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All eyes on paul ryan. The problem is paul ryan doesnt want the job, anderson. Hes made that so abundantly clear. But for most of the republicans, all the republicans, they are looking around saying the people that do want the job dont have the votes to get there. Paul ryan likely would have the votes to get there. There is so much pressure on him. There were votes on the house floored the where members were huddled talking about it, trying to pressure him. There was a full 90minute meeting behi...

Ankaras main train station moments ago. A witness says the blast was so powerful that it rocked nearby highrises. Were working to get more information, new details, and will bring them to you as soon as we learn more. And now to the shift in u. S. Policy in syria. The government now suspending its program to train rebels in the fight against isis. The plan initially was set up to train some 5,000 Syrian Rebels a year. The half billion Dollar Program fell far short of its goals. Cnns Barbara Star...

A photo essay of nude elderly women. A collection of short poems about bacteria, biting flies and western black rhinos. An essay by Burlington author...

Article: Spirits and Mystics and Ghosts, Oh My! Theosophy & Blavatsky with Greg Guma - Greg Gumas new book, Into the Mystic: From Spiritualism to Theosophy in the Gilded Age explores the connections between Theosophy, Madame Blavatsky, Henry Olcott and Vermont.

Humanity’s tragic flaw may be that a few bad apples — people whose amygdalas don’t fire the right signals to their central nervous systems — really can spoil the whole barrel.

It’s a cautionary tale. Lincoln warned about what happens to a house (or nation) divided — it “cannot stand.

I enjoyed John McClaughrys letter on the Decentralist League of Vermont, in which he finds common ground with Greg Guma on a predilection for the small and local in politics and business.  I, too, share this sentiment, up to a point. (I opposed the VSECU merger, for example.) The problem with it is that too doctrinaire an insistence that economic and political life are best organized at the local level ignores the reality that we exist in a world of giant corporate and political entities. In Mc...

I was pleased to read Greg Guma’s account of the Decentralist League of Vermont. It was an inspired but ephemeral effort, as Greg says, “to take aim at centralized power and wealth, the League asserted that decentralizing both, where and whenever possible, is the best way to preserve diversity, increase self-sufficiency, and satisfy human needs.” I would add, “defend individual liberty and a free society.” Today, 46 years later, I suspect Greg and I still have a lot in common in our cr...

Forty-five years ago, a group bringing together the political left and right attempted to create a “third way” called the Decentralist League of Vermont.

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