Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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Kick Out the Punks Before They Kill Someone
by Kerry Dougherty School officials are wringing their hands in Newport News right now, wondering what they could have done to prevent a shooting at Heritage High School that left a 17-year-old boy and girl with bullet wounds. On Monday morning, outside of the school cafeteria, the boy was shot in the head and leg,…
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Ignore the Fun Police. Football Is Safe.
by Kerry Dougherty Travel back in time with me to the first weekend in September. Anyone remember what the COVID fear peddlers screamed when they saw packed college football stadiums during Week One of the 2021 season? Just wait two weeks! Super-spreader events! Masks! Where are their masks? And then there was the leader of…
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Follow the Science. Yeah, Right
by Kerry Dougherty Ever since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic I’ve been wondering what it would take for Americans to finally say they’d had enough. Enough of absurd and ineffective regulations imposed on them by leaders hiding behind claims that they were simply “following the science.” I was furious early in the spring of…
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September 16
by Kerry Dougherty I’m almost never satisfied with my writing. That’s why, if you read one of my posts in the morning and go back in the afternoon it will be slightly different. I can’t stop tinkering. Over the years I’ve written a handful of pieces that I thought were pretty good. This is one.…
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Another Sick Idea: Vaccine Passports for Domestic Travel
by Kerry Dougherty Oh look. Rep. Don Beyer, a Virginia car dealer who served eight years as Virginia’s lieutenant governor and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1997 against Jim Gilmore, is in the news. The congressman who represents the second-most Democratic district in the commonwealth — the 8th — has joined the Biden administration in…
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Reba McClanan: An Authentic Public Servant
by Kerry Dougherty You wouldn’t know it from some of the news accounts of her life this week, but former Virginia Beach Vice Mayor Reba McClanan was more than just a woman who wanted to plant pretty flowers and trees around the Resort City. Much more. She was a tireless advocate for good government and…
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Wrestling Control of Schools from the Loony Left
by Kerry Dougherty I’ve never been a fan of checkout charities. You know how they work: The cashier loudly asks you if you want to round up to fight something like restless leg syndrome and you are shamed into contributing, even though you know this lets the Piggly Wiggly take credit for a fat check…
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Thirteen Glasses of Beer
by Kerry Dougherty They were heartfelt and poignant. Most remarkably, they seemed spontaneous. I’m talking about the makeshift memorials that suddenly appeared in American taverns, breweries and restaurants over the weekend to honor the 13 service members killed in action in Afghanistan on Thursday. Most featured 13 glasses of beer on an otherwise empty table…
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Mercy for Another Cop Killer
by Kerry Dougherty What is it about politicians and their affection for cop killers? Here in Virginia, former Terry McAuliffe appointee Parole Board Chair Adrianne Bennett (now a judge in Virginia Beach) led the board in springing convicted cop killer Vincent Martin during a freeing spree that sprung a number of violent criminals. Martin was…
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COVID Bringing Out the Ugly in Americans
by Kerry Dougherty You know what America needs right now? A little less schadenfreude. A little less rejoicing over the misfortunes of others. A little less wishing death on the unvaccinated. A little less fist pumping when an unvaccinated person gets sick. This unattractive character trait was on display last fall when a group of…
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Northam Orders Masks on Faces of Virginia Students
by Kerry Dougherty They say an advertisement is successful if you can recall the name of the product long after you’ve seen the ad. If that’s true, the 2013 Staples Back-To-School spot has to be one of the greats. I thought it was hilarious when I saw it eight years ago and I think of…
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Liberals’ Nasty Authoritarian Streak
by Kerry Dougherty This, friends, is an actual headline in an actual daily newspaper. It ran yesterday over a “news story” about Tuesday’s Virginia Beach School Board meeting: After hours of vitriol and misinformation, Virginia Beach School Board votes to make masks mandatory for students, staff Misinformation? That’s liberal newspeak for any statement or point…
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Time to Rein in America’s Governors
by Kerry Dougherty Hey, I think I’ve found it. I’ve discovered the one good thing to come out of our national COVID nightmare: a horrifying awareness that we’ve given our governor too much power. Far too much. As the months ticked by and draconian emergency orders were extended over and over again, it was maddening…
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America Is Tired of Elitism
by Kerry Dougherty There is nothing that members of the corporate media hate more than being told they’re elites. Thing is, they’re so elite they don’t even realize it. Take The New York Times White House correspondent, Annie Karni, for instance. It isn’t simply her job to report what’s going on in Washington, she’s also…
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SCOTUS: Give Rochelle Walensky Something to Cry About
by Kerry Dougherty It won’t be long before the U.S. Supreme Court smacks down CDC Director Rochelle Walensky’s order that revived until October 3rd a glaringly unconstitutional eviction moratorium. I can’t wait. They’ll give the woman who was blubbering about her feelings of “impending doom” last winter something to cry about. In fact, the judiciary…