Cut down carbon-eating forest to make room for a zillion solar panels? Mebbe not, Climate Council told.
Cut down carbon-eating forest to make room for a zillion solar panels? Mebbe not, Climate Council told.
Progressivism is a euphemism for socialism, and today’s “progressives” rejects reason, rationality, and open debate.
Medical mandates under Emergency Use Authorization – including the forced wearing of masks – are illegal and unconstitutional. And there are physical downsides.
Ten months into the Biden Presidency, and the country is more divided than ever.
Fake news reporter Johnny Bananas is reading Brandon’s diary. Suddenly, there is a knock at the door.
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.
Mask mandaters in the Vermont Legislature seem unconcerned about the health and safety consequences of the abortion and marijuana laws they passed.
Cuba raises terrific baseball players. But like many ambitious young Vermonters, they don’t stay.
Over time, our gun rights were bartered away by Republicans and the NRA, Gun Owners of VT and Libertarian Eric Davis says.
While dismissing concerns as ‘disinformation,’ VT Secretary of State demanded and got a mailed ballot law that ignores safeguards for election integrity.
Former lawmaker Don Turner outlines six ways Vermont can find workers for the 23,000 open jobs.
As winter approaches, state officials overseeing the homeless hotel program should take seriously the risk of hypothermia in temperatures over 20 degrees.
Vermont, Verona.
“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 like George Soros are behind the hard push to legalize the retail sale of marijuana.
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.
Political cartoonist Dan Jeffries imagines the selectboard rebranding the town of Brandon, Vermont. What could go wrong?
The impossible is really not impossible, former Vermont state senator Mark Shepard writes from his home in Virginia.
McClaughry expounds upon the virtues of single-member districts.
Rep. Samantha Lefebvre will seek election as vice-chair of the Vermont Republican Party this Saturday in Montpelier.
Political cartoonist remembers former Vermont Gov. Richard Snelling – and what he might have said about mask mandates.
We are in a season of manipulation, intimidation, and domination.
The little-known, diabolically dark, gruesome, and gory ingredients of Grimm’s fairy tales.
In a fit of flabbergasty, I yelled out blasphemously, ‘Let’s Go Brandon!’
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”?
“Mal-information” can lead to violence, Secretary of State Jim Condos says. So ‘look only to primary, official sources for your information.’
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?
Vermont’s REAL carbon numbers show we’re already well on our way to meeting stringent goals.
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.
Alec Baldwin personally broke every single rule of basic firearm safety that exists, the president of the Gun Owners of Vermont says.
A Mack truck of expensive climate reduction recommendations are coming our way. State officials are already preparing for the worst – electorally speaking.
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.
America oscillates between moral arrogance and ritualized self-abasement.
If Biden REALLY wants to stop tax evasion among the rich, why would he target bank accounts and transactions of $600?
Vermont’s professional class of educators agrees: decisions about our children’s education are too important to be left to unqualified parents.
Inaction by the Biden administration is killing people willing to be vaccinated by denying them the shots they need.
We can never become a force that weighs its obedience against our own political ideologies. “Embrace the suck” or get out.
Ultimately, Planned Parenthood is an abortion business.
How many ways have things gone wrong since January 20? Frank Mazur is keeping track. It’s a big job.
Maybe we could have worded it better.
Americans are finally holding the CRT Equity bagmen on the school boards accountable.
A Jericho mother of a Down Syndrome child says abortion is reducing the number of babies born with Down syndrome each year by one-third. And yet, this eugenic practice is what the Legislature wants enshrined in the state Constitution.
To be honored by the woke mob, and to be left to rest in peace, they are demanding that Lincoln literally pardon murderers and rapists.
When I saw Dan Jeffries’ cartoon last week, I realized that now is our Tieneman Square moment. We stand now or let Washington roll over us.
In April 2020, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci announced that antiviral remdesivir (sold by Gilead Sciences at $3,120 per patient for a treatment course) would become the standard of care for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. This decision came in spite of international studies proving that remdesivir does not provide significant clinical benefits.
Cutting cow flatulence will ultimately mean cutting the number of cows. And farms.
I drive by people all the time who carry signs saying they can’t find work or need help. Niki saw something I didn’t. Something that compelled her.
Benjamin Franklin understood the principle that makes the Constitution of the United States the most unique anti-authoritarian document of its kind.
Even the most red-inked municipalities can find money for expensive items they really want. Like police oversight studies.
Working really hard is what successful people do. The most selfish thing you can do is helping someone else, because that’s where the joy is. And other great advice from Denzel in this nine minute video released last month.
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!
In what other situation are we allowed to kill to make our lives easier?
It’s cool to sport a keffiyeh and be a pro-Palestine activist, especially on campus, where left-wing academics indoctrinate our impressionable youth, as well as bully and alienate Jewish and Christian students.
Forced equality leads to the worst inequality of all.
Biden’s energy policies are a de facto carbon tax because they discourage consumers from buying gasoline. But taxes also are supposed to separate the citizen from his/her money and route it to the government. That’s where the TCI comes in.
Public health leaders begat this new disregard for disease-acquired immunity because rational reasoning is not politically expedient in a pandemic.
Despite raising heavy taxes, the Vermont Legislature has severely underfunded pensions while not reducing poverty. Solution: reduce programs, not taxpayer incomes.
Vermont climate planners care ONLY about emissions reduction. If biodiversity suffers, that’s not their problem.
On September 24, VT Dept. of Health statistics showed the total number of white people testing positive suddenly decreased by 1800 people. The same day the number of ‘other’ rose by about 3000. A trained virologist and teacher wonders what explains this overnight change.
Vermont conservatives should fret less about ‘RINO’ Phil Scott and think more about regaining the Legislature. If that happens, they might see a more conservative chief executive, says former Vermont Senate colleague Mark Shepard.
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.
Rather than misrepresenting in order to malign, as Schubart does, I urge the Reader to employ the “steel man” technique and consider the strongest form of the right’s positions.
Ingalls’ response to Bill Schubart’s critique of GOP included the observation that VTDigger is “an affinity space where old political hacks can gather.”
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.
If government can’t tell people what to do with their bodies, it can’t tell them they have to be vaccinated.
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.
Fear rules in electoral politics. And fear of the virus helped Gavin Newsom defeat the recall.
At the present rate, Social Security will be broke by 2034. And none of the fixes are easy.
Parents in Mendon and Chittenden “understood the issues: that school choice is more equitable; that each child is different and has different educational needs– that without school choice, those needs will not be met.”
Gordon Chang, a China expert frequently quoted in national publications, indicates that the Chinese Communists Party (CCP) has declared war against Americans. With current policies proposed by President Biden and his party, the CCP objective is on its way to fruition.
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
If the three state troopers accused of making fake Covid vax cards feel ‘vaccination or else’ is a threat to their health and even their lives, they could argue self-defense, a former prosecutor and pharmacist says.
Call it fate, call it karma, but redistricting doesn’t always work out so well for the gerrymandering Party in Power.
Bernie’s porn essay was laughed off by talk show host Seth Meyers and the #MeToo crowd.
Should government money pay for religious schools? John McClaughry traces the history of this contentious issue.
How Johnny Bananas got his start writing fake news. Because hopelessly bored minds want to know.