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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 […]
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.” […]
Moral courage can end the political derision destroying Latin community values in the advent of Hispanic Heritage Month., writes Daniel Cortez.
Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton is bowing out. The Democratic politician representing a congressional district in Northern Virginia will retire at the end of this term. In April, Wexton announced doctors had diagnosed her with Parkinson’s Disease. In a statement on Monday morning, she announced that she hadn’t made progress in managing her symptoms as she had hoped. After noticing women […]
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 […]
Virginia Democrat Susanna Gibson is running neck and neck in one of the most competitive districts in this November’s state elections that will determine control of the Republican-held House of Delegates and the Democratic-run Senate of Virginia. Pundits consider their outcome intertwined with Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s political aspirations. Seizing control of both chambers of […]
On Sunday, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) granted an “absolute pardon” to the father who was arrested at a school board meeting after his daughter was sexually assaulted in the school restroom by a skirt-wearing boy in June 2021. The pardon says that Scott Smith “exercised his constitutional right to attend a public meeting of […]
Sanforn Horn asks whether or not we are forgetting the salient lessons of 9/11.
Youngkin took some baby steps, writes TJIPP’s Steve Haner, but the big step of indexing Virginia’s tax code to inflation still awaits.
After months of unpopular “blue brick wall” tactics, Senate Democrats finally give in.
