Author: James A. Bacon
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Look Who’s Using Encrypted, Self-Deleting Emails
Speaking of corruption (see previous post), this press release from Virginians for Safe Communities just arrived in my email inbox: Fairfax, Virginia – Yesterday, Virginians for Safe Communities filed a formal complaint [read here] with the Virginia State Bar, the professional standards body for licensed attorneys in the Commonwealth, against the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Fairfax…
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Not a Good Look, Virginia
Not to give our friend Don the Ripper more ammo in his assertion that Virginia is the most corrupt state in the country, but… These numbers regarding federal public corruption convictions in Virginia’s Eastern District, published in a 2022 University of Illinois at Chicago study, “Anti-Corruption Report #14,” speak for themselves. I’d like to see…
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Jeanine’s Memes
From the Bull Elephant Yeah, Boomers are pretty awesome. The rest of you will miss us when we’re gone.
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Bacon Bits: More Mad-As-Hell Stories
Ditch the name, keep the money. The University of Richmond recently removed the name of T.C. Williams from its law school because he owned slaves, even though, his descendants say, he contributed to the demise of slavery. Now the same descendants are arguing that the university should refund the money Williams donated to the institution…
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UVa’s Killjoys at Work
by James A. Bacon Yesterday I criticized Virginia’s colleges and universities for nurturing campus cultures that turn students into snowflakes unprepared for the adversity of the modern-day workplace and life as adults. A big contributor to the snowflake phenomenon is what psychologist Jonathan Haidt calls “safetyism” — protecting students from the risks of undergoing a…
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Hokies, Join the Resistance!
From Campus Reform: Virginia Tech prof accuses student of spreading misinformation, threatens to delete discussion board posts A pro-life student at Virginia Tech was publicly accused of spreading misinformation by her professor after submitting a discussion board assignment expressing pro-life views. After being admonished publicly, student Alyssa Jones met with her professor and recorded the…
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Graduating Snowflakes into the Workforce
by James A. Bacon More than half (51%) of young professionals in the United States report emotional or mental-health issues, according to a survey just released by the Mary Christie Institute, American Association of Colleges and Universities, and allied organizations. Sixty-eight percent of men reported good or excellent mental health compared to 45% for women.…
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Spotsylvania Pandemonium
Posted for the benefit of readers who are still in denial about the meltdown in discipline and the epidemic of violence in Virginia schools: There have always been fights in schools. It’s never been like this.
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“We Have Failed Our Students Under the Guise of Grace”
by James A. Bacon The breakdown of discipline in some of Virginia’s public schools is so stark that it has penetrated the ideological filters of the The Washington Post news staff. The lede to the WaPo’s article about last night’s Newport News School Board meeting sums up the picture nicely: Dozens of teachers and parents…
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Senate Subcommittee Nixes DEI Transparency
by James A. Bacon A General Assembly senate subcommittee has voted down a bill that would require public Virginia colleges and universities to report the number and salaries of employees in the field of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Sen. Bryce Reeves, R-Spotsylvania, had sponsored the bill, SB 1197, which also called for disclosure of sums…
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Why Did Youngkin Spurn a $3.5 Billion Investment?
by James A. Bacon When you nix what might have been a $3.5 billion investment creating a reported 2,500 jobs in one of Virginia’s most depressed regions, you’d better have a good explanation. But when mammoth economic development deals are wrapped in secrecy backed by non-disclosure agreements, it’s difficult providing that explanation. That’s the pickle…