OneCare Vermont is an embarrassing disgrace, if not for its obvious failures then for its evasion of accountability. The stated purpose of this massive administrative money-...
I have recently exposed that progressive legislators do in fact intend to push a tax next year on heating oil and other non-electric fuels for home heating. Aside from the u...
Little discussed in this age of raging California forest fires devouring residential hillsides, and droughts that kill Californian lawns, is the unprecedented vulnerabili...
Vermont has been the victim of a failed “progressive” experiment that has led to a dramatic increase in drug and sex trafficking, gang activity, and decimation of police p...
In a recent dispute at a high school in Vermont, a soccer coach was suspended for refusing to publicly apologize to the community for "misgendering" a trans student. This s...
In another twist in the twisted tale of a Vermont girls' volleyball team ejected from their own locker room due to conflicts with a trans-identifying student who allegedly o...
Violent crime has increased alarmingly in the Green Mountains - murders and violent attacks in Burlington are sadly becoming commonplace events. And on October 14, Seven Days ...
Vermont’s Progressive supermajority in the House and Senate in recent years has loudly proclaimed its enlightened superiority, and intentions to help the poor in all thi...
"Dear Democrats"
is what I'd like to call this video - and I'm being very serious about that!
When I ran for governor in 2020 I
talked about this and I talked about
...
Vermont's state pension system is in trouble. Since an effort last year to address the inexcusable underfunding of the pensions system, drops in the national stock market ...
The phrase "Make Vermont more affordable" is often used by politicians, but I have concrete plans for how to improve Vermont's economy that will actually make Vermont more...
The idea behind administering suboxone to inmates to prevent withdrawal from heroin seemed sensible, but has turned into a ghastly slippery slope in which inmates enterin...
Brookfield, Vermont, September 20, 2022: Orange District Senate Candidate John Klar has been published in national periodical Mother Earth News’ October/November 2022 print...
A recent dispute involving a trans teacher hired to teach social studies at Randolph Union High School (RUHS) in Vermont raises important constitutional questions for all Am...
Renewable energy technologies are not renewable but disposable. They do not save the planet but accelerate its destruction by gobbling up huge quantities of natural resou...
Vermont’s seemingly endless bureaucratic expansion is encountering the limits of the public and the economy to withstand. This is true in the bloated school system, the o...
Vermont's renewable energy programs conceal an economic assault on low-income Vermonters in the guise of saving the planet. A brief survey of historic income tax laws and co...
In JRR Tolkien's famous trilogy The Lord of the Rings, the evil lord of Mordor, Sauron, is on the verge of imposing a dark totalitarianism on mankind when two humble hobbits...
The so-called progressives in our state have been experimenting with dangerous “off-label” hormone drugs on very young children, and the evidence increasingly proves this is...
Vermont’s progressive policies have morphed into such a disastrous menu of lies and harms that they resemble the predecessor prog falsehood of eugenics. Vermonters must coun...
Despite self-congratulatory back-patting by Vermont’s Department of Health, Vermont’s response to COVID may not have been the stellar excellence presented. But there is n...
It is inevitable at some point that the failed criminal policies of Chittenden County prosecutor Sarah George and other extremist progressives will become sufficiently ev...
Citizens United famously held that corporations were “persons” under American Constitutional law for purposes of speech. This personification of lifeless corporate entiti...
Deliberately targeting Vermont for political takeover by progressives, the far left has now installed numerous officials to condemn Vermonters as white supremacists despi...
Brookfield, Vermont, June 9, 2022: Former Vermont Governor James Douglas has endorsed John Klar for Orange County Senate. As Vermont’s fiscally-minded Republican Governor f...
A long-standing theoretical debate has surrounded what has come to be called “The Tragedy of the Commons.” The question raised is the capacity of individuals to sacrifice ...
Americans are witnessing frighteningly high rates of inflation — gasoline prices increase by 10 cents a day lately, it seems. Interest rates are rising and set to contin...
With all the fervor surrounding the dogma-speak of “equity,” the utopian calls for achieving it sound outright religious. The problem is that equity is an impossible goa...
A Vermont High School recently banned a young girl from sporting events for allegedly chanting "Let's Go Brandon!" at a basketball game. The school claims the phrase is "pr...
As I explained in my last commentary, following community demands to stop displaying the BLM flag at Randolph Union High School, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Shur...
