Tag: Vermont
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The Envious Gave Us Bernie Sanders!
by John Bernard, ©2024 (Dec. 15, 2024) — Only a power-mongering Socialist like Bernie Sanders would ridicule millionaires and billionaires while squirreling away multiple millions in personal wealth in addition to four homes, none of which was garnered by honest toil! Every single dime Sanders ever made was from tax dollars or the convenient access…
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There’s No Place Like New England in the Fall
“PHOTOGRAPHS CAN’T DO JUSTICE” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 27, 2014) — Every year, for approximately two weeks between the end of September and mid-October, the outdoors explodes in a stunning conflagration of color in which summer’s greens turn to red, orange, and yellow. Fascinating combinations of color can also be found within individual leaves which…
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Twelve and Counting: Vermont Legislation Takes on NSA Spying
“RESIST MASS SURVEILLANCE” by Mike Maharrey, ©2014, The Tenth Amendment Center (Jan. 31, 2014) — Vermont recently became the 12th state considering legislation to take on NSA spying. On Tuesday, Rep. Teo Zagar (D-Windsor-4-1), along with co-sponsor Reps. Susan Davis (P/D-Orange-1), Patricia Komline (R-Bennington-Rutland) and William Stevens (I-Addison-Rutland) introduced the Fourth Amendment Protection Act to prohibit…
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Recollections…
“THE MORAL COMPASS” by Zeb Blanchard, ©2012 (Dec. 16, 2012) — We had a gun trader when I was in high school in the early ’50’s in Vermont. He plied his trade of sale and barter out of his desk in school. No one gave this much thought including the teachers, as this sort of…
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Observations from Killington, VT Following Hurricane Irene
A LESSON IN SELF-RELIANCE? by Zeb Blanchard (Sep. 6, 2011) — My wife and I drove in to the Killington ski resort area in Vermont a few hours ahead of what had been Hurricane Irene. The weather was rainy with a little wind; however, just hours after we settled in the roads, washed out. The…