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.

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.