A Vermont superintendent came down hard on students who allegedly committed the unpardonable offense of chanting "Let's Go Brandon!" at a sporting event. If they did not ag...
National outrage over George Floyd's death was particularly virulent in super-progressive ("woke") Vermont, where schools widely displayed the BLM flag beside the American f...
Writer James Lindsay graced the Green Mountain State with an engaging visit on May 12 in Montpelier, Vermont (together with well-matched Professor Nick Meriwether). Followi...
At a May 4 meeting that Orange Southwest School District Superintendent Layne Millington advertised as “drawing in perspectives from across the community to share ideas,...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s rumored Dobbs decision would reverse Roe v. Wade and related cases, leaving it to individual states to regulate abortion at any stage of pregnancy...
Progressive Vermont senator Mark MacDonald, a member of the state’s Natural Resources & Energy Committee, was pondering how to explain new heating fuel taxes impos...
In the recent conflagration over a Chick-fil-A fundraiser in Randolph, the Orange Southwest School District Superintendent Layne Millington (who is paid some $200,000 an...
Brookfield, Vermont, April 28, 2022: Former gubernatorial candidate John Klar seeks support for his election bid to become Orange County’s next Senator. Challenging a seat ...
One thing must be conceded to Joe Biden: he is consistent in messing things up. The recent fast-tracking of Ukrainian refugees is the latest Orwellian boondoggle that accom...
Reading Rob Roper’s recent article about Vermont’s contemplated “clean heat standard,” it was hard to absorb how our legislators can be so completely disconnected from th...
Vermont’s disconnected bureaucracy has been on a spending spree during COVID, while Vermonters and Vermont business have declined. Vermont’s $8.3 billion FY 2023...
When I ran for Governor in 2020, a cornerstone of my policy agenda focused on small farms and increased local food production. Increasing inflation pressures are ...
Despite denial by overpaid school superintendents and the Vermont Department of Education, Vermont’s public school system is declining rapidly. Students are leaving ...
Imagine if a school in a conservative rural American town displayed a "MAGA" flag while banning all Nike products because of Nike's political affiliation with the America-ha...
It has been observed that conservatives think progressives have bad ideas, while progressives view conservatives as bad human beings. This biblical reversal (“hate the sinne...
Vermont's Senate has embraced an "act relating to environmental justice," which seeks to redistribute the costs of environmental pollutants from the city mice to the country...
OK, this attack on Vermont’s police has grown absurd and needs to be exposed. For years, all white police in Vermont have been falsely judged as racists using what clearl...
Americans awakening to the Orwellian Rule of Joe Biden and his crew of thieves have noticed that the perpetual lying is designed to inculcate pliancy through fear. ...
Vermont has failed its schoolchildren in a horrific, even criminal, fashion by launching a massive psycho-social political indoctrination program against young school chi...
Over the last year, Vermont’s school board disputes have revealed the same pattern of a unilateral ideology dominating school boards, and attacking anyone who dares diffe...
Vermont is under far-left ideological siege, as extremists employ a pattern of Alinskyish deviousness to twist facts, pervert process, and subvert the Constitution. These a...
Constitutions are sometimes just symbolic: North Korea has one. But to be a Constitutional Republic in which the Constitution is the highest law of the land, We the Peop...
Progressives in Burlington seek a charter change to legalize prostitution to protect women from “stigma and discrimination,” while a tandem bill in the Legislature calls ...
The Vermont Legislature has launched a vigorous effort to vindicate women from the evils not of prostitution, but of criminalizing it. H.630 seeks to legalize prostitutio...
Vermont has never been a white supremacist state. That’s just a fact, employing traditional English language. However, a disillusioned gang of racist ideologues seeks to ...
In an ongoing embarrassment for Dartmouth College, the once-venerable institution has repeatedly demonstrated that it is unable — or more likely, ideologically opposed...
Among the bevy of unconstitutional, unnecessary, offensive, Vermonter-hating bills being proposed by disconnected Vermont legislators is S.265, which seeks to imprison Ve...
Vermont parents are pushing back against thug teachers and school superintendents — which is to say, they are beginning to defend themselves against unjust, often vicious at...
There are numerous potential threats to children posed by modern technologies that are not fully understood. In addition to the potential harm to eyesight or health from ...
A Vermont school district has been mulling over a novel policy to give its teachers Wednesday afternoon off, to alleviate their COVID stress — extending a "Snowsports ...
