Commentary: Legislature plays ‘Kick the can down the road’
“Kick the can down the road” is a ubiquitous phrase in American politics over the last few years referencing the practice of kicking a can ahead of oneself while walking along a road, meaning “to defer conclusive action with a short-term solution.”
COMMENTARY: Reflecting on ‘better angels’
President Abraham Lincoln popularized the phrase “better angels” for Americans in his first Inaugural Address as an effort to disguise the polarization of public conversation.
Tarrant: Letter post-Midterm Election '22
My fellow Vermonters, as I said to myself and others in recent weeks, regardless of outcome, I will continue in good faith to promote a better understanding as to what constitutes good government.
Candidate Tarrant: ‘Our politicians are not listening to people like me’
I am running for the Vermont State Legislature because for years now, as a mother, a small/independent business owner, and as a tax-paying citizen, I feel our politicians are not listening to people like me.
Opinion: The American Dream 2022
Both parents wake up in the morning in a house on a piece of land they don’t own as it is considered government property with a taxable income.
COMMENTARY: Guns are not the problem
Guns are NOT the problem. "Fear porn" and "false flag events" ARE. As it relates to another manufactured crisis, the exercising of one’s right to keep and bear arms is God-given. Period.
Tarrant: ‘Pray that we, the plaintiffs, continue to upset the enemy’
Fellow Patriots, I have come here on this day in the year 2021 to share a story of my origins and what it means to “carry on.”
Commentary: ‘This is a Test’
Some of us may recall the Emergency Broadcast System announcing on radio and/or television a “test” set to occur as it was a visual and/or auditory disruption to the local, state, and federal programming schedule.