Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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Move Over Covid: Sharks Are Back
by Kerry Dougherty Great news! Sharks are swarming off the coast of the Outer Banks. Nine great whites so far. One, named Breton, is a 13-foot adult male weighing over 1,400 pounds according to a story in Saturday’s Virginian-Pilot. Why is this good news? Because it’s a sign that Covid is truly over. The general…
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Virginia Beach School Board Celebrates Excellence Again
by Kerry Dougherty Congratulations, Virginia Beach voters. You did it! By electing a handful of common-sense school board members to join the duo who were already on the board, you began the process of bringing back excellence to students in the Resort City. Board veterans Vicky Manning and Carolyn Weens needed more allies in their…
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Flee Any Public School Resisting Parents’ Rights
by Kerry Dougherty Four years ago no one was talking about parental rights. Now everyone is. It all began with the covid lockdowns. Once schools were closed parents got a look at what was and wasn’t being taught in public schools. And the scales fell from their eyes. Parents began to see school administrators and…
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Why Shouldn’t Virginia’s Felons Have To Ask Their Voting Rights Restored?
by Kerry Dougherty Lemme make sure I understand this: Virginia’s ACLU, that left-wing organization that sat on its derriere during Gov. Ralph Northam’s unconstitutional closure of churches and businesses, is suddenly active again. Its lawyers want Virginia’s convicted felons to automatically get their voting rights back, even if they haven’t made restitution to their victims…
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Maglev & Light Rail: Once-Shiny Objects Now Tarnished By Reality
by Kerry Dougherty Gosh. It isn’t often the local newspaper provides two examples of “shiny object stupidity” in one week. But The Virginian-Pilot delivered. On Wednesday the newspaper quietly reported on the absolute demise of the failed maglev system at Old Dominion University. That’s magnetic levitation technology for those of you who weren’t around here…
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Last Gasp for Masks
by Kerry Dougherty A friend of mine went to the dermatologist yesterday. The medical office was in the Sentara Leigh medical complex in Norfolk and she was required to wear a face diaper. Hey, there were a total of 5 cases of covid yesterday in Norfolk. That’s 2 cases for every 100,000 residents. There may…
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Southern Domination and Beaver Nuggets.
by Kerry Dougherty Sick of politics? Me too. Let’s change it up today. I don’t like to brag, but I’m pretty much an expert on roadside food joints and truck stops. No, not that way, you perverts. I simply love road trips, which means frequent stops for food and fuel. Most truck stops are sort…
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Soft-On-Crime Va. Democrats’ Offal Proposal
by Kerry Dougherty Oh look. Another garbage bill courtesy of Virginia’s soft-on-crime Democrats! Want to see what’s coming our way if Dems regain control of the General Assembly and Governor’s Mansion? Check out SB1080. Yep, a gaggle of Virginia’s leading lefties pushed a measure that would classify felons younger than 21 as JUVENILES. Virginia law…
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In Virginia Beach: Hang On to Your Wallets
by Kerry Dougherty How to ruin an otherwise lovely early spring-like weekend, Virginia Beach-style: Send out real estate assessments that show double-digit increase in the value of property (that’s a good thing, by the way) and a huge jump in taxes. That’s not good. Yep, many of us opened our mail on Saturday and wished…
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Putting Victims First. For A Change.
by Kerry Dougherty Imagine for a moment that you are the victim of a violent crime. The perpetrator has been arrested and you thought he was about to go on trial when you learn that your local prosecutor — one of those squishy soft-on-crime types who was bankrolled by George Soros — already entered into…
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Taxpayers Fund Biden’s Disruptive Campaign Stop in Va Beach
by Kerry Dougherty As usual, some local news outlets missed the real story. They were so starstruck by President Biden’s taxpayer-funded, Republican-bashing campaign stop in Virginia Beach on Tuesday that they didn’t notice that the city ground to a halt for hours Tuesday afternoon. It was a giant clusterfart. From one end of Virginia’s largest…
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Grrrrrrrr… Pit Bulls. AGAIN.
by Kerry Dougherty As soon as I saw the headline in Sunday’s New York Post I knew the breed of the culprit: “Girl, 6, Needs 1,000 Stitches, ”Won’t be able to smile again’ After Vicious Dog Attack.” Was this a case of a poodle gone wild? A dachshund? A beagle? Of course not. Only one…
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Stop Coddling Bad Kids
by Kerry Dougherty I have a new hero. I don’t know her real name but in her Southeast Washington D.C. neighborhood, they just call her “Grandma.” Last Friday Grandma was on her way to chemo when a 15-year-old punk walked up and ordered her to hand over her car keys. “I have a gun,” he…
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Virginians Deserve Better
by Kerry Dougherty Word of warning to Virginia State Senate Democrats: paybacks are hell. Your gleeful construction of a “brick wall of resistance” to the governor who was elected by the majority of Virginians may come back to crush you. Maybe not this year. Or next. But eventually you’ll be back where you belong —…
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IEPs Are Not a License for Violent Behavior at School
by Kerry Dougherty It may be time to rethink the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which was signed into law in 1990 by then-President George H. W. Bush. If the late president had known that some school officials would use a wrinkle in this law to keep psychopaths in the classroom I wonder if…