If you’re retired, or approaching retirement, and you’ve played by the rules and done the right thing, building up a retirement savings and paying off the mortgage of your house, you are totally screwed. You’ve been monetarily raped.
All in Bacon's Rebellion
A General District Court judge has dismissed criminal charges leveled by against Harry Jackson, a conservative parent active in the Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology admissions controversy.
On return from COVID, it seems that our schools faced record shortages of personnel to deal with students that were traumatized and afflicted with massive learning losses.
UVa, Defend Your Women!
Now that International Transgender Day of Visibility is behind us, it is safe to discuss your lack of visibility in the matter regarding UVa student Emma Weyant, who, in the world where reality and truth are valued, is the true women’s NCAA 500 freestyle swimming champion.
Virginia school officials blame everyone but themselves. It’s COVID’s fault. It’s the teacher shortage. It’s racism. It’s not enough money. What pathetic excuse-mongering. Every state grapples with the very same issues. The truth is that the Northam administration was uniquely awful.
The percentage of Northern Virginia’s adult population grappling with anxiety and depression more than tripled during the COVID-19 epidemic — from 8% to 28% — according to data published by the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia.
It’s fascinating to watch The Washington Post try to dig itself out of the pit it created for itself with its coverage of a Virginia Association of School Superintendents (VASS) letter that was critical of the Youngkin administration. The WaPo news team appears to have forgotten the First Law of Holes: “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
Governor Glenn Youngkin is getting an inkling of how difficult it will be to reform Virginia’s public school system.
Virginia Democrats are calling upon Governor Glenn Youngkin to combat rising gasoline prices by declaring a state of emergency and activating the anti-price-gouging law.
With further public disclosures, we see the devious actions by Dominion CEO (and former Democrat operative) Bob Blue and other top executives were more “despicable” than first thought.
I’ll make Delegate Delores McQuinn, D-Richmond, a deal: I’ll apologize for the sins of my ancestors against indigenous Americans in the 17th century if indigenous Americans apologize for the sins of their ancestors against the English.
The flood of illegal immigrants, including Hispanics, has a fiscal impact on Virginia taxpayers as the newcomers settle in our communities and enroll in our public schools.
The argument now dividing the General Assembly on partisan lines is not whether to cut the state income tax, but for whom.
You don’t erase racism by judging everything by race. You don’t build a community by separating people over their differences.
UVa had ceased being an institution that valued politically “diverse viewpoints and perspectives” years before Ryan came on board.
After loosening up its admissions requirements in order to rebalance the demographic make-up of the student body, the Thomas Jefferson School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, is dealing with a problem never experienced there before — many of its students now require math tutoring.
The battle of the expert witnesses under oath would be quite a teaching moment. It would also be nice to drag into court for a deposition some of the others in positions of influence who peddle pseudo-science in the popular media, most often baked into the weather reports in print and broadcast.
Now Governor Glenn Youngkin is pinning his hopes for promoting school choice upon the idea of laboratory schools — K-12 academies developed in partnership with colleges and universities.
It caused a brouhaha last year when U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned the FBI to look into threats of violence against local school officials by parents protesting woke school policies.