Of the numerous problems confronting large-scale agricultural production in America, the steady depletion of water resources will likely be the first to bring segments of...
Vermont's Essex-Westford School District, which includes the town of Essex that last year fired a high school lifeguard for merely questioning Critical Race Theory, has done...
Since humans learned agrarianism and left their hunter-gatherer ancestors behind, manure — both human and animal — was the chief source of fertilizer. In the early 19th c...
Transgender therapies and surgeries for minors are an abhorrent, criminal enterprise, arising from precisely the same academic hubris and ignorance as the eugenics and lobot...
The ideological absurdity which has descended on Vermont through so-called “progressive” initiatives is only properly understood as a cult. Whether it is “race theory,” “...
Most Americans are aware that inflation is on the rise, and not just at the gas pumps. This is unsurprising given the flood of money being printed as so-called “COVID rel...
I recently explained to Vermonters that their school systems are using advanced computer technologies to “track” their students not just academically, but socio-emotiona...
As Burlington businesses hire private security firms to protect their employees from assault, the social justice policy of reducing funding for patrol officers due to George...
Food prices are climbing, but soon will soar — inflation is ensured due to recent massive spending. As Americans are pushed to consume artificial meat as a ...
In a Sept. 20 “Statement on Critical Race Theory,” the Vermont School Board Association (VSBA) openly misled Vermont parents about the teaching practices that have been i...
Due to the ongoing dispute about indoctrinating Vermont children with critical race theory, many parents are coming to understand that if they wish to know what the Vermo...
Vermonters owe a debt of gratitude to Russ Ingalls and the other organizers of a meeting in Island Pond regarding CRT. After being gaslighted and ignored by many school ...
Vermont’s economy and culture were both built on self-sufficiency by thousands of small farms (not on the backs of black slaves toiling in Green Mountain winters). Integr...
Much ballyhoo is made of cow farts in recent political proposals, reflecting the ever-growing disconnect of modern consumers from their food supply. Perhaps America needs...
Vermont state senator Richard McCormack has once again abused his constituents with dishonesty and name-calling. In a partisan harangue against the unvaccinated, McCormack ...
Government institutions cannot eliminate subconscious or conscious prejudices. The 20th century’s infatuation with “science” and brain chemistry has resulted in great hub...
In an effort to discredit those who dare challenge critical race theory, VTDigger’s Bill Schubart in a July 4 article (“Conservative Hysteria”) claimed that my ...
Vermont’s seemingly unrestrained spending during the COVID pandemic reveals the unsustainable fantasy world in which the current ultra-Progressive Legislature has taken l...
Fear-mongering efforts to greatly compromise constitutional liberties during the COVID pandemic have often been justified in the name of “real science.” Seemingly every i...
Vermonters are being subjugated by their government and denied basic rights in the bargain. Worse, we are compelled to pay the legal fees of those who oppress us. The att...
In his first address to a Joint Session of Congress as president, Joe Biden attacked the very substance of the United States Constitution. Flanked by eerily-masked twin S...
Vermont Senator Richard McCormack disseminated a letter in which he misrepresented health data to justify imposing extensive restrictions on the rights of unvaccinated citiz...
When science is fabricated to advance a bizarre dogma to intimidate others by violating clearly-established constitutional liberties, Vermonters should be troubled. When ...
In a bizarre "Complaint" filed against recently-elected Vermont School Board member Elizabeth Cady, two citizens allege Cady's inquiries about the introduction of Critical R...
Vermont dairy farms have suffered dramatically during COVID-19, exposing longstanding market weaknesses. At least 40 more farms (of 677) have closed since COVID, and most...
In a 2019 article I demonstrated that Vermont’s bureaucracy has been growing steadily in both size and incomes at the expense of taxpayers. Often favoring ...
As progressives push to “decarcerate” Vermont, opioid deaths increase. Residents may have noticed steady reports of out-of-state fentanyl and heroin dealers being apprehende...
Vermont’s Progressives are very fond of minimum wage laws, but as with many economic initiatives that yield unintended consequences, government control of wages is not as si...
As Americans focus on survival under COVID-19, they remain largely oblivious to increasingly dire fiscal threats. A “debt monetization” virus (printing money wit...
Vermont’s supposedly “progressive” net metering program subsidizes residential solar panels by paying homeowners a whopping premium for the solar energy they generate. Th...
