When Republicans in Oregon pulled a similar vanishing act in February of 2020, to thwart a climate bill, they were pilloried by the press. These Texas knuckleheads should get the same treatment.
Stop The Presses: It’s July And It’s Kinda Hot.
How bad is it? When I ventured outside last Friday and the mercury was climbing into the mid-90s, I had to wipe the fog off my Ray-Bans.
We Ignore The CDC On Meat And Eggs, Why Not Masks?
Before states rush to comply with the CDC guidelines on masks in schools, remember that the health organization doesn’t make RULES it offers RECOMMENDATIONS. Governors are not obliged to obey.
Time to Take the Fentanyl Scourge Seriously
Drug dealers are lacing opioids, marijuana and cocaine with fentanyl in the Washington area, reports The Washington Post. The city medical examiner identified the super-addictive and often deadly drug in 95% of the 85 overdose deaths through March this year.
Can Poll Workers Halt Maskless People from Voting?
New laws include making it easier for people to vote by absentee ballot, letting people vote early in person, providing curbside voting for people with disabilities, and banning the carrying of firearms within 40 feet of a polling place.
How, then, was it not also “voter suppression” if poll workers hassle people who tried to vote without a mask?
Covid’s Latest Victims: Those Afraid To Return To The World
Given the limited resources available for mental health, am I the only one wondering why federal dollars are being directed to people terrified to come out from under their beds now that the Covid emergency is over?
Terry McAuliffe. Call Him Crazy.
If you want to be governor of Virginia again, start by having some respect for the voters.
What's Next? Vaccine Goon Squads.
Fact is, vaccines have been free and available to all adults for months. If - after weighing the risks and benefits - folks declined them, that’s their business. Leave them alone.
U.S. Soccer Team: Talented Women Behaving Badly.
They play a boring sport and whine constantly about money.
Flying The Flag For A Friend
On the morning of the Fourth of July, on a leafy side street in Trenton, N.J., a tall, gray-haired man with a mustache will open his front door, step outside and solemnly hang an American flag.
Are Poor Rural White Wise County Evangelicals More Antiracist than the Wealthy, Urbane Citizens of Loudoun?
Many are fascinated with the nationally infamous Loudoun County School Board. Board members seem preoccupied with driving social change without pausing to look at data.
Fight the Machine, File for an Exemption!
The Young Americans for Liberty chapter at Virginia Tech delivered a petition with about 500 signatures urging the university to end a policy requiring students to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to take classes in the fall
Were Virginia Lawmakers Stoned When They Legalized Pot?
It’s now legal to possess marijuana in Virginia. But it’s still illegal to buy it. Genius.
Louise Lucas Recall Attempt
Instead of seeking a recall election, where Lucas would be forced to run for office again - these folks are attempting to use a relatively obscure statute that throws her future to courts.
How 15 Days to Slow The Spread Became 475
Should the governor of Virginia have unlimited and endless emergency powers that are not subject to legislative oversight?
Taking The Fun Out Of The Olympics
Between biological men competing against women and spoiled brats planning to act up on the podium, I’m not sure I’ll even watch.
George Floyd Gets The Christopher Columbus Treatment
Once the woke crowd cheered the vandalism of statues of historical figures they didn’t like they opened the door for other folks to believe that vandalism is an acceptable form of protest.
Now They’re Gunning for Patrick Henry
The State Board for Community Colleges has told Patrick Henry Community College (PHCC) to change its name. The issue: Henry owned slaves.
What to Do with Virginia’s Pile O’ Money
Virginia is expected to close out the year with a $2 billion budget surplus. An estimated $900 million is required under the state constitution to go into a rainy day reserve fund. That leaves roughly $1.1 billion for the next General Assembly and Governor of Virginia to play with.