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Night Cap: The New Klan with a Nazi Twist

May 4, 2024 Rob Roper

Watching enormous crowds of Americans shouting blatantly racist chants in support of an agenda that is unapologetically genocidal, and backed by internationally recognized terrorist organizations – met with at best indifference and at worst the active support of our elite institutions of government, news media, education, and entertainment — I can’t help but think, this … Read more

Bananas: Governor Scott Hires Ted Lasso To Save Economy

May 3, 2024 Johnny Bananas (Fake News Reporter!)

After seeing his state holding down the second worst spot in the country for economic prospects Governor Scott reached out to coach extraordinaire Ted Lasso in hopes he can work his magic to turn around Vermont’s bleak future.

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Night Cap: Food, Famine, Fear: Beware the Great Agricultural Reset

May 1, 2024 Rob Roper

Americans awakening to the Orwellian Rule of Joe Biden and his crew of thieves have noticed that the perpetual lying is designed to inculcate pliancy through fear. When the COVID-19 hysteria began to wane, Big Brother Biden switched gears to the Ukraine crisis.

A Modest Proposal for the Homeless Hotel Debacle

April 30, 2024 Rob Roper

It seems like we are enduring a constant kerfuffle over whether or not to extend the now-ended federally funded COVID-emergency “hotels for homeless” program with state tax dollars. Lots of them. Twenty million here, thirty million there….

Night Cap: Howard Dean Might Be Running for Governor of Vermont Again

July 16, 2024April 29, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Once Upon a Time, Howard Dean was the governor of Vermont. He ran for president a few cycles back (2004) and was doing well until the infamous scream in Iowa. The young folks loved him, but it flattened his curve, and John Kerry went on to win the party nomination. Dean’s not been idle but hasn’t run for elective office since.

ICYMI – Is Grooming Children for Gender Change (Behind Parents’ Backs) The Crime of the Century?

April 29, 2024 John Klar

Over the last year, Vermont’s school board disputes have revealed the same pattern of a unilateral ideology dominating school boards and attacking anyone who dares differ with the cultish frenzy of agitation behind “woke” CRT and transgender activists who have infested government and public schools.

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Property ‘Tax Relief’ Means Property Taxes Will Go Up But Less Than They’d Like

April 28, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Democrats in Vermont are like Democrats in New Hampshire, New York, California, and the District of Catastrophe (DC). There’s no such thing as too much spending or too much taxation but for sh! ts and giggles, they like to call it things like tax relief. As in, we’d like to relieve you of more of your income with more taxes.

More Independent Schools and More Choice Are the Property Tax Solution

April 28, 2024 Rob Roper

Vermont taxpayers are desperate for relief, especially in regard to funding public education. The only way to provide that relief is to return spending levels on Pre-K to 12^th to something resembling normal pre-Covid levels.

If Biden’s EPA Really Cares about Pollution…

April 27, 2024 John Klar

A proposed EPA rule mandating more stringent effluent limitations for nitrogen, and adding phosphorus for the first time, would impose high costs on approximately 850 of the nation’s meat and poultry processing (MPP) facilities. Some processors will be compelled to close due to prohibitive costs. Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s vaunted PFAS reporting rules merely monitor ongoing water … Read more

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Transgender Surgery Is the Lobotomy of the 21st Century

April 25, 2024 John Klar

Psychology is a “science” that studies human behavior but is itself morally bankrupt. That is, psychology is unable to scientifically define normality. It can’t. “Normal” depends on what the society (through “norms”) or the patient views as morally correct.

Democrat Supermajority Has No Interest in Solving the Property Tax Mess They Made

April 23, 2024 Rob Roper

Democrats in the State House were parading around this week with a banner insisting, “If you make a mess, you clean it up!” Yeah! Big talk! They think this should apply to oil companies regarding climate change (another story I’ll get to soon), but apply that message to themselves regarding the colossal property tax tsunami of a mess they’ve made for us. Well, not so much.

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G.E.T. R.E.A.L! T: Transportation Infrastructure (AKA Fix the Roads!)

April 23, 2024 Op-Ed

G.E.T. R.E.A.L. is a solemn promise and a positive path forward for our state by Vermont Republicans focused on improving the quality of life of our people. It is a prescription of policy proposals, and this is the fourth in a series of essays explaining the program.

EPA Rules on Forever Chemicals Will Take Forever to Do Anything

April 21, 2024 John Klar

Biden’s EPA has announced new rules for Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), more commonly known as forever chemicals since they do not break down in the environment and build up in human bodies.

Gender Indoctrination in Vermont schools

April 21, 2024 John Klar

“As a matter of law, young children cannot properly assess the risks of taking testosterone, let alone surgically mutilating their bodies and embracing infertility.”

They Made an Environmental Law So Huge No One Knows How to “Lift It”

April 18, 2024 Steve MacDonald

George Carlin used to tell jokes about his time in Catholic school and his smart-ass interactions with The Church, like asking a priest if God is so powerful that he can create a rock so large that he himself can’t lift it. A similar situation has arisen closer to Earth. Vermont close.

Vermont Tax Revolt Continues …

July 16, 2024April 17, 2024 Op-Ed

The 2024 Property Tax Revolt continues, with two more budgets going down to defeat last week. As reported in VDC, 30 school districts rejected budgets March 5. Since then, five of six revotes (known to VDC) failed.

Climate Farming Dreams are a Nightmare for Diners

April 17, 2024 John Klar

A recent study of Burmese pythons concludes that snake meat is more efficient to produce than traditional livestock, making it a viable protein alternative to cows or pigs. Given the primeval human aversion to snakes, this menu item may be a harder sell even than crickets or faux-meat nuggets. However, the omissions and biases inherent … Read more

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New ‘Green’ Building Code to Dominate Housing Construction

April 16, 2024 John Klar

The announcement of a “model” international building code might understandably elicit yawns. However, the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is cause for Americans to bolt upright and pay close attention. The vain imaginings of corporate and NGO “stakeholders” who propose to completely dominate American housing construction in the name of saving the planet promise … Read more

The Clean Heat Standard is too complicated to implement

April 17, 2024April 16, 2024 Rob Roper

The Clean Heat Standard (CHS), the “Rube Goldberg” carbon tax on home heating fuels, became law almost a year ago over the veto of Governor Scott. The Democrat/Progressive supermajority that passed the CHS did so without providing – or even considering in any significant detail – how it would work or what it would cost. … Read more

Climate Fear, Rewilding, the Green New Deal, and Other Absurdities

April 16, 2024 John Klar

One of the most prescient, intelligent, passionate voices defending rural lands and rural agriculture has been lifelong Democrat Wendell Berry (though Wendell will tell you that he has no allegiance to any one party). The current Democratic Party appears to have no use for the considered wisdom of this Kentucky farmer, just as it has abandoned Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Jefferson, and the Kennedy legacy.