Democratic-controlled Virginia Senate committees have defeated multiple GOP bills that passed the House of Delegates. Chief among them was legislation to repeal Virginia’s “red flag” law, which allows authorities to temporarily remove firearms from gun owners declared a danger to themselves or others. Del. Marie March (R-Floyd County) told the Senate panel considering her measure […]
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 […]
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) tore into his own caucus Tuesday. Kinzinger slammed the House Republicans’ official Twitter account for calling President Biden weak following his administration’s new sanctions against Russia. Mere hours later, Putin launched a land, sea and air invasion of Ukraine. This is what weakness on the world stage looks like. pic.twitter.com/0Krq48gbIy — House Republicans […]
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has set March 15 as the day for abolishing the state’s 2019 mail-in voting law. Three weeks ago, the Commonwealth Court ruled in a party line decision that the law violated the state constitution. For those who aren’t aware, the Constitution of Pennsylvania says residents must vote in person unless they […]
America’s favorite lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears showed off her characteristic resourcefulness yesterday when “an unknown prankster” hid her gavel. The imaginative Sears used one of her leather pumps to bring the Virginia Senate to order. “One shoe can change your life,” Sears remarked “Just ask Cinderella.” Resourcefulness- never underestimate it! https://t.co/dfwAcOiVx4 — Winsome Earle-Sears (@WinsomeSears) […]
Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears has several ideas for the name of a new caucus that Del. Aijalon Cordoza (R-Hampton), the only Black Republican in the Virginia House, could establish after the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus barred him from joining. The Daily Wire reports: “We’re trying to start a new caucus. Name suggestions? The You’re Not […]
In case you missed it, a courageous Virginia mother appeared before the Prince William County School Board and proceeded to explain how wrong and harmful the district-wide mask mandate had been. Despite her reservations about speaking in front of a large crowd, Marianne Jensen overcame her nerves for the sake of her children and the […]
Three frustrated parents have taken legal action against the Loudoun County School Board. The plaintiffs, Kristen Barnett, Heather Yescavage and Colin Doniger, filed a lawsuit in Loudoun County circuit court against the board for ignoring Gov. Youngkin’s mask order. For instead of giving families the ability to opt-out of school mask mandates, students at Loudoun […]
Republicans have widely panned Donald Trump’s recent suggestion that he’d pardon people charged in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot. Of course, Trump would first have to win reelection. The former president first floated the idea at a rally in Texas over the weekend. “If I run and I win, we will treat those people […]
