If Luria genuinely believes that Facebook traffics in misinformation why would she hold millions of dollars worth of stock in the company?
One of my morning newspapers is The Virginian-Pilot. It used to be an outstanding regional newspaper. Shrunken to a sliver of its former self, it is no longer.
The Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, a career progressive politician unburdened by a law degree, has declared Fairfax County’s support of federal authorities in execution of federal law to be unconstitutional.
Hey, Virginia State Workers, Take Off Your PJ’s
I know, I know, it’s been fun sitting home with your cats since early 2020, when Gov. Ralph Northam shut down the commonwealth to slow the spread of covid-19.
Bad News For Deadbeat Dads: Virginia's Coming For You
Is there a lower form of humanity than a parent who refuses to support his kids?
Scrapping Newspaper Legal Ad Monopolies
No longer will Florida’s government agencies be forced to buy expensive space for legal ads in shrinking newspapers. Instead, those announcements can be posted on websites. Good for taxpayers. Bad for newspapers.
What Happened To America The Land Of Plenty?
If American grocery stores closed when they ran out of baby formula, many would be unable to open today. The nationwide shortage has reached the critical stage and forced desperate mothers to drive from store to store in search of food for their babies.
Leave Supreme Court Justices Alone
This attempt to intimidate and bully the justices on the highest court puts the US on the road to a banana republic. It needs to stop.
Unforgettable... My Mother
My mother was unforgettable. This chain-smoking, hardworking, sarcastic bank teller - queen of the drive-in window in our little New Jersey town - provided my brother and me with a cornucopia of memories.
Former Governor George Allen likes to say that the best social program is a job. One might suggest that a corollary to this proposition is that the best way for Virginia’s public school system to advance “social justice” is giving students the skills they need to get quality jobs in the 21st century knowledge economy.
Virginia Senators Support Forced Masking Of Poor Children
So while bars, restaurants and stadiums are packed, while Washington elites gather shoulder to shoulder to celebrate themselves, and most school kids across the country are finally free of muzzles, only poor children are stuck in soggy masks all day.
CDC Tracked Millions Of Americans Using Cellphone Data
These lab-coated tyrants - who should stick to tweaking the food pyramid - used cellphone data to monitor compliance with lockdowns and curfews.
Worse, they did business with a “controversial” data collection outfit - SafeGraph - to get the information.
Cellphones are an issue in almost every high school in Virginia. School authorities remain in control at some schools. They’re struggling but at least trying to maintain control in others.
Who Leaked The Draft Opinion On Abortion?
This is clearly someone with an agenda. Perhaps the leaker hopes to gin up public hysteria in the naive belief that protests and demonstrations might change the votes of the justices who are in the majority. Or maybe the leaker wants to goose Congress into hastily passing a federal law legalizing abortion.
Your Misery Fuels The Media’s Mirth
Members of the press refer to the dinner as their “nerd prom” implying that they’re smart, nerdy people.
They aren't. They’re lickspittles and lapdogs.
Biden Mounts a Direct Attack on America’s Most Successful Schools for Poor Minority Children
We have new rules for federal funding for new and expanded charter schools that are demonstrably racist. They uniquely disadvantage the poorest minority students because charter schools are proven to help them learn better than any other option.
Thursday the Biden administration announced the establishment of a federal “Disinformation Governance Board” in the Department of Homeland Security to “combat online disinformation in the 2022 midterms.”
No, Joe. They Are Not Your Kids.
Children belong to their parents. Parents don’t surrender their rights to the people paid to educate their offspring when they drop their kids off at school. Parents want to know what’s being taught in the classroom and they have a right to have a say in it.
Virginia Democrats In Disarray
Five months after Republicans regained the majority in the House of Delegates and swept the top three jobs in the commonwealth, Democratic delegates gave an unceremonious boot to the woman who had headed the party for the past two years.