I wish I could find my faded Girl Scout sash with its clumsily sewn-on badges. I’d send it back to this cowardly club that violated all of its own principles this week.
Radical Idea: Elections Should End On Election Day
I hesitate to ask, but how bad of a procrastinator must you be to be dropping a ballot in the mail on Election Day itself - or the day after - expecting it to count?
Getting It Right: Stonewall Jackson.
Virtually every Virginian knows that Lt. Gen. Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville after being hit by friendly fire.
Casino Gambling. A Risky Bet.
Instead of getting something like Las Vegas’ Bellagio, Tidewater may wind up with something like the dreary riverboat gambling outposts along the Mississippi or the slots slums of Dover.
Media Ignores Hunter Biden Scandal
It’s been radio silence from these suddenly circumspect “muckrakers” on emails that reveal naked influence peddling by the degenerate younger Biden and hint that Joe Biden himself was aware of his son’s activities and possibly even profited from them.
Envision This: a Lawn with No Signage
Criticism has focused on a student’s use of profanity in a sign on the door of her Lawn residence. Although the university has rules against the indiscriminate display of signage, it has not enforced them in recent years.
Wind and the Grid: a Precautionary Tale from the U.K.
So, you think the rolling blackouts experienced in California were a fluke and of no relevance to Virginia?
Virginia's Driving-In-The-Dark Bill Is Dead
A bill so boneheaded that even Gov. Ralph Northam couldn’t sign it. Yet it passed both houses of the General Assembly.
Who Is Tony Bobulinski?
He’s a Virginia Beach native and a Kempsville High School graduate who is at the center of this presidential election’s October Surprise and will be President Donald Trump’s special guest at tonight’s debate.
Flyover Country
Is it asking too much for sports announcers not to sully events with their dopey takes on politics?
Open The Schools. Now.
The societal cost of closed schools is unfathomable, while the risk of the virus in school settings is minimal.
Jeff Toobin: Hands Down Dumbest Zoom Member. Ever.
Geez. Toobin could be the best argument yet for getting people out of their bathrobes and back into their offices. This would never happen in a conference room.
Open Schools And Students Will Return. Maybe.
Why should schools be paid for kids that are no longer enrolled?
778 Virginia Hospital Patients Discharged to Nursing Homes
A large majority of the patients treated for COIVD-19 and released from a Virginia hospital between April and June this year went directly home. But a significant number — 778 — were transferred to a “skilled nursing facility,” according to data contained in a Virginia Hospital and Health Care Association webinar delivered yesterday.
Profanity Proliferates on the Lawn
After a resident of the Lawn at the University of Virginia posted signage saying, “Fuck UVa,” outraged alumni raised a stink in a series of letters to UVa President Jim Ryan.
News Flash: Teaching Is Not A Work-From-Home Job
So kids are supposed to sit in their bedrooms and stare at computer screens all day because some teacher upgraded her home internet and bought a TV monitor?
Mazie Hirono: The Senate’s Worst Member
Instead of asking Amy Coney Barrett about her judicial philosophy, what she may have learned while clerking for Justice Antonin Scalia, or to explain what it means to be a contextualist, Hirono headed straight for the gutter.
Enjoy Driving At Night Without Headlights? You’re In Luck!
This is what happens when Michael Bloomberg bankrolls extreme left-wing candidates in your state and these blockheads madly rewrite laws before engaging their brains.
ODU's Fumble
As it turned out, ODU ended up being one of just three FBS schools not playing football this fall.