Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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Nothing in the Water
by Kerry Dougherty Looks like the Virginia Beach City Council grew a pair. Finally. After months of being played by the organizers of Pharrell Williams’ illusive Something In The Water Festival, the city is pulling the plug on the 2025 weekend event that was never going to happen. The history of the hip hop festival…
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Whose Kids Are They Anyway?
by Kerry Dougherty It’s official. Virginia Democrats have declared war on families. And they’re just warming up. So far, in the nascent General Assembly session, they’ve introduced two appalling anti-family measures. More to come, no doubt. The first is a proposed constitutional amendment that’s an abortion enthusiast’s wet dream. It would enshrine in Virginia’s constitution…
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Kaine Beclowned Himself at Hegseth Hearing
by Kerry Dougherty Few television productions are more harder to watch than Senate confirmation hearings. Given the virulent strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has infected the left, yesterday’s Pete Hegseth hearing was a festival of Democrat histrionics. We watched leftist women reduced to unstable, screaming harpies. The men – led by Tim Kaine –…
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Check-Out Charities
by Kerry Dougherty “Wow,” she said. “Thirty dollars exactly. I can’t ask you to round up.” One day last week, on what felt like my 57th visit to my local supermarket, the cashier grinned as she rang up my order. Well she could ask. But my answer would be the same as always: No. Frankly,…
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Democrats And Their Undying Love of Criminals
by Kerry Dougherty Yesterday I spoke to a Republican women’s group in Virginia Beach and during the Q and A someone mentioned that State Sen. Aaron Rouse of Virginia Beach was sponsoring a bill that would give tax credits to employers who hire convicted felons. What would we do without Democrats and their relentless love…
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Color Us Unsurprised: Something In The Water Festival Missed Another Deadline.
by Kerry Dougherty Happy New Year, fellow suckers. I’m speaking only to residents of Virginia Beach where Pharrell Williams apparently has the city by the short hairs. After staging a hugely successful music festival on the beach in 2019 – one I supported and attended – it’s been one disaster and delay after another as…
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Covid Actors Are Back: Now It’s Bird Flu
by Kerry Dougherty Question of the day: Will you fall for it again? This is directed only at those who dutifully wore face diapers, who cancelled family get togethers or who left sick children alone in their rooms as ordered by public health authorities during the covid pandemic. Oh, and those who took vaccine after…
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Virginia Democrat Wants SOLs Offered in Foreign Languages
by Kerry Dougherty Hey Virginians, remember that $1.2 billion surplus in the state budget that Gov. Glenn Youngkin has been trying to return to taxpayers? Unsurprisingly, Democrats in Richmond are finding ways to spend it. All of it. Take State Sen. Barbara Favola, for instance. Please. She’s introduced SB753, a measure guaranteed to cost a…
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Mark Warner: DNC Parrot
by Kerry Dougherty One thing you can say about Sen. Mark Warner: The man knows how to parrot DNC talking points. Virginia’s beta senator was busy yesterday. No, not trying to get his fellow Democrats in the House to sign on to a clean continuing resolution that would fund disaster relief and the military for…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
by Kerry Dougherty When you’re a mediocre cook, you have to find ways to distinguish yourself at holiday meals. My mother, who perked up nearly all of her overcooked dishes with Lipton Onion Soup Mix, was respected widely for her punctuality. And her eclectic collection of guests. My parents regarded a holiday shared exclusively with…
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Same Old Ship of Fools
by Kerry Dougherty I’ve been asked a number of times why I rarely write about local matters anymore. Particularly, why I don’t write much about Virginia Beach. After all, as a newspaper columnist I made my bones by skewering the corrupt and indescribably stupid “dancing bears” on the city council. I’ve got to admit it…
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Tough Talk On SITW
by Kerry Daugherty Back in 2019 I was an enthusiastic cheerleader for Pharrell Williams’ inaugural “Something In the Water” music festival. For years Virginia Beach had struggled with April’s annual “Beach College Weekend” which drew thousands of kids from historically black colleges and universities to the Beach. Unfortunately, the event also drew local dirtbags and…
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Is It Asking Too Much For Free And Fair Elections?
by Kerry Dougherty Is it too much to ask for a little balance when it comes to American presidential elections? I’m not talking about balanced news coverage. I know THAT’s not going to happen. I mean a balance between making it easy to vote and making it easy to cheat. Is that so hard? Requiring…
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Norfolk’s Creepy License Plate Cameras in Court
by Kerry Dougherty In an age when it seems every house has a Ring-style doorbell, every business has closed circuit cameras both inside and out, it seems almost futile to argue that drivers shouldn’t expect to go through a digital license plate line-up every time they leave their driveways. Yet two modern day Don Quixote-types…
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Youngkin Is Removing Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls. The DOJ Is Trying To Stop Him.
by Kerry Dougherty This is insane. The Biden/ Harris administration, which fought against including the SAVE act in a spending bill last month (that’s the the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act that would require proof of citizenship to vote.) is now suing Virginia over Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to get more than 6,000 non-citizens off…