• Jew-Hating Student Groups Crop Up Like Cockroaches. Virginia Is No Exception.

    by Kerry Dougherty

    As the world gapes in horror at the atrocities committed against the people of Israel malignant clots of the perpetually disgruntled appear, like cockroaches.

    These brainwashed fans of Hamas cheer the murder of Jewish babies, the rape of Jewish women and the taking of Jewish hostages. They wave the Palestinian flag. They spew anti-semitism cloaked in something they call decolonization.

    And where are these ghoulish fans of Islamic death cults found? College campuses, where else?

    Many are oblivious to the fact that their nose rings, purple hair and non-binary existence would get them tossed off a tall building by the Islamists in the Middle East.

    First out of the box were 31 student organizations at Harvard voicing support for the Palestinians. Not wanting to be outdone by the Cambridge brain trust, chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine at Stanford, Georgetown, Columbia, Swarthmore and George Washington University joined in the bloodthirsty, morally bankrupt cacophony. Then knots of nuts at the state schools jumped in: Florida State, University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois.

    It didnโ€™t take long for this nasty virus to infect Virginia. Misfits at William and Mary showed their solidarity with the Islamic rapists after the weekend bloodletting in Israel by harassing Jewish students who were raising relief funds for terror victims. And deranged hatred of the Jewish people crawled out of its hole at the commonwealthโ€™s flagship: The University of Virginia.

    In Charlottesville of all places!

    Anyone else remember the national disgust over the white nationalist marchers in 2017 who carried torches and chanted โ€œJews will not replace usโ€ and other Nazi slogans on the vaunted grounds of the university? (more…)


  • “We Were Silenced”: Roanoke Swimmers, Part 3

    Roanoke College Swim Captain Bailey Gallagher, explaining the emotional manipulation she endured at the hands of school administrators. (screenshot/WSLS YouTube page)

    by Scott Dreyer

    As reported in Parts One and Two, ten members of the Roanoke College womenโ€™s swim team held an โ€œNCAA โ€” Save Womenโ€™s Sports!โ€ press conference on October 5 at Hotel Roanoke, to draw attention to what they described as โ€œemotional blackmailโ€ and โ€œneglectโ€ at the hands of their school administrators, NCAA, and Swim USA.

    Although huge headlines seldom spring from our corner of Southwest Virginia, this story has made national and international news. The New York Post, established in 1801 by Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, described the significance of the swimmersโ€™ actions this way: โ€œThe very public aspect of Thursdayโ€™s event was in sharp contrast to the culture of fear and silence surrounding the issue of trans women in womenโ€™s sports.

    โ€œWhen The Post interviewed female swimmers who had to compete against Lia Thomas for an April 2022 story,ย the majority of parents and their daughters would not allow their names to be used in the story for fear of being shunned, shamed or even retaliated against.

    โ€œโ€™This was a historic day,โ€™ activist Kara Dansky, president of the US chapter of Womenโ€™s Declaration International, told The Post after speaking at Thursdayโ€™s press conference.โ€

    Roanoke College womenโ€™s swim team (front row) and supporters at press conference at Hotel Roanoke, Oct. 5, 2023 (photo/Scott Dreyer)

    Senior Team Captain Bailey Gallagher, 20, summarized the lifelong love of the sport all the girls alluded to but how they all felt blindsided. โ€œIโ€™ve been a swimmer my entire life, when my parents enrolled me in a โ€˜learn to swimโ€™ program as an infant, and I have been swimming ever since. My first competition was at age 5, and now at almost 21, I see my journey coming to a close.

    โ€œThis is my senior year, my final year to practice, race, and celebrate with teammates that I now consider to be some of my best friends. Swimming is more than just a sport for me. Itโ€™s a part of who I am. It has given me discipline, the ability to multitask, a great work ethic, a healthy lifestyle, and some of the very best people to call friends. (more…)


  • A Day in Court

    Henrico County Courthouse

    by Dick Hall-Sizemore

    I spent some time today observing proceedings in Henrico County District Court. (No, I was not a defendant.) I recommend the experience to anyone interested in seeing how the criminal justice system works in real life.

    District court is the venue for hearing traffic offenses and misdemeanors. It also hears more serious cases for probable cause to be sent to circuit court.

