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America isn’t “One Nation” and that Matters

August 12, 2023 Op-Ed

The Pledge of Allegiance is wrong. These United States are not “one nation, indivisible.” They are a federation. This may seem like semantical nitpicking, but it is an extremely important distinction that impacts how we understand the powers of the general government. Black’s Law Dictionary explains the difference between a federal and a national government. … Read more

Vermont Warns Residents About Flood-Related Scams, Fails to Mention Its Own Fraud

August 11, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The people who would use a disaster for their financial advantage are not very different from those who do the same from elected office. The latter has a police force, a flimsy claim to a popular mandate, and pays lip series to justice, but the criminality isn’t much different.

Are Some on the Left Realizing VT Climate Policy Is a Useless Waste?

August 23, 2023August 11, 2023 Rob Roper

A couple of left-wing columnists recently penned articles lamenting the fact that Montpelier keeps flooding every decade or so, yet local and state governments don’t do anything about it and aren’t prepared for it when it happens. A keen observation.

The Sanders Institute for Laundering Campaign Cash Into Relatives Pockets

October 25, 2023August 10, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The Sanders Institute might feel the Bern after a recent Fox News report that showed 200K from Senator Sander’s Campaign funds getting shoveled into the nonprofit created by his wife and stepson to…pay his stepson a “living wage.”

Let Health Insurance Be Insurance Again

August 23, 2023August 8, 2023 Rob Roper

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.

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Banana’s: New Underground Railroads Emerge Along West Coast

August 8, 2023 Johnny Bananas (Fake News Reporter!)

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?

August 7, 2023 Steve MacDonald

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

August 23, 2023August 4, 2023 John Klar

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.

August 23, 2023August 3, 2023 Rob Roper

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?”

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Does Vermont See 6 More Inches of Precipitation Every Year Than It Did Before the 1960s?

July 16, 2024August 3, 2023 Steve MacDonald

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

August 2, 2023 Op-Ed

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

July 16, 2024August 1, 2023 Steve MacDonald

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!

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‘Facebook Files’ Reveal Despicable Disregard for the Constitution

August 1, 2023 Op-Ed

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.

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NY Unlikely to Save VT Climate Plan – (Empire Staters just as clueless about how to meet GHG goals)

August 23, 2023July 31, 2023 Rob Roper

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.

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When it Comes to Wind Farm Bat and Bird Strikes How Many is ‘Not Many’?

July 31, 2023 Steve MacDonald

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

August 23, 2023July 28, 2023 Rob Roper

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?

July 26, 2023July 26, 2023 Steve MacDonald

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?

July 16, 2024July 26, 2023 Steve MacDonald

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.

July 26, 2023 Op-Ed

“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

July 16, 2024July 24, 2023 Johnny Bananas (Fake News Reporter!)

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