Meanwhile, Youngkin’s discipline and interview-by-committee approach indicates a move towards serious-minded pragmatism in Richmond. Some good news this morning as Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares announced his first major hire by selecting Andrew Ferguson as the next Solicitor General. Ferguson comes with high marks for distinction, graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law, clerking under […]
As Youngkin continues to build his brain trust, be careful of the political gate crashers who will heap scorn the moment they don’t get what they want, writes Daniel Cortez.
Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin has finally installed his transition team, and from the looks of it the list is a veritable who’s-who of Republican adults — a sign that Youngkin is going to prize stability over recklessness after eight long years of Democratic intransigence that has pushed Virginia to the utmost left of the political […]
My grandfather used to tell me that what separated the United States from the Soviet Union was this single principle. You see, in the United States we would allow 100 guilty people to walk free if it meant preventing one innocent man from being convicted, whereas the Soviets would plow through 100 innocent people to […]
EDITORS NOTE: Many years ago, I had the privilege of working for the US Drug Enforcement Administration with the Office of Diversion Control. The opinions expressed here are strictly my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of DEA either then or presently. — SVK It is immoral to allow fools to keep […]
Portsmouth, Virginia isn’t the most corrupt or dysfunctional city in the country. That (dubious) honor arguably goes to Chicago—although I’ll admit I’m biased as Midwesterner. Regardless, there’s plenty of localities to choose from. Seattle had an autonomous zone set up by anarchists during the summer of 2020. The mayor initially dubbed the chaos as “the […]
“Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.” “Thus, where men burn books, in the end they will also burn men.” — Heinrich Heine, Almansor: A Tragedy (1823) Since we are all clutching pearls at the idea of burning books quite suddenly, let’s take a moment to remind ourselves when progressive Democrats are entirely […]
Lynn Mitchell over at my former roost at Bearing Drift offers the following thoughts regarding the tenor and tone of today’s campaign environment: What would make people be so coarse that they would display something that offensive for all to see? It never occurred me to ever fly such a flag against any Democratic president or anyone else […]
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) had a stark warning for members of her party in the aftermath of the Democrats’ underwhelming performance in the House of Representatives in 2020. Less than two days after Democrats failed to gain a single seat prognosticators like Larry Sabato and Stuart Rothenberg said they would, Spanberger told her caucus in […]
If the public’s trust in traditional media hadn’t dipped to historic lows, Terry McAuliffe could very well be Virginia’s governor-elect right now. Without the erosion in support from the Cronkite era to today, the mainstream media would continue to own the political narrative. Instead there’s been an explosion in conservative alternatives to the legacy media […]
