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Commentary

Closing Virginia’s Education Gaps: Funding, Choice, and Accountability

It shouldn’t be hard for both political parties to agree that among those who suffered most from covid school shut-downs were low-income children. In the National Assessment of Educational Progress...

Last Week Proves Again Wind and Solar Cannot Take the Heat

Once again, a spell of hot weather has proven that our economy and comfort depend...

VA Elections Should Be About Virginia’s Future — Not a Referendum on President Trump

Senator Tim Kaine recently sent out a fundraising email where he quoted the Washington Post...

One is Enough: End the Front License Plate Requirement in Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia currently mandates that most passenger vehicles display two license plates—one on...

Primary Results Will Force Spanberger to Prove if She’s a Centrist

After this week’s primary results, Virginia’s more moderate center is all but dead. In two...

Disaster And Recovery in Buchanan County

My heart is with the people of Buchanan County as they recover from terrible flooding that occurred after rainstorms swept through the area on...

Dr. James Finck: Lessons From France

As I am sitting on my balcony of a boat traveling down the Mosel River in Germany, passing picturesque villages founded before Christopher Columbus...

The “Abortion Distortion”: How Roe Poisoned American Culture

This commentary was first published on breakpoint.org. A recent photo essay in The Atlantic documented dozens of pro-abortion demonstrations around the country following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling. Protesters,...

Waaah. Rappahannock Jail Inmates Don’t Get Free Wi-Fi.

By James A. Bacon. Originally posted on Bacon's Rebellion and republished here by agreement.  I’m guessing that we’re supposed to feel sorry for Shelley Tibbs,...

Biden Administration is Indifferent to The Pain of Average Americans

Although I am a lifelong conservative, the Democrats I have known over the years were proud to consider their party the defender of working...

Kissing Cousins: China’s Maoists, Virginia’s Racists

Merriam-Webster defines “kissing cousin” as one “closely related in kind to something else.” While varying in scope and brutality, China’s 1960s and Virginia’s 2020s...