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Fairfax School Health Aide Allegedly Stole Student’s Adderall
by Asra Q. Nomani FAIRFAX, Va. – On Friday, May 27, local father Brett Byrnes, a former military officer, dashed over to his second grade daughter’s elementary school, Greenbriar East Elementary School. The school nurse had just called to say she was out of his second-grade daughter’s dosage of Adderall, a prescription drug used to…
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Who Holds the UVa Alumni Association Accountable?
by Walter Smith Who owns the University of Virginia? The answer is clear: as an agency of the state government, UVa is owned by the citizens of Virginia. The governor appoints the members of its governing board, the General Assembly allots a significant percentage of its budget, and, although it has been granted considerable autonomy,…
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Judge Finds Probable Cause Two Smutty Books Are Obscene For Minors
by Kerry Dougherty Get ready. Any minute now, local lefties will have their hair on fire. They’ll be screaming about book banning and censorship. They will be wrong. Circuit Court Judge Pamela Baskerville’s finding Wednesday that there is probable cause that two books available in Virginia Beach Public Schools are “obscene for unrestricted viewing by…
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Why Not Virginia for Semiconductor Manufacturing Expansion?
by James C. Sherlock Among the things that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made clear is the vulnerability of Taiwan and with it, the access of the U.S. economy to the 90% of advanced computer chips manufactured there. The national security requirement for domestic chip manufacturing brings opportunity. It is the nation’s most urgent…
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The Boeing Announcement Is a Vote of Confidence in Virginia
by James A. Bacon The Boeing Company’s decision to transfer its official headquarters location from Chicago, Ill., to Arlington gives Virginia significant bragging rights. The move will have little detectable short-term economic impact. The more consequential news is a promise to “develop a research & technology hub” in the area “to harness and attract engineering…
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Dust Mites: The Siege of Airlock Three
The year… 2075. The location… Galileo Station, the largest and most prosperous settlement on the Moon. The crisis… The United States federal government is determined to rope in its free-wheeling lunar colonies. Resentful of intrusive politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., the Galiletians are getting restless. The spark… When negotiations deadlock over Galileo Station’s right…
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Virginia’s Incredible Money-Spending Machine
by James A. Bacon Spending by Virginia’s state government isn’t just increasing — spending is increasing at an accelerating rate. The current budget biennium (fiscal 2021-22) and the next (fiscal 2023-24) will have seen the two biggest spending increases of the past nine budget cycles. Assuming no modifications to the next biennial budget’s spending totals…
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Monumental Lies
by Phil Leigh (March 25, 2022) In this morning’s Richmond Times podcast, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Michael Paul Williams asserts that the reason there were no Confederate monuments in the city until the 1890s and afterward was because whites wanted them to symbolize the return of white supremacy after the end of Reconstruction. He implies…
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Slave-Holder Jefferson Paved the Way for Ending Slavery
by Phil Leigh Critical Race Theory and Identity Politics advocates have gained enough influence to cause many Americans to despise some of our country’s most significant founders. Chief among such founders has been Thomas Jefferson. New York City, for example, removed a 200-year-old statue of Jefferson from its city hall last year. When race hustlers…
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Is The Traditional Public School Grading System Racist? Part II: The Equity Card
by James C. Sherlock Virginia has a policy on grading of schools. As far as I can tell, it does not have a definitive policy on grading of students other than on statewide tests and assessments. That is left to the Divisions. Yesterday I attempted to explain standards-based grading (SBG). Today I will take on what I view…
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The Legislatures Strike Back: The Pandemic and Balances of Power
by David Toscano In her recent SLogLaw post “Harrisburg COVID-19 Response Is No Model,” Meryl Chertoff provides a great explanation of Pennsylvania’s response to the pandemic. Except for the use of a constitutional amendment pushed by Republicans in the Keystone state to constrain a Democratic governor, the dynamic is similar to what is occurring in…
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A Broken Meritocracy
The following post has been extracted with permission from the book, An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy. by Kenny Xu There were just too many Asians. Thomas Jefferson High School for Mathematics and Science in Arlington, Virginia, is widely considered the best high school for math and…
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Not a Lost Decade, Perhaps, But a Lagging Decade
Old Dominion University’s “2021 State of the Commonwealth Report” provides an unwelcome, but necessary, reminder that Virginia’s economy has been lagging since 2010. While the U.S. gross domestic product grew at a compounded annual growth rate of 1.6% between 2010 and 2020 (hardly a robust performance), Virginia’s economy grew at a mere 0.7% rate. Of…
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Schools Say They Teach CRT, Even As Journalists Deny It
by Hans Bader Schools are teaching critical race theory, even as liberal education reporters deny it is taught anywhere, and falsely claim it is not taught in even a single school system. Detroit’s school superintendent, Nikolai Vitti, says critical race theory is deeply embedded in his school system: “Our curriculum is deeply using critical race…
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Does Jim Ryan Value Jefferson’s Legacy?
by Walter Smith University of Virginia President Jim Ryan has stated that, as long as he holds office, the Thomas Jefferson statue in front of the Rotunda will remain in place. UVa’s founder, he says, will not be de-memorialized. Talk is cheap. When given a golden opportunity to publicize Jefferson’s contribution to religious freedom —…