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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...

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...

Youngkin Wants to Jump-Start Economic Growth

By James A. Bacon and originally published on Bacon's Rebellion. Shared here by agreement.  Governor Glenn Youngkin addressed many topics in his State of the...