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Author Archives: TNR

The Architect of the Capitol

Flemming: In fight against climate change, could we just plant more trees?

Perhaps environmentalists should stop investing so much money in lobbying for draconian and burdensome carbon taxes on Vermonters. Then they can really push back against climate change by investing those lobbying dollars into planting new trees.

September 1, 2019 in Commentary.
Public domain

An open letter to teachers from former AFT & AFL-CIO president

The Janus decision gives union members a reason to reflect on their membership. Now you have the option of withdrawing from the union and paying no fees (which used to be up to 85% of full dues). Another choice is to drop your membership.

September 1, 2019 in Commentary.
Wikimedia Commons/Public domain

McClaughry: Minnesota First Amendment case long overdue

It’s long overdue for courts to declare that people can’t be forced to take part in speech that they find morally repugnant.

September 1, 2019 in Commentary.
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In Minnesota, court issues most important religious liberty decision since Masterpiece Cakeshop

A federal appeals court has revived a legal challenge to the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), ruling for the first time that religious business owners can invoke free speech rights when refusing to service a same-sex wedding.

September 1, 2019 in U.S..
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ICE spotlights releases of criminal aliens as Democrat governor defends sanctuary policies

State legislatures and the U.S. Justice Department should challenge local governments’ sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants, said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

September 1, 2019 in U.S..
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Billado: Democratic leadership now under attack from within its own ranks

To be the representative republic we claim to be, the elected members must represent the people in truth instead of just going through the motions and then deceiving and pretending.

August 30, 2019 in Commentary.
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Opinion: California’s Private Attorneys General Act serves as a warning for Vermont

Introduced by State Sen. Alison Clarkson and Rep. Selene Coburn, these PAGA bills would deputize ordinary state residents to enforce Vermont’s labor law. The legislation would allow employees to file employment claims “on behalf of and in the name of” the state labor commissioner.

August 30, 2019 in Commentary.
U.S. House of Representatives

Here’s why we aren’t — and never should be — a pure democracy

Is America a democracy or a republic? This debate, if you can call it that, was launched on Twitter by two freshmen lawmakers, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas. 

August 30, 2019 in Commentary.
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Trump administration eases methane rules on oil industry

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it will undo some of the Obama administration’s regulations on methane, which it said could save oil and natural gas producers up to $123 million through 2025. 

August 30, 2019 in U.S..
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State Headliners: Four more nurses join religious discrimination beef about Vermont hospital abortion policy

The attorney representing the University of Vermont Medical Center nurse coerced into performing an abortion told Fox and Friends Thursday that four other UVMMC nurses also have filed similar complaints with U.S. Health and Human Services.

August 29, 2019 in TNR News.
University of Vermont Medical Center

Vermont hospital violated nurse’s conscience rights on abortion, HHS says

“Forcing medical staff to assist in the taking of human life inflicts a moral injury on them that is not only unnecessary and wrong, it violates long-standing federal law,” Roger Severino, director of the HHS Office of Civil Rights, said in a statement.

August 29, 2019 in TNR News.
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No, the Electoral College is not ‘affirmative action’ for rural voters

The Electoral College, the New York Democrat said on Instagram last week, is a “scam” that “effectively weighs white voters over voters of color.” Then she doubled down, tweeting that the Electoral College is nothing more than “affirmative action” for rural voters.

August 29, 2019 in Commentary.

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