Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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I’m Never Voting On Election Day Again. Join Me!
by Kerry Dougherty It’s strange to think that I will never again get up on Election Day and head to the polls. I’ll never again take my granddaughter with me to see me fill out my ballot and drop it into the ballot counter. I’ll never again grab two “I Voted” stickers — one for…
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Virginia: Look West To See What’s Coming
by Kerry Dougherty Reason #5,692 not to vote for ANY Democrats running for the General Assembly this fall: We all know that Virginia’s leftists in Richmond yearn for our lovely commonwealth to be more like California. When last they controlled the state legislature these nuts directly tethered our energy policies to that “progressive” utopia. It…
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Public School Clubs: What Happened To Chess, Drama and Debate?
by Kerry Dougherty Never mind that public school test scores are plummeting and that kids from coast to coast are falling hopelessly behind. The Biden Administration is focused on one thing: “inclusion.” On June 21 the Department of Education issued a “toolkit” called “Creating Inclusive and Nondiscriminatory School Environments For LGBTQI+ Students.” Included in the…
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Virginia Primary Elections: Dems Lurch Leftward, GOP Moves to the Middle
by Kerry Dougherty Virginia’s November elections for control of the General Assembly may be the most important in a generation. Will Virginia become Berkeley east? Or will it return to being a sane, moderate commonwealth? Great news! Tuesday’s primaries saw the GOP cut loose its clown candidates, while Democrats embraced theirs. A look at this…
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Light Rail: Idiotic Idea In 2016. Idiotic Idea Now.
by Kerry Dougherty Virginia Beach voters THOUGHT they drove a stake through the heart of the absurd plan to bring light rail to the city after an overwhelming vote in 2016 against the nutty, developer-driven boondoggle. But never underestimate cultists with an agenda. You know, developers who believe taxpayers have a duty to open their…
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Virginia Beach School Board Holds Virtue-Signaling Vote at 2:15 a.m.
by Kerry Dougherty Wanted: One more member with common sense for the Virginia Beach School Board. Unfortunately, that won’t happen until the next election in 2024. In the meantime, the narrow woke majority that did its best to keep masks on kids, keep schools closed, dumbed down the city’s public schools and pandered to special…
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Pat Robertson, 1930-2023
by Kerry Dougherty To those of us who live in Virginia Beach, Pat Robertson, who died yesterday at the age of 93, was more than just a religious broadcaster who ran for president in 1988. He was a man who built a television network, a university, a major charity, and a law school in our…
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Political Correctness More Important than Accuracy in News Reports of Slaying
by Kerry Dougherty Is it too much to ask the news media to put accuracy ahead of their political agendas? We asked this in March when activists were more obsessed with pronouns than the fact that the trans Nashville school shooter, who killed three little kids and three adults, was occasionally referred to as a…
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Thanks, Loudoun County! We Needed That.
by Kerry Dougherty Dear Loudoun County, Thanks so much for hiring Aaron Spence as your new superintendent of schools. Love, Virginia Beach Good news for those who care about returning sanity and common sense to Virginia Beach Public Schools: superintendent Aaron Spence is leaving to head up the troubled Loudoun County Public schools. Spence is…
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Every Day is Memorial Day in Normandy
by Kerry Dougherty My most memorable Memorial Day did not take place on Memorial Day at all, but a few weeks earlier. In May of 1982. But then again, every day is Memorial Day when you stand on those beaches at Normandy. It was a glorious spring morning on the coast of France. The sky…
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Oh Look! It’s Mock Jesus Night at the Ballpark.
by Kerry Dougherty During a freak heat wave in April of 2022 I went to a Tides game. To our surprise, it was also “bark in the park” or bring-your-dog-to-the ballpark day. The experience was Gothic. It was so hot and blindingly bright that all of the dogs and their owners huddled in the shade…
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The Lost Art of a Newspaper Hit Piece
by Kerry Dougherty Looks like newspapers have lost more than just their senior editors and writers. They’ve also lost the ability to craft a good old-fashioned hit piece. There was an art to that particular form of journalism. It had to be an expertly crafted story written with so much elegance that the subject sometimes…
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Hey Norfolk: Do Kids Really Need Classes In Masturbation?
by Kerry Dougherty You might think that a mediocre school system where barely half of all schools are fully accredited would put all of its energy and money into academics. Oh, Bambi, you have no idea how public schools work, do you? Norfolk School Board – which oversees a division where just 57.1% of the…
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Mother’s Day: Meandering Through Virginia
Regular readers of this space know that I am still seething over the actions America’s fascists embraced during Covid. The fact that they haven’t apologized and admitted that stomping on Constitutional rights over a virus was a colossal mistake is infuriating. That said, Covid brought two very good things. First: my daughter met the love of…
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As U.S. Teeters On the Brink of Recession, Virginia Beach Hikes Taxes
by Kerry Dougherty Do you mind if I’m brutally honest for a minute? Good. Because there’s no stopping me today. Any member of the Virginia Beach City Council majority who voted Tuesday to approve an obscene $2.5 billion budget as the country teeters on the edge of a recession is a liar if they try…