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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 greatly expand the construction of utility-scale batteries for our electric grid. Based on the current...

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...

Progressives Urge Assembly to Soak the Rich, But Likely Tax Increases Will Reach Everyone

As a new Democratic Party trifecta looms in Virginia, a progressive policy group has floated...

Dissecting the Blue Wave: Turnout

Gov. Glenn Youngkin yesterday blamed Tuesday’s shellacking of the Republican Party in Virginia on the...

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...

Is There Any Congressional Oversight on The $41 Billion Given to Ukraine Since May 21?

An Open Letter to Senator Mark Warner (D-VA): Is There Any Congressional Oversight on the $41 Billion Given to Ukraine Since May 21? Dear Senator...