Consider the case of Jerry Falwell Jr. and his decision to keep Liberty University open during the COVID-19 epidemic, even as virtually all other colleges and universities were shutting down.
Pass The Coppertone
Northam demonstrated once again the need for the legislature to strip Virginia governors of most of their vast emergency powers, or at least limit the length of time they can exercise them.
Pictures Don’t Lie. Or Do they?
Saturday was what we used to call a perfect beach day. But we won’t have any perfect beach days until the governor gets his boot off the neck of Virginia Beach.
A Sad Serenade
Just one of the 36 million unemployed in America due to Covid-19 lockdowns.
Northam’s Indefensible Philosophical Premise
If you cripple the economy, you cripple the healthcare system.
Virginia’s Sloppy Prisoner Release Plan
Not only are criminals being rushed out of prison, they’re being released without re-entry programs. The cell doors open and the convicts are on their own.
Who Has Ralph Northam's Ear?
It’s not just the task force that was left out of the process. The governor has been keeping city leaders in the dark, too.
Another Murderer Freed In Virginia
Who wouldn’t want to give someone willing to kill a mother in front of her two young kids a second chance at happiness?
Cop Killer’s Release On Hold
The parole board has been on a freeing frenzy lately, setting loose a slew of killers.
Gov. Ralph Northam’s Ludicrous Beach Rules
If Ralph Northam has a study showing that sitting in a beach chair makes one more susceptible to the coronavirus than standing or fishing, he needs to make it public.
A Mother's Day Confession
My mother could climb trees, ice skate and walk miles in high heels. There was no way was I letting Superwoman get her hands on me with the worst kind of a confession: A belated one.
More than $1 Billion in Out-of-State Tuition Dollars at Risk
fter U.S. higher-ed institutions sent students home during the COVID-19 epidemic this spring, families were having second thoughts about sending their children back to college this fall — and paying big dollars for the privilege of possibly seeing them sent home again.
Death Comes To Virginia’s Nursing Homes
There is no way to know which of Virginia’s long-term care facilities are losing residents to the virus and which have so far escaped it. No infection rates. No body count. No accountability.
New York Finally Cleans Its Filthy Subways
Putting aside the decades of unimaginable filth that’s incubating in those movable Petri dishes, why did the city wait until 43,676 had been hospitalized and 13,938 New Yorkers had died to thoroughly scrub what has to be the source of many infections?
Behaving Like A Commonwealth During Covid-19
Come to think of it, wouldn’t it serve the common good - the common wealth - for at least part of Virginia to be back in business and generating revenue to send to Richmond?
Pandemic Platitudes
What editor would ever allow a reporter to use the hackneyed phrase “new normal”?
Virginia’s Parole Board Frees Another Killer
There are some crimes so grotesque, so heinous, that no matter how young the perpetrator, the killer has forfeited his right to ever walk freely among us.
Manners by Mail
Find a tasteful greeting card during a pandemic. Go ahead. Try.
Why Virginia Was So Slow to Ramp up Testing
While the Northam administration was complaining of how difficult it was to acquire testing materials, commercial labs were saying they had significant excess capacity.