Presently the House and Senate are at odds over whether school salaries get a 4% or a 5% bump from the state. Those are across-the-board increases, not targeted at specific types of teacher certification that are in critical shortage. Why? Perhaps because, as I documented earlier, VDOE’s teacher shortage data are also useless.
Western Civilization went more than 2,000 years with people dividing the world between male and female. About 10 years ago, the idea gained traction in the United States that gender wasn’t based on biology — XX and XY chromosomes — but was a social construct.
Paging Dr. Fauci: Go Back To Civics Class STAT!
In Anthony Fauci’s world, the director of the CDC would have unlimited powers. She could declare an endless health emergency and issue mandate after mandate, decree after decree, acting as a modern-day, unchecked American dictator.
Florida: The Common-Sense State
As movies, TV and social media continuously glorify transgenderism it has become a fad among the young. One with dangerous long-term consequences.
The Washington Post’s Sleazy Tactics
For the past 15 years or so, as newspapers circled the drain, they offloaded experienced editors with skills and standards and replaced them with young, agenda-driven propagandists.
Mandates Falling Faster Than Biden’s Poll Numbers
The mask mandate on public transit - especially airliners with their sophisticated air filtration systems - has been worthless since the start. Few cases of covid transmission have ever been traced to air travel and the idiotic rule that required masks on 2-year-old faces has made flying with toddlers a gothic experience for many young families
Corporate Media Is Hostile To You and Your Religious Beliefs
Coverage of religion has always been anemic at most American newspapers. When forced to dabble in a news story with a religious twist, reporters tend to treat the faithful as simple, quaint curiosities whose lives are driven by abelief in the supernatural.
If you’re retired, or approaching retirement, and you’ve played by the rules and done the right thing, building up a retirement savings and paying off the mortgage of your house, you are totally screwed. You’ve been monetarily raped.
A General District Court judge has dismissed criminal charges leveled by against Harry Jackson, a conservative parent active in the Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology admissions controversy.
NOW They Sue
I don’t remember these great defenders of the public’s right to know filing lawsuits against the last governor - a Democrat - when he used a bogus claim of privacy rights to refuse to release information about which nursing homes were experiencing Covid outbreaks.
Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
Virginia Democrats, who launched ugly attacks on Gov. Glenn Youngkin's religious beliefs in his second week in office and who spent the entire session bragging about how they were a "brick wall" blocking most of his initiatives are suddenly bawling because the governor vetoed 26 bills.
Pill-Popping Nurse Gets Three Years In Prison
Janeen Bailey, a 57-year-old LPN with 25 years of nursing experience, stole painkillers from elderly patients in two long-term care facilities and used the drugs to relieve her own discomfort while they writhed helplessly in pain.
Racist Rant Results In Resignation
At first he tried to pull a Northam and stay in office, but reportedly relented when the drumbeat for his removal reached the highest levels in Richmond.
Shanghai: 26 Million Stuck In Dystopian Nightmare
Hardcore Team Apocalypse members sneer that America “never really locked down.“ If we had, they claim, we could have crushed Covid.
Well, they’re locked down in Shanghai right now and the results are horrifying.
A Bag Of Oranges and Gas Tax Posturing
The bag of mandarin oranges that was $4.99 last week was $5.99 this morning. Fruit trees aren’t getting raises – that is the impact of fuel prices, the cost to ship them to Virginia.
On return from COVID, it seems that our schools faced record shortages of personnel to deal with students that were traumatized and afflicted with massive learning losses.
Youngkin Donated His Salary To Charity. Sore Losers Complain.
I checked and couldn’t find any record of Ralph Northam or Terry McAuliffe donating their salaries. That’s all right, it’s not expected. When you work what you do with fruits of your labor is your business.
Norfolk Police Chief's Sudden Retirement
It’s unusual for a chief with 30 years of service with the police department to make such a hasty exit. Boone’s official retirement takes place April 29, but his last day on the job is tomorrow. He’s using accrued leave for the next several weeks.
Keep Virginia’s Part-Time Citizen Legislature
Currently, our part-time citizen lawmakers head to Richmond for 60 days in even numbered years and 30 days in odd ones. Once the session ends, they return to their homes and their day jobs. This is good. It keeps them grounded.