Author: Bob Rayner
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Anyone Know Where Sen. Ghazala Hashmi Lives?
by Kerry Dougherty mmm. Looks like things just got interesting — instead of merely horrifying — in last Tuesday’s election. If Luke Rosiak of The Daily Wire is correct, one Democrat member of the Virginia State Senate may be fighting to stay out of jail rather than taking her seat in the Capitol come January.…
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A Red Wave in Roanoke County
by Scott Dreyer In contrast to some big Democrat wins in the eastern part of the state giving them control of both houses of the General Assembly, the Roanoke and NRV experienced a regional red wave in the November 7 elections. Of particular significance, the GOP won both of the most competitive, high-stakes races in…
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It Wasn’t About Youngkin
by Joe Fitzgerald Deep in the hills of Southwest Virginia is a state Senate district where nobody works because the coal industry is increasingly mechanized. The district has all or part of eight counties. In Northern Virginia is a county where nobody works because they’re all employed by the federal government. The county includes all…
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In Loudoun, Some Good News for Republicans
by Jeanine Martin I feel sorry for Governor Yougkin. This has to be one of the worst nights of his life. After doing 100 campaign events, he lost the state Senate and House of Delegates. Youngkin may need to rethink his future in politics. Although this election wasn’t about him. It was about abortion, always…
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Virginia Election Reflections
by Kerry Dougherty So, boys and girls, what did we learn Tuesday night? I’ll go first. First, we learned never to underestimate the Democrats’ devotion to abortion. To them, it’s a sacrament. Something not to be touched. Every woman, they believe, has the right (I’d say God-given, but it seems blasphemous) to abort her baby…
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Election Day: VOTE
by Kerry Dougherty No matter how busy you are, no matter what’s going on, don’t sit this one out. VOTE. Especially if you love Virginia and don’t want our commonwealth to go backwards, turning into an East-coast version of tax-mad, crime-ridden, pronoun-obsessed California. Remember how good it felt the day after the 2021 election, when…
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Tomorrow’s Ballot Question: Will Virginia Become Illinois?
by Derrick Max It was reported last week that billionaire Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker had made substantial campaign contributions totaling $250,000 to four liberal Democrats running for Virginia State Senate and the Democratic Party of Virginia. These donations, made through Governor Pritzker’s “Think Big America” organization, are the clearest sign yet that the left wants to…
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Freedom, Consistency, and Tuesday’s Election
by Shaun Kenney One of the great things about being a conservative is that we are inherently an anti-ideology. As the late William F. Buckley Jr. once put it, the great task of the modern conservative movement is to stand athwart history yelling STOP! Yet in a wider sense, it is far easier for conservatives…
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Democrats, Judges, and Higher Taxes
from Liberty Unyielding For generations, Washington State had no state income tax, because of anti-income tax provisions in its state constitution. But the Washington state supreme court recently upheld a classic example of an income tax — a state tax on income from capital gains — by making the absurd argument that a capital gains tax…
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Casino’s Last Stand: A Nauseating Display of Hate
by Jon Baliles The second casino referendum will be decided on Tuesday and it will be a vote (again) on whether or not Richmond wants to do the get-rich-quick schemes to help people or do the hard work of methodically mapping out a strategy and building a future. The get-rich-quick schemes like the casino and…
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Dems Work to Suppress Minority Votes in Senate Race
by Victoria Snitsar Churchill In the heart of Virginia’s Senate District 31 race, where political fervor has ignited a spirited campaign, allegations of voter suppression tactics are taking center stage. Juan Pablo Segura – the Republican contender for the seat – has raised concerns about what he describes as attempts by his opponent Russet Perry’s…
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Nine ODs in One Loudoun High School and Parents Were the Last to Know
by Kerry Dougherty What is it with Loudoun County school officials? They’re strangely fond of keeping secrets. They don’t like parents. And they never seem to learn from their mistakes. In 2021 they hid incidents of sexual assaults from parents. Last month they hid a fentanyl epidemic at Park View High School from parents for…
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Judge Issues Surprise Marijuana Ruling
from The Republican Standard A federal judge in Northern Virginia rejected an attempt to block a new Virginia law that imposes stricter limits on hemp products containing intoxicating amounts of THC. The law aimed to crack down on delta-8, a hemp-derived marijuana alternative. The judge ruled that Virginia’s regulations do not conflict with federal law…
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Delegate Won’t Correct False Accusation About Israel
by Scott Dreyer On October 17, around noon Virginia time, a missile allegedly hit a Baptist hospital in Gaza. Almost immediately, many US mainstream news outlets blamed Israel for the attack and claimed “over 500” had been killed. As reported here, about four hours after the blast, Del. Salam “Sam” Rasoul (D-Roanoke) posted to X,…
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The Latest Campaign Finance Reports for State Senate Races
by Jeanine Martin October finance reports are available at VPAP.org. Below is the amount of money raised in the most competitive Senate districts from October 1st to the 26th. Once again, Democrats, the party of the rich, have raised more money than Republicans in almost every race. But the energy we’re seeing around the commonwealth…