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- March 15, 2023
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Virginia is responsible for 3.7 million more tons of carbon dioxide to provide electricity to its citizens than when it first joined a multi-state climate initiative in 2021, according to a recent analysis by a former Trump administration official. Virginia formally joined the 12-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI ) in 2021, imposing a carbon cap on […]

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- January 31, 2023
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Former Clinton running-mate and Virginia’s incumbent U.S. Senator Tim Kaine officially has another Republican challenger. Constitutional lawyer Jonathan Emord of Clifton, VA formally announced his campaign for U.S. Senate today, after first forming an exploratory committee back in September of 2022. A media release issued by Emord’s campaign listed his stances on several of the […]

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- August 17, 2022
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Attorney General Jason Miyares is warning that the latest congressional budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2023 will cut funding for the Virginia Army National Guard (VANG) Counter Drug unit program by about 10 percent, eliminating several positions. “The current proposed budget reductions would result in the loss of five VNG Counter Drug Unit analysts across the […]

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- July 17, 2022
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Representative Don Beyer (D-VA-08) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) have introduced legislation to rename the “Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial” to “Arlington House National Historic Site.” “As our country and our Commonwealth grapple with the history of racism and slavery and engage in a long-overdue reexamination of public symbols, we have an opportunity […]

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- March 4, 2022
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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced a bill in the United States Senate this week after revealing his continued struggle with mild COVID symptoms. Two years after contracting COVID-19. As The Washington Post reports: “I tell people it feels like all my nerves have had like five cups of coffee,” Kaine said Wednesday of his “24/7” […]

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- January 12, 2022
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Although outgoing Gov. Ralph Northam profusely apologized for being identified as the man in blackface in a now infamous picture, he soon insisted it was a case of mistaken identity. Now, with hours left in his term, Northam says he’s “99% sure” who wore blackface in the photograph on his page of the 1984 Eastern […]

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- January 4, 2022
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A monstrous blizzard has left Northern Virginia covered in as much as 18 inches of snow. Drivers on I-95 near Fredericksburg got the worst of it. Among the hundreds trapped for more than one day on the interstate in miserable and potentially dangerous conditions was U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.). Kaine ran as Hillary Clinton’s […]

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- April 2, 2019
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Medicare X would leave the existing healthcare system cemented under former President Barack Obama intact, but would create a public option for Medicare provisions.

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- April 2, 2019
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This is in stark contrast from what Senator Mark Warner said in early February after Governor Ralph Northam’s extraordinarily odd press conference, which included an attempt to moonwalk.

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- February 27, 2019
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The vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act compelled lawmakers to defend the indefensible, put names to those disregarding life, revealed the sanctimonious nature of the Democratic Party, and codified the consistent logical and philosophical irregularities of the dehumanization and political categorization that governs the liberal point of view. 

Alex Lemieux is a Richmond-based editor with The Republican Standard. ...