In what has become an annual story with the predictability of the seasons, Vermonters are about to get whacked with a huge increase in their health insurance premiums.
Banana’s: New Underground Railroads Emerge Along West Coast
Reports of a new underground railroad spiriting people from captivity on the west coast have emerged in recent days. Families, mostly white, conservative, and/or Christians, are leaving in the dead of night via a network of rural routes and safe houses.
Are Sanders and Leahy Off the Hook for Their Part in Scheme to Defraud Foreign Investors?
Elected officials in Vermont at both the state and federal levels will not have to take the stand and explain their part in a years-long multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme to defraud foreign investors. The state has settled out of court.
Net Metering with Solar Panels: a Closer Look
For years, the state of Vermont has subsidized solar panels, especially through its vaunted net metering program, in which electricity customers pay increased electricity rates to support the installation of rooftop solar panel arrays. The panels collect energy from the sun to serve residences.
Want a Balanced Checkbook? Yes, It DOES Have to Be Republicans.
At the end of June, shortly after the Democrat supermajority overrode almost every veto Phil Scott issued, including that of the budget, in what seemed like less time than it takes to get a cup of coffee at Starbucks, a reporter asked the governor, “What are you going to do to get more Republicans in office?”
Does Vermont See 6 More Inches of Precipitation Every Year Than It Did Before the 1960s?
Vermont Public, the local Nancy Pelosi Radio (NPR) online affiliate (maybe gang is a better term), has a bit about the rain in the state capital of Montpelier. “Montpelier sets rainfall record for July.”
Statism and the Unmaking of Reality
The state is, first and foremost, an institution whose overarching goal is the forcible subjugation of all the people who inhabit a given territory. However, what makes the state different from other coercive entities, such as organized crime groups, is that it enjoys some form of popular legitimacy. In other words, in addition to enslaving … Read more
Vermont Looks for a Way to Bribe People Into less Reliable Transportation
Electric vehicles are not better for the environment, regardless of the electricity source. EVs do not solve any emissions problem, may make them worse, are also unreliable and ill-suited to a rural-urban climate, but Burlington, Vermont, is thinking, bribes!
‘Facebook Files’ Reveal Despicable Disregard for the Constitution
Last week’s revelation that Facebook took orders from the Biden Administration to censor even accurate information about Covid is the latest example of the US government’s disregard for our Constitution.
NY Unlikely to Save VT Climate Plan – (Empire Staters just as clueless about how to meet GHG goals)
Vermont’s Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) requires our state to meet some very stringent greenhouse gas reduction targets in 2025, 2030, and 2050. To be precise, 26% below 2005 levels by 2025, 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80% below by 2050.
When it Comes to Wind Farm Bat and Bird Strikes How Many is ‘Not Many’?
The Vermont Public Utilities Commission has instructed Avangrid Renewables to no longer track and report bat and bird strikes (deaths) at its 15-turbine Deerfield Wind project in Searsburg and Readsboro. Why?
Copeland-Hanzas’ and Her Party’s Climate Policy Sets Up More Disasters
Vermonters just witnessed the worst flooding since Irene in 2011, which was the worst flooding since the summer of 1998, which was the worst flooding since 1976, which was the worst flooding since 1938, which was the worst flooding since the most famous of all floods, the one in 1927.
Shouldn’t Reproductive Liberty Include the Option to Reproduce?
Pregnancy care centers have filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Vermont for injunctive relief, claiming a bill signed into law discriminates against them and violates their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. I agree, and I’ll do you one better.
Is Vermont’s “Double Tax” on EVs Really the Problem?
Vermont goes out of its way to steal from its citizens. They are one of the most taxed populations in the US. So an op-ed by EV advocates concerned that vehicle and charging taxes might impact economically vulnerable populations seemed worth my time.
Your Kid’s School Went ‘Woke’? Consider Homeschool.
“Woke” culture has become so prominent in the American education system that it would not be surprising to learn that schools were replacing the once popular rhyme “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” with “sticks and stones may break my bones but opinions I disagree with can make … Read more
BANANAS: CHAT-GPT Writes Sermon, Calls Vermont to Repentance
The faithful at Rabbi Schmuley Bojangles synagogue in Woodstock, VT, were shocked this past Sabbath when they found out the sermon he delivered was not his own. After slugging out another round of expository preaching from the book of Ecclesiastes, the rabbi announced to his stunned listeners that he had committed plagiarism from the pulpit. … Read more
Climate Change and Gravity Are Kind of Different
In the wake of the recent floods in Vermont, it is no surprise that the climate change activists have gone into “See! See! See!” mode and are labeling anyone who disagrees with their conclusions as a “denier.” In two separate op-eds, two state senators, Dick McCormack (D-Windsor) and Tanya Vyhovsky (D/P-Chittenden Central), tried to equate … Read more
Whose Fault Is This?
The Constitution was supposed to create a general government limited to a few specific listed powers. Instead, we ended up with the biggest, most powerful government in the history of the world.
“The Once in a Century Floods Which Happen Every 10-20 Years.”
The Vermont Press is “flooded” with stories about the heavy rain and damage to livelihoods and lives as a result. Residents are sharing stories spun by the media with the typical bias, ignorance, and incomplete research we’ve come to expect, especially on weather events.
Don’t Be Fooled by “Global Average Temperature”
Last week was a banner week for climate crisis headlines. Washington Post: “The world is hotter than it’s been in thousands of years.” AP: “For the third time this week, Earth sets unofficial heat record.” Politico: “Scientists are freaking out about surging temperatures.”