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.

Sanders should speak to Florida’s Cuban population before he decides to sing the praises of a murderous tyrant like Fidel Castro.

Will Vermont join California in boycotting other, less woke states? And if so, will UVM sports be the tool?

Left-leaning Ben & Jerry’s boycotts Israel, but still makes a big killing on Bing Keeling in China.

My classmates learned that I could exceed expectations of even the average girl. And our Math Teams WON while I was Captain.

What parents are awakening to is that their children are being told the lie that America has made little or no racial progress and therefore its legal, economic and political systems must be turned upside down.

Are Vermont students even being taught the 1300-year record of the black slave trade beneath the whip of Arab-Moslem masters?

New York City makes it almost impossible to get a permit to carry a firearm for self-protection. Here’s what TV journalist John Stossel had to do when he applied.

Marx, like so many others, virtually plagiarizes the teachings of Jesus. 

The proponents of this teaching will negatively teach our children and grandchildren to hate, be racist, and to judge all people by the color of their skin.

All of a sudden we see a move to defund the police, move BIPOC to the head of the line, allow 16-year-olds to vote, ensure that mail-in balloting is the way to vote, tax 200 new goods and services and shame all white Vermonters. What’s the hurry?

Action Civics is the beginning of recruitment efforts to pit children against their parents for not supporting ‘equity’ and ‘inclusion’ – in other words, the neo-racist policies designed for the institution of communism in the U.S.

The car is on a narrow mountain road with a 3000 foot drop off to the left and a solid cliff on the right. It comes around a turn and there are four children unaccountably in the road. There is not enough space to stop or even slow down substantially. The car knows that.

On our nation’s 245th birthday, it would be nice to set our eyes on the window displaying blue skies. Instead, we see storm clouds.

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision allowing electoral freedom to states made Sen. Patrick Leahy go all Elmer Fudd.

In what is believed to be the first time a carbon tax has been put to a national vote, upscale urban regions including Geneva, Basel, and Zurich voted in favor of the CO2 law, but 51.6 per cent of voters, and 21 of the country’s 26 cantons, said “get out of here with your carbon tax”.

A new law, crafted and pushed by the special interest group Let’s Grow Kids, could have major negative consequences for children, families, and taxpayers.

America, and the West in general, have become almost unrecognizable from what they were not that long ago.

Vermonters might remind Senator Leahy that the real White House was partially constructed by black slaves. The private clubs that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) frequents apparently aren’t eager to admit many of those ancestors as club members.

The Vermont Proposition is a sincere liberal’s dream for somehow ending racism, reducing inequality, defeating poverty,  countering the menace of climate change, and replacing grassroots democracy with a hugely expanded and unaccountable administrative state.  Put it back on the shelf.

We don’t need to defund the police. Your sheriff is the highest elected local law enforcement officer and authorized to intervene on your behalf if other police step on your constitutional rights.

How Fox News, CNN, Joe Biden and Donald Trump might react to news of aliens of the extraterrestial kind.

The police we (Congress) need to defend us are overworked, stressed out, and lacking equipment, Sen. Patrick Leahy told his fellow senators. Solution: more, not less, funding.

What a racist scumbag Marx was. Do socialists know this? Does Bernie?

Without the sacrifice made by hundreds of thousands of white men, and that of their families, there would be no Juneteenth.

Speaking/singing are integral to developing a strong sense of self. If infringed upon, this will lead to a general thwarting of the human spirit.

Ask yourself: Is Critical Race Theory taught to our children in such a way that they are able to see alternative views? Are these alternative views studied as part of the curriculum and with respect?

School choice will benefit everybody. If you really believe in a social justice – the real thing, not just a bumper sticker slogan — school choice for everyone should be an easy cause to embrace.

meeting. Libertarianism is a philosophy of voluntary action being morally superior to coercive action. When it comes time to vote on just about any issue, Pearson has chosen coercion over liberty just about every time, as you can see from his Roll Call Profile. His insistence on codes being “not voluntary” is just the latest case in a long-standing trend.

Today we should be proud as Vermonters. Around the country we are witnessing an assault on voting rights, as state legislatures use conspiracy theories and lies as cover to restrict the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of American voters.

Seeing the freshmen class of some 30 or so legislators, many younger than my own children, made me feel like the old dog I am. The question was, could I learn new tricks.

The good news is that the legislation referred to as H.157 did not make it over the finish line last month before the Vermont General Assembly had adjourned. The bill, which passed the House, would have required construction contractors who work on residential projects over $2,500 to register with the State of Vermont’s Office of Professional Regulation by April 2022. 

Think about it. If Democrats can easily force small changes in our Constitution, what’s to stop them from making large changes? It’s extremely important that we-the-people firmly protect the only document that protects our rights. 

I am not a proponent of Critical Race Theory, as I am firmly convinced that this political agenda broadens the societal gap, and honestly, takes us all back to pre-civil rights times, where folk are wrongly judged by race, religion, creed, sex or national origin. I believe it is nonsense to subjectively evaluate people based on the color of their skin, rather than based on character, academic achievement, team playing ability and determination.

We’ve entered into a new era in America. It is an era where those who identify in any of a multitude of victim classes have banded together to form a monolithic body politic who have managed to use their weaknesses, and perceived weaknesses, as the justification for enacting political and cultural tyranny on those who they perceive as their oppressors. 

They gave their lives so that this collection of 50 states could carry on with the novel idea that citizens would govern themselves.

n May 10, closer to home in Pittsford, a memorial ceremony was held at the Vermont Criminal Justice Training Academy. The annual event remembered and rendered respect to the 40 Vermont law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty in the past 213 years. 

Right now the unvaccinated are taking a risk with their own lives. Unfairly the final vaccine holdouts will be parasites on the partial herd immunity achieved by the rest of us getting vaccinated and will be danger to those who can’t get vaccinated or have weak immune systems and provide a breeding ground for new variants which could be vaccine resistant. We may still need to make vaccination compulsory.