McClaughry: A socialist faces reality
This can’t be good news for Bernie Sanders, who hasn’t got decades to keep struggling on. Well, I hope it takes decades — at least. Centuries would be even better.
Massive Democratic multi-state TCI climate change initiative crumbles
Massachusetts and Connecticut abandoned the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) last week, citing high gas prices and irreconcilable differences. Rhode Island and Washington, D.C., also joined the agreement which promised to cut transportation emissions 25% and raise $3 billion for clean energy projects.
Pat McDonald: Legislative Pension Task Force should ask tough questions about public compensation
CFV hopes that having this information will help the Legislative Pension Task Force to ask the tough questions about the total compensation of public employees that are necessary as they set about making the changes to address the $4.5 Billion pension liability situation.
Vermont Republican Party message on Welch’s run for U.S. Senate
Democrats control the US House, the US Senate and the Presidency. And Peter Welch is concerned about our “imperiled Democracy.” If our Democracy is imperiled, I think it begs the questions whose leadership brought us there?
Vermont Adult & Teen Challenge launches addiction recovery holiday matching fund drive
Vermont Adult & Teen Challenge will launch a holiday matching fund drive to raise money for its addiction recovery and rehabilitation centers for men and women in the state.
McClaughry: Hottest July ever recorded?
There’s an awful lot of reconstruction, adjustment and averaging done by somebody to produce this “hottest ever” report. The data adjusters at NOAA went for the most frightening headline and literally hundreds of news outlets trumpeted that statement.
Ericka Redic: Sarah George to blame for rising crime
“The real reason crime has been going up in Chittenden County is because Sarah George, the state’s attorney, and all her minions, refuse to lock up violent, recidivist criminals.”
Energy companies to Biden: Poor policy decisions are responsible for spike in energy costs
The American Automobile Association’s gas prices tracker shows the national average of a gallon of regular gasoline is about $3.41, which is $1.20 more expensive than the same time last year.
GoVT prez Eric Davis’ speech on Second Amendment at Libertarian Party meeting
“Despite the fact that actual military grade hardware was commonly available to anyone of any age over the counter and without requiring any proof of identification, there were conspicuously few instances of children murdering people in large groups with machine guns.”
Op-Ed: Global corporate minimum tax is a step backward
As the Biden administration struggles to pass its destructive tax policies through Congress, 136 countries took a step backward when they agreed to a 15% global corporate minimum tax.
The left’s appalling efforts to ‘normalize’ pedophilia
Some on the left have made a concerted effort of late to “normalize” pedophilia by twisting language and shifting concern from would-be victims to the pedophile himself. That’s a dangerous precedent everyone must understand and confront.
Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges in Kenosha shootings
A jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty Friday on all five counts against him in the 2020 shootings that killed two men and injured another during rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse shook and broke down in tears as the not guilty verdicts were being read, one by one.