Author: James A. Bacon
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What Do Virginia Muslims Think?
The question has arisen in the comments of this blog regarding how Virginia Muslims reconcile their devotion to Sharia law with the American constitution. Qasim Rashid, a University of Richmond law school graduate, expounded on this theme in an Independence Day celebration at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. According to the Henrico Citizen, about 10,000…
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Spanberger’s Backfiring Gun Stance
by Joe Thomas Who is the best gun salesperson in Virginia? Gov. Abigail Spanberger—that’s who. According to the FBI background check registry—more about that in a moment—there were 124,319 firearm background checks conducted just in the month of June. Wrap your head around that. That’s more privately owned firearms sold just in June than exist in…
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Virginia Court Halts Spanberger’s AR-15 Ban, Delivering Major Victory to Gun Owners
After months of legal battle and Second Amendment uncertainty, a court order temporarily blocked Virginia from enforcing a ban on AR-15s. by Bronson Winslow Virginia gun owners secured their first major courtroom victory June 26 after a Lancaster County Circuit Court judge granted a temporary injunction against Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s sweeping ban on the sale…
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PJM’s Heat Wave Warning
The grid runs on reality, not wishful rhetoric by Derrick Max The July heat wave that pushed PJM toward record electricity demand should force Virginia policymakers to confront an uncomfortable truth: the electric grid does not run on mandates, slogans or wishful thinking. It runs on power that is available when people need it. During…
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Roadside Islamic Rallies Coming to a Town Near You
by Pedro Rodriguez The town of Woodbridge, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., was recently home to a public roadside march of Islamic supporters who chanted sayings in a foreign language, beat their chests, and flew flags written in Arabic. The scene was captured in a video posted on X. Amy Mek, founder of the Rise,…
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No Queens: Stop Tyranny in Virginia
From pot to pork, the Democrats’ budget will cost every Virginia adult an extra $3,880. by Victoria Mannning Virginia’s state motto, “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” or “Thus Always to Tyrants,” declares that virtue and just governance always defeat tyranny. Yet Virginia Democrat leaders have become the tyrants. Led by Gov. Abigail Spanberger, they ignore the Constitution…
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The Left Tinkles on America’s Birthday Party
by Kerry Dougherty Did anyone else’s spidey senses go off the minute they saw this Reuter’s photo that the corporate media labels “chilling”? Lemme get this straight: These white supremacists took the metro to a downtown D.C. march this weekend and a freelance photographer just happened to be in the same rail car where a…
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A Birthday Letter to America
by Chap Petersen A long time ago, I was a freshman at an elite New England college, just graduated from Fairfax High School. (“F-A-I-R-F-A-X-R-E! B-E-L-S, Oh yes! Those Rebels are best!”). On a gorgeous fall morning in 1987, I was taking a class in Colonial American history, when the topic turned to the American Revolution.…
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Three Founders. One Day. One Destiny.
by David Botkins On July 4, 1826, Americans gathered across a still‑young republic to celebrate a milestone some believed we’d never reach: the fiftieth anniversary of independence. Church bells rang. Cannons fired. Citizens reflected on how far the country had come since that audacious summer in 1776. Then the news spread. Thomas Jefferson was dead.…
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Golf, Data Centers and the Water Crisis
From Rod D. Martin on X: US golf courses use 531 billion gallons of water per year. That’s down from 759 billion gallons per year in 2005 and is 0.5% of total annual water withdrawals in this country. And somehow, the country manages to not look like the Sahara Desert. Meanwhile, data centers – the…
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Catch and Release
Footnote: The X post should describe Arevalo as an alleged rapist.