immigration crisis.

Road trips are the equivalent of human wings.

Granitegrok.com cartoon: Play the Clottery

Commentator Johnny Bananas imagines the Oppression Olympics.

One pandemic is bad enough. Burlington’s self-induced crime epidemic needs some tough medicine.

Democrats insist on apologies and accountability from the rest of us. Democrats must take their own advice and own up to their own endemic racism.

Wuihan to Bill Gates to the Rockefellers. Do the dots connect?

CRT holds that equal opportunity and merit are mistaken ideas. Instead, “equalizing” outcome and redistributing wealth will create a wonderful new society. NOT!

In 2007, America had one pediatric gender clinic; today there are hundreds. Testosterone is readily available to adolescents from places like Planned Parenthood and Kaiser, often on a first visit—without even a therapist’s note.

In East Warren, there were trailers, modest homes next to mansions, with no issues. Now we only have mansions.

Theoretically, many homeless people could use the $2500 from the State to acquire more permanent housing. There’s only one problem: there is no housing available.

It’s time for Vermonters to heed Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and “live not by lies.”

Disciple of physicist Richard Feynman says scientific honesty requires an open mind on the lasting effects of climate change.

What the media did not report last week is that Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in 1995 hired a well-known anti-Zionist activist. She is now Chairman of the Board at Ben & Jerry’s.

“So much of my work involves impacts to minorities, and I don’t mean necessarily the BIPOC populations. I mean people who are in the minority compared to everything else. And so, what we are doing in Vermont is a policy of sacrificing people,” Annette Smith of Vermonters for a Clean Environment told a Vermont Climate Council Subcommittee July 21.  

The next time a politician laments on the campaign trail that the rent is too high, take a moment to see if their voting record helped make it so.