My prediction: The administration’s first instinct will be to ignore the incident in the hope that it will just go away. Its second instinct, if pressed, will be to find some pharisaical distinction why the one is different from the other, how the one warrants protection and the other doesn’t. We’ll see…
That didn’t take long. In the wake of Washington Post articles alleging systemic racism at the Virginia Military Institute, the Board of Visitors voted Thursday to remove the statue of Stonewall Jackson from its campus.
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.
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?
Virtually every Virginian knows that Lt. Gen. Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville after being hit by friendly fire.
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.
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.
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.
So, you think the rolling blackouts experienced in California were a fluke and of no relevance to Virginia?
A bill so boneheaded that even Gov. Ralph Northam couldn’t sign it. Yet it passed both houses of the General Assembly.
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.
Is it asking too much for sports announcers not to sully events with their dopey takes on politics?
The societal cost of closed schools is unfathomable, while the risk of the virus in school settings is minimal.
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.
Why should schools be paid for kids that are no longer enrolled?
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.
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.
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?
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.