    I sat in on two different courtrooms. The atmosphere in both was somewhat reminiscent of that depicted in the old TV series, Night Court. The Henrico judges, of course, were not as unorthodox as Judge Harry Anderson in that series nor were there the slapstick and irreverent humor prevalent there. However, there was an informal feeling with lots of friendly interaction among the defense attorneys, prosecutors, police, and judges. The judges were respectful and, sometimes, friendly toward the defendants, while at the same time admonishing them for their misdeeds. (more…)


  • Abigail Shrier Will Be Livestreamed Tonight

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  • Another Race Institute at UVa

    Kimberly J. Robinson, UVa Professor of Law. Official Photo

    by James C. Sherlock

    Fund it and they will come.

    The Daily Progress reports that thanks to a $4.9 million gift from an anonymous philanthropist, a new โ€œInstituteโ€ has been launched at UVaโ€™s School of Law.

    The new organization, the Education Rights Institute, plans to

    “find ways to improve K-12 education and help educators address the obstacles that face disadvantaged students.”

    Staff have been hired and the instituteโ€™s first projects are already in development. There will be a star-studded roll out on October 16th.

    Excited?

    Hold that thought while you read about the Institute’s leadership, goals and intentions. (more…)


  • Youngkin Orders Flags at Half-Mast to Honor the Dead in Israel

    by The Republican Standard

    Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin issued an order Sunday to fly flags around the state at half-staff.

    This was the statement issued by his office:

    โ€œIn accordance with the authority vested in me as Governor, I hereby order that the flags of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia be flown at half-staff on all state and local buildings and grounds to honor the lives lost in the horrific terror attack committed against Israel and to hold those injured and held hostage in our thoughts.

    I hereby order that the flags shall be lowered immediately on Sunday, October 8, 2023, and remain at half-staff until sunset on Saturday, October 14, 2023.โ€

    Iranian-funded Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli citizens on Saturday morning, a day that totaled the single largest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. The attacks were also carried out on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.


  • “My Defeat Was Written in Biology”: Roanoke College Swimmers, Part 2

    by Scott Dreyer

    As reported in Part 1, in a move hailed as โ€œhistoricโ€ and โ€œfirst in the nation,โ€ members of the Roanoke College womenโ€™s swim team held a press conference at Hotel Roanoke on October 5 to highlight the emotional, mental, academic and physical trauma they have been experiencing this semester.

    In essence, the women were protesting a student who swam for Roanoke College on the menโ€™s team two years ago, took a year off to experience a sex change, and then returned this semester to swim on the womenโ€™s team.

    Award-winning swimmer and womanโ€™s rights leader Riley Gaines opened the press conference by putting Roanoke College administrators and other โ€œadultsโ€ who failed their students on full blast. (more…)


  • Incapable at Least; Incompetent at Worst

    by Jon Baliles

    The Richmond casino referendum this week was once again in the forefront of the news but not because of the impending vote or the discussion of the numerous proposed โ€œbenefitsโ€ the casino advocates have promised every group under the sun. No, this week it was made known that the company driving the effort to approve the casino referendum (again) is facing the possibility of being delisted by NASDAQ.

    Nevertheless, the casino advocates assure all of the potential voters that they will be able to pay the city the $26 million up front payment within 30 days of the approval of the referendum (as spelled out in the agreement), AND build their proposed $562 million casino, AND provide $30 million to the city tax coffers every year from here to eternity, AND still pay off all the organizations and groups and investors they are promising largesse to win approval of the second casino referendum.

    No promise is too big, no cost is too high, and no vote is too expensive. (more…)


  • Virginians Sail Towards Gaza

    USS Gerald R. Ford with Carrier Air Wing 8 embarked. Official Navy photo.

    by James C. Sherlock

    The U.S. Navy has sailed towards the sounds of battle for more than 200 years.

    This time it is responding to the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.

    Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, already in the Mediterranean Sea as part of permanently increased presence in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to move to east as a reaction to Saturdayโ€™s attacks in Israel.

    The Israelis will deal with Gaza.

    The repositioning, crucial for our Israeli ally and our own regional interests, holds at deadly risk other actors in the region that may consider joining in the battle.

