Author: James A. Bacon
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School Abortion Claims Found Baseless
Following up on allegations made in a previous column in Bacon’s Rebellion, we bring an article in FFX Now to readers’ attention. A Senate committee and Virginia State Police have concluded their separate investigations into a Centreville High School teacher’s claims that school staff facilitated abortions without parental consent, Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid said…
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Strangling the Goose
Question posed to Microsoft CoPilot : How much tax revenue do data centers generate in Virginia? How is that revenue split between state and local government? Answer: State tax revenue from data centers: ≈ $1.5 billion annually The Northern Virginia Technology Council’s 2026 economic impact report finds that data centers contributed over $1.5 billion in annual state tax…
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Virginia on the Brink
by Kerry Dougherty With Virginia’s top two Democrat females mud wrestling in Richmond, it’s time to think about what a Virginia state government shutdown might look like. With 13 days to get a budget, the unthinkable may actually happen: Virginia government may shut down because the Democrats fundamentally don’t like each other. None of us…
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Virginia Democrats Are in Serious Trouble
State Senator Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) announces a Democratic “Civil War” over the budget, while nationally Democrats aren’t exactly pivoting well. by Shaun Kenney Let’s start with the basics. As of this moment, the generic congressional ballot is D+5. Which isn’t great for Republicans. Yet when compared to other midterm elections? Democrats enjoyed a D+10 environment…
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Judge Denies Motion to Compel Abigail Spanberger to Testify in Defamation Case
by Tyler O’Neil A Richmond judge denied two motions against the Democrat Party of Virginia and Gov. Abigail Spanberger Monday in a defamation case, and the plaintiff told the Daily Signal that he plans to appeal the decisions. “I will be appealing these decisions,” Thomas Speciale, a retired Army intelligence officer and a former Republican U.S. Senate…
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Teacher Pipeline Programs Infiltrated by the Southern Poverty Law Center
A workforce solution has been turned into a social justice factory to indoctrinate children. by Victoria Manning Grow Your Own (GYO) teachers’ programs around the nation that receive federal funding have been hijacked by leftist extremist groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). To tackle the national teacher shortage, school districts have implemented teacher…
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Fairfax Schools’ Pricey Legal Advice Disguised as ‘Independent Investigation’
by Stephanie Lundquist-Arora Earlier this year, 13 girls attending Fairfax High School told school administrators that Israel Flores Ortiz, a 19-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador attending the school as a junior, groped their genitals in the hallway as they were transitioning between classes. In April, Ortiz was sentenced to 360 days in jail for multiple counts of…
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A White Elephant, Perhaps. But Not the Ratepayers’ White Elephant.
Actually, ratepayers are not at risk for Charybdis — Dominion shareholders are. The ship was funded by Blue Ocean Energy Marine, a non-regulated utility. Dominion investors have every reason to question the business decision to build the vessel. Ratepayers should focus on the offshore wind farms Dominion is building and wants to build. Ratepayers will…
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DSA Fighting “Fascism” in the Bluest City in Virginia
Translations for the uninitiated: DSA – Democratic Socialists of America. Read Stu Smith’s deep dive on DSA radicalism.
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The Cultural Purge Continues
We can be grateful, I suppose, that this action won’t melt down the statues and recast them into disfigured artifacts for anti-colonialist museum exhibits.
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Memphis Pork with Attitude
I spent the last weekend attending wedding celebrations in Memphis, Tenn. The city sells itself as the birthplace of the blues, an honorific to which it has a justifiable claim. The biggest tourist attractions are Graceland (Elvis’ abode), Beale Street (where BB King and other blues musicians played in nightclubs), the Civil Rights Museum at…