Despite rabid opposition from the education establishment across the nation, more states are realizing that restoring parents’ freedom to choose how their child is educated is critical to guaranteeing the best education possible. In recent years Georgia, Florida, Arizona and Pennsylvania, … Read more>

Much of the U.S. Senate race between former Virginia Governors James Gilmore and Mark Warner has been focused on the candidates fiscal management records while they were in office. 

Delegate Kirk Cox (R-66, Colonial Heights), a member of the House … Read more>

We will have more on this later, but yesterday we were part of an announcement by Delegate Chris Saxman (R-20, Staunton) that introduced School Choice Virginia, a new 501(c)(4) organization, to lobby on school choice issues. It cannot support candidates.… Read more>

How prescient is this blog? The scientific studies have not come back from the lab yet, but it seems whenever we mention an institution or group making a goof of itself in public, they do it again almost immediately after mention … Read more>

If it wasn’t bad enough that Virginia Commonwealth University gave new meaning to “Honorary Degree” by conferring on former Richmond Police Chief Rodney Monroe a bachelor’s diploma when he took a whopping six hours of credits (only two classes), now … Read more>

Over the last few weeks a tragedy has come to light in Richmond. In January, an abortion happened on the watch of Commonwealth Catholic Charities, which is run by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond (one of the two Catholic dioceses that … Read more>

We don’t know if yesterday’s ruling by the California Supreme Court is more of a reflection of it being the proverbial broken clock or a reflection of the chutzpah of the radical element there that wants to legalize homosexual marriage. In a rare … Read more>

We discovered this quote today in last Friday’s Washington Post. It’s from House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith (R-8, Salem), responding to Governor Tim Kaine’s threats to raise money to campaign against House GOP candidates in the fall of 2009 if they … Read more>

Jesus said the poor will always be with us. That’s not good news for those who think the size of government is huge and would like to see much of it go away, because state government now considers itself among the poor. … Read more>

According to The Richmond Times-Dispatch, only three members of the General Assembly did not take the per diem offered to legislators for the recently completed special session: Delegates Kenny Alexander (D-89, Norfolk), Bob Purkey (R-82, Virginia Beach) and Joe Morrissey … Read more>