Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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America Needs a Diet, Not Doughnuts
by Kerry Dougherty Everyone loves Krispy Kreme. But let’s be honest, doughnuts are the last thing America needs right now. We were fat before the pandemic. We’re fatter now. And being fat puts you at a much higher risk for becoming seriously ill from from COVID. At first I was skeptical about a report in The…
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Experts Pulled Six-Foot Social Distance Rule Out Of “Thin Air”
by Kerry Dougherty Hmmm. Looks like the CDC — and the frequently wrong-but-never-in-doubt Dr. Fauci — have a problem. Even The New York Times now admits what those of us who have been paying attention for more than year already knew: That three feet of social distancing provides plenty of protection against Covid-19 and six…
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Enough with the Corned Beef and Cabbage
by Kerry Dougherty We ought to talk today about Gov. Ralph Northam who with the stroke of a pen yesterday sped up the restoration of voting rights to an estimated 69,000 Virginia felons on parole or probation. You know, guys like cop killer Vincent Martin and Hugh Joseph Brown, the killer we wrote about earlier…
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Democracy Dies in Fake Quotes
by Kerry Dougherty There are no words for the disgust I feel for The Washington Post right now. Oh, it’s been listing left for years, eagerly reporting negative news about conservatives and their causes, while offering tongue baths to liberals. But printing fabricated quotes to damage the president? That’s a new low. Now we KNOW…
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Virginia’s Parole Board Is a Detestable Disgrace
by Kerry Dougherty Well, bless The Richmond-Times Dispatch. They’re doing real journalism up there in the capital and it’s infuriating to Democratic power brokers. They’ve got to keep their stories straight now. Not easy. Yes, over the weekend the TD published two stunning pieces about the curious behavior of Virginia’s all-Democrat Parole Board, a group apparently…
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Let’s Get ALL Kids Back in Class
by Kerry Dougherty It’s one of the cardinal sins of journalism: Burying the lede. That’s newspaper talk for dropping the most important point in a news story deep in the copy. Prime example: The local newspaper’s front-page story on Thursday: “As In-School Learning Returns, A Racial Divide.” In this case you had to read past…
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Another Depressing Ralph Northam Presser
by Kerry Dougherty Gov. Ralph Northam’s ability to gaslight Virginia was on display again at his Tuesday press conference. He indicated that he and his wife had visited schools that had recently reopened and that they were happy to see kids masked up and maintaining social distances from each other. Maybe the sight of kids…
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A Radical Proposal: Abolish Virtual Classes
by Kerry Dougherty Since “following the science” is in vogue, there should be no debate now that ALL schools should be open for in-person classes. Every damn one of them. Five days a week. The science is clear and has been since last spring: COVID poses very little risk to children. And infected children rarely…
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Enough
by Kerry Dougherty Oh look. We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of 15 Days to Slow the Spread. Remember that? The big lie that if we simply shut down the country for just two weeks, it would stop the coronavirus from rampaging coast to coast and allow hospitals prepare for the onslaught. They warned…
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Scrap Art Genius Sam Hundley Debuts First Book
by Kerry Dougherty Remember when The Virginian-Pilot was a thing of beauty? When the graphics that accompanied the hard-hitting news stories were so dazzling that they were what grabbed your attention? Remember when newspapers around the country imitated what we were doing in Norfolk? There was one man behind much of that style and sizzle:…
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Richmond Bigfoots Beach Elections
by Kerry Dougherty They think they’re so clever. Richmond Democrats, that is. They believe that by forcing Virginia Beach to adopt a ward voting system – without first bothering to find out what the people want – they can turn the city council blue. What other reason could there possibly be for passing a bill…
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Wait Til the Midnight Hour
by Kerry Dougherty Sitting down, Virginia? Big news! Especially for night owls. Beginning Monday, we will be allowed to stay out past midnight, thanks to the benevolence of our beloved Governor, Ralph Northam. His Excellency announced yesterday that he has decided to lift our 12 to 5 a.m. curfew, the one based on the Northam…
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Newspapers: No Laughing Matter
by Kerry Dougherty Almost any time I do any public speaking – not often since the pandemic began – a member of the audience will ask something like this: “What advice would you give to a young person who wants to work in newspapers?” After I stop laughing, I ask if the young person has…
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Good Neighbors
by Kerry Dougherty In these hyper-partisan pandemic times it often seems we will never come together as a country. We are too far apart politically. We spend too much time insulting each other. We can’t agree on the simplest things. We’re sick of the pandemic, divided about restrictions and gloomy about the future. Even the…
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Hey, ACLU: Forget the Fence, Go After Curfews and Booze Restrictions
by Kerry Dougherty Some of us have been waiting 11 months for Virginia’s legal eagles – especially the ACLU – to bombard the courts with a blizzard of challenges to Gov. Ralph Northam’s excessive executive orders that have stomped on the constitutional rights of millions of Virginians. Instead we mostly got crickets. For a time,…