Author: James A. Bacon
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SCOTUS Ends Racial Segregation of Voting Districts
Virginia Beach’s race-based voting districts are now in the crosshairs. by Victoria Manning Democrats across the nation created voting maps shoving black voters into racially apportioned districts. Forced segregation was wrong at the water fountain and it’s equally wrong at the ballot box. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) just ruled race-based voting…
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Virginia Supremes Speak
The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the redistricting amendment on the grounds that lawmakers violated the state constitutional procedure for placing amendments on the ballot. I’m leaving for vacation today, but I’ll post reactions on the blog — in the order they arrive in my inbox (newest on top) — until I have to…
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The Day Grant Saved America
As Virginia celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, there’s another anniversary we should honor as well: the Wilderness Campaign. by Shaun Kenney “They came to a crossroads in the track out of the eastern reaches of The Wilderness. If they turned left it would mean they were heading north. If they turned…
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Meet the Soros-Funded Prosecutor Taking Soft-on-Crime to a New Level
Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano could have saved Stephanie Minter by simply doing his job. by Drew DiMeglio Sierra Leone national Abdul Jalloh, 32, has been arrested more than 30 times in Fairfax County, Virginia. From five malicious wounding cases in a two-year span to additional assault, battery, and theft-related offenses, Jalloh racked up…
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FBI Targets State Sen. Louise Lucas
by Kerry Dougherty Democrat Louise Lucas has been the queen of machine politics in Portsmouth for decades. Graceless in victory, venomous in defeat, relentlessly partisan, full of braggadocio and vulgarities, Lucas has prospered while the city she represents has become increasingly dysfunctional. Casino gambling and weed were what she offered the people. Not only are…
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Virginia’s “Fitness Tax” Was Never Really About Gyms
It was about expanding government taxation to fund equity-based redistribution in Virginia schools. Loudoun County resident Scott Mineo is doing great work as a citizen journalist. You can read his X posts under the name of “A Guy on X Striving to Be the Virginia Change Agent” @VaChangeAgent. He’s not a journalist, but he does…
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Adversarial Government Works Best
by Chap Petersen A couple years ago, I wrote an essay entitled: “Single-Party Government Didn’t Work in the Soviet Union, and It’s Not Working in Fairfax County Either.” My goal was to point out the parallels in failing one-party systems. But frankly the points were too obvious. So I didn’t bother publishing it. Maybe I…
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The Technological Republic and the Re-Industrialization of America
Here’s a fact: the data center buildout is going to re-industrialize America. The sooner we embrace this reality; the sooner we reap the rewards. by Shaun Kenney Data centers have arrived and it’s about time they did — and it’s your fault, too. Well, not entirely your fault — but if you’re watching Netflix and…
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“Death to America”
The event was not registered as required by university policy. But Virginia Tech allowed it to proceed unimpeded at McBryde Hall, Room 202.
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Classrooms or Campaigns?
Virginia legislators have passed three bills this year to dilute and politicize history and civics instruction in public schools, accelerating the undeniable trend of indoctrination in the state’s public schools. by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraPublished originally in IWFeatures Last week, a Fairfax County mother said her twin 14-year-old sons were each encouraged by two public school civics teachers to urge their…
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Lawsuit Challenges Virginia’s Abortion Amendment as Deceptive
Physicians are suing to block a ballot question they say conceals the true scope of the legislation. by Victoria Manning A group of physicians and other medical professionals along with a local voter have filed a lawsuit challenging an abortion-related constitutional amendment on Virginia’s ballot this November. The complaint alleges that the ballot question adopted…