The White House has asked governors to provide troops from their state’s national guard for Tuesday’s State of the Union address. One governor is flatly refusing the administration’s request. In a Tweet this afternoon, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) made it abundantly clear that he has no intention of complying. Last week, the Biden Administration requested the assistance of State […]
Virginia Lawmakers Weigh in on Sexually Explicit Classroom Materials
The House of Delegates has passed legislation allowing for greater parental oversight of sexually explicit classroom materials. The vote sends the bill, which already passed the Virginia Senate, to Gov. Youngkin’s desk. Youngkin included the legislation as part of his “Day One Game Plan Legislative Agenda” in the hopes of bringing Virginians together. As Virginia […]
Youngkin Takes Matters Into His Own Hands on Ukraine
Some governors aren’t waiting for the federal government to dole out additional punishments against Russia for invading Ukraine in an unprovoked war of aggression. Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin happens to be one of them. Over the weekend, Youngkin urged Virginia businesses and local governments to cut ties with Russian entities. Richmond’s WRIC reports: In a statement […]
Tenets of Critical Race Theory Reported at 23 of Top 25 US Medical Schools
According to criticalrace.org, a site that monitors CRT curricula and training in higher education, at least 23 of America’s 25 most prestigious medical colleges and universities have some form of mandatory student training or coursework on ideas related to CRT. William Jacobson, professor at Cornell Law School and founder of Legal Insurrection designed and curated criticalrace.org’s sprawling database that previously examined elite […]
Miyares Hires CRT Watchdog to Oversee Community Outreach in Northern Virginia
Unusual phenomenon can occur when Republicans are elected to positions of power. Following the GOP’s statewide office sweep in Virginia, an outspoken anti-CRT activist in Virginia, implausibly, finds herself working for the government of Virginia. Patti Hidalgo Menders, the former president of the Loudoun Republican Women’s Club — not to mention one of the leading […]
Ukraine Handing Out Guns to Fight Russians as Capital Kyiv Encircled
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 […]
Dominion’s Involvement in Governor’s Race Greater Than Previously Thought
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 […]
Admissions Policy at Nation’s Most Elite School Ruled Discriminatory
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 […]
Virginia Republicans Up the Ante in Biden-Youngkin Districts
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 […]