The Justice Department has charged Peter Navarro, White House trade adviser to former President Trump, with two counts of contempt of Congress. The indictment carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison and a $200,000 fine. It follows Navarro’s decision to ignore subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee. As The New York Times reports: Prosecutors say that […]
Youngkin Signs Bipartisan Legislation To Expand Health Care Coverage Options For Small Businesses
Small businesses in Virginia are about to have a lot more options for healthcare, courtesy of some new legislation Governor Glenn Youngkin has signed. Governor Glenn Youngkin ceremonially signed HB 884, sponsored by Delegate Kathy Byron, R-Bedford, and SB 195, sponsored by Senator Montgomery “Monty” Mason, D-Williamsburg, which will permit the creation of benefits consortiums for small businesses […]
Why the Dramatic Growth in Illegal Aliens in US Under Biden is Worse Than It Appears
New data from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics show a dramatic increase in the number of foreign-born persons in the United States under Team Biden is largely driven by illegal immigrants. This is mostly due to President Biden’s quickly reversing most of President Trump’s effective border control and immigration policies. The data analyzed […]
Polls: Youngkin Has Positive Job Approval, Biden Approval Declining
Governor Glenn Youngkin has net positive job approval in two polls released Friday. A Roanoke College poll has the governor at 53 percent approval and 35 percent disapproval while a Public Policy Polling survey has him at 43 percent approval, 34 percent disapproval. The Roanoke results are up from 50 percent approval in February, although the PPP results are […]
VA-07 GOP Race: Reeves’ New Ad, Green Beret PAC Backs Anderson, Vega Says No on Ukraine Aid Packages
In the race for the GOP nomination for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, Derrick Anderson received an endorsement from a new PAC; Yesli Vega called for spending on the U.S. border, criticizing a recent Ukraine spending package; and State Senator Bryce Reeves (R-Spotsylvania) launched his second television ad, highlighting his “anti-woke” stance. “I don’t mean to […]
Discredited Democrat ‘Intelligence Experts’ Now Shilling for Partisan Big Tech
ANALYSIS – Some of the same group of Democrat intelligence experts (aka partisan hacks) that spewed disinformation about the Hunter Biden laptop being a Russian intelligence operation, are now paid shills for the leftist Democrat disinformation industry known as Big Tech. As I wrote about then, by falsely claiming the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation, “over 50 former senior former U.S. intelligence […]
City of Richmond Officials, Casino Developers Threaten Legal Action After General Assembly Blocks 2022 Casino Referendum
The recently-passed Fiscal Year 2023-2024 budget includes language blocking the City of Richmond from holding another casino referendum until November 2023. Richmond officials have called for a 2022 referendum after voters rejected a casino in 2021, but State Senator Joe Morrissey (D-Richmond) is instead pushing for Petersburg to be granted a casino license, and on Thursday afternoon, […]
Congressional Leaders Expose Scheme to Pump Liberal Misinformation Network Into Classrooms
Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-Utah) sent letters to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and NewsGuard Inc. seeking additional information on the January 25th agreement that would put NewsGuard’s ‘anti-misinformation’ product in the classrooms of AFT’s more than 1.6 million members. The […]
VA-10 GOP Nominee Hung Cao: Focus on Economy and National Security
GOP nominee for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District Hung Cao said his top priorities if he’s elected to Congress will be the economy and national security. “We have to stabilize this economy. This is spiraling out of control,” Cao told The Virginia Star. “We have to cut spending. This is not just about my kids and your […]
Attempted Reagan Assassin John Hinckley Granted Unconditional Release
After decades in a mental hospital following a successful insanity defense, John Hinckley Jr. will be unconditionally released this month. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman announced Wednesday that Hinckley’s release date is June 15. Hickley nearly killed President Ronald Reagan and severely wounded White House Press Secretary James Brady outside of the Washington Hilton in March 1981. He also shot […]