Author: Bob Rayner
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State Elections This Fall: What to Watch
by David J. Toscano (This column was first published in Fights of Our Lives!) Halloween is right around the corner and many Americans are considering whether skeletons and hobgoglins should adorn their homes and how their children will dress for this spookiest of holidays. But other scary events are also upon us, in the form…
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Miyares Moves to Support Israel
from The Republican Standard In the wake of the attack on Israel carried out by terrorist organization Hamas last week, Attorney General Jason Miyares is calling upon Virginia law enforcement agencies to help Israelis fight for their lives in a new way. Fox News obtained copies of a letter distributed to over 100 sheriffs’ offices…
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Campaign Finance Reports Show the Party of the Rich Is Outraising Republicans
by Jeanine Martin As usual the party of the rich, Democrats, is outraising Republicans in the commonwealth election scheduled for November 7th. The September financial reports for all candidates and committees can be found here. If things don’t turn around in the next three weeks Republicans will have a difficult time flipping the State Senate and…
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No Parole for Killers, No Matter How Old
by Kerry Doherty Autumn, with its crisp temperatures, pumpkin spice and vibrant colors, seems to be everyone’s favorite season. Not Paige O’Shaughnessy’s. In fact, each year when the season changes she’s reminded of the hellish fall of 2000. That was the year her husband, Timothy O’Shaughnessy, 40, was murdered in his downtown Norfolk office. It…
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Lose the Masks
by Kerry Dougherty Last Saturday’s horrors of Hamas were followed here and abroad with another kind of horror. There were anti-Israel rallies at colleges and in major cities across the nation. These heartless people were demonstrating for just one reason: to show support for the barbarians who had just invaded a country, slaughtered innocent people,…
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The Benefits of School Choice and the Risks in the November Elections
from Liberty Unyielding The debate over school choice has tended to focus on whether students learn more as a result. But learning improvements from school choice are probably smaller than improvements in other dimensions, such as civic participation, law abidingness, and family stability later in life. Jason Bedrick of The Heritage Foundation notes that “School-choice…
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Fairfax School Board Member Opposes Moment of Silence for Israel
from The Republican Standard Fairfax County School Board Member Abrar Omeish put liberal intolerance on full display during a school board meeting Thursday night. The Yale-educated Democrat broke into a minutes-long diatribe following a moment of silence held by her colleagues for the victims of Hamas terrorism and the innocent Israeli and Palestinian lives lost:…
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We Happy Many
by Tom Blau Virginia Republicans seem increasingly depressed by November electoral prospects. Many Republicans can’t figure out if the Democrats are more driven by incompetence or fecklessness, but they ask, anyway. But the more concrete question is: can Democrats, despite everything, nevertheless do well at the polls next month? And if they’re so bad, how…
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Deep Dive: Casinos, Highways, and Ignoring RVA Voters
by Jon Baliles Republished with permission from RVA 5×5. They say the past is prologue and that if you don’t learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it, among other famous quotes that have stood the test of time. And they have a factor of truth and lesson in them. And so is the…
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“Completely Ignored by Our School”: Roanoke College Swimmers, Part 4
by Scott Dreyer At Hotel Roanoke on October 5, members of the Roanoke College women’s swim team calmly and clearly delivered blistering indictments of what they described as failed, unresponsive leadership at their school, the NCAA, and USA Swimming. Some of their gut-wrenching stories about being forced to train, compete, and share facilities with a…
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Jew-Hating Student Groups Crop Up Like Cockroaches. Virginia Is No Exception.
by Kerry Dougherty As the world gapes in horror at the atrocities committed against the people of Israel malignant clots of the perpetually disgruntled appear, like cockroaches. These brainwashed fans of Hamas cheer the murder of Jewish babies, the rape of Jewish women and the taking of Jewish hostages. They wave the Palestinian flag. They…
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“We Were Silenced”: Roanoke Swimmers, Part 3
by Scott Dreyer As reported in Parts One and Two, ten members of the Roanoke College women’s swim team held an “NCAA — Save Women’s Sports!” press conference on October 5 at Hotel Roanoke, to draw attention to what they described as “emotional blackmail” and “neglect” at the hands of their school administrators, NCAA, and…
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Youngkin Orders Flags at Half-Mast to Honor the Dead in Israel
by The Republican Standard Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin issued an order Sunday to fly flags around the state at half-staff. This was the statement issued by his office: “In accordance with the authority vested in me as Governor, I hereby order that the flags of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia…
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“My Defeat Was Written in Biology”: Roanoke College Swimmers, Part 2
by Scott Dreyer As reported in Part 1, in a move hailed as “historic” and “first in the nation,” members of the Roanoke College women’s swim team held a press conference at Hotel Roanoke on October 5 to highlight the emotional, mental, academic and physical trauma they have been experiencing this semester. In essence, the…
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Incapable at Least; Incompetent at Worst
by Jon Baliles The Richmond casino referendum this week was once again in the forefront of the news but not because of the impending vote or the discussion of the numerous proposed “benefits” the casino advocates have promised every group under the sun. No, this week it was made known that the company driving the…