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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...

Is Governor Glenn Youngkin Erecting A Monument To Former Governor Ralph Northam?

The resignation of Dr. Ann Hunter McLean from her Youngkin appointment to the Virginia Historic Resources Board is of seismic consequence for the Governor...

Forfeiting Moral Leadership Abroad: US Diplomacy Abandons Religious Freedom

This editorial is based on one originally posted by the Religious Freedom Institute as a commentary here. Prompted by his recent article in the Wall Street...

Do We “Save The Earth” By Destroying Prime VA Farmland?

This commentary came from the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and is published here by permission.  Solar installations hasten loss of Virginia farmland Virginia lost...

“This Is What VMI IS,” Cadet Letter To New Students And Families

This was originally posted in The Cadet, the independent voice of the VMI Corps and Alumni since 1871 and is shared here by permission. Welcome...

CRT’s False Narrative on US Combat Losses

Critical Race Theory (CRT) ideologues and their Diversity-Inclusion-Equity (DIE)-minded cousins peddle various fantasies. One reprehensible narrative concerns racial disparities among US military deaths during...

Energy Warnings From Europe

On the eve of the United Kingdom’s entry into World War I, Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey remarked as he observed lamplighters at work...