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Gubernatorial Debate Review with Winners and Losers
by Chris Saxman Last night’s debate between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin was more or less like the first one on substance – pretty much the same answers but perhaps a deeper, more clarifying look at those. I don’t see a lot of votes changing from those who actually watched the debate but there were…
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McAuliffe: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
by Shaun Kenney Remember the old adage — the goal isn’t to win the debate, but to make sure you don’t lose the debate. Former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe was pressed on graphic textbooks — and I mean graphic — of a sexual nature being included in government school libraries, and McAuliffe exploded with rage.…
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What I Saw at My Son’s Middle-School Orientation
by Nathan Brinkman By now, most of us have probably lost count of stories about the culture wars being waged in our nation’s public schools. Whether it’s footage of school boards mired in debates over the use of “critical theory” (as seen here, here, and here)… or battles over “gender ideology” (here, here, and here)……
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Policing in the Post-George Floyd Era
by James A. Bacon Earlier this month City of Richmond police officer Mark Sims got into an argument with three men man at the Whitcomb Court public housing development. One individual said he was bringing diapers for his children who lived there. Sims referenced guns stored in the visitor’s parked car. The man said he…
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Redistricting: Voting Rights Act
by Dick Hall-Sizemore After the population issue of “one man, one vote,” the next priority the Virginia Redistricting Commission must consider in the drawing of new election districts is compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act. This post will lay out the main principles that need to be considered. I need to make this caveat…
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Bacon Bits: The Fraying Social Fabric Edition
Honor is an antiquated slaveholders concept anyway. The University of Virginia’s student Honor Committee has voted to alter the honor code to eliminate the single sanction against lying, cheating and stealing from expulsion to a two-semester suspension. Before the change can be adopted, it must be approved by a vote of the student body. Third-year…
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Ignore the Fun Police. Football Is Safe.
by Kerry Dougherty Travel back in time with me to the first weekend in September. Anyone remember what the COVID fear peddlers screamed when they saw packed college football stadiums during Week One of the 2021 season? Just wait two weeks! Super-spreader events! Masks! Where are their masks? And then there was the leader of…
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A Malicious Prosecution
by Carol J. Bova During the Bob McDonnell administration, the Commonwealth of Virginia preserved 232,000 acres through conservation easements or donations, falling short of the governor’s 400,000-acre goal because of the tight economy. Seizing on the deficit in his 2013 gubernatorial campaign, Terry McAuliffe promised that he would “preserve at least 400,000 acres of open…
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Flag Vandalism at UVa a False Alarm, Ryan Says
by James A. Bacon A few days ago I reported an alleged act of vandalism against 2,977 tiny American flags planted in the ground as part of a 9/11 commemoration at the University of Virginia. The evening after the service, which was sponsored by the conservative Young Americans for Freedom and attended by President Jim…
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Follow the Science. Whose Science?
James Earl Biden. Yesterday was supposed to be the day when almost all American adults could start getting the first booster shot for the Pfizer vaccination. On August 18 the Biden Administration announced that a Pfizer booster shot would be available to Americans who received their second Pfizer dose at least eight months prior. At…
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The Real Election Integrity Issue in VA this Year
by Paul Goldman Virginia is on track to hold an unconstitutional, illegal election this November 2. The Governor knows it. The Lieutenant Governor knows it. The Attorney General knows it; indeed, he is in court fighting my effort as the lawyer for the defendants in Goldman v Northam, et al, which is a federal action…
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September 16
by Kerry Dougherty I’m almost never satisfied with my writing. That’s why, if you read one of my posts in the morning and go back in the afternoon it will be slightly different. I can’t stop tinkering. Over the years I’ve written a handful of pieces that I thought were pretty good. This is one.…
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The Economics of Flood Control in Virginia
by James C. Sherlock We have work to do, and need to do it quickly and well. If we want to get storm defenses built before major storm damage rather than after; and if we want the federal government to pay 65% of the costs. Let’s assume we do. The “Virginia Coastal Resilience Master Planning…
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A Closer Look at Those “Driving While Black” Statistics
by James A. Bacon When the Commonwealth published its Virginia Community Policing Act traffic-stop database last week, the Richmond Times-Dispatch spun the data this way: Black drivers are disproportionately stopped and arrested, and they have their cars searched at higher rates than any other race statewide. Here’s what the RTD could have written: Black drivers stopped for…