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As the saying goes, “those who can’t do, teach.” It seems that recently ousted Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney has accepted a position with the University of Virginia as a professor at its Center for Politics. According to The Hill, Cheney will participate in university-wide lectures, serve as a guest lecturer in student seminars, contribute to […]
Is Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) preparing to toss his hat into the 2024 Republican primary ring? Adding to the rumors Youngkin is considering a White House bid the first-term governor is scheduled to participate in a CNN town hall event next week. JUST ANNOUNCED: CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent @JakeTapper will moderate an education-focused @CNN Town […]
Senate Democrats want a brick wall; House Republicans are getting a little tired of beating their heads against it. Virginia’s General Assembly managed to pass the Richmond equivalent of a continuing resolution to fund the government until Senate Democrats and House Republicans can hammer out a compromise on corporate tax breaks. One will have to […]
Promises of an immediate drop of $6-7 a month for ratepayers are already being tempered by the Youngkin administration, writes Haner.
Former classmates of the Virginia Military Institute’s new leader are fighting back against his Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) push. The New York Post reports: Retired Army Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, 60, launched diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives after taking the helm of VMI in October 2020 … But ever since VMI introduced new DEI initiatives, […]
A Hampton Roads area school went on lockdown today after a bomb threat was reported. The report prompted an investigation at B.M. Williams Primary School, conducted by the Chesapeake Police and the Virginia State Police. If the name of the school sounds familiar, that may be because of recent headlines it made for the “After […]
Educational Savings Accounts just failed in the Virginia General Assembly. Four varied bills each failed at different stages in the legislature. This is not good, but it’s also not the end of the process toward school choice. ESAs, vouchers and other types of school choice have failed to become law in other states before now and […]
Republicans and Democrats in Richmond have come together to pass legislation banning America’s adversaries from purchasing farmland within the state. WRIC has more on the votes cast in the State Senate and House of Delegates: Both chambers of the assembly, the Republican-controlled House of Delegates and Democrat-led Virginia Senate, passed a bill from Republican state […]
When thousands of bureaucrats and school administrators set up the Virginia General Assembly for failure, that’s a problem of bad faith extending towards raw malice. The Youngkin administration is being awfully tight lipped on the who-shot-John portion of this story, but you can probably guess what happened. From this morning’s Washington Post: The problem originated with an online […]
The National Rifle Association stepped up this week to defend speaker Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert from attacks levied against him by a “fake” Second Amendment advocacy group. In a statement posted to their website, the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) issued the following about Gilbert’s record on Second Amendment issues and […]
