Commentary

Consumer Cost Estimates Rise for Green Economy

--By Steve Haner and originally published as a commentary from the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. Customer cost projections for compliance with the Virginia Clean Economy Act have increased...

Ticket to Ride: An Unlikely Valley Metro Bus Advocate

-By Maynard Keller Be honest. How many of you have ridden a public bus to work,...

A Definitive “No” To The WOTUS Rule

In January, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Army...

Taxpayers Fund Biden’s Disruptive Campaign Stop in Va Beach

By Kerry Dougherty and first published on her blog and shared with permission from Kerry: Unemployed...

Washington Post Columnist Continues Quest for Pulitzer at VMI’s Expense

With an emailed request for statement verification to SOVP Chairman Matt Daniel this week, Washington...

Federal Workers Must SHOW UP

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we saw a sharp rise in remote work, or telework. We were living through unprecedented times. Telework became an...

Virginia Dems Refuse To Support Female Athletes

By Kerry Dougherty and first published on Bacon's Rebellion and Kerry: Unemployed and Unedited. I’m old. Old enough to remember when there were sane members of...

Tech Complexity and the New Dark Age

By James A. Bacon and originally published on Bacon's Rebellion. Republished here by permission.  There are numerous existential threats to Western Civilization — reckless fiscal...

The Spirit of VMI Speaks: VMI ’74 Leads The Way

Members of VMI’s Class of 1974 released a letter to its Brother Rats last Monday (http://thecadetfoundation.org/vmi74/), challenging its 50th Reunion Committee’s efforts to raise...

What Happened to All Those Promises to Defend Virginia’s Heritage?

By Donald Smith. This was first published in Bacon's Rebellion and is shared here by permission.  Many Bacon’s Rebellion readers — me included — worry that Virginia’s...

The Alumni Rebellion Spreads to JMU

By James A. Bacon and originally published on Bacon's Rebellion. Published here by permission.  A group of James Madison University alumni has organized a new...