Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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Maglev & Light Rail: Once-Shiny Objects Now Tarnished By Reality
by Kerry Dougherty Gosh. It isn’t often the local newspaper provides two examples of “shiny object stupidity” in one week. But The Virginian-Pilot delivered. On Wednesday the newspaper quietly reported on the absolute demise of the failed maglev system at Old Dominion University. That’s magnetic levitation technology for those of you who weren’t around here…
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Last Gasp for Masks
by Kerry Dougherty A friend of mine went to the dermatologist yesterday. The medical office was in the Sentara Leigh medical complex in Norfolk and she was required to wear a face diaper. Hey, there were a total of 5 cases of covid yesterday in Norfolk. That’s 2 cases for every 100,000 residents. There may…
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Southern Domination and Beaver Nuggets.
by Kerry Dougherty Sick of politics? Me too. Let’s change it up today. I don’t like to brag, but I’m pretty much an expert on roadside food joints and truck stops. No, not that way, you perverts. I simply love road trips, which means frequent stops for food and fuel. Most truck stops are sort…
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Soft-On-Crime Va. Democrats’ Offal Proposal
by Kerry Dougherty Oh look. Another garbage bill courtesy of Virginia’s soft-on-crime Democrats! Want to see what’s coming our way if Dems regain control of the General Assembly and Governor’s Mansion? Check out SB1080. Yep, a gaggle of Virginia’s leading lefties pushed a measure that would classify felons younger than 21 as JUVENILES. Virginia law…
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In Virginia Beach: Hang On to Your Wallets
by Kerry Dougherty How to ruin an otherwise lovely early spring-like weekend, Virginia Beach-style: Send out real estate assessments that show double-digit increase in the value of property (that’s a good thing, by the way) and a huge jump in taxes. That’s not good. Yep, many of us opened our mail on Saturday and wished…
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Putting Victims First. For A Change.
by Kerry Dougherty Imagine for a moment that you are the victim of a violent crime. The perpetrator has been arrested and you thought he was about to go on trial when you learn that your local prosecutor — one of those squishy soft-on-crime types who was bankrolled by George Soros — already entered into…
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Taxpayers Fund Biden’s Disruptive Campaign Stop in Va Beach
by Kerry Dougherty As usual, some local news outlets missed the real story. They were so starstruck by President Biden’s taxpayer-funded, Republican-bashing campaign stop in Virginia Beach on Tuesday that they didn’t notice that the city ground to a halt for hours Tuesday afternoon. It was a giant clusterfart. From one end of Virginia’s largest…
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Grrrrrrrr… Pit Bulls. AGAIN.
by Kerry Dougherty As soon as I saw the headline in Sunday’s New York Post I knew the breed of the culprit: “Girl, 6, Needs 1,000 Stitches, ”Won’t be able to smile again’ After Vicious Dog Attack.” Was this a case of a poodle gone wild? A dachshund? A beagle? Of course not. Only one…
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Stop Coddling Bad Kids
by Kerry Dougherty I have a new hero. I don’t know her real name but in her Southeast Washington D.C. neighborhood, they just call her “Grandma.” Last Friday Grandma was on her way to chemo when a 15-year-old punk walked up and ordered her to hand over her car keys. “I have a gun,” he…
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Virginians Deserve Better
by Kerry Dougherty Word of warning to Virginia State Senate Democrats: paybacks are hell. Your gleeful construction of a “brick wall of resistance” to the governor who was elected by the majority of Virginians may come back to crush you. Maybe not this year. Or next. But eventually you’ll be back where you belong —…
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IEPs Are Not a License for Violent Behavior at School
by Kerry Dougherty It may be time to rethink the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which was signed into law in 1990 by then-President George H. W. Bush. If the late president had known that some school officials would use a wrinkle in this law to keep psychopaths in the classroom I wonder if…
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University of Richmond: Don’t Want The Name? Send Back The Loot.
by Kerry Dougherty Most of us didn’t pay attention last September when the University of Richmond Board of Trustees voted to remove the name of T.C. Williams from its law school because the Williams family who endowed the law school were slave owners. After all, U of R is a snooty rich kids’ school. Not…
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Virginia Dems Refuse To Support Female Athletes
by Kerry Dougherty I’m old. Old enough to remember when there were sane members of Virginia’s Democrat Party. They’ve apparently died or left the building and the party is under the complete control of woke loons. Like Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, the former Speaker of Virginia’s House of Delegates, who recently pretended not to understand why…
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AG Miyares Takes Aim At Lawless Parole Board
by Kerry Dougherty Never was the left’s affection for criminals more apparent than in the spring of 2020 when Virginia’s Parole Board, under the leadership of self-confessed “bleeding heart” Adrianne Bennett went on a madcap freeing spree. According to an exhaustive 66-page report released this week by Attorney General Jason Miyares, Bennett’s actions during just…
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Three Warnings? You’re Out of a Job.
by Kerry Dougherty Unbelievable. If what Abby Zwerner’s lawyer said yesterday in her press conference is true, it wasn’t enough to sack only the superintendent of Newport News Public Schools over the near-fatal shooting of a first-grade teacher by an armed 6-year-old. A host of other indifferent school administrators need to join him in the…