Category: Federal issues
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A Public Health Crisis in Central Virginia
by James C. Sherlock A terribly injured 33-year-old homeless male schizophrenic recently was found lying hidden in a church in Chesterfield County. He was discovered with multiple displaced fractures in the lower pubic bone, a break on the left side of the sacrum (base of the spine), a large amount of blood in his pelvis,…
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The Chainsaw Cometh. Be Not Afraid, Virginia
by James A. Bacon Over at Cardinal News Dwayne Yancey makes a stab at calculating the economic impact on Virginia if President Trump and his chainsaw-wielding demiurge Elon Musk succeed in their goal of hacking down the size of the federal workforce by 60%. His concern is that two-fifths of Virginia’s personal income tax revenue…
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Mark Warner Needs A Thesaurus
by Kerry Dougherty For years, they’ve worked as an adjunct to the Democratic National Committee, obediently trotting out talking points and providing their critics with hilarious montages of these mid-wits spouting the exact same lines. With their heads spinning since Donald Trump became president, the left has latched onto a tired word to characterize what…
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King Elon I
How do you feel about an unelected multi-billionaire “moving swiftly to exert control over vast swaths of the U.S. government,” as the Wall Street Journal put it, with plans to shut down spending and programs he does not like?
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White House Attacks Harrisonburg Schools
by Joe Fitzgerald The post-truth nature of the Trump White House came home to Harrisonburg today. One of Trump’s hundreds of executive orders demands that schools stop teaching critical race theory and quit indoctrinating students. The text is on the White House news site, for those who want to read the entire text. The jargon…
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First the James River, Now Federal Grants
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Last week, the James River froze over and folks were walking across the river on the ice. This week, Virginians were confronted with another freeze. The Trump administration ordered federal agencies on Monday to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance….” The purpose of the…
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Virginia’s New Jersey Problem
Updated Jan 27 @ 16:30 by James C. Sherlock New-found evidence points to New Jersey-operated business plans that may result in severe threats to patient health and safety in up to 56 Virginia nursing homes. At least one person has already died. Current government allegations in the wrongful death scandal surrounding Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing…
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Trump 2.0 Should Be Good for Virginia
But will Virginians vote GOP in November ’25? by Ken Reid Donald Trump is back in office. Trump 2.0 has begun. Will this be good for Virginia and the country? As a free-market conservative and GOP activist and former elected official in Loudoun County, I believe it will be. However, Trump and the GOP Congress have…
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A Horrible Death in Colonial Heights – Part Two
Nursing Facility Standards Enforcement Updated Jan 27 @ 1700 by James C. Sherlock Part One of this series served as an introduction to the circumstances surrounding one of the worst deaths humanly imaginable. It shows what happens when standards are not enforced. Charges against staff. The government has alleged that the death was the result…
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In Defense of Mark Warner
by Paul Goldman I find the attacks against Senator Mark Warner on this site most hypocritically amusing. It seems you are all afraid to appropriately criticize President-elect Trump, Elon Musk, and the GOP House majority. Despite you all claiming to be such great defenders of fiscal responsibility. Let’s review some facts. (1) Under his watch, President…
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Mark Warner: DNC Parrot
by Kerry Dougherty One thing you can say about Sen. Mark Warner: The man knows how to parrot DNC talking points. Virginia’s beta senator was busy yesterday. No, not trying to get his fellow Democrats in the House to sign on to a clean continuing resolution that would fund disaster relief and the military for…
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Cline Does DOGE
by Scott Dreyer In his Dec. 9 emailed newsletter, Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline (R) wrote about his government-efficiency planning with Elon Musk that immediately followed the Thanksgiving holiday. Cline wrote: “I recently joined Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk (and his son!) to discuss transformative ideas aimed at improving government efficiency and accountability through the new…
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Flyover Country’s Budget Dilemma
by James A. Bacon Dwayne Yancey, founding editor of Cardinal News, may be the most prolific purveyor of commentary in the Old Dominion (although I try to give him a run for his money). He loves making deep dives into the data. He’s often insightful and his tone is always reasonable. I do quibble, however,…
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End Federal Control of Our Schools
by Derrick Max While the U.S. Department of Education is only a small fraction of total education spending – accounting for less than 10 percent of education spending in the United States (9 percent in Virginia) – it has a huge impact on how states and localities spend their own money on schools, on how…
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What the War on the Deep State Means for Virginia
by James A. Bacon U.S. Sen. Mark Warner warned Thursday that massive cuts and dislocations to the federal workforce under president-elect Donald Trump would be a “disaster for Virginia’s economy. … We would get hit worse than any other states.” “When you think not just [about] the contractor workforce up in Northern Virginia, but all…