Is it the role of government to tell citizens what they must use to trim their fescue?
Running For Ginny
When you lose a daughter, you want her to be remembered. And on Sept. 24, 2023, Mary Virginia Minium was remembered by thousands of Berliners.
At one point during the decade-long debate over Confederate statuary, the logic of the Taliban, er, progressives, was that the statues should not be commemorated in highly visible public spaces, but could be relegated to battlefields, cemeteries and museums.
Hey NCAA, Let JMU Go Bowling!
NCAA has proven to be a loathsome organization, arbitrarily dogging some schools about minor recruiting violations while letting bigger programs with more blatant violations slide. The two-year bowl ban is a minor rule. Why bring down the hammer on JMU?
Speaker Mike Johnson: Let The Name-Calling Begin!
You know what? With so many people on the far left losing their minds, I began to think the GOP may have picked a winner.
Transgender Issues — Whose “Centerpiece,” Youngkin’s or the Post’s?
The latest Washington Post spin on its recent public-opinion poll about transgender issues in Virginia schools is a window into the unconscious biases of WaPo reporters and editors.
Butt Out, Biden
The American president should eat some pudding and let our ally handle its own business.
Erica Ausch: The Last Holocaust Survivor In Hampton Roads?
Erica Ausch was a married woman with children before she learned the truth about her family: They were not refugees from Austria as she’d been told by her parents who wanted to protect her from the truth, but Holocaust survivors.
As usual the party of the rich, Democrats, is outraising Republicans in the commonwealth election scheduled for November 7th.
News Outlets Publish Hamas Propaganda
Will there be any introspection in American newsrooms this week, now that almost every major news outlet printed “facts” about Israeli airstrikes hitting a hospital in Gaza, given to them by the same terrorists who’d massacred more than 1,000 Israelis?
No Parole For Killers, No Matter How Old.
“As far as I’m concerned he’s a danger to society,” Paige O’Shaughnessy says of the man who murdered her husband 23 years ago and who just hit the inmate jackpot by turning 60.
Palestinian Refugees To The U.S.? That’s A Hard No.
Experts predict a million refugees might flee the Gaza Strip amid the war between Israel and Hamas, and socialists and far-left lawmakers said America should welcome them.
Lose The Masks
Prior to the pandemic about 15 states - including Virginia - had laws on the books that banned the wearing of face masks in public. They were passed in reaction to terrorism, criminal activity and intimidation by the KKK and other hate groups.
much of the transgender “craze” is a social contagion mainly affecting teenage girls, that “affirmative” treatment such as testosterone shots and top surgery are fraught with ill-understood risks and dangers, and that a legion of affirming educators, counselors, and even medical doctors have abandoned science in favor of ideology.
Two years after the COVID school lockdowns, the collapse in K-12 learning still has significant downward momentum. Of the 1.4 million high school seniors who took the ACT college preparedness test in 2023, the percentage meeting all four benchmarks — English, math, reading, and science — was 20.8% — down 1.3 percentage points from the previous year, according to ACT.
Breathe. Just Breathe.
I haven’t felt this wrung out or this despondent about the state of the world since the week of September 11, 2001.
Jew-Hating Student Groups Crop Up Like Cockroaches
These brainwashed fans of Hamas cheer the murder of Jewish babies, the rape of Jewish women and the taking of Jewish hostages. They wave the Palestinian flag. They spew anti-semitism cloaked in something they call decolonization.
News Outlets Shy Away From “Terrorists” To Describe Hamas
I agree that the word “terrorist” doesn’t adequately describe religious fanatics who decapitate babies, rape their mothers and mutilate their fathers. I prefer “barbarians.”