Want more seats on committees? Don’t artificially stack them, writes Parisot, but win more elections.
PARISOT: Guarantee Proportional Seating in General Assembly Committees
A Drama-Free Virginia’s 2024 General Assembly Session? Maybe…
Apart from Youngkin’s sales tax hike, things sure do look slow this year.
New Year, Same God, And That’s A Good Thing
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever! (Hebrews 13:8) Happy New Year! As we bid farewell to 2023, and welcome in 2024 with all its newness, motivation, and opportunity, I am reaching out to you with a few (unrelated) items to start you off right in this new year. This is the year […]
Governor Youngkin Urges Elimination Of Car Tax
By Steven Symmes; The Auto Wire There are some people who make much fanfare about how proud they are to pay their taxes to the point we truly wonder what they’re really doing. After all, any normal person sees the absolute waste like how much government agencies supposedly pay for toilet seats and in turn loathe how much of […]
General Patton’s WWII Christmas Card May Be One of History’s Best
At a critical juncture in the Battle of the Bulge, General George S. Patton’s Third Army became bogged down in its drive to relieve the legendary 101st Airborne Division trapped at Bastogne, Belgium. The besieged Americans defended the vital crossroads town from a German force that outnumbered them by nine-to-one in critical sectors. Meanwhile, wintry conditions […]
O Magnum Mysterium
“Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy…” If you want to listen to one of my favorite Christmas hymns, it is Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium. Composed in 1994, the original verse comes from the Roman Missal and reads as follows: O magnum mysterium, et admirabile sacramentum, ut animalia […]
COLDWATER: Team Biden Aims To Darken Holidays Forever
Progressive elves at the Department of Energy are working in lockstep with fringe environmentalists… ‘Twas the week before Christmas and all cross the states, the progressives were chanting a new set of regulations and rates – talking points to diminish your good Christmas cheer, by shaming your holiday lighting in the hopes you won’t shine […]
Youngkin Cheers On Stadium Subsidies. Do They Make Any Sense?
There are few things politicians enjoy more, and generates more bipartisan enthusiasm, than committing vast sums of taxpayer money to the construction of new stadiums and arenas for pro sports teams.
Why We Can’t Talk About Public Education
It is because no one actually gives a damn. Otherwise, we’d talk and fix it. I started this column with the best of intentions. This began with a long jeremiad explaining how Prince Edward County screwed it up for the rest of us during the Massive Resistance era, defunding their public schools and offering local […]
Virginia In The Vanguard (Again)
The real question for Virginians is whether Biden’s abysmally low numbers will put the perennial three seats in play: VA-02 in Virginia Beach, VA-10 in Loudoun, and VA-07 in Prince William and Fredericksburg. The poll I discussed yesterday serves as a reminder to giddy Democrats still breathing sighs of relief as redistricting saved their bacon […]
