Category: Politics
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“Parental Rights” Movement Fading?
by Dick Hall-Sizemore When Glenn Youngkin was elected Governor in 2021, largely on a platform of “parental rights” in schools, a national movement seemed to have been born. In Virginia, and elsewhere, school board meetings were packed with fervent citizens shouting at the board members and at each other about banning books in school libraries…
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Republican Problems in Virginia
by Shaun Kenney There was an angrier version of this analysis I had prepared. One that placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of those who would have reaped the rewards had Tuesday gone differently. I’m not going to do that. … because there’s a bigger problem in front of us. Virginia Democrats have a…
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Just Wondering
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Four Republican Congressmen from Virginia, Wittman (1st District), Good (5th District), Cline (6th District), and Griffith (9th Distict), recently voted against the continuing resolution, introduced by the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives, to fund the government. In effect, they would have shut down the government. I wonder how they will…
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It’s Not Trump; Our Coalitions Matter
by Shaun Kenney Stop me if you’ve seen this one before. Virginia Republicans either get absolutely shellacked in an election, or the margins are super close and we either lose — in which case, the Western Experiment is over and America should pack it in — or we miraculously win and have set the new conservative standard for the…
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Legacy Media Play Catch-Up in Hashmi Case
by Kerry Dougherty Just as I predicted: The corporate media could no longer ignore the election controversy brewing in Virginia’s bright blue 15th Senate District and were finally forced to cover the uncomfortable topic of election “irregularities”. The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak – the best reporter in Virginia – broke the story last weekend. The…
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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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Rumblings Among House Republicans
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), the current Minority Leader in the House of Delegates, seems to be on a smooth glide path to making history by being elected Speaker when the General Assembly convenes in January. The fate of the current Speaker, Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah), is less certain. One might logically expect a…
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Sam Rasoul and Jewish Democrats in the General Assembly – An Uneasy Alliance
James C. Sherlock Salam “Sam” Rasoul is a Democrat delegate from Roanoke. He still publicly blames Israel for an explosion at a Gaza hospital that the western world’s intelligence services have blamed on an errant Hamas rocket. Even The New York Times changed its story after jumping the gun on that report. At the rally…
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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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A Few Thousand Votes Would Have Made a Big Difference
by Shaun Kenney Yeah — I’m a bit bitter over this one. Virginia Republicans did everything we were asked, despite our intuition. We narrowed the talking points, stayed in our lanes, muffled internal criticisms, and allowed the effort to be centralized. Consultants made their money as they do every election and the Democrats outspent us…
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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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That’s One Way to Cut Down on Health Care Costs
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Just as the Democrats and Republicans get rid of their embarrassments in the Virginia Senate (Joe Morrissey and Amanda Chase, respectively), it appears the Republicans will be electing another one for the House. Following up on a report by The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Dwayne Yancey reports today in Cardinal News that…
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Dominion, Clean VA Spend $23M Buying Influence
By Steve Haner Dominion Energy Virginia has increased its donations to Virginia state politicians six-fold in just four years. The other major donors in the energy regulation arena, Clean Virginia Fund and its founder, have done much the same. They are donating five times more in the 2023 election cycle than they did in the…