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Author Archives: TNR

Bruce Parker/TNR

Statehouse Headliners: House gets tough on coyote hunting, and $100K possible to study carbon taxation

In this week’s Statehouse Headliners, a ban on coyote-hunting competitions passed the Vermont House, Gov. Phil Scott gets into gun control talks, and a pricey carbon tax study advances.

February 26, 2018 in TNR News.
Public domain

To combat gun violence, confront mental illness

Are guns to blame, or is it mental illness that’s often overlooked? This is the reoccurring question that we as a nation ask ourselves when innocent children die in high school mass shootings.

February 26, 2018 in Commentary.
Wikimedia Commons/Infrogmation

McClaughry: What the ESSEX carbon tax would do for Vermont

Eventually, when the carbon tax drives out all fossil fuel and all users have switched (at considerable expense) to higher cost electricity, there’s nothing left to subsidize that electricity. You’re stuck.

February 25, 2018 in Commentary.
Wikimedia Commons/Löwenstein Center

Victimhood culture is rampant according to expert, and it’s likely due to social media

Social media may be one of the largest reasons young people are acting more and more frequently as victims, explains an expert on the rise of victimhood around the country.

February 25, 2018 in U.S..
Public domain

Fact Check: Are most gun crimes committed with handguns?

Sen. James Lankford said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that at least three times as many crimes are committed with handguns than with rifles. Is that true?

February 25, 2018 in U.S..
Wikimedia Commons/How can I recycle this

Government replaces parent with ‘high quality’ shoe box

There is no more compelling evidence to bolster the warning that government is the problem, not the solution, than in the intersection of Vermont’s childcare and minimum wage policies. The Keystone Cops meets the Three Stooges could not devise a more incompetent mess.

February 23, 2018 in Commentary.
Bruce Parker/TNR

Trump to look at gun restrictions on military bases

President Donald Trump promised to review the policy that restricts guns on military bases during a speech Friday, eliciting applause from the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.

February 23, 2018 in U.S..
Dominic Thackray/Wikimedia Commons

Problematic Women: Can you be a conservative and a feminist?

In the wake of one of the country’s most deadly school shootings, Americans are engaged in a heated debate over the Second Amendment. NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch went face-to-face with Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel in a CNN “town hall debate” on guns.

February 23, 2018 in Videos.
Nick Solari/Wikimedia Commons

Trump OMB nominee, attacked by Sanders for his faith, heads for confirmation vote

The Senate likely will confirm the president’s nomination of Russ Vought to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget after a cloture vote Monday. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who caucuses with Democrats, targeted Vought’s Christian beliefs.

February 22, 2018 in U.S..
Heritage Foundation

Author uses science to debate transgender activists, gender dysphoria

Eventually, Anderson said, the boy identified with his biological sex, and those who cared for him prevented what could have been serious damage to his organs and years of medication that would have stopped his body from fully growing.

February 22, 2018 in Videos.
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Trump floats pulling ICE from California

President Donald Trump said Thursday he would consider ordering a withdrawal of immigration enforcement agents from California, leaving the state’s pro-sanctuary officials to “figure it out for themselves.”

February 22, 2018 in U.S..
U.S. Marshals Office of Public Affairs

Smith: Second Amendment is as relevant today as in any time in human history

An armed citizenry alone is able to protect itself from tyranny. Or, as George Mason argued to Virginia’s ratification convention in 1788 — to disarm a nation is surely to set the conditions to enslave it.

February 21, 2018 in Commentary.

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