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Seizing and Freezing with COVID
by Paula Harkins A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from my employer requiring me to report my vaccine status. Ummmm… what?!? Let’s back up a moment. Since March 2019, I have been working from my home in Northern Virginia for a D.C. government contractor. I have limited my visits with friends, family,…
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Northam Orders Masks on Faces of Virginia Students
by Kerry Dougherty They say an advertisement is successful if you can recall the name of the product long after you’ve seen the ad. If that’s true, the 2013 Staples Back-To-School spot has to be one of the greats. I thought it was hilarious when I saw it eight years ago and I think of…
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Oyez, Oyez. The Virginia Court of Appeals is Changing.
by Dick Hall-Sizemore One of the General Assembly’s most cherished prerogatives is the election of judges. When one party controls both houses of the legislature, that power is particularly relished. The Democrats had the opportunity in this special session to exercise its prerogative in a big way by electing eight judges to the Virginia Court…
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Virginia’s Continuing Mental Health Crisis
by James C. Sherlock I like government at every level to address only things it must. Then I want it to be world class in efficiency and effectiveness. It has been clear since the ’60’s that I am destined to be repeatedly frustrated on both counts. We come to an old issue in Virginia, the…
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Could Solar “Sink Under the Weight of Its Own Trash”?
by James A. Bacon Solar energy is widely regarded as the most cost-effective source of electricity available today. According to financial advisory firm Lazard, the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for solar, about $30 per MWh, is nearly half that of the most cost-effective fossil fuel, combined-cycle natural gas. The great economic advantage of solar,…
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America Is Tired of Elitism
by Kerry Dougherty There is nothing that members of the corporate media hate more than being told they’re elites. Thing is, they’re so elite they don’t even realize it. Take The New York Times White House correspondent, Annie Karni, for instance. It isn’t simply her job to report what’s going on in Washington, she’s also…
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Women, Stop Blaming Men If You Can’t Have It All
By Paula Harkins Yesterday I was invited to join an advisory panel for a Women in Leadership course hosted by a university in Washington, D.C. Excited to learn about the possibilities, I read up on the course only to find the words, “From the ongoing battle for equal rights to the breaking of barriers on…
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The Craziness Chronicles: Woke Kindergarten, Marijuana Candy and the Therapeutic State
Documenting Virginia’s steady descent into madness… Woke Kintergarten. Asra Nomani and her buddies at Parents Defending Education have caught the Fairfax County Public School system with its figurative pants down. A summer learning guide at Bailey’s Elementary school for the Arts and Sciences in Falls Church suggested readers follow Web links to “Woke Kindergarten,” “No…
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Make “Contextualization” Open, Vibrant, Dogma-Free
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia has taken down the statue of Indian fighter George Rogers Clark and is expunging other monuments and tributes to individuals who fall short of lofty, progressive 21st-century ideals. President Jim Ryan has promised that the statue to Thomas Jefferson, the university’s founder, will stay. But it will…
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UVa Does Foster Free Expression, VP Advancement Says
by James A. Bacon The upper echelons of the University of Virginia administration are keenly aware that many alumni are unhappy with the hostility toward viewpoints that don’t conform with the dominant leftist culture at the university. As Mark M. Luellen, vice president for advancement acknowledged in a recent dear-colleagues letter, “Many of us have…
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The Best Cities for Cat Lovers
by James A. Bacon Now it’s time for some clickbait — a ranking of the Best Cities for Cat Lovers based on a methodology of dubious merit from Lawnstarter. The compilers derived their ranking from eleven metrics ranging from the number of pet-friendly hotels, animal shelters, pet stores, and veterinarians per 100,000 residents to the…
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Wake Up, People! This Is Me Telling You That the Old Answers Are Not Working!
by James A. Bacon How many children have to be killed, wounded and traumatized before people wake up? Headline from today’s Virginian-Pilot: “Nearly a dozen children have been shot this month in Norfolk. Communities are hurting…” And then it adds this kicker: “and activists want change.” The Virginian-Pilot spoke with elected officials, community organizers, the…
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DHR Sets the Fiscal Benchmark for Statue Removal
by James A. Bacon Let us all praise Virginia’s Department of Historic Resources. The department may be part of the culture-cleansing machine taking down historical statues and moving them to locales where they don’t offend people, but at least it is looking out for the taxpayer. The Northam administration, acting through DHR, made national news…