Tag: Shaun Kenney
-
FIVE QUESTIONS: Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares
by Shaun Kenney Last week, TRS was able to sit down and talk with Virginia’s Attorney General Jason Miyares (R-VA) about the challenges he is facing from opioid and fentanyl abuse to the FBI Richmond’s targeting of Catholics in the public square. Miyares — a longstanding conservative in the tradition of Ronald Reagan and a…
-
Reagan Republican AG Miyares Put on Russia’s List of ‘Banned Americans’
by Shaun Kenney Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares was included in an elite list of American leaders and political figures as being sanctioned by Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a press release from the Russian Foreign Ministry. Miyares, who had recently completed visits to Poland and Israel, is the sole Virginia statewide political figure…
-
Five Questions: An Interview with Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears
—
by
by Shaun Kenney Last week, The Republican Standard had the opportunity to follow Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears as she toured the Richmond Slave Trail — which included not only the site of the notorious Lumpkins Slave Jail but also the site where Gabriel Prosser was executed and presumably buried in 1800. Winsome Earle-Sears brought a…
-
Richmond’s Skinny Budget: Low Stakes Poker, High Stakes Rhetoric
by Shaun Kenney Virginia’s General Assembly managed to pass the Richmond equivalent of a continuing resolution to fund the government until Senate Democrats and House Republicans can hammer out a compromise on corporate tax breaks. One will have to pardon me for not getting terribly wound up about tax breaks for corporations while small businesses…
-
Miyares Reminds Republicans the Difference a Year Makes
by Shaun Kenney If Virginia Republicans needed a sizzle reel, this was it. With news that leftist Commonwealth Attorneys are openly refusing to enforce the law in some cases, the threat to the rule of law and the problem of selective enforcement is greater now than ever before. Which is why a long list of…
-
New VCCS Chancellor Focuses on Linking Industry and Education
by Shaun Kenney One of Virginia’s hidden jewels is our community college system. For both bang for the buck and ease of access, the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is perhaps one of our most underutilized resources, not simply because of the architecture or infrastructure, but because of the sheer quality of both the professors…
-
Anti-Religious Satanic Group Demands Equal Treatment in Chesapeake
by Shaun Kenney There are certain political groups that we rightly exclude from the political commons. Not because in doing so they are antithetical to our ideas of liberalism (lowercase-L) or democracy (lowercase-D), but because they are antithetical to the moral tradition from which both liberalism and democracy spring. Of course, our Founders were wise…
-
Winners and Losers: 2022 Mid-Terms Edition
by Shaun Kenney The first wall to fall was pushed over in 1980 in the Polish shipyards. Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the Gdansk shipyards. — Lech…
-
Wokewashing Comes for the Executive Mansion
by Shaun Kenney Ned Oliver over at Axios Richmond takes two separate and distinct wires and touches them together for maximum dramatic effect, namely how the tour for the Virginia Executive Mansion — recently reopened after the COVID pandemic — whose narrative has satisfied historians for a good two decades or more, is today somehow…
-
John Reid Says What Everyone Is Thinking
The WRVA talk show host calls out the men without chests. Good on him for doing so. by Shaun Kenney Most people can read, yet very few of us are literate souls. Like most people, we can perform the functions of a thing. Yet there is no organization in what we do or why we do it. We…
-
Outrage Is No Substitute for Thought
UVa students push back against learning about other viewpoints. by Shaun Kenney WARNING! This is a long one . . . so pour your favorite scotch or cup of coffee and be prepared to consider alternate viewpoints that may offend. As the libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick remarks, “My thoughts do not aim for your assent,…
-
Liberal Democracy, Illiberal Institutions
Maybe no one wants to work for a public education system that hates our values. by Shaun Kenney Carl Schmitt isn’t precisely a household name. The German political theorist was a deep reader of Thucydides and Thomas Hobbes, whose evolution of thought occurred during the fratricidal tumult of Weimar Germany in the 1920s. One of…
-
Youngkin Breaks VCCS Stonewalling Over New Chancellor — Ivan Drago Style
by Shaun Kenney After a months-long standoff between the Governor’s Office and the Virginia Community Colleges Board over the appointment of a new chancellor, Glenn Youngkin had to break the impasse in a tersely worded letter. “Virginia has the opportunity to lead the nation, and we need a Chancellor that will take us there. As…
-
Virginia Budget Deal Stalled as Democrats Demand $3B in Increased Spending
by Shaun Kenney Just to illustrate how fanatically out of touch Senate Democrats are as they frantically try to spend $3 billion on more government, check out State Senator Scott Surovell (D-Fairfax) on Twitter as he blasts Governor Glenn Youngkin’s proposal for gasoline tax relief: Remember — we are sitting on a $3bn surplus fueled…
-
Virginia Dems Sense Blood In The Water
Virginia Republicans are bumping into a new reality of unelected institutions fighting them every inch of the way. by Shaun Kenney Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn is much less of a household name if he ever was one to begin with — author of the oft-quoted and barely read “Gulag Archipelago.” Upon his arrival to the United States…