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Warned Again of Energy Shortfalls, Democrats Again Pretend to Care
By Steve Haner Here we go again. As the 2025 election year heats up and warnings rise about electricity shortfalls this summer, the legislators behind Virginia’s coming ban on hydrocarbon electricity are pretending they see the problem. A May 22 headline out of a recent legislative meeting on energy claimed that “Democratic leadership signals willingness…
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Abuse of Statistics: Loudoun Edition
by James A. Bacon The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office is making more traffic stops this year than last. The number of stops conducted between Jan. 1 and March 31 this year totaled 7,088, up roughly 65% over the 4,290 stops made during the same period last year. Sofia Saiyed, director of New Virginia Majority, knows…
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Memorial Day 2025
by Gordon C. Morse You can tell a few things simply from the limited information that appears on these headstones. Pvt. Moseley served in the 38th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division and died on July 23, 1918. That would have put him, in all likelihood, along the Marne River near or east of Chateau-Thierry.…
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Quote of the Day: Derrick Max
“When will Virginia (and America) learn that the answer to increasing diversity in elite schools (and board rooms for that matter) is not quotas or lowering standards, but improving the academic outcomes of African American students — 40 percent of whom are trapped in failing public urban schools. We need DEI to stand for Diversity through…
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How John Reid Was Played
by Paul Goldman The latest poll predicting a Democratic ticket sweep this fall doesn’t come as a surprise to anybody who has read my columns here. When Donald Trump was in the White House the last time, the Dem nominee for Virginia governor won by the party’s biggest percentage in 32 years. Ralph Northam also…
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One Down, Six to Go
The making of an intellectual monoculture at UVA by James A. Bacon “Conservative students at the University of Virginia,” a fourth-year student once confided to me, “know who all the conservative professors are. … All seven of them.” That was only a slight exaggeration. Through my work with the Jefferson Council I have identified dozen…
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It’s a Holiday Weekend. Take the Early Slide.
by Kerry Dougherty Many years ago, when I worked at The Washington Post, I overheard one of our national reporters griping on a Friday afternoon. I wasn’t eavesdropping. You could hear him across the canyon of a newsroom. “No one in the effing federal government answers their phones on Friday,” he shouted, slamming down his…
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Bacon Bits: Nothing-Works-Anymore Edition
We need more money. Leaders of the mendicant Washington Metro system met last week to discuss how to keep alive the regional rail and bus system. Abandoning the pipe dream of adding more money-losing routes to the money-losing system, the emerging consensus is to make the existing system more efficient. “Automation is how we get…
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ODU Med School Discriminates by Race, Goldfarb Contends
by James A. Bacon Stanley Goldfarb, a former associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, served a half year on the Old Dominion University Board of Visitors before his nomination by Governor Glenn Youngkin was torpedoed earlier this year by General Assembly Democrats. He had made a national name for himself as…
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Jefferson Council: UVA Needs New Leadership
***** sponsored content ***** Charlottesville, VA — In a new call to action appearing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Jefferson Council is appealing to the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors to take urgent action in restoring principled leadership to the University. The full-page advertisement declares that The Time Is Now for New Leadership at…
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Republicans, This Is the New Virginia.
Hailey Dollar, an Army veteran, mom of four… and fetishist… is seeking the GOP nomination to run for House of Delegates. by Ken Reid The scandal involving Republican Lieutenant Governor nominee John Reid and whether he posted sexually explicit photos on social media has pretty much subsided. Governor Glenn Youngkin, whose now-former PAC leader Matt Moran…