What happens when a weak leader puts his foot down and makes demands of a legislature? If you’re Ralph Northam, you roll over and hope no one remembers that you ever put your foot down. That’s exactly what happened this week at the General Assembly, as Governor Northam huddled with Democratic leaders from the House […]
Here’s a question for voters as we head into the General Election: are you safer now than you were two years ago? Do you feel more comfortable letting your kids play outside or in the park knowing Virginia’s murder rate has increased 43% to a 20-year high under Democratic control? Do you worry less about […]
Around Virginia, parents are angry, and for good reason: They’re learning just what their children have been taught about race, identity, and privilege. In Albemarle County, students at Henly Elementary School were part of a pilot program that tested “anti-bias” lessons. Those lessons, it turns out, were straight out of Ibram X. Kendi’s “Antiracist” dogma. […]
If there was any doubt, it’s gone now. Critical Race Theory is in our schools, and it is being pushed by the same people who wanted to keep our schools closed during the pandemic. During its annual Representative Assembly, the National Education Association voted last week to stand fully behind those who want Critical Race […]
Early Tuesday morning, Politifact Virginia dropped a bomb on Terry McAuliffe’s first serious ad of the campaign. The ad presents video showing what looks like Republican Glen Youngkin praising Terry McAuliffe’s leadership of Virginia in 2017. But the ad cuts Youngkin’s words and takes them out of context to twist their meaning. Archived version here. […]
It’s the best high school in the country. Success there means success later in life. Parents go to extreme lengths to get their children into it. So it’s no surprise that when the newly woke Department of Education under Sec. Atif Qarni decided that there were too many Asian students at Thomas Jefferson High School […]
To say American views on racism have evolved radically is an understatement. Today, racism is treated with the same embrace as dog droppings: gross, best handled with gloves, and disposed of immediately. That’s a good thing. But Virginia isn’t going far enough, according to the Department of Education (VDOE). That’s why they’re pushing “anti-racist” teaching […]
The race for the House of Delegates is on. Earlier this week, the Republican State Leadership Committee announced their list of targets for the 2021 cycle. And it’s a long one. “Democrat-run Washington has given us an economic crisis, has politicized our children’s education to please their teachers’ union backers, and has put public safety […]
“O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” — George Orwell, 1984 Much has been made in […]
It’s hard to turn on the news today and not find a story about Critical Race Theory in our schools. Many have written extensively about the application of this rubric to public education. Where did this newfound ‘wokeness’ originate? Did local school boards suddenly have some sort of racial epiphany, and en masse decide to […]
