Bacon's Rebellion

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State Revenue Up a Full Third in Northam Years

Departing Secretary of Finance Aubrey Layne by Steve Haner With one month to go in its fiscal year, Virginia has almost met its General Fund revenue

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by James A. Bacon Kieran Bhattcharya, a University of Virginia School of Medicine student who claims he was expelled for challenging left-wing

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by Dick Hall-Sizemore There was a scuffle on this blog a few days ago over the production of more hardwood seedlings by the Department of Forestry.

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Sources: “Crime in Virginia 2020” and The Washington Post. by James A. Bacon As protesters marched in many Virginia cities last year in protest

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Tuesday’s big winner: Terry McAuliffe. Photo credit: The Washington Post by Chris Saxman There is no sense doing a deep dive on Tuesday’s

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Image by Darkmoon_Art from Pixabay by DJ Rippert The big lie. Various intellectuals, aided and abetted by the mainstream media, have repeatedly put

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Labor Force Participation Rates, March 2021. Source: VEC Click for larger view. It represents the percentage of population of working age employed

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Pharrell Williams by Kerry Dougherty I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say Pharrell Williams is much more than a hugely successful rapper,

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George Rogers Clark I reproduce here a letter from state Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax, who attended the University of Virginia and lived across West

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Jim Ryan by James A. Bacon My fellow members of The Jefferson Council and I are united in our determination to protect the Jeffersonian legacy at the

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by Hans Bader Does anyone seriously doubt that boys misbehave more than girls in school? Until recently, no one would have disputed that, as surveys

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by F. Vincent Vernuccio First published this morning by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, where Vernuccio is Visiting

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by James C. Sherlock I write about education in Virginia. I think VDOE is going down the wrong rabbit holes in some of its programs, but I want

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Scott Ziegler: It depends on what the meaning of “is” is. by James A. Bacon Under assault from irate parents, Northern Virginia educators have

2 min read 2021-06-08 23:52:07

Pharrell Williams by James A. Bacon Music superstar and Virginia Beach native Pharrell Williams is not satisfied with the education provided by