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For the Left, Government Is Always Underfunded
by Arthur G. Purves Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin has proposed several savings for Virginia’s taxpayers, including doubling the standard deduction, providing a one-time tax rebate, eliminating the grocery tax, and suspending the 10-cent increase in the gas tax. His proposals come at a time when Virginia has a record $2.6 billion budget surplus. Nevertheless, Virginia Public…
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Lame Duck Northam Tries to Piggyback on Youngkin’s Success
I said it in 2017, and I say it today: end the tax on groceries and help working families https://t.co/60tE4sJE2c — Governor Ralph Northam (@VAGovernor73) December 14, 2021 by Kerry Dougherty Is this guy for real? Does Lame Duck Ralph Northam honestly believe that by Tweeting about the odious grocery tax with just 32 days…
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UVa’s Thought Police Have Taken Control
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia is becoming a modern-day reeducation camp where the views of faculty and staff must conform to the dictates of Leftist ideology regarding social justice issues. Not only must employees adopt the Woke rhetoric of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), they must engage in activist behavior. Between the…
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Emil Faber Weeps
by Walter Smith The statue of Emil Faber, founder of Faber College (of Animal House fame), bears a quote, “Knowledge is good.” The reigning philosophy at the University of Virginia, by contrast, seems to be, “Only some knowledge is good.” By way of introduction, let us note that the University of Virginia Alumni Association this…
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New Praxis Circle Contributor: Jim Bacon
Praxis Circle is a community building worldviews to renew free society. We do this primarily through our online content and interviews of expert thought leaders on worldview topics. Today, we are thrilled to welcome as our newest Contributor a very familiar person to all regular Bacon’s Rebellion readers—founder, editor, and publisher James A. Bacon himself!…
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Tree Tyrants Win Round 2
by James A. Bacon As the old saying goes, “You can’t fight city hall.” Certainly not in Fredericksburg. Several months ago, I chronicled the travails of my mother, Sallie Daiger, regarding the removal of a tree in the public right-of-way in front of her house. I won’t repeat the gory details — you can find…
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Rule by Brainless Algorithm
From today’s edition of The Blunderbuss: The genius of our digital overlords was confirmed the other day when I commented on a post about the coming labor strife in Major League Baseball. I suggested that the highly publicized squabble between billionaire owners and millionaire players might be a suicide pact, dooming a once beautiful sport.…
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How to Live Free
by James A. Bacon When Mia Love spoke at the University of Virginia last night, she could have told insider stories about her two terms as the only Black female Republican elected to Congress. She could have dished juicy details about what it was like as the sole GOP member of the Congressional Black Caucus,…
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There Will Never Be Enough
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Those of us at the state Department of Planning and Budget (DPB) who worked closely with the capital budget used to marvel at the submissions from higher ed institutions. It did not matter how much had been approved and funded in the recent past; each year there were more and bigger requests.…
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Omigod, Omicron Is Coming!
by Kerry Dougherty I’ve seen this movie before. And I’m not buying a ticket this time. I’m talking about the latest remake in the theater of the absurd: “A New COVID Variant Is Coming! We’re All Going To Die!” Fear hustlers managed to spook the stock markets on Friday with panic porn about a variant…