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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...

National Security, West Virginia Natural Gas and Hampton Roads – A Proposed Federal Law

By James C. Sherlock, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and republished here by agreement.  This is a series of columns recommending bringing West Virginia...

Virginia’s Natural Gas Pipelines, Virginia’s Economy and the World

By James C. Sherlock, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and republished here by agreement. God looks after the United States of America.  The fracking revolution...

Alumni Are Mad as Hell — and They’re Organizing!

By James A. Bacon, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and republished here by agreement. College alumni, to borrow the classic phrase from the 1976 movie...

Purging Asian-Americans from Top Virginia Schools to End

By Kerry Dougherty, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and republished here by permission.  It’s dangerous to deal in ethnic stereotypes. There’s always a risk of...

Youngkin Decries Higher-Ed Cancel Culture

By James A. Bacon, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion, and published here by agreement.  Glenn Youngkin didn’t have much to say about “cancel culture” in...

JMU Social Justice and the Office of Student Accountability and Restorative Practices (OSARP)

By James C. Sherlock, this was originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and is published here by agreement.  Yesterday I wrote of the pressures on Tim...