    The officers and sailors in that battle group are mostly Virginians. (more…)


  • Roanoke College Swimmers Stand Up for Equality

    Roanoke College women’s swim team (front row) and supporters at press conference at Hotel Roanoke, Oct. 5. (photo/Scott Dreyer)

    by Scott Dreyer

    At noon on Thursday, October 5, the Hotel Roanokeโ€™s Washington Lecture Hall was the scene of a press conference featuring ten members of the Roanoke College womenโ€™s swim team. Aided by Riley Gaines and several womenโ€™s rights groups, they sought to shine a spotlight on what they portrayed as gross negligence and โ€œemotional blackmailโ€ at the hands of Roanoke College administrators, the NCAA, USA Swimming, and, by extension, state and federal politicians who have allowed them to suffer in many ways. (more…)


  • Stop All Aid to Palestinians and Other Terrorists. Every Bit of It

    by Kerry Dougherty

    On Saturday morning Hamas terrorists unleashed Hell on innocent Israelis. As Israelโ€™s ambassador to the US pointed out, given the population of Israel 600 dead Israelis is the equivalent of 20,000 dead Americans.

    This was Israelโ€™s 9-11. Their Pearl Harbor. Some say it was the most deadly day in history for the Jewish state.

    And all I can say today, after this weekend of horror in Israel, is thank God for Elon Musk.

    Had Musk not spent a chunk of his personal fortune on Twitter, many of us would not have seen the horror Hamas inflicted on innocent Israelis. No way Jack Dorseyโ€™s crowd of left-wingers would have allowed citizen journalists to tell the real story, the unfiltered truth, about the unimaginably grotesque attacks throughout Israel.

    We wouldn’t have seen the graphic videos of these fanatical men driving around in a Jeep with the dead body of a young woman in the back like a slaughtered animal, stopping to allow cheering bystanders to spit on her mutilated corpse.

    We wouldnโ€™t have seen the bloodied woman – clearly a rape victim – being dragged by her hair into the street by men screaming about Allah and then shoving her into a car overloaded with men who were grabbing for her. God rest her soul. Chances she survived the next few hours are slim.

    We wouldnโ€™t have seen the bawling children being shielded by their parents as they were savagely herded into cars and taken as hostages.

    We wouldnโ€™t have seen the stacks of bodies.

    Nope.

    All weโ€™d have is sanitized references to โ€œHamas militantsโ€ – as if this is a regular army – and criticism of โ€œIsraelโ€™s right-wing intelligenceโ€ for failing to thwart the unprovoked attack on civilians. Oh and lots of whataboutism about how hard life is in Gaza for Palestinians and that Israel is to blame. (more…)


  • A Native Virginian Hero

    Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Puller (USMC)

    by Dick Hall-Sizemore

    A family plot in the cemetery of a church in the Northern Neck completed in 1714 is the final resting place of a Virginia native who was one of the United Statesโ€™ modern heroes.

    A highway historic marker caught my eye this weekend while I was exploring the Northern Neck on my way back home from a conference in the Newport News area and I decided to visit the grave site of a man whom I had heard much about:ย  Marine Lt. Gen. Lewis B. โ€œChestyโ€ Puller.

    Puller was the most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps. He was awarded five Navy Crosses (second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor for the Navy), the only person to receive that many. In addition to the Navy Crosses, he was awarded the Army equivalent, the Distinguished Service Medal, as well as the Army Silver Medal. Along with those medals and other awards, he was awarded a Purple Heart for being wounded in battle. (more…)


  • Be Careful What You Ask For, You Just Might Get It

    by James A. Bacon

    Welcome to the new normal. In 2020 the General Assembly enacted a law giving local school districts the right to engage in collective bargaining. Our friends at the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy warned that much mischief would ensue, an assessment I shared.

    On November 2022 the Prince William County Board of Supervisors adopted a collective bargaining ordinance, allowing county employees to negotiate contracts, though not to strike. “Prince William County workers are one step closer to bargaining a historic contract that will lift up all working families,โ€ said David Broder, President of SEIU Virginia 512, reported the DCist at the time.

    Now the Prince William Education Association is demanding a 17% pay raise for teachers, which, if enacted without budget cuts, would add $364 million to the county’s $1.5 billion school budget. According to the Potomac Local News, such a pay raise would require a 73% hike in homeowner tax bills. The working families paying real property taxes might beg to disagree with Broder’s assessment.

    Among other demands, the teachers union is protesting a new regulation that requires teachers to teach classes remotely when bad weather disrupts in-school instruction. (more…)


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