You might recall a story from last summer in Style Weekly entitled The Incredibly Shrinking Times-Dispatch about the decline of our local newspaper and the print news business in general. It has been a precipitous and rapid descent.
Here we go again. The Richmond Times-Dispatch is using “statistical disparities” as evidence of racial bias in Henrico County schools.
Stop Coddling Bad Kids
Is it any wonder public school enrollment is plummeting? Axios reports that public schools lost more than 1 million kids during and after lockdowns. Yet private and charter schools are packed and the number of homeschooled kids has doubled to 5 million.
Trump, Buttigieg and Disaster Politics
Looks like former President Donald Trump embarrassed the White House by beating the Biden administration for the first East Palestine photo op.
Holy Helicopters, It's Lent.
It all seems so easy on Ash Wednesday. I'll stop drinking wine, you tell yourself. Then, the next thing you know, you're in line at the ABC store holding a 1.75 liter bottle of Cuervo Gold.
Jimmy Carter: A Good Man. A Poor President.
By all accounts, Carter lived his post-presidential years much as he had his pre-presidential years, humbly.
My Mother's Wild Nights With "The Girls"
It never occurred to me – except for once every year – that my mother might not find her hamster-wheel life with us completely satisfying.
Old global warmist spin: as temperatures rise, millions will die.
Looks like Washington Post reporter Ian Shapira is loading up the big guns to fire another salvo in his unrelenting war on Virginia Military Institute alumni who are critical of the new leadership’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion policies.
The Dumbest Man on TV: Don Lemon
This knuckle-dragging CNN knob-turner turned to Google to research the “prime” age for women. He learned that we’re washed up once we hit 50. And Nikki Haley is a decrepit 51.
Mayor Pete. Biden’s Worst Cabinet Pick
If you can name one quality - other than his sexuality - that Pete Buttigieg possesses to make him qualified to handle our country’s complicated transportation issues, let me know.
Michigan State Shootings: Enforce Existing Gun Laws. Please.
The East Lansing shooter was arrested in 2019 on felony charges that he was carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. If convicted he would have gone to prison. Instead, a bleeding heart prosecutor allowed him to plead to a misdemeanor charge, one that kept him out of jail and allowed him to legally purchase another firearm.
Super Bowl Halftime: Drumlines Not Derrieres
Could we PLEASE go back to college marching bands at halftime during the Super Bowl?
‘Without sufficient discipline and access to clinical mental health services, behavioral intervention does not work to make schools safer and healthier.”
We have arrived today at a situation in which huge percentages of Virginia children and adolescents exhibit mental health problems.
Virginians Deserve Better
Perhaps the most outrageous move was one that kept an immigrant and a woman of color from Virginia’s Board of Education, because she wasn’t sufficiently racist and espoused traditional American values.
In a bold move, Valley legislator Del. Chris Head (R-Botetourt/Roanoke) has called on controversial judge Adrianne Bennett to resign her position.
SOTU 2023: Angry Old Man Screaming
Biden’s speech was, well, insane. He was shouting and angry. He talked too fast. At times he mumbled. Almost as if his docs had shot him up with way too many amphetamines.
IEPs Are Not A License For Violent Behavior
If the late president Bush had known that some school officials would use this law to keep budding psychopaths in the classroom I wonder if he would have signed it.