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FIVE QUESTIONS: Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears
Speaker Todd Gilbert Blasts VCU For Failing to Protect Pro-Life Students
If you haven’t heard about the violence at Virginia Commonwealth University yesterday, then buckle up — because it’s bad.
Youngkin is Running for Vice-President (But Could We Please Do Something First?)
…and you don’t have to be Nostradamus to figure out why — and for whom. …although you might have to be Russell Kirk: Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light. England is still great, capable of regeneration; but […]
Richmond’s Skinny Budget: Low Stakes Poker, High Stakes Rhetoric
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Between the Res Publica and the Imperium
Only free citizens deserve the common good. Failing the test of self-government, we are in turn governed by others, and lightly may our chains weigh upon us. I suppose it is passe to argue that a generation is losing something over the course of time. Our grandfathers and grandmothers remarked on the loss of certainty […]
The Same Progressives Who Made Energy Expensive Want to Do It Again
The same “clean energy” progressive groups who made energy expensive are looking to do it again.
Miyares Reminds Republicans the Difference a Year Makes
Virginia Republican AG Jason Miyares gives conservatives a reminder of the mess Democrats left behind and the work that lies ahead.
Contentious, But Not Decisive?
This year’s Virginia General Assembly is set to give off a great deal of heat, but little light — and for the worst reasons possible.
