Why Americans must stand up to the left’s power grab
Parts of the movement started by widespread revulsion at the murder of George Floyd have metastasized into a power grab by hard leftists. Their aim goes beyond dismantling the police.
McClaughry: The final push for Global Warming Solutions Act
It’s crunch time for the Climate Action Network’s most urgently sought legislation: the Global Warming Solutions Act. If it doesn’t get a Senate vote this month, the bill is dead until next year.
Deb Billado: This badge means so much
Please remember that what happened in Minneapolis was the action of one bad person and should not be attributed to those police who are our family, friends, neighbors and protectors.
Neil Johnson: The Vermont political reformation has started
Despite the world conspiring to run our state as a test case for bad government ideas, there is hope. A political reformation has started, here in Vermont — a peaceful reformation of citizens stepping up.
Guy Page: Listen
America sucks at listening. My America. Your America. “Their” America. Me. You. Black. White. Liberal. Conservative. Poor. Rich. We’re suffering a full-blown pandemic of willful deafness.
Roper: As economy struggles, Vermont Senate moves to ban mini-shampoo bottles
In a spectacular example of fiddling while Vermont burns, the Senate Finance Committee voted 6-1 to advance a bill, S.227, to “to prohibit the provision by lodging establishments of personal use products in small plastic bottles.”
Flemming: Some Vermont counties hit worse by unemployment
All of Vermont’s counties have been hit hard by unemployment after Covid-19 restrictions came into play in March. But some have been less impacted than others.
Enemies of homeschooling are scared. Here’s why
Families are also figuring out that homeschooling can work better than conventional schooling. There may be a massive spike in the proportion of homeschoolers next year. The pandemic may ultimately lead to parents finding out what education systems work best for their kids.
The union-crushers are coming for Vermont cops
Vermont progressives would defund, disband unionized police departments and start over.
Deb Billado: The COVID-19 sleight-of-hand trick
Vermont Democrat/Progressives are not failing to use COVID-19 as an opportunity to slip some very detrimental bills through this year’s session of the Vermont Legislature. That is what is happening right now with the so-called Global Warming Solutions Act.
This federal law can be used to charge violent rioters
Anyone who travels from out of state or uses his phone or his computer with the specific intent to instigate and participate in riots is violating federal law. The Federal Anti-Riot Act also applies to those who “aid or abet” anyone else to carry out such acts. Someone found guilty can be fined, imprisoned for up to five years, or both.
Prosecutions in Philadelphia, West Virginia show voter fraud is bipartisan
These two cases demonstrate the bipartisan nature of election fraud. As such, it’s important that voters and election officials come together to take reasonable steps to protect the integrity of the elections that are fundamental to self-government.