Category: Culture wars
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Northern Virginia’s Five-Ring Gender-Bender Circus
by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraRepublished with permission from IWFeatures Step right up, moms and dads. If you’d like to coparent with public school teachers, counselors, and administrators, then Northern Virginia’s Gender-Bender Five-Ring Circus is just the place for your children. On July 25, with good reason, the United States Department of Education found five Northern Virginia public…
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Be Careful What You Wish For
by Dick Hall-Sizemore President Trump has directed the Secretary of Education to expand the reporting requirements of institutions of higher education in order to determine if any of those bodies are still using race as an admissions criterion. Accordingly, the Secretary has directed the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to collect the following data…
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Restoring Arlington Cemetery’s Reconciliation Monument
The restoration of a monument in Arlington Cemetery may serve as the spiritual portal that brings America back to its origin in greatness. by Scott Powell The attack on normalcy, traditions, and history in America intensified in 2020 with Covid-19 lockdowns and the riots catalyzed by the death of George Floyd. When destruction then turned under…
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Miyares Excoriates “Utter Travesty” Against Women Swimmers
by Scott Dreyer At 10:30 a.m. on August 25, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares held a press conference at the Salem library to reveal his office’s investigation into alleged abuse by Roanoke College officials against members of the 2023-24 women’s swim team. About twenty people attended the event, including five Roanoke County elected officials, some local media, and…
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Punish Perverse Beltway Counties by Cutting Transportation Funding
Northern Virginia counties that let students use the opposite sex’s bathrooms and locker rooms can pay to pave their own streets. We won’t. by Jacob Grandstaff President Donald Trump’s administration should pull all Department of Transportation funding from counties and cities whose school boards continue to push far-left gender ideology. A good place to start…
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Former Swim Team Captain Exposes Abusive, Vengeful Staff
by Scott Dreyer On August 25, Attorney General Jason Miyares held a press conference at the Salem library to share the findings of his office’s investigation into how Roanoke College treated members of its women’s swim team, a controversy that first erupted in the fall of 2023 and went on to make national headlines. Miyares…
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Who Are the Haters Now?
by Chap Petersen Ten years ago, with the initial rise of Donald Trump, a yard sign began popping up in the yards of right-thinking progressives: “Hate Has No Home Here.” The message was effective, promoting the righteousness of the homeowner while demonizing “the other.” A moral hierarchy was established. Funny, how that seems a long time ago.…
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Maybe Ryan Should Have Toughed it Out
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The Trump administration has found that George Mason University (GMU) has violated federal law with its DEI policies. A spokesman for the Dept. of Education said, GMU “waged a university-wide campaign to implement unlawful DEI policies that intentionally discriminate on the basis of race.” The penalty? The president of the university, Gregory Washington, must…
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Another Violent Immigrant Caught
by Dick Hall-Sizemore On August 8, ICE officers arrested and detained another violent immigrant in the Richmond area. Arman Momand, a 19-year old rising senior at Henrico’s J.R. Tucker High School, had been charged by Henrico police with reckless driving, evading police, and driving without a license following a driving incident last December. However, the…
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Crime, Bloodshed, Bedlam, Squalor in D.C.
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Now we know what qualifies as a serious crime for the Trump administration. On January 6, 2021, a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol. Several law enforcement officers were assaulted, some seriously injured. In January 2025, President Trump pardoned them all. On August 10, 2025, as reported by the Washington Post,…
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Spanberger Wants Trans Boys to “Be Themselves” in School
Does that include girls’ locker rooms? Spanberger wouldn’t answer Restoration News‘ question. by Victoria Manning Winsome Sears has been outspoken about taking action to prohibit boys in girls’ spaces, while Abigail Spanberger wouldn’t respond to Restoration News’ questions. Yet her record proves she won’t protect girls or support parents’ rights. Spanberger says she believes kids…
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Rasoul’s Anti-Zionism Roils Roanoke
by Scott Dreyer Roanoke is seldom a vortex in state politics, but controversial comments this summer from Del. Salam Rasoul (D-Roanoke), who goes by the anglicized nickname Sam, have gone statewide. Rasoul was born in 1981 in Ohio, the son of Palestinian immigrants; he has served in the Virginia House of Delegates since 2014. Some…
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Judge Affirms Senate Dems’ Power Grab
A Fairfax County circuit county judge has sided with state Senate Democrats who filed a lawsuit to prevent eight public university board members appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin from continuing to serve. The Democrats claimed that an 8-to-4 vote June 9 by a Senate subcommittee during a special session required no other action. Youngkin and…
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Virginia Democrats Get Win in Fight Over Appointments
As reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Fairfax circuit court has sided with the Virginia Democratic Senate in its fight with Gov. Youngkin over some of his appointments to boards of visitors of institutions of higher education. The judge issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting recent appointees to the Board of Visitors at the University of…
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Restore the Battle Streamers
by Donald Smith Summertime in Washington, D.C., is NDAA Time. NDAA, as in the National Defense Authorization Act. The federal government dispensed with proper budget procedures a long time ago. Everything it does is now funded by continuing resolutions, omnibus bills, or other confounding mechanisms. The NDAA, though, always passes because it funds the Defense Department. Hence, crafty…