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Gilmore Applauds Virginia ABC Russian Vodka Ban From Shelves
Miyares Hires CRT Watchdog to Oversee Community Outreach in Northern Virginia
Unusual phenomenon can occur when Republicans are elected to positions of power. Following the GOP’s statewide office sweep in Virginia, an outspoken anti-CRT activist in Virginia, implausibly, finds herself working for the government of Virginia. Patti Hidalgo Menders, the former president of the Loudoun Republican Women’s Club — not to mention one of the leading […]
Ukraine Handing Out Guns to Fight Russians as Capital Kyiv Encircled
As Russian forces continue to pound Ukrainian military positions and advance on the capital, Kyiv, the government is seeing the value of an American-style Second Amendment as it hands out small arms and calls on its citizens to resist the invading troops. Business Insider reported that Ukraine’s president has called on citizens to take up arms […]
Dominion’s Involvement in Governor’s Race Greater Than Previously Thought
Back in October, Bacon’s Rebellion wrote in detail about a $200,000 donation by Dominion Energy to Virginia Accountability PAC, a benign-sounding but nefarious super PAC determined to keep Glenn Youngkin out of the governor’s office by any means necessary. The PAC had a particularly dastardly plot, even by the low standards we’ve come to expect […]
Admissions Policy at Nation’s Most Elite School Ruled Discriminatory
A federal judge ruled today that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s admissions policy illegally discriminates against Asian Americans. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton declared that the Fairfax County School Board resorted to impermissible “racial balancing” when they decided to scrap a traditional standardize test students worked so hard to ace. In its […]
Virginia Republicans Up the Ante in Biden-Youngkin Districts
The 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election saw every county in the state become increasingly Republican. The gains, made by a state party that had been in the wilderness for more than a decade, were stark. Now, Republicans hope to capitalize on that trend by flipping two redrawn U.S. House seats. As Roll Call reports: Democrats have […]
Kinzinger Says ‘Insane’ House Republicans Are Feeding Into Putin’s Narrative
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) tore into his own caucus Tuesday. Kinzinger slammed the House Republicans’ official Twitter account for calling President Biden weak following his administration’s new sanctions against Russia. Mere hours later, Putin launched a land, sea and air invasion of Ukraine. This is what weakness on the world stage looks like. pic.twitter.com/0Krq48gbIy — House Republicans […]
Virginia’s Largest Public School System Inches Toward Ending Mask Mandate
Despite the passage of SB739, some of Virginia’s largest public school systems are dragging their feet when it comes to complying with the new law. Indeed, a bipartisan law ending controversial public health measures by giving parents the choice to opt their children out of school mask mandates. Technically, schools have until March 1 to […]
Does the United States Have Any Compelling National Interest in the Ukraine?
For those who have watched the neoconservative brand shift from the Democratic Party in the 1970s and 1980s over to the Republican Party in the aftermath of 9/11 only to watch them magically transform back into Democrats after the election of Donald J. Trump, the obsession over Putin is a wonder to behold. Over at Bearing […]
Early Marks From CNU Wason Show Youngkin Approval at 41%
With the Virginia General Assembly at the crossover, the bureaucracy is picking winners and losers quickly. First and foremost is a new poll from the Christopher Newport University Wason Center showing Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin at 41/43 after what could only be termed as a relentless assault on Youngkin’s character and reputation by House and Senate […]
