Will there be any introspection in American newsrooms this week, now that almost every major news outlet printed “facts” about Israeli airstrikes hitting a hospital in Gaza, given to them by the same terrorists who’d massacred more than 1,000 Israelis?
“As far as I’m concerned he’s a danger to society,” Paige O’Shaughnessy says of the man who murdered her husband 23 years ago and who just hit the inmate jackpot by turning 60.
Experts predict a million refugees might flee the Gaza Strip amid the war between Israel and Hamas, and socialists and far-left lawmakers said America should welcome them.
Prior to the pandemic about 15 states - including Virginia - had laws on the books that banned the wearing of face masks in public. They were passed in reaction to terrorism, criminal activity and intimidation by the KKK and other hate groups.
much of the transgender “craze” is a social contagion mainly affecting teenage girls, that “affirmative” treatment such as testosterone shots and top surgery are fraught with ill-understood risks and dangers, and that a legion of affirming educators, counselors, and even medical doctors have abandoned science in favor of ideology.
Two years after the COVID school lockdowns, the collapse in K-12 learning still has significant downward momentum. Of the 1.4 million high school seniors who took the ACT college preparedness test in 2023, the percentage meeting all four benchmarks — English, math, reading, and science — was 20.8% — down 1.3 percentage points from the previous year, according to ACT.
I haven’t felt this wrung out or this despondent about the state of the world since the week of September 11, 2001.
These brainwashed fans of Hamas cheer the murder of Jewish babies, the rape of Jewish women and the taking of Jewish hostages. They wave the Palestinian flag. They spew anti-semitism cloaked in something they call decolonization.
I agree that the word “terrorist” doesn’t adequately describe religious fanatics who decapitate babies, rape their mothers and mutilate their fathers. I prefer “barbarians.”
All decent, civilized people must join Israelis in a chorus of “Never Again!” We will not stand by or send any more aid to these merchants of death. We will not buy their oil or make sure they have food and antibiotics. In fact, we will enforce embargoes and boycotts and mercilessly starve any country that helps Hamas.
The Biden administration and Democrats in Washington have been playing a deadly game of footsie with the most bloodthirsty terrorists on earth. They stupidly believe that money - in the guise of humanitarian aid - buys you peace and goodwill. There is only one thing that money buys: Weapons.
According to lore, Yogi Berra is supposed to have said, “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
Virginia has a home-ownership problem, which is intimately connected to the home affordability problem. What’s next — tent cities?
Youngkin’s explanation for “Partnership For Petersburg” repeated at one event after another, is simple: “Petersburg matters.”
McHenry’s bespectacled, bow-tied bearing is misleading. Underneath that unassuming Southern gentleman’s disguise beats the heart of a political tiger.
Florida firebrand, Matt Gaetz, who clearly loathes Kevin McCarthy, engineered a coup against the Speaker Tuesday with just seven other malcontents. They sided with Democrats to oust McCarthy from the Speakership and then seemed perplexed about what would happen next. Seems they only had one play.
Either the congressman from New York is a partisan hack who was up to no good Saturday. Or he has the IQ of a bivalve.
Abigail Shrier deserves a Pulitzer Prize for her 2019 work of journalism, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.”
Democrats mean what they say: abortions allowed up until the moment of birth and for some, like former Governor Ralph Northam, even after a child is born.
