Category: Civil Rights, Individual Liberties
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Betrayal
by James C. Sherlock This will be the first of a series of reports on the scandalous failures of the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) in its stewardship of Virginia’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in matters affecting the safety and health of people with intellectual and developmental…
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March 12, 2020. Our First Day in Covid Hell.
by Kerry Dougherty Never forget what happened six years ago today. And how power-drunk despots like former Gov. Ralph Northam used a pandemic – and phony science – to stomp all over the constitutionally protected rights of Virginians. It could happen again. You’ve been warned. Yep, it was March 12, 2020, when Northam declared a state…
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Albemarle School Board Moves to Shut Down TPUSA Chapter
by Victoria Manning The Albemarle School Board is trying to shut down the largest TPUSA chapter in the nation after the TPUSA club scheduled Erika Kirk to speak at its April meeting. Current district policy allows outside speakers on campus. But the school board recently attempted to shut down another conservative speaker attending the TPUSA…
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Follow-up on Voter Registration Rolls Suit
by Dick Hall-Sizemore There was considerable reaction to my recent article regarding the U.S. Dept. of Justice suing Virginia for not turning over an unredacted copy of the statewide list of registered voters. Two comments in particular struck me as needing some response from me. Matt Hurt posed this question: “The National Voter Registration Act of 1993…
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Will Virginia Criminalize Opposition to Islam?
by Daniel Greenfield Senator Saddam Azlan Salim, D-Faircax, claims that Virginia is in the middle of an ‘Islamophobia’ crisis. The second Muslim selected for the state senate, after Ghazala Hashmi who is now Virginia’s Lt. Governor, the Bangladeshi immigrant, from a country where non-Muslims are being murdered in the streets, has made complaining about “Islamophobia”…
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Spanberger Has Declared War on the Second Amendment
The Democrat governor is preparing to trample the gun rights of law-abiding Virginians, confirming exactly what critics warned all along. by Bronson Winslow Newly sworn-in Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) is hellbent on turning Virginia into California, keeping her campaign promise to completely gut Virginians’ constitutional right to bear arms. Spanberger, a longtime supporter of the…
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Fairfax Schools Crack Down on Absences — Except When Suspending Politically Inconvenient Students
by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraRepublished with permission from IWFeatures There rightfully has been a lot of attention paid to radical Virginia Democrats’ day-one blitz as soon as they took back control of the state’s governorship this year. But those of us who live in the deep blue havens that control Virginia politics know that, for our part of…
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Big Brother Update
Surveillance of some… Senate Bill 84: “Authorizes state and local law-enforcement agencies to place and operate pedestrian crossing violation and stop sign violation monitoring systems in school crossing zones, highway work zones, and high-risk speed corridors for purposes of recording pedestrian cross and stop sign violations.” But not of others… Senate Bill 83: “Requires the…
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They’re Baaaack!
by Kerry Dougherty I can’t be the only Virginian experiencing a form of PTSD after two days of the all-Democrat General Assembly session. It’s as if the loathsome Ralph Northam was running the show again. You know, the guy who closed churches, masked toddlers and supported infanticide. Despite all their talk about “affordability” – the…
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Be Warned: The Death Cult Is Coming
by Kerry Dougherty This is a cautionary tale. So when the ghoulishness of Canada spreads to Virginia you can‘t say you weren’t warned. Here’s how it starts: In 2016 Canada passed the so-called MAID law, legalizing medical assistance in dying. It was presented as a compassionate measure. One that would allow suffering patients, whose deaths…
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Block the Flocks?
According to the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism, there are well over 1,000 Flock license-plate readers in Virginia. Here follows a Copilot AI-generated article about the cameras. Flock cameras in Virginia are automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) used for surveillance and law enforcement, recently regulated by new legislation aimed at balancing public safety and privacy…
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Virginia’s Most Conservative City Births Plan to Thwart Abortion Tourism
Lynchburg is proving that the fight against abortion starts at the local level. by Hayden Ludwig Planned Parenthood boasted earlier this year that “Virginia is the last state in the South without an extreme abortion ban.” That’s a campaign consultant’s way of twisting the truth: the Old Dominion has the most liberal abortion laws south of the…
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No, Health Care Is Not a “Fundamental Right”
Bernie Sanders isn’t “lying,” as Delegate Nick Freitas, R-Culpeper, says here. The Vermont socialist believes what he says. Rather, he’s confused about what constitutes a “fundamental right.” However, Freitas nails it when he explains that a fundamental right such as free speech, freedom of religion, etc., does not entitle you to the property and labor…
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Parental Involvement an Afterthought in Fairfax County Public School Prayer Rooms
by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraRepublished with permission from IWFeatures On September 8, during the Religious Liberty Commission’s hearing at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump announced upcoming guidance from the Department of Education regarding prayer in public schools. He said, “I am pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will…