Tag: Virginia
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Obama to Campaign in Michigan for El-Sayed
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is probably the most far left candidate running for the Senate this year. No worries, Barack Obama is coming to Michigan to rally for him. by David Shephard, ©2026 (Oct. 8, 2026) — Barack Obama is unlike any other ex-President in American history. What makes him so different from his predecessors is…
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A New Poll Suggests that Governor Abigail Spanberger Has Been a Disaster “Since Day One”
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Jul. 21, 2026) — According to a new VCU poll Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has a 44 percent approval rating. In addition, the poll finds that nearly half, 47 percent, of Virginians think the state is headed in the wrong direction, while a minority of 39 percent think the state is headed in the…
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The Jay Jones Effect
by David Shephard, ©2026 (Jun. 4, 2026) — Years ago, when I was young and just getting into politics, I remember a colorful, (and crooked) Louisiana Democratic politician named Edwin Edwards. He became known to me because he was running in a nationally profiled Gubernatorial race. Edwards served as a member of Congress in the…
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Will Spanberger and Dems Ever Demonstrate Moderation or Rational Thinking?
by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Jan. 24, 2026) — After four years of Republican Executive Branch rule, Democrats again control Virginia’s Executive Branch and its Senate and House of Delegates. What can Virginians expect? Governor Abigail Spanberger campaigned as a moderate and said energy efficiency and affordability would be central to her first legislative session. Democratic…
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Almost a Republican Sweep Last Night—if Only Men Voted
by Selwyn Duke, New American Prophet, ©2025 (Nov. 7, 2025) — It’s called the “gender gap” (should be “sex gap,” really) in voting, and, boy, did it ever manifest itself Tuesday night. In fact, November 4 was a great day for the GOP. That is, in an alternate universe in which only men vote. Let’s…
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Virginia – Don’t Follow Net-Zero Lemmings over the Energy Cliff
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2023 (Oct. 27, 2023) — Seventeen states – including Virginia – tie their vehicle emission standards and electric vehicle sale mandates to California, the most climate-centric state in the Union. Unless current laws change, by 2035 all their new cars, pickups and SUVs must be electric (or hydrogen-powered). In further obeisance…
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Can the States Keep Trump Off Their Ballots?
by Harold Gielow, Gielow’s Glimmerings, ©2023 (Sep. 5, 2023) — Many recent articles have opined that states should keep President Trump off of state ballots because, due to the 14th Amendment, he is constitutionally ineligible. There are multiple problems with that position, one of which may give those pushing for such action pause. First, it…
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2024 Presidential Election
by Harold Gielow, ©2022 (Nov. 23, 2022) — While time is available, before the campaigning begins in earnest, Virginia needs to stake a position that unless and until there is a Supreme Court decision stating plainly what the Article II eligibility requirement for president that they be a natural born citizens means, those candidates of…
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Dominion’s Deception Hits New High with Offshore Wind
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2022 (Mar. 12, 2022) — I recently published a Study done for CFACT, titled “Dominion’s VCEA Compliance Plan is Disastrously Unreliable”. The study is summarized in my article “How and why Dominion and other utilities lie” at https://www.cfact.org/2022/02/23/how-and-why-dominion-and-other-utilities-lie/. The great deception is that Dominion proposes to build a huge amount of…
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Electric Power Reforms Gain Ground in Virginia
by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2022 (Feb. 4, 2022) — Two big Bills designed to fix Virginia’s broken electric power system have cleared the first legislative hurdle, on the road to becoming law. Both of these Virginia House Bills were approved by the cognizant Subcommittee of the House Commerce and Energy Committee. HB 118 fully repeals…
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Stay Alert, Virginia, the Nation is Watching
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2022 (Jan. 27, 2022) — It is a great feeling of relief for many in Virginia to receive a new Republican Governor to office. After decades of Democrat rule, leading to larger and larger government control over every aspect of business, healthcare, education, environment, and personal choice, Virginians are…
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GOP Must Follow the Virginia Blueprint
by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2022 (Jan. 16, 2022) — For decades, Republican Party elected officials have tried to make nice with their Democratic Party colleagues, the liberal media and deep state bureaucrats. Instead of acting like courageous conservative leaders, they ended up delivering policies that were Democrat-lite. This capitulation led to the catastrophe the…
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Congratulations from the Volunteer State
by Kat Stansell, American Policy Center, ©2021 (Nov. 12, 2021) — Thank you, Virginia! You have sent a message to the world, and it is being heard. The results of the 2021 election go far beyond a victory for the fight against the Marxist program of Critical Race Theory. You showed America that voting still…
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The NSBA Pseudo-Apology
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Oct. 24, 2021) — OK, so after the damage has been done, the National School Boards Association (“NSBA”) has determined to “apologize” for some of the verbiage contained in its September 29, 2021 letter to the Goofball-in-Chief. Specifically, the NSBA has now decided to “regret and apologize for the letter,” presumably…
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Grandmother Relates Harrowing Experience with Tennessee DCS
“THEY WANT A ‘GUILTY’ VERDICT” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 7, 2020) — Last week, The Post & Email interviewed the grandmother of an infant taken from her parents this past February after the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (DCS) accused the parents of child physical abuse, an allegation the parents and grandmother deny and say…
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Virginia’s Latest Folly — Offshore Wind Power
“AT RISK OF DESTRUCTION” by David Wojick, ©2020, CFACT (Jun. 18, 2020) — As reported in an earlier article, Virginia’s green electric power plan calls for 5,000 MW of offshore wind generating capacity to be built in the next decade or so. This is a huge amount given that the worldwide total is just around…
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Destroying the Environment to Save It
PSEUDO-GREEN ENERGY WILL WREAK DEVASTATION, PRETENDING TO PREVENT EXAGGERATED CLIMATE HARM by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (May 31, 2020) — “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” The infamous Vietnam era quotation may or may not have been uttered by an anonymous US Army major. It may have been misquoted, revised, apocryphal…
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Good Lord Save Us from Those Who Do Things for The “Greater Good”
“FAULTY PREMISES” April 29, 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Going all in, based on a faulty premise, never turns out well and most often, innocents end up paying a steep price for the ensuing foolishness. As we are in our 80s, it is too late for wifey and me to re-retire elsewhere, so we are…
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Virginia’s “Clean Economy Act” Will Have Dirty Results
850-FOOT-TALL TURBINES, 3.5 TIMES DC COVERED WITH SOLAR PANELS, MINING, CHILD LABOR, PRICEY POWER by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Mar. 4, 2020) — Largely with party-line, urban-vs-rural votes, Virginia’s legislature is poised to enact a Clean Economy Act that would eliminate coal-based electricity generation, prevent construction of new gas-fired power plants – and replace reliable, affordable…
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Former Tennessee Inmate Home; Wife Thanks TDOC Counselor
SAYS “ALTERNATIVE SENTENCING” A “DIRE NEED” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 7, 2020) — A video released on New Year’s Day by Haycraft Ministries depicts Beth Haycraft and her husband Michael discussing the events of the day, including in their home state of Virginia, where Michael Haycraft now resides with his wife after spending five years…