Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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Judge Finds Probable Cause Two Smutty Books Are Obscene For Minors
by Kerry Dougherty Get ready. Any minute now, local lefties will have their hair on fire. They’ll be screaming about book banning and censorship. They will be wrong. Circuit Court Judge Pamela Baskerville’s finding Wednesday that there is probable cause that two books available in Virginia Beach Public Schools are “obscene for unrestricted viewing by…
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Elaine Luria: Facebook Fat Cat
Kerry Dougherty Memo to Rep. Elaine Luria: When you’ve lost the far-left Daily Beast, you may be in trouble. In a surprisingly tough May 12 piece headlined “The Dem May Hate Facebook But Her Stock Portfolio Doesn’t,” Daily Beast political reporter Roger Sollenberger skewered Luria for publicly criticizing Facebook, while owning between $1 million and…
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Only Ghouls Use Tragedies To Score Political Points
by Kerry Dougherty When news of the mass shooting in a Buffalo supermarket broke on Saturday, Americans recoiled in horror. The fact that the “suspect” was an 18-year-old white man who traveled 200 miles from his home to a Tops market in a predominantly African-American section of Buffalo apparently so he could kill black people…
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Bad News For Deadbeat Dads: Virginia’s Coming For You
by Kerry Dougherty One of the first things Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares did after arriving in Richmond was meet with various departments in the AG’s office. “I asked, ‘Do you have all of the tools to do your job with excellence?” Miyares recalled Wednesday morning on the “Kerry and Mike” morning radio show on…
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No, Joe, They’re Not Your Kids
by Kerry Dougherty Let’s try this again, for those eating paste in the back of the class: Children belong to their parents. Parents don’t surrender their rights to the people paid to educate their offspring when they drop their kids off at school. Parents want to know what’s being taught in the classroom and they…
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Virginia Democrats in Disarray
by Kerry Dougherty Whoa. That was quick. Unprecedented in recent years, too. Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, the much ballyhooed first female Speaker of Virginia’s House of Delegates, as well as the commonwealth’s first Jewish speaker, was tossed overboard Wednesday from her leadership role in the Democratic caucus by fellow party members. Five months after Republicans regained…
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The Washington Post’s Sleazy Tactics
by Kerry Dougherty For those who are new around here, I spent 42 years in newspapers. I may not know much about many topics, but I have a clear, first-hand understanding of daily journalism. Until rather recently newspapers did a pretty good job of breaking news stories on deadline, while reliably getting it right. Not…
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Corporate Media Is Hostile to You and Your Religious Beliefs
by Kerry Dougherty Chances are you were too busy last weekend, or too smart, to bother with The New York Times. But had you glanced at it, as I did, you would have seen this piece, promoted on the front page: “In This Time of War, I Propose We Give Up God.” The editors of…
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NOW They Sue
by Kerry Dougherty They’re so dang proud of themselves. My former employer, The Virginian-Pilot, is so delighted with itself for joining with other corporate news outlets to sue Gov. Glenn Youngkin that they’ve Tweeted about it six times and even put it on the front page for the ever-dwindling number of people who still subscribe.…
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Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
by Kerry Dougherty Look who’s crying now. Virginia Democrats, who launched ugly attacks on Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s religious beliefs in his second week in office and who spent the entire session bragging about how they were a “brick wall” blocking most of his initiatives, are suddenly bawling because the governor vetoed 26 bills. Never mind…
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Racist Rant Results in Resignation
by Kerry Dougherty When a shockingly racist 2021 Facebook post from Hampton Electoral Board Chair David Dietrich surfaced late last week the reaction from his fellow Republicans — from Gov. Glenn Youngkin to the Hampton GOP chief — was swift and unequivocal. Resign, they said, or we will remove you from the board. “As governor,…
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Youngkin Donated His Salary to Charity. Sore Losers Complain.
by Kerry Dougherty We all understand that Virginia Democrats are smarting. They honestly believed that Virginia was a blue state and they could nominate a sleazy Clinton-crony retread and still win the governor’s race. They lost and their criticism of Governor Glenn Youngkin borders on derangement. Would it kill them to be gracious? To put…
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Norfolk Police Chief’s Sudden Retirement
by Kerry Dougherty Although it’s unlikely, I like to think we had a little something to do with Norfolk Police Chief Larry Boone’s surprise announcement Wednesday that he was retiring in two days. We’ve been critics of his leadership. Perhaps he was paying attention when we called for him to be fired just 15 days…
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Keep Virginia’s Part-Time Citizen Legislature
by Kerry Dougherty Mark Rozell, a political scientist and Dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, has a terrible idea. It’s not original. It surfaces from time to time. Let’s hope it goes nowhere. In an opinion piece published recently in The Washington Post, “Virginia’s Legislature Was Built for…
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Ski Masks in April? Enforce the Anti-Mask Law!
by Kerry Dougherty On Saturday evening at about 6:30 three people were shot at Norfolk’s once-upscale MacArthur Center. One man, 33-year-old Roosevelt A. McKinney, was killed. Two others were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds. The Norfolk police would like your help in identifying the suspected shooter. They’ve even provided security cam stills: Helpful,…