Vermont’s tax system has become unwieldy, overly complex and widely inequitable. This is first and foremost a product of government overreach — the state of Vermont...
Conservatives must lead Vermont in initiatives supporting regenerative agriculture and small, local farms. This is an imperative to benefit Vermont’s economy, craft a sen...
I recently explained how Vermont’s Tax Structure Commission (VTSC) used upside-down tax theory to advocate for implementation of a magnified tax “structure” to charge a s...
A recent bureaucratic report recommends expanding Vermont's sales tax to include food, groceries, electricity, and clothing to..."help the poor." The Vermont...
When schools closed in Vermont, lunches were provided to students across the state — often by buses that delivered food instead of picking up children. The rationale ...
Carpetbagging BLM leftists have been heading to Vermont and seem determined to subjugate Vermont's existing (mostly white) population by shaming them. Lost on the...
When I ran for governor in 2020, the plan was to create a platform to raise awareness about deep-seated problems within Vermont’s budget and bureaucracy — both are too bi...
For years, liberal Vermont media and politicians have condemned the state's police and legal system as "systemically racist" using flawed statistical analysis of incar...
On December 17, 2019, Michael Arnold struck Shirley Snelling-Sexton while she was snowblowing in Essex Junction, Vermont. Shirley was severely injured -- in addition t...
Attacking so-called "hate speech" has proven an effective Trojan horse technique by BLM and Antifa social justice warriors, who have incorporated Critical Race Theory (CRT) ...
A mandatory COVID-19 vaccine might save lives,
but that doesn’t mean it would be constitutional. Many say “we must do what
the doctors say,” without any thought for Const...
In Vermont, liberal demonstrators are permitted by government agencies to occupy public spaces, block traffic, organize political rallies, and paint one-sided political mess...
Despite residing in the most rural of states, many leftist Vermonters suddenly presume to be great experts on the inner-city suffering of black Americans, and have launched ...
Despite residing in the most rural of states, many leftist Vermonters suddenly presume to be great experts on the inner-city suffering of black Americans, and have launched ...
I met Pastor Simon Peter in late 2015 on Facebook. I made sure he was legitimate through churches that had been there, and were supporting him. Then I agreed to help him bui...
The BLM flag is hardly new to Vermont, being displayed at many of its schools for years. More recently, “BLACK LIVES MATTER” was painted in large yellow letters on Stat...
If a heads-up penny is good luck, tossing a penny heads up 99 times in a row would be very much against the odds – good luck indeed! And what are the odds that the 100th penny...
Vermont is at the forefront of the progressive effort to conquer America and extinguish its liberties. To subjugate any people, a ruling oppressor must 1) eliminate mea...
In these complex and challenging times, our children should be our priority. Surely society would object if genetic engineering were employed to create children born without a...
Vermont Governor Phil Scott announced on June 5 that social distancing requirements would not be enforced against Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters at coming events b>...
Progressive legislators, interest groups, and government entities are clamoring to impose their utopian climate change agenda on Vermont’s citizens when the legislature ...
Brookfield, Vermont, June 2, 2020: Republican candidate for Governor John Klar today published a letter emphasizing the importance of open debates in Vermont elections, an...
When the Vermont legislature next meets, there’s a good chance a new gas tax will be passed to penalize consumers for their carbon emissions. But is such a measure constitutio...
Vermonters, many of your elected officials ignore the United States and Vermont Constitutions to achieve their goals. The desirability of policy goals NEVER outweighs the vi...
There is a growing trend in Europe and America toward veganism, a diet characterized by the avoidance of animal products. Many report health benefits from a plant-only diet,...
Courts in at least five states have now weighed in on the constitutionality of their respective efforts to impose restrictions on fundamental liberties because of coronavi...
Vermont’s Governor has made “economic growth” his highest priority. Vermonters should consider whether “economic growth” is a value worth sacrificing our communities and o...
In high school biology
class, we students undertook an experiment wherein we deposited a
small number of flour
beetles into a bag of flour,
returning in a few days to ...
The recent film “Planet of the Humans” documents numerous very real shortcomings with solar power as a solution for environmental degradation. Controversial producer Mi...
Few business areas have been hit as hard by the coronavirus as farming, especially dairy farming. The International Dairy Foods Association predicts the dairy industry will ...
