Virginia recorded its highest murder rate in two decades in 2021.
On Tuesday afternoon, with 89 school children on board - including fifth graders from Newport News and a large contingent of Virginia Beach kindergartners - the Spirit of Norfolk caught fire and was eventually consumed by flames.
Who Are The Real Extremists?
The left is unhinged, and unfettered access to abortion until the moment of birth is their Holy Grail.
Are Astronomical Gas Prices Part Of The Plan?
Many of us suspect that Democrats are secretly celebrating steep gas prices. It brings America closer to their dream of urban utopias where the hoi polloi are forced to sell their cars and ride the bus.
The chance of kids graduating from Richmond middle schools getting accepted by elite college-preparatory academies are just about zero.
"Top Gun: Maverick”: Just What America Needs
For 131 minutes you can escape the reality of bare-shelves-Biden’s America and go to a place drenched in optimism, love of the military and a can-do spirit.
The inflation on everything at the grocery store means more tax revenue is coming in from that source than was expected when the initial budget was prepared last year.
I’m baffled. I keep hearing from the smartest people that “violent crime” is down in Virginia…. And if it’s not, it’s the fault of too many guns.
Glenn Youngkin Signs Bill To Limit His Own Power
Introduced by Republican Sen. David Suetterlein of Roanoke, SB 4 ensures that never again will a Virginia governor be able to do what Northam did: use a public emergency as an excuse to issue executive order after executive order, renewing and extending the orders for months on end.
A Culture of Cowardice
Where are all of the American men? Real men, not the soft-handed cellphone addicts with product in their hair and vagina hats on their heads?
Biden Administration Tries to Resurrect Mask Mandates on Planes
The Biden administration loves mandates. Especially those that don’t work or make traveling a misery.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard: Wasting the Court's Time and Our Tax Dollars
Surely this entire trial has permanently damaged Depp’s reputation far worse than a single op-ed in The Washington Post ever could.
Governor Glenn Youngkin, Republicans, and other critics of the previous governor’s economic policies are not the only ones who are worried about Virginia’s slow rate of economic growth.
The College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia will be using “equity” as a criterion in allocating pay raises in the coming year,
The Last Friday In May
On that Friday in 2019 Rebecca Lear and her colleagues headed to work thinking it was just one more day in a long life. A dozen didn’t live to see the sun set. The survivors lived through hell.
While it is true that Portsmouth students performed worse across the board, there is one silver lining. The school system did achieve “equity,” or equal outcomes, in one way — math outcomes for Asians, Blacks, Hispanics and Whites all collapsed at roughly the same rate!
Uvalde
Decency and respect demands that in the immediate aftermath of an unimaginable tragedy we take a deep breath and pray for the children and their families.
Readers’ Choice: Biden or Monkeypox?
I hesitate to bring this up, but as someone who was called selfish and a grandma killer because I wouldn’t wear a cloth rag on my face as an amulet against Covid, why are men staging massive gay raves while Covid is still around?
Catholic Clergy v Nancy Pelosi
Atheists, agnostics, liberal Christians and abortion enthusiasts of all stripes - apparently unaware that the Catholic Church is not a poll-driven organization that bows to the prevailing secular winds - howled indignantly about the decision to deny Pelosi communion over her extreme positions on abortion.