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Ryan’s Testimony All Over the Map
by James A. Bacon Testifying under oath several days ago in a Daily Progress lawsuit to pry open a report into the slaying of three UVA football players, University of Virginia President Jim Ryan elaborated upon his official explanation of why he decided to withhold the report until after the trial of the alleged shooter…
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Bacon Bits: Encampments and Memorials
Globalize this! Nearly two-thirds (65%) of Americans recently polled by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) responded that setting up pro-Palestinian tent compounds was “never” or “rarely” justified. Nearly half (47%) said that students participating in college encampment protests should be expelled, suspended, or put on probation. Only 23% thought the demonstrators should…
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An Answer for Jon Baliles: It’s the Constitution
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Shame on Jon Baliles for not knowing why cities and counties are treated differently in the Code of Virginia regarding the issuance of general obligation debt. The answer is simple; the state constitution requires the different treatment. Article VII, section 10, of the state constitution deals with the issuing of debt by…
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Is This What is Meant by Cult of Personality?
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The primary race for Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District seat is a microcosm of what the modern Republican party has become. Both candidates, Bob Good, the incumbent, and John McGuire, a member of the Virginia Senate, are ultra-conservative. There is probably not any substantive difference between them on policy issues. Yet, they and…
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The Cost of DEI? That’s the Easy Part.
by Dick Hall-Sizemore This whole argument over the cost of DEI at UVa. is a tempest in a teapot in budget terms. Even if one accepts the inflated figure of $20 million put forth by Open the Books, that is less than one percent of UVa.’s adopted budget of $2.40 billion for the academic division…
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Virginia Untethered From California’s Nutty EV Regs
by Kerry Dougherty Well, God bless Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares . On Wednesday the dynamic duo announced that they’d found a way to undo some of the damage done by the commonwealth’s Democrats when these far-left lawmakers hooked Virginia’s wagon to California’s. You can read the attorney general’s advisory opinion…
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Psst! The economy is doing really well.
We all see and hear those complaints about inflation and economic woes. Here is a contrary analysis, from The Wall Street Journal, no less: Growing investment income and household wealth have joined near-full employment and rising wages to keep millions of Americans… spending their way through price hikes. The economy’s charge through higher interest rates…
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Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Sleet…. Ah, Forget It.
by James A. Bacon If you’ve got something more important to mail than a greeting card, you might consider an alternative to the U.S. Postal Service. Come to think of it, if you live in Central Virginia and don’t want people thinking you’ve forgotten their birthday, graduation, or anniversary, you might not even entrust greeting…
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Is There an AI for Fact Checking AI?
Type “UVA Board Visitors members” into the Bing search engine, and the above information highlight appears atop the page. Just one problem. The UVA Board doesn’t have seven members, it has 17 members. For a source the text points to an article in UVA Today discussing board appointments by Governor Bob McDonnell in 2010. Admittedly,…
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The Junk Science Behind a Property-Valuation Study
by James A. Bacon When you examine every issue through a racial lens, everything looks like racism. It’s even easier to find racism everywhere when you resort to junk science (or social science, as the case may be). A case in point is a new study by Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia (Home), which…