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The 45-Day April Special Election Is NOT “Affordable”

AFFORDABLE The goal for 2026 is affordable! A special election to address ONLY a single issue, a constitutional amendment to allow the General Assembly to redraw VA congressional districts, will...

Steps To Help Have A Healthy Brain In Your Later Years

By Dr. Thomas Chin Virginia native Dr. Thomas Chin MD attended William and Mary, the Medical...

Does Spending $62 Billion on Utility Batteries Lower Your Cost of Electricity? Of Course Not

The 2026 General Assembly is likely to amend the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) to...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Political Failures Led To Recent Murder of Corrections Officer In Grayson County

Correctional Officer Jeremy Hall was killed on November 17, 2025, by an inmate at River...

Sen. Suetterlein Files 2026 Legislation Expanding Tax Relief & Education

Virginia legislators started filing bills for the 2026 General Assembly this week, and Senator David...

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...
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