Tag: Kerry Dougherty
-
Virginia Becomes a Free State
by Kerry Dougherty Blue skies, sunshine and crisp temperatures greeted Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s first day in office Saturday in Richmond. Within hours, he signaled his respect for the Virginia Constitution, which protects the rights of parents to decide what’s best for their own children by reversing Ralph Northam’s mask mandate for all school students. Youngkin…
-
No More “Medical Bandwagon Thinking” for Virginia
by Kerry Dougherty For the past several weeks, Glenn Youngkin has been busy appointing top members of his administration. One of the most exciting announcements came this week when we learned that Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and public policy researcher with a dazzling resume at Johns Hopkins University, agreed to chair Youngkin’s COVID advisory…
-
Northam Solves Mystery of the Man in Blackface
by Kerry Dougherty Let’s just call it a missed opportunity. Yesterday, with just three days remaining in his term as governor, Ralph Northam unveiled the official portrait of himself. Surely some practical joker behind the scenes was tempted to replace the commissioned painting with that well-known portrait of Northam in blackface standing beside a friend…
-
Northam’s Final Presser: No Remorse
by Kerry Dougherty For the first time since the pandemic began, a news bulletin that Gov. Ralph Northam was holding a press conference yesterday didn’t fill me with dread. Four days left in his term. How much damage could he do? In the past we never knew which civil liberties would be thrown into the…
-
Northam Apologize? LOL
by Kerry Dougherty You would expect that Governor Ralph Northam, in the final two weeks of his governorship, would engage in a little self-reflection, maybe even a bit of humility and admit that he and his “team” made colossal mistakes on Monday that left hundreds of travelers stranded on a frozen 50-mile stretch of highway…
-
Northam’s Frozen Failure
by Kerry Dougherty Let’s face it. Lots of us are cranky as we start the New Year. Thousands — shoot, probably hundreds of thousands — of air travelers were stranded around the country this week after flights were cancelled because of weather or staffing shortages. Including me. As our taxi approached the New Orleans airport…
-
It’s New Year’s Eve. What, Me Worry?
by Kerry Dougherty When I was a kid, my mother said I worried too much. “Consider the lilies of the field,” she’d say, taking a drag on a Pall Mall before paraphrasing Scripture. “They neither toil nor spin, yet the Bible says God gives them beautiful blossoms.” “So cut it out, and just relax,” she’d…
-
Bear With Us. It’s a Slow News Day.
by Kerry Dougherty Just what we need right now. As the national and local news turned once again to COVID, COVID and more COVID, a mama black bear and her three cubs provided Tidewater with a brief but delicious distraction. The furry family was first discovered on Monday, napping high in a tree in the…
-
Mask Mandates Causing Air Warfare
by Kerry Dougherty Almost two weeks ago the CEO of Southwest Airlines, Gary Kelly, told a congressional committee that face masks were essentially useless as protection for airline passengers. He supported a repeal of the executive order that made face coverings mandatory on flights until March 2022. “The statistics, I recall, is that 99.97 %…
-
Del. Jay Jones Quits Before He Starts
We’re becoming “Jones, party of 3” this summer and we couldn’t be more excited! pic.twitter.com/WG83KbY8oQ — Jay Jones (@jonesjay) December 14, 2021 Sorry, Delegate, I don’t buy it. I’m delighted that you and your wife are expecting your first baby. And your determination to be a good dad is admirable. Every child should be so…
-
Lame Duck Northam Tries to Piggyback on Youngkin’s Success
https://twitter.com/GovernorVA/status/1470782069500530692?s=20 by Kerry Dougherty Is this guy for real? Does Lame Duck Ralph Northam honestly believe that by Tweeting about the odious grocery tax with just 32 days left in his term he can somehow claim this populist issue for his own? Virginians can be thick sometimes — heck, they voted for Northam in 2017…
-
Countdown to Freedom: 32 Days
by Kerry Dougherty Oh look. California’s dopey governor is following New York’s crazy executive. They’re both re-instituting what didn’t work the last time that COVID cases began to rise: Sweeping mask mandates and more restrictions. There, but for the wisdom of the electorate, goes Virginia. Oh, I suppose lame duck Ralph Northam — in an…
-
Tornadoes: December Devastation
https://twitter.com/bclemms/status/1469815153780793347?s=20 by Kerry Dougherty It’s the drone footage that gets you. Those silent video clips showing mile after mile of unimaginable devastation. Flattened homes and factories, overturned railroad cars and trucks, trees reduced to toothpicks and debris fields full of the colorful remnants of ordinary peoples’ lives. And wandering through the Armageddon are people, eyes…
-
Omicron: It’s Here!
by Kerry Dougherty He could barely contain his glee. He was positively giddy. I’m talking about White House medical advisor Anthony Fauci who held a press conference yesterday to declare that the long-awaited moment had arrived: We had our first confirmed case of the Covid omicron variant. Hallelujah! Now the government has an excuse —…
-
Cop Who Shot Donovan Lynch Acted in Self Defense
by Kerry Dougherty On a balmy spring Friday night last March — the 26th to be exact — the Virginia Beach resort strip was packed with young people as an orgy of violence exploded. By the time the gunfire stopped and the crowds were dispersed, 10 people had been shot. Two were dead. And scores…