Commentary

VMI Eschews Standards of Excellence, De-values Diploma

The following was posted on March 22 on starrs.us and is shared here by permission. As an alumnus living in Florida, I have a dearth of information about what is...

Salem Responds To Questions About Budget / Sports Complex Construction

The following contains emailed responses dated Feb. 5, 2024 from the Salem City Manager's Office...

Wind Lawsuit Poses a Whale of a Problem With Utility Ratepayers Bearing the Risk

As usual, Virginia’s electricity ratepayers are caught in the middle. Either way, a new lawsuit challenging Dominion Energy...

Families Sue Albemarle Co. Public Schools For Race-Based Hostile Environment

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Senior Counsel Vincent Wagner made the following statement regarding a petition...

Roanoke College Brings Sports To Salem, But Who Pays The Tab?

There’s been next to nothing in communication from the Salem government, but a large maroon...

Virginia’s Natural Gas Pipelines, Virginia’s Economy and the World

By James C. Sherlock, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and republished here by agreement. God looks after the United States of America.  The fracking revolution...

Alumni Are Mad as Hell — and They’re Organizing!

By James A. Bacon, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and republished here by agreement. College alumni, to borrow the classic phrase from the 1976 movie...

Purging Asian-Americans from Top Virginia Schools to End

By Kerry Dougherty, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and republished here by permission.  It’s dangerous to deal in ethnic stereotypes. There’s always a risk of...

Youngkin Decries Higher-Ed Cancel Culture

By James A. Bacon, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion, and published here by agreement.  Glenn Youngkin didn’t have much to say about “cancel culture” in...

JMU Social Justice and the Office of Student Accountability and Restorative Practices (OSARP)

By James C. Sherlock, this was originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and is published here by agreement.  Yesterday I wrote of the pressures on Tim...

We Need to Help That Poor Billionaire Out

By Dick Hall-Sizemore, this originally appeared in Bacon's Rebellion and is reprinted here by agreement.  With all the huffing and puffing about CRT, face masks,...