Category: Culture wars
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UVA’s Latest Compliance Report Raises Questions
In describing how the University of Virginia is dismantling its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, the most recent UVA compliance report to the Department of Justice shows just how extensive those programs were, writes Scott Douglas Gerber in a Richmond Times-Dispatch op-ed. The report’s specifics are telling. The School of Education and Human Development “eliminated”…
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“I See Dead People”
An implied threat against school board candidates prompts concern among Virginia Beach Republicans. by Victoria Manning A Virginia Beach Democratic Committee member’s Facebook comment has prompted police reports from multiple school board candidates and forced local party leaders to publicly address the growing concern over political violence against conservatives. On July 14, the Republican Party…
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What You’re Paying for at UVA
A SWAT team of adolescent psychiatrists to help your kid through his mental health crisis Author, entrepreneur and public speaker Scott Galloway is a man of the left, but he’s not doctrinaire. He has a lot of contrarian things to say. To me, the most interesting comments from this stream-of-consciousness clip of Galloway at the…
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Doctrinaire Humbug for UVA First-Years
by the Jefferson Council Every incoming student in UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences is required to take four two-credit “Engagements” courses their first year — eight credits total, out of roughly 30 a first-year typically completes. It isn’t optional. It’s a graduation requirement, built into the College Curriculum that replaced UVA’s older general education…
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What Do Virginia Muslims Think?
The question has arisen in the comments of this blog regarding how Virginia Muslims reconcile their devotion to Sharia law with the American constitution. Qasim Rashid, a University of Richmond law school graduate, expounded on this theme in an Independence Day celebration at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. According to the Henrico Citizen, about 10,000…
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Roadside Islamic Rallies Coming to a Town Near You
by Pedro Rodriguez The town of Woodbridge, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., was recently home to a public roadside march of Islamic supporters who chanted sayings in a foreign language, beat their chests, and flew flags written in Arabic. The scene was captured in a video posted on X. Amy Mek, founder of the Rise,…
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The Left Tinkles on America’s Birthday Party
by Kerry Dougherty Did anyone else’s spidey senses go off the minute they saw this Reuter’s photo that the corporate media labels “chilling”? Lemme get this straight: These white supremacists took the metro to a downtown D.C. march this weekend and a freelance photographer just happened to be in the same rail car where a…
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Catch and Release
Footnote: The X post should describe Arevalo as an alleged rapist.
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Soros’ Man in Virginia
Tom Perriello, Democratic Party candidate for Congress, in a May 6, 2026, email blast: And for the past 15+ years – ever since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision opened the dark money floodgates – a network of corporate special interests and right-wing billionaires have been using unlimited funds to buy the election results they…
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Let’s Be Honest: Virginia’s Budget Is Racist
by Kerry Dougherty Are black tourists having trouble coming to Virginia? How about “indigenous” visitors? Hispanics? I only ask because buried on page 122 of the hastily assembled 600-page budget Democrats finally finished on Friday – 100 days late – is this intriguing item: “$1,500,000 the first year and $1,500,000 the second year out of…
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DEI by Any Other Name Is Just as Noxious
Did UVA eliminate DEI or merely rebrand it? by the Jefferson Council For over a decade, successive UVA administrations spent millions of dollars building one of the most extensive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies in American higher education. A 2021 survey ranked UVA second among major universities in the number of DEI employees, and…
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On the Table: Deleting Christmas as a Student Holiday in Fairfax Schools
Students in Fairfax County are in the classroom five days a week for less than half the school year. Instead of eliminating the administrative throwaway days that have created this problem, district leaders asked families whether they could eliminate Christmas and other holidays instead. by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraRepublished with permission from IWFeatures This year, fewer than…
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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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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.