Democrats and the mainstream media were blindsided by the release of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data last week showing that 4th graders in Virginia experienced the greatest decline in learning between 2017 and 2022 of any state in the union.
Virginia’s nearly unique problem is unlimited funding, including unlimited out-of-state funding. Most other states have restrictions on both.
Drug Dealers ARE Murderers
In 2019 the General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill that would have meant drug dealers who cause fatal overdoses could be charged with murder. Gov. Ralph Northam vetoed it.
That Pitiful, Painful Fetterman/Oz Debate
If the John Fetterman/Mehmet Oz debate proved anything Wednesday night, it’s that early voting is a mistake.Once that vote is cast there’s no getting it back.
The Virginia Media’s Astonishing Response to the NAEP Scores
The release of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores has hit Virginia’s mainstream media outlets like a backhand across the face.
Virginia’s Test Scores At The Bottom Of The Nation’s Steaming Heap
Our last governor was too busy tearing down monuments as penance for his blackface days to care about Virginia’s school children.
Virginia Beach: Notoriously Hard To Poll
Polling is an inexact “science." In fact, it shouldn’t be called a science at all.
Governor Glenn Youngkin has told Southwest Virginia law enforcement officials that he would sign a bill charging drug dealers with homicide if they sold illegal drugs that resulted in an overdose death.
Adults effectively relinquished control, and anarchy followed.
Leave The Kids Alone
Covid vaccines have been available for young children for months. American parents have answered the call with a resounding “No thanks!”
Draining America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves For Votes
Someone tell Joe Biden that his lousy poll numbers do not constitute a national emergency.
Buying Votes: Student Loan Forgiveness
There is absolutely no incentive for current college students to stop over-borrowing for their useless gender studies degrees. If anything, forgiving loans encourages more reckless borrowing.
Don’t California Our Virginia
Far-left Del. Elizabeth Guzman of Northern Virginia said her bill would expand the definition of child abuse and neglect to include those who “do not affirm” their kid’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
Virginia may have elected three Republicans to statewide office last year, but it’s still a blue state.
Virginia public schools lost 4% of their fall student memberships, a total of 46,165 students, between the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2021, while their budgets from the state went up.
Runaway Inflation: American Families Are Suffering
If you didn’t get an 8.2% raise this year, you got a pay cut.
One Candidate Was Snippy. It Wasn't Jen Kiggans.
Luria set the tone for the debate with her catty opening statement.
Tulsi's Seen Enough
There are precious few Democrats willing to speak up and say their party has surrendered to the race baiters and the woke crazies and they can’t take it anymore. Good for Tulsi.
How Did You Celebrate Columbus/Yorktown Victory/Indigenous Peoples’ Day?
Fresh off his blackface scandal in 2019 Ralph Northam declared the second Monday in October to be Indigenous Peoples’ Day. That didn’t make it official.