Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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A Tale of Two Governors
by Kerry Dougherty Why is anyone surprised that the governor of New Mexico has decided that a spike in crime constitutes a public health emergency that warrants suspension of 2nd Amendment rights of the people to carry a firearm? When Americans merrily surrendered their civil rights three years ago during a health emergency, could they…
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Deja Taylor Had One Job: Stay Clean and Sober
by Kerry Dougherty Good grief, lady. You had ONE job. Just one. Your assignment was to stay clean and sober for four months, but apparently Deja Taylor – the mother of the 6-year-old Newport News first grader who shot his teacher with his mother’s gun – couldn’t do that. After pleading guilty in June to…
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Virginia Deserves a Parole Board that Puts Public Safety First
by Kerry Dougherty When Terry McAuliffe was governor he found a loyal Democrat lawyer to appoint to head Virginia’s parole board. That was Adrianne Bennett, a failed candidate for the House of Delegates in 2011 and undoubtedly the most controversial parole board chair in Virginia history. She was a success if you believe, as McAuliffe…
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Labor Day: A New Start
by Kerry Dougherty Labor Day. America’s most ambiguous national holiday. Think about it. On other special days – Memorial, Independence, Veterans, Thanksgiving, Presidents, Martin Luther King and Christmas – we pause, however briefly, to honor a beloved person or a historical event. We have parades, visit cemeteries, blast fireworks, give thanks, recite a famous speech…
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Schools Shouldn’t Open Before Labor Day
by Kerry Dougherty Better sit down, youngsters. Did you know you’ll only get OUT of school two days earlier than last year? Yep, your last day of classes is June 14, 2024. Last June you finished up on June 16th. Joke’s on you. Oh, and the teachers who pushed for the new schedule believing they’d…
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Virginia Beach School Board Gives Parents the Middle Finger
by Kerry Dougherty Virginia Democrats. Has there ever been a more arrogant bunch? In 2020 they were convinced that they had turned Virginia bright blue. They believed there would never be another Republican in the Governor’s Mansion. They believed they had a license to implement a smorgasbord of far-left policies. For example, they wanted to…
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Beach School Board Votes on Parents’ Rights Tonight
by Kerry Dougherty Tonight’s the night, Virginia Beach. A chance to show the leftist school board members that parental rights matter in the Resort City. There are several ways to do it: flood school board members with emails, sign up to speak at tonight’s board meeting (you have until noon) or just go to the…
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Leftist Media Canonizes Another Killer
by Kerry Dougherty Ronald Albert Barnes. That was the name of the Southampton County Correctional Center guard who died in March of 1975 after being beaten and stomped by two inmates, including convicted rapist Tony Lewis. If you read Sunday’s Virginian-Pilot, maybe you were moved by the front-page valentine to “Tony The Tiger,” as he…
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Raw Working-Class Anthem By Farmville’s Oliver Anthony Goes Viral
by Kerry Dougherty Move over, Jason Aldean, there’s a new country singer on the move. Meet Oliver Anthony of Farmville, Va., a former factory worker whose plaintive, working-class anthem, “Rich Men North Of Richmond,” went viral in just two days, catapulting this unknown country Virginia singer from obscurity into a viral sensation. It went to…
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Details of Newport News School Shooting Make Horrific Case Even Worse
by Kerry Dougherty Just when we thought we knew all of the horrific details of the shooting of Abby Zwerner we get more revelations. Chilling ones. You remember Miss Zwerner. She’s the 25-year-old Newport News first-grade teacher who was almost killed by one of her students in January. She’s suing school officials for $40 million…
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Oceanfront Unisex Bathrooms? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
by Kerry Dougherty Of all the cockamamie ideas cooked up at City Hall in Virginia Beach, this may win an award. A fat, legal award. But that’ll come later. Right now the city is bursting with pride over its new, $650,000 5-stall unisex restroom at 20th Street. Because let’s be honest, there’s nothing women like…
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Virginia Beach’s Bad Habit: Reckless Spending on Wasteful Projects
by Kerry Dougherty Feckless leadership, wasteful spending and escalating taxes have plagued Virginia Beach for decades. Despite new faces on city council, the game of spending tax dollars on insane projects that “will pay for themselves” continues. But let’s back up. Here’s one prescient story from The Virginian-Pilot in 2007. The headline: “Virginia Beach Sportsplex…
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You’ve Been to Paris but You’ve Never Been to the Luray Caverns?
by Kerry Dougherty Today we’re taking a break from politics, woke culture and indictments. It’s Explore Beautiful Virginia time. A midsummer palate cleanser! But first a question: Why does every tourist destination sell fudge? More precisely, is there some sort of law that mandates every vacation spot feature a “fudgery”? Is there something about salt…
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No Boys in Girls Sports. Period.
by Kerry Dougherty Good news for mediocre male athletes in Virginia: tired of getting cut from the boys’ teams? Slap on some lipstick and play with the girls. The governing body of high school sports has your back! Yep, the Virginia High School League this week gave the middle finger to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s policy…
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Heat Wave? Here In Southeastern Virginia We Call It July.
by Kerry Dougherty Stop the presses. It’s July 26th. And it’s hot. My trusty iPhone weather app says it will hit 91 today, 94 Thursday and 96 on Friday. Who could have predicted such temperatures? Actually, all of us. It’s called JULY. And yes, much of the country is in a record heat wave with…