As Russian forces continue to pound Ukrainian military positions and advance on the capital, Kyiv, the government is seeing the value of an American-style Second Amendment as it hands out small arms and calls on its citizens to resist the invading troops. Business Insider reported that Ukraine’s president has called on citizens to take up arms […]
Back in October, Bacon’s Rebellion wrote in detail about a $200,000 donation by Dominion Energy to Virginia Accountability PAC, a benign-sounding but nefarious super PAC determined to keep Glenn Youngkin out of the governor’s office by any means necessary. The PAC had a particularly dastardly plot, even by the low standards we’ve come to expect […]
A federal judge ruled today that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s admissions policy illegally discriminates against Asian Americans. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton declared that the Fairfax County School Board resorted to impermissible “racial balancing” when they decided to scrap a traditional standardize test students worked so hard to ace. In its […]
The 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election saw every county in the state become increasingly Republican. The gains, made by a state party that had been in the wilderness for more than a decade, were stark. Now, Republicans hope to capitalize on that trend by flipping two redrawn U.S. House seats. As Roll Call reports: Democrats have […]
Despite the passage of SB739, some of Virginia’s largest public school systems are dragging their feet when it comes to complying with the new law. Indeed, a bipartisan law ending controversial public health measures by giving parents the choice to opt their children out of school mask mandates. Technically, schools have until March 1 to […]
For those who have watched the neoconservative brand shift from the Democratic Party in the 1970s and 1980s over to the Republican Party in the aftermath of 9/11 only to watch them magically transform back into Democrats after the election of Donald J. Trump, the obsession over Putin is a wonder to behold. Over at Bearing […]
With the Virginia General Assembly at the crossover, the bureaucracy is picking winners and losers quickly. First and foremost is a new poll from the Christopher Newport University Wason Center showing Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin at 41/43 after what could only be termed as a relentless assault on Youngkin’s character and reputation by House and Senate […]
Wishing for an overarching and existential national interest in Kiev does not make it so.
Basketball star and outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party, Enes Kanter Freedom has called out Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, known professionally as “Dr. Oz,” over his dual citizenship in Turkey. Freedom claims that the celebrity doctor and Republican senate hopeful would act as “Erdogan’s arm” if elected to the U.S. Senate. Freedom has long been a critic […]
The head of the Montgomery County School Board was none too pleased to be called out for her blatant hypocrisy when it came to mask mandates. Despite the profound psychological, and in some cases, physiological downsides to masking children knowingly outweighing the miniscule risk COVID-19 poses to children, Montgomery County Public Schools’ Board Chairwoman Susan Kass […]
