School Choice Proposals Fail in Virginia

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 […]

Ban on Adversaries Buying Farmland Heads to Youngkin

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 […]

Virginia Schools Face $202 Million Shortfall?

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 […]

NRA Defends Speaker Todd Gilbert From Attacks By “Fake” 2A Group

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 […]

Over 500 Liberty University Students Attend March For Life

Liberty University bussed over 500 students to this year’s March for Life in Washington. D.C., including one student who addressed the crowd. Summer Smith, the president of the school’s chapter of Students for Life, was featured alongside the likes of Tony Dungy, Rep. Steve Scalise, and Rev. Franklin Graham. Liberty University bussed over 500 students […]

Pro-Life Activist Plans To Sue Biden Admin For Harassment

A pro-life activist acquitted by a Philadelphia jury on charges of allegedly obstructing an abortion center says he plans to sue the Biden administration for prosecutorial abuse. Mark Houck was arrested in an early morning paramilitary raid and faced 11 years in federal prison after he shoved a pro-abortion activist who assaulted his son. The […]

TRS Sunday Post: China Isn’t the Only One with a Burst Balloon

School choice, abortion, critical race theory, education reform — all put on the backburner as Youngkin pushes for $1 billion in tax relief. So we finally shot down the Chinese spy satellite weather balloon. Interestingly enough, the Biden administration knew about the balloon and was prepared to let it go so as not to interrupt Secretary Blinken’s trip […]

U.S. Health Care Reaches Record Lows After Decade of Obamacare

A new Gallup poll finds Americans’ satisfaction with the nation’s health care system, which had been steadily rising until 2010, has sunk to record lows over the last 12 years under Obamacare. “For the first time in Gallup’s two-decade trend, less than half of Americans are complimentary about the quality of U.S. healthcare, with 48% […]

DeSantis Handedly Wins Pro-life Straw Poll

With jockeying for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination already underway, one pro-life conservative is the overwhelming favorite among members of the nation’s largest pro-life activist groups. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was the runaway winner of the Student for Life’s National Pro-Life Summit 2024 presidential straw poll. “The Pro-Life Movement’s first ‘2024 Presidential Election Straw Poll’ votes are in! After tallying […]

Constitutional Litigator Jonathan Emord Announces U.S. Senate Run

Former Clinton running-mate and Virginia’s incumbent U.S. Senator Tim Kaine officially has another Republican challenger. Constitutional lawyer Jonathan Emord of Clifton, VA formally announced his campaign for U.S. Senate today, after first forming an exploratory committee back in September of 2022. A media release issued by Emord’s campaign listed his stances on several of the […]