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“There should be no mistake about what has happened here: the alleged victims are seeking a bipartisan hearing; Republicans are seeking a bipartisan hearing; Democrats in the House of Delegates are refusing to allow that to happen,” charged Speaker of the House of Delegates Kirk Cox.
Humans values will manifest themselves in artificial intelligence and be amplified beyond reason. Its creation cannot be influenced by ideology.
Over 44 days, former LG candidate and current State Senator Bryce Reeves raises an astonishing $127K.
Pro-life advocates will convene on Bank Street when the General Assembly gets back to business this week to “reject abortion extremism,” and show their disgust of those who supported the highly controversial late-term abortion bill and Governor Ralph Northam’s “infanticide” comments.
It is still quite precarious that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg would give the power of the social media leviathan over to the world’s governments. Can’t Facebook’s creator figure out a way to regulate his own creation?
Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax’s polygraph tests were conducted just before interviews with his accusers, Dr. Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Wilson, are set to air on national television Monday and Tuesday.
The Commonwealth could become the new home of an F-22 Raptor training squadron, with the relocation from Florida bringing Virginia up to 800 jobs, and, of course, really, really cool airplanes. Governor Ralph Northam (D) announced the development in Hampton Roads days ago, but the final decision requires an environmental impact assessment and site survey that could take up to four years, the U.S. Air Force stated.
The Air Force’s F-22 flight and maintenance training squadron was grounded at Tyndall Air Force Base, 12 miles east of Panama City, Florida. After Hurricane Michael hit the East Coast in October 2018, the base was devastated, with the training unit temporarily moved to Eglin Air Force Base in the western part of Florida.
Prior to the damage caused by the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the U.S., Tyndall had the largest concentration of F-22s in the world.
The Pentagon is planning to rebuild the base, but to host the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, not the F-22 Raptor.
Virginia’s congressional delegation pushed hard for the squadron to be relocated to Langley-Eustis Air Force Base in Hampton, just a few miles east of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration’s (NASA) Langley Research Center. Built in 1916 when the Air Force was still under the branch of the U.S. Army, Langley is currently the oldest active Air Force base in the world.
To promote the squadron’s move to Virginia, lawmakers cited Hampton’s large amount of space to accommodate additional stealth aircraft, the area’s strong support for the U.S. military, and its close proximity to Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval base.
In addition to the F-22, Langley would host the T-38 Talon, the world’s first supersonic training jet. The estimated amount of jobs that are said to come to the Hampton area associated with the relocation of the squadron sits between 600 and 800.
One week after U.S. Attorney General William Barr sent a four-page letter to Congress detailing …
At an NAACP event Hampton Roads, purportedly dedicated to women’s history, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax continued to smear the two women who have levied accusations of sexual assault and rape against him.
Parker Slaybaugh, a spokesman for House Speaker Kirk Cox, explains that Northam’s proposal is “not germane to the original legislation related only to work zones,” noting that legislators already failed to pass the sweeping prohibition on driving while holding a cell phone.