Mark Shepard column

Mark Shepard lives in Vermont, where he was raised and where he and his wife have been raising their four boys. Mark served two terms in the Vermont Senate (2003-2006) and ran for Congress in the 2006 Republican Primary (www.shepardforcongress.org).

Mark has Bachelor and Master Degrees in Electrical Engineering and operates a small business designing and building control and test systems for industrial applications.

During the Congressional stimulus debate of 2009, Mark created a simple website (www.CongressIsOnOPM.com) aimed at exposing the addictive nature members of Congress exhibit in their drive to seize more and more control and power while presenting the inflationary costs and corruption that comes with increasing government.

Mark Shepard

March 23, 2011

I thoroughly enjoy downhill skiing and even more so now that I am enjoying it with our four boys. I find skiing most enjoyable when I ski with the mountain . . .

Mark Shepard

July 16, 2010

The inability of our federal government to function in the real world is not simply that we elected the wrong people to run it; it is that we allowed our . . .

Mark Shepard

May 15, 2010

On top of mortgaging our children's future, the federal bailouts have essentially killed a very effective teacher — the natural consequences of poor judgment.  . . .

Mark Shepard

March 11, 2010

Ignoring constituent concerns about the constitutionality of the federal government controlling healthcare did not work. Sighting Article I, Section 8 of the . . .

Mark Shepard

January 18, 2010

Recent polls show the Tea Partiers now outnumber registered Republicans and Democrats. That is great news because the people connected to tea parties are . . .

Mark Shepard

December 17, 2009

As Christmas comes, reactions abound. Since the fourth century AD, when Roman Emperor Constantine embraced Christianity, church service attendance in Western . . .