Pipeline opponents are having a hard time getting a hearing. That’s because the sharp pencils over within Northam’s campaign have calculated they don’t need the environmentalist left.
Virginia's Public Square
Virginia's Public Square

Pipeline opponents are having a hard time getting a hearing. That’s because the sharp pencils over within Northam’s campaign have calculated they don’t need the environmentalist left.

The story the media is finally covering in a but-whaddabout-Stewart sort of way can no longer be ignored.
The proposed 600-mile underground Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is an interstate natural gas transmission pipeline that would serve multiple public utilities and their growing energy needs in Virginia and North Carolina.
For those interested in learning more about the project, check out the fact sheet over at Dominion Energy or the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project page. For all the Frequently Asked Questions — including whether the energy will be shipped overseas (fun fact: it will not) — click here for all the facts.
More to the point, there’s a reason why the project enjoys broad bi-partisan support from the political center of Virginia. Northam chose wisely by backing the project, even if his more extremist supporters would rather condemn 1 in 8 Virginians to energy poverty rather than see facts straight on.


The Democrats’ ten-year running rift with the progressive left remains a violent death struggle as to which faction will remain dominant.

Virginia House Democrats are looking like the lame horse on the outside of the track stumbling into the gate — never mind getting out of it.

Consumer spending numbers are excellent, with business investment in equipment rising a stiff 8.2% — demonstrating confidence in the current climate.

Herring has only merited 43 endorsements from Virginia’s sheriffs, indicating Virginia’s rank and file law enforcement are solidly behind Adams’ candidacy.

Democrats seem to be apoplectic over President Trump’s remarks to the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia this week — too partisan, too sharp…
…too enthusiastic a response from the Boy Scouts is more like it.
Consider this: 45,000 young men, their parents, and their Scout Leaders all cheered President Trump. They weren’t bothered at all with Trump’s tribute to the Boy Scouts of America, an institution that the political left has hammered hard against by leveraging their sponsors to bend to agendas that frankly have splintered scouting in America.
Boy Scout values are American values. And great Boy Scouts become great, great Americans.
Here’s the line that probably riled the media up more than anything else.
I’m waving to people back there so small I can’t even see them. Man, this is a lot of people. Turn those cameras back there, please. That is so incredible. By the way, what do you think the chances are that this incredible massive crowd, record setting, is going to be shown on television tonight? One percent or zero?
The Boy Scouts? CHEERED.
Agree or disagree with Trump, the institutions that the left has so carefully taken over these last few decades are being systematically exposed by the Trump-style populism.
By the way, just a question, did President Obama ever come to a Jamboree?
That line right there? Was the loudest response from the Boy Scouts themselves — a loud “NO!” from these young men.
So long as the Democrats continue to be tone deaf to realities on the ground, they will continue to be shocked at the reception — and that’s what this was — the Boy Scout Jamboree gave to President Trump. These young men are going to go back home remembering this event, and remembering that they were not alone in their support of the president.
What’s more, these are the future leaders of America. For the media to write an alternative narrative of what actually happened will be remembered by those present.
That the political left still doesn’t understand that progressive policies and the Democrats writ large are by far more unpopular than the president himself? Speaks volumes as to how shallow the left has truly become, especially in the face of Middle America’s response.


Sad reports this morning as the parents of Charlie Gard have exhausted all legal measures, it now being too late for experimental treatment.

Sean Spicer out; Anthony Scaramucci in as White House press secretary.

Ed Gillespie isn’t shying away from public speaking engagements, even if Ralph Northam seems to be taking every opportunity to dodge the same.