It is in the very nature of government to gamble with citizens’ money, I suppose. But our legislature has been gambling with much more than money – it is gambling our childr...
In 1900, Vermont was mostly a patchwork of self-sufficient farmsteads. Tensions with the “developing world” arose early, as modern ideas and technology (often transported wi...
My fondest childhood memories are of playing with my cousin Louis on our family’s Vermont farm. We chased cows and chickens, explored far reaches of the forest, investigated...
The federal government and the President of the United States (POTUS) have too much power. I am not sure most Americans are aware of some of the things our federal governm...
I have been writing for years about the threat to Vermonters of a steadily growing dependency on a dangerously consolidated meat “industry.” Now those (antibiotic-saturated, ...
In
1992, Ross Perot famously stated that NAFTA would cause a “giant sucking sound”
as jobs and industries fled the U.S. for Mexico. For years, progressive Vermont’s bloat...
In a recent Opinion piece, Vermont “climate scientist” Alan Betts rejoiced at the world’s financial troubles, beginning with his title: “The global economy crumbles.”
Hund...
Some Vermont legislators (and November hopefuls) seek to impose a “carbon tax” on gasoline, diesel, propane and home heating fuel, because they believe it would reduce the s...
"Trickle-down economics" describes tax cuts for corporations, wealthy investors, and entrepreneurs intended to assist lower-income citizens by stimulating investment and econo...
Brookfield, Vermont, April 18, 2020: GOP Gubernatorial candidate John Klar calls for recognition that gun sales are an “essential service” under the Governor’s Stay Home ...
Most Americans are not aware that the recall of meats from large industrial meatpackers is voluntary only. Generally these recalls involve thousands of tons of “product,” ...
In chess, a “stalemate” happens when the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move. This ends the game in a draw. In the global economic chessb...
I summarize here a rather complex (yet simple) comprehensive proposal to boost Vermont’s economy, while also supporting farms and food production, attracting young peopl...
American exceptionalism is premised on an unparalleled elevation of personal liberty as paramount. The Declaration of Independence recites “life, li...
Vermont’s legislators, like all of us, must process the threats of the coronavirus. But that stress is quite distinct from the rightful accountability for reckless legis...
David Coates merits credit for sounding the alarm for years about the substantial underfunding patterns of the Vermont pensions. Most recently he was prescient in an article...
Vermont is a guinea pig for progressive experimentation on wealth redistribution masked as “climate action.” Of course we all want a clean ecosystem: but if people suffer ec...
In 2013, Vermont held the distinction of having the lowest student-teacher ratio in the nation (10:1). This might be a good thing — if it were affordable. This bloat in sc...
Last year, Xusana Davis was appointed by Vermont governor Phil Scott as the state's "first Racial Equity Executive Director." Davis, formerly of New York City's Department of...
Vermont's 'progressive' Legislature is moving to relax laws governing criminals and prisoners, while increasing regulations on businesses. The only state&nbs...
It’s official: Vermont’s government has been usurped by elitist bureaucrats who have decided that Constitutions, and voting, are annoying impediments to their enlightened over...
Most have heard the iconic threat (usually by a weakling, or braggart, in a comedy film) that “these hands are registered as deadly weapons.” As Vermont’s legislature moves ...
When I was in eighth grade, a teacher announced we were going to study capital punishment. The methodology for this process was that the class was divided randomly in half,...
The Vermont Governor’s annual “State of the State” address was interrupted this year by a loud group of protesters, who refused to stop screaming bizarre s...
OneCare Vermont is a novel effort to unify health care services in the Green Mountain State under what is called an “accountable care organization” (ACO). This experimental ...
Vermont’s pension programs are grossly underfunded. This problem has been swelling for years, and promises to get worse. John Klar boldly promises to tak...
Elsewhere here, I have explained my work history, and my faith. Here I seek to relate my broader experience, especially as it relates to serving Vermont ...
I am a pastor, and our culture (especially in Vermont) openly attacks Christianity and its followers as a sort of sad fad. It is important then that I ex...
Psychology is a "science" that studies human behavior but is itself morally bankrupt. That is, psychology is unable to scientifically define normality. It can...
In an ongoing cultural controversy in Vermont, a former House member named Kiah Morris has launched a video attacking Vermonters and their culture as racist. Ms. Morris has...
In what appears to be a practice unique to Vermont, yet more of the Green Mountain State's schools have elected to officially fly the Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag. Since M...