We can keep most Vermont farmland productively in agriculture if we do what has been done so many times before: change to a profitable crop. Preserving the status quo is not an option. Changing crops as the world changes has always been the Vermont tradition.
The Department of Public Service has just released its 2022 Comprehensive Energy Plan (CEP). Aside from the “stakeholders,” it’s probably fair to say that very few Vermonters — and very few of their legislators — will be able to penetrate the CEP’s acronym-ridden complexities.
If the sign “This brave little state says no to hate” is true, then it starts with refusal to put people into separate categories, no matter what race, religion, ethnicity, creed, sex or vaccination status.
Today’s leftist extremism seeks to morph established religious freedoms such that “separation of church and state” means not a government tolerance, but elimination, of all religions (particularly Christianity) from all public spaces.
The basic crux of the law mandates that Vermont must lower its greenhouse gas emissions to 26% below 2005 levels by 2025, 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80% below by 2050.
Sen. Manchin has saved this country from being closer to economic collapse than even he himself may realize.
From taxpayer-funded abortions on demand to defunding the police, from their $3.5 trillion social engineering boondoggle to indoctrinating our children with critical race theory, the Democrats tried to move into phase three too soon. They struck before enough people have been indoctrinated.
The White House’s information page on ARPA list three primary bullet points for what the money under this plan should be used for. There is nothing there about climate change.
The IPCC report raises a number of fundamental questions. For example, is global warming a net positive change, negative, or some mix in between? What is the pace of future warming, and do we have trustworthy tools to make educated guesses?
There is the potential for Education Technology (Ed Tech) to literally cause children to become addicted to the media developed to teach them. This is called “gamification.”
President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for private employers often is described as requiring employees of large companies either to be vaccinated or be tested weekly. But when you dig into the details, the mandate is far more invasive than that.
The case fatality rate for children is 0.01 percent. Children are significantly less likely to become infected or spread the virus because of differences in their lung physiology and immune function. Yet public health leaders and politicians have pretended that the disease is similarly fatal to all.