Video: Racism, slavery, free everything dominate Democratic debate
Democratic presidential candidates got into heated exchanges about free stuff, racial issues and immigration throughout the first night of the second round of debates.
State Headliners: Unsheltered homeless Vermonters on the rise
Vermont’s one-year rise in unsheltered living is reason for concern. Apart from the difficulty posed to the inhabitants, a growth in temporary shelters burdens tax-payer funded social services.
Roper: Seven Days reporter votes with his feet, heads for red state North Carolina
Vermont’s leading progressive news publication, Seven Days, reported that one of their award-winning young journalists, Taylor Dobbs, “is moving to North Carolina with his wife, Tori, after years of trying to make it financially in Vermont.” Oh, the irony here.
Frenier: School choice as reparation
If the Democratic candidates for president really want to make effective reparations to African-Americans they would advocate nation-wide school choice for them.
Kamala Harris uses her new Medicare For All plan to go after Bernie
Democratic presidential contender and California Sen. Kamala Harris released her Medicare for all plan Monday ahead of the second round of Democratic debates scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Study: States’ prosperity improves over past decade, but some do much better than others
A new United States Prosperity Index (USPI) indicates that prosperity has increased nationwide over the past 10 years with the gap narrowing between the most and least prosperous states. Despite this, five of the top 10 states are in the Northeast; nine of the bottom 10 are in the South.
McClaughry: Lake cleanup’s skewed spending priorities
Is there a better way to reduce the phosphorus loading of Lake Champlain by 34% in 20 years, as EPA and the state have agreed to do? Probably, but Montpelier officialdom has made its choices, and cost effectiveness has not been a leading criterion.
Sanders calls pharma execs murderers, but dodges questions on comments
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders accused pharmaceutical executives of murder but declined to defend the comments when pressed by CNN’s Jake Tapper.
Tyler Colford: Innovation needed to reduce prison population
“No system will be perfect, but allowing the market to figure out these options helps push innovation instead of having the government hamstring it.”
The left’s attacks on the Electoral College are all about political power
It seems that there isn’t a prominent progressive left in America who hasn’t come out in favor of abolishing the Electoral College. The latest is Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who called for an end to our 200-plus-year-old presidential election system on Twitter earlier this month.
Flemming: The threat of government emergencies to liberty
American presidents have, in the past 50 years, piled on dozens of ongoing emergencies. Every successive emergency becomes a little more ironic, given the supposed focus America should have on each individual emergency.
Democrats denied transgender athletes have advantages in women’s sports. Science says they’re wrong
Suppressing testosterone levels in male athletes isn’t enough to eliminate their natural advantages over female athletes, according to a recently published paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The paper’s findings contradict congressional Democrats.