Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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Northam Administration Neglects Virginia’s Mentally Ill
by Kerry Dougherty You would think that with a medical doctor occupying Virginia’s Governor’s Mansion, Virginia would have topped the nation in COVID testing and COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and would be setting the standard for care for the mentally ill. You would be wrong on all counts. At the risk of plowing old fields, Virginia…
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Vaccinations: Parents Matter
by Kerry Dougherty Does the left want to replace parents with the state? Increasingly, the answer seems to be a hard YES. Here’s one example of government officials actively driving a wedge between parents and children: Last November, the far-left District of Columbia City Council passed the “Minor Consent For Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2020.…
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Stop the Presses: It’s July, and It’s Kinda Hot
by Kerry Dougherty As I was walking my dog yesterday morning a neighbor who was climbing into his car greeted me with this weather warning: “It’s going to be 96 today!” Yep, it’s hot around here. Humid, too. We’re withering in the heat. Sizzling in the sun. Smothering in the humidity. How bad is it?…
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Mask Pollution
by Kerry Dougherty Everyone knows that wearing a mask all day is unpleasant. Recent studies – one in the U.S., another larger study out of Germany — concluded that masks are actually unhealthy for children. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media ignored the findings. Fortunately, The Federalist didn’t: The JAMA report measured averages of 13,120 to 13,910 ppm of carbon…
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COVID’s Latest Victims: Those Afraid to Return to the World
Many are experiencing significant anxiety as the world slowly reopens. Join VA COPES for a free virtual event on July 22 and July 29: “Coping with Re-Entry Anxiety.” https://t.co/BVofTkIWX5 pic.twitter.com/wCaLzxi2e1 — Va Dept of Health (@VDHgov) July 8, 2021 by Kerry Dougherty If there’s one thing we can all agree upon it’s that mental health…
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Terry McAuliffe — Call Him Crazy
by Kerry Dougherty Call me crazy, but I think it should be easier to vote than it should be to buy a gun. — Terry McAuliffe (@TerryMcAuliffe) July 6, 2021 OK, Terry, you asked for it. We’re going to call you crazy because the notion that it’s easier to buy a gun in Virginia than…
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What’s Next? Vaccine Goon Squads?
by Kerry Dougherty Well, it looks like America went from 15 days to slow the spread to vaccine goon squads fanning out across the country, going door to door to demand that everyone get vaccinated against COVID-19. Who didn’t see this coming? According to a story in The New York Post, President Joe Biden announced…
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Were Virginia Lawmakers Stoned When They Legalized Pot?
by Kerry Dougherty No one ever accused the current members of the Virginia General Assembly of crafting elegant laws. But the new bill that legalized marijuana this week is so confusing that the lawmakers must have been stoned when they wrote it. The measure was supposed to take effect on January 1, 2024, with a…
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The Louise Lucas Recall Attempt
by Kerry Dougherty This may come as a shock, but I don’t like what’s happening to State Sen. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth. No, this isn’t a coded message to signal that I’m being held somewhere against my will. I honestly believe that attempts to get the courts to remove her from office are misguided. Make that…
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How 15 Days to Slow the Spread Became 475
by Kerry Dougherty At last! Four hundred and seventy five days after Gov. Ralph Northam first declared a coronavirus state of emergency, his latest order is set to expire today. God willing. I can’t be the only one holding my breath, wondering if the hysteria that Team Apocalypse is ginning up over the Delta variant…
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Same Politicians Who Legalized Weed and Casino Gambling Killed Skill Games
by Kerry Dougherty For more than 30 years Virginia’s been breathlessly legalizing vices. It began when voters approved a state-run numbers racket – the lottery – in 1987. Since then, all manner of wagering has been approved for our gambling pleasure. Virginia now has horse racing, off-track betting, sports betting and soon, casinos. But in…
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Loudoun County School Board Unplugs the Public
by Kerry Dougherty Well, THAT wasn’t a good look. Loudoun County sheriff’s deputies broke up a boisterous school board meeting Tuesday night, handcuffing and arresting one parent just as the assembled crowd finished singing “The Star Spangled Banner.” This came after the school superintendent abruptly ended a public meeting and declared it an “unlawful assembly.”…
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Virginia’s Parole Board Squirts WD-40 on That Revolving Door
by Kerry Dougherty Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A guy commits murder and is sent to prison for decades. Like everyone else in the pen he insists he’s innocent. Finally, a gullible, soft-on-crime parole board buys his sob story and turns him loose on society. Next thing you know the ex-con’s committed…
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I Still Miss Dad After 23 Years
by Kerry Dougherty I wrote this column in June of 1998, just weeks after my father’s sudden death of a heart attack. (He died riding his exercise bike at age 74.) In many ways, this post is dated. Yet I hope it still is meaningful. I loved the guy. To make sense of the piece…
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Who’s Setting Car Fires in Norfolk’s Ghent Neighborhood?
by Kerry Dougherty Who’s setting those car fires in Ghent? Oh, you haven’t heard about the arsons? Buckle up. Last Friday night, as rain drenched Norfolk, Patrick and Tiffany McGee and their two young sons were watching TV in their picturesque Cape Cod with a picket fence on the corner of Redgate and Claremont Avenues…