Author: Bob Rayner
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Incarceration Should Not Mean Humiliation
by Kerry Dougherty Hang onto your wallets, Portsmouth. A lawsuit filed Friday in Circuit Court is seeking $1 million in damages due to alleged misconduct by a sheriff’s deputy. Oh, and another $350,000 in punitive damages. The conduct – if it happened – was atrocious. According to court papers filed by a former inmate, Danaesha…
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Move Over Covid: Sharks Are Back
by Kerry Dougherty Great news! Sharks are swarming off the coast of the Outer Banks. Nine great whites so far. One, named Breton, is a 13-foot adult male weighing over 1,400 pounds according to a story in Saturday’s Virginian-Pilot. Why is this good news? Because it’s a sign that Covid is truly over. The general…
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Violent Transgender Activists and Antifa Agitators Shut Down Pro-Life Event at VCU
by Michael Ippolito Violent transgender activists and Antifa agitators interrupted the final Students for Life “Lies Pro-Choicers Believe” Tour at Virginia Commonwealth University on Wednesday and shut the event down. Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins’ and student ambassador Isabel Brown’s speaking tour concluded at the Richmond public university in violence as police…
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An Open Letter to Sen. Louise Lucas About Funding New Richmond Schools
Editor’s note: Paul Goldman, a Richmond attorney and former chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia, asked us to publish the letter below, which he sent last week to state Sen. Louise Lucas of Portsmouth, a fellow Democrat who serves as president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate. As of today, Sen. Lucas has not…
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Flee Any Public School Resisting Parents’ Rights
by Kerry Dougherty Four years ago no one was talking about parental rights. Now everyone is. It all began with the covid lockdowns. Once schools were closed parents got a look at what was and wasn’t being taught in public schools. And the scales fell from their eyes. Parents began to see school administrators and…
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The Wild Thing — Will Glenn Youngkin Run for President?
by Chris Saxman The most often asked question I get these days is whether or not Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin will run for president. *Pro tip* — Until they’re out, they’re in. If ever there was a next-generation Republican that checks enough boxes to get nominated and elected president, that Republican is Glenn Youngkin. Do…
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Last Gasp for Masks
by Kerry Dougherty A friend of mine went to the dermatologist yesterday. The medical office was in the Sentara Leigh medical complex in Norfolk and she was required to wear a face diaper. Hey, there were a total of 5 cases of covid yesterday in Norfolk. That’s 2 cases for every 100,000 residents. There may…
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Arlington’s Monument to Peace and Reconciliation Slated for Demolition
by Robin Traywick Williams It is dangerous these days to advocate for anything even tangentially associated with the words “Confederate,” but after almost three years of monument-bashing, it might be worth discussing where this is going. In addition to Lee, Stuart and nameless soldiers on courthouse lawns, Columbus, Lincoln, and Juniper Serra have all fallen.…
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Breaking Virginia’s Energy Impasse
by Bill O’Keefe With the two chambers of the General Assembly politically divided, there is no hope for a bipartisan compromise on changing the Virginia Clean Economy Act. Without change, we are stuck with a radical energy policy that will enrich Dominion and leave consumers holding the bag. VCEA will stand as a monument to…
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Is CPAC Shrinking?
by Bruce Majors CPAC2023 was noticeably smaller than CPAC has been in previous years, with a half-empty ballroom at the Gaylord National Resort on the shores of the Potomac in Oxon Hill, Maryland. It’s CPACtrophy. Although you could see the Masonic Temple in Old Town, Alexandria from the Gaylord, there were few Virginia politicians. Former…
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At George Mason: Statement of Commitment to Academic Freedom and to Intellectual Merit
The undersigned members of the GMU Department of Economics express their commitment to academic freedom and to intellectual merit. American universities have professed allegiance to two ideals. First, the ideal of academic freedom – the right of students and faculty to express any idea in speech or writing, without fear of university punishment, and secure…
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In Virginia Beach: Hang On to Your Wallets
by Kerry Dougherty How to ruin an otherwise lovely early spring-like weekend, Virginia Beach-style: Send out real estate assessments that show double-digit increase in the value of property (that’s a good thing, by the way) and a huge jump in taxes. That’s not good. Yep, many of us opened our mail on Saturday and wished…
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Return to Chickahominy Swamp
by Jon Baliles Peter McElhinney at Style Weekly takes us on a retroactive visit through the Chickahominy Swamp and the voice and mind and sounds of the late Richmond music legend Page Wilson. The new online radio station, The Breeze, has begun airing old episodes of Wilson’s weekly visit to his porch in the swamp…
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Poof! 21 Retirements and 363 Years of Combined Service. So Far.
by Chris Saxman Here’s a General Assembly Retirement Tracker with estimated years of service: Retirements thus far – 7 Senators and 14 Delegates. Combined years of service? 363. I’m putting the Over/Under at 30 members of the General Assembly and 480 years of service that will not return next year. So far not returning: Senator…
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Taxpayers Fund Biden’s Disruptive Campaign Stop in Va Beach
by Kerry Dougherty As usual, some local news outlets missed the real story. They were so starstruck by President Biden’s taxpayer-funded, Republican-bashing campaign stop in Virginia Beach on Tuesday that they didn’t notice that the city ground to a halt for hours Tuesday afternoon. It was a giant clusterfart. From one end of Virginia’s largest…