The 2024 NAEP results will be as much of a report card on the educational policies and initiatives of Governor Glenn Youngkin as a measure of the reading and math skills of Virginia elementary and middle school students.

A couple of days ago I skewered New Jersey for enacting a law, effective Jan. 1, that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for licensure.

Memo to Tom Wilson: When a bloodthirsty jihadi waving an Isis flag goes on a murderous rampage, killing 15 innocent Americans, injuring others and terrorizing an entire city, the last thing we need is a lecture from a dweeby insurance exec on our “addiction to divisiveness and negativity”.

Pharrell Williams apparently has the city by the short hairs.

Someday, a real investigative journalist  or a presidential historian will publish an unblinking account of what was going on behind closed doors at the White House to hide the leader of the Free World from the people.

According to hysterics in the media, the bird flu - detected in a single patient in Louisiana -  shows signs of “concerning” mutations. An outbreak in chickens and cows has caused California (of course) to declare a state of emergency.

Maybe the Gateway Metro station will get a few more riders when Amazon resume working in the office five days a week effective January 2.

The U.S. healthcare system is indubitably a hideous mess.

Frankly, the number one goal of the schools ought to be to bring all students to fluency in English as quickly as possible. Offering proficiency tests in foreign languages defeats that purpose.

We all know Christmas isn't really about presents and toys. But that Whirligig was one fabulous contraption. And the best part may have been my father's sheer joy as he watched his kids twirling in happy abandon.

For a few heady years in the early 1960s, we could have been astronauts.

How could someone who supports killing innocent unborn babies be filled with sympathy for animals who raped and murdered little girls, who killed mothers in front of their children and then slit the throats of their little ones and monsters who murdered entire families?

Congress and the White House are not retirement homes or memory centers. We shouldn’t have to pay the salaries of politicians who can barely function.

An 18-year-old freshman at George Mason University was arrested Tuesday for allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack on Israel’s General Consulate in New York City

Willfred Reilly, author of “Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me: Debunking the False Narratives Defining America’s School Curricula,” is one of conservatism’s most versatile culture warriors.

Ineffective fools like Warner need to stop wringing their soft hands while they pretend that they had nothing to do with the current debt mess. The Virginia senator and his cronies in Washington are addicted to limitless spending and second helpings of pork. Time to push away from the table, senator. 

Here they are, the three most feared words at Christmas:

Carolers are coming!

Pardon Counsel, Merrick Garland, and Blue State Governors are marshaling questionable legal and historical precedent to justify a mass pardon of a variety of criminal and civil immigration “offenses” to frustrate Trump’s mandate to remove illegal immigrants and enforce heretofore unenforced well-settled laws.