Clean Virginia was a $10mil+ donor in Virginia’s 2023 elections, writes Haner, with 98% of it going exclusively to Democrats.
HANER: Who Paid For The Abortion Ads? Green Energy…
Virginia Democrats, Clean Virginia Spent $35.7 Million Buying the General Assembly
Some food for thought? Given the lay of the land, Republicans netted one seat in the Virginia Senate, carried 13 seats carried by Joe Biden in 2020, and carried seven of the 11 state Congressional seats. Fewer than 2,000 votes separated Republicans from victory in the State Senate; fewer than 2,500 votes separated Republicans from […]
COLDWATER: ‘This Is Not My Time’: Pence Finally Drops Out Of Race
Former Vice President Mike Pence (R-Ind.) announced at the Republican Jewish Coalition that he is dropping out of the 2024 Republican presidential primary, citing, “This is not my time.” No, Mr. Vice President – it’s not. Your time was on January 6th, when you should have supported your President, Donald J. Trump – and more […]
Rumor Mill Swirls Around Youngkin Presidential Bid Once More
Over the past few months, we have brought you numerous reports of influential Republicans in the Commonwealth and across the country calling on Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to enter the 2024 Presidential race. This time, it seems to be much more serious. Today, an op-ed published in the Washington Post has set the internet rumor […]
LEAHY: New Poll Shows Trump With A Lead Over Biden, But What Does This Really Mean?
If we ever needed a more appropriate symbol of the current political climate, it’s the one that arrived on the front page of the Washington Post announcing the latest results from its polling unit. The headline was full of dire warnings for President Joe Biden: “Post-ABC poll: Biden faces criticism on economy, immigration and age.” […]
CORTEZ: Moral Courage Needed When Combatting Child Trafficking
Moral courage can end the political derision destroying Latin community values in the advent of Hispanic Heritage Month., writes Daniel Cortez.
Voyeurism Isn’t Good for the Soul (or Politics)
The scandal of the week involving Susanna Gibson is an indictment of our politics. Shame on us all for participating in it. HAMLET Get thee ⟨to⟩ a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves ⟨all;⟩ believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. — William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” Act 3, Scene 1 (1601) Ophelia has given herself to Hamlet. Yet having placed her trust totally in […]
HORN: 9/11 at 22
Sanforn Horn asks whether or not we are forgetting the salient lessons of 9/11.
HANER: Tax Reductions Under Youngkin Have Been Significant
Youngkin took some baby steps, writes TJIPP’s Steve Haner, but the big step of indexing Virginia’s tax code to inflation still awaits.
Since When Did the RTD Become TMZ?
So much for journalistic integrity over at the RTD.
