A recent MSNBC panel led by Rachel Maddow appeared incredulous that Virginia voters are concerned about illegal immigration and would like to see our borders secured. The diverse all-woman panel yukked it up over the backwardness of the rubes of the Old Dominion. Maddow noted that Virginia does share a border with West Virginia‚ however‚ and intimated that perhaps the voters should be more concerned with keeping the deplorable yahoos in that state from entering Virginia. This was a remarkably...

Self-checkout annoys many grocery shoppers and causes problems that are prompting numerous major retailers to pull back on using it. But that’s not stopping the Transportation Security Administration from testing a self-service screening system at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas later this month. TSA PreCheck passengers at LAS “will be the first travelers to have the option to use the new system starting in mid-March‚ when the testing begins‚” said a TSA news release. “The...

As the US Open got underway this week‚ you may have noticed Novak Djokovic was missing from the field. The Serbian tennis player withdrew from the competition last week‚citing the United States’ entry policy for foreign nationals as the reason. Unless you’ve been living under a rock‚ which in my humble opinion isn’t the worst place to be these days‚ you’ll know this is because of his reluctance to get vaccinated against Covid. Djokovic has been one of the firmest public figures in his stance on...

It was an opinion piece that cost a New York Times editor his job. James Bennet signed off on Sen. Tom Cotton's (R-AK) article that said deploying the National Guard to maintain law and order in our cities during the 2020 riots might be necessary. This op-ed ran following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Cotton also cited instances during the Civil Rights Movement when the National Guard was mobilized to keep the peace. Bennet was forced to resign from the Times following the...

During a lengthy interview with House investigators on Feb. 28‚ Hunter Biden repeatedly insisted that his father was never involved in any of his businesses. A transcript of the interview released the following day by the House Oversight and Accountability and Judiciary committees‚ which are conducting an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden‚ showed that Hunter Biden commented on numerous aspects of his business activities that Republicans have pointed to as evidence that...

San Francisco’s liberal voters just endorsed drug screenings for welfare recipients. D.C.’s progressive City Council passed a crime package Tuesday that will keep more people in jail while awaiting trial. And New York’s governor on Wednesday ordered hundreds of National Guard troops to deploy inside the city’s troubled subway system. The country’s biggest‚ bluest cities are embracing tough-on-crime policies that would have been politically heretical just a few years ago — ratcheting up...

Last week‚ the University of Florida peremptorily announced that it had ended its ill-fated experiment with DEI. “The University of Florida‚” the college’s missive confirmed‚ has “closed the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer‚ eliminated DEI positions and administrative appointments‚ and halted DEI-focused contracts with outside vendors.” Going forward‚ the university explained‚ the more than $5 million per year that was being spent on the initiative will be redirected into “a...

Donald Trump’s dominating victories on Super Tuesday cemented his lock on the Republican presidential nomination but Senate GOP leaders are reluctant to fully embrace the former president given his tendency to alienate college educated women and other swing voters. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) finally announced his endorsement of Trump on Wednesday‚ the same day Nikki Haley dropped out of the presidential race. But McConnell indicated to reporters that his...

The Republican Party under Donald Trump has habitually elevated extreme right-wing candidates who can’t find enough support outside of hardcore partisans to win elections. But Mark Robinson‚ who won the GOP nomination for governor of North Carolina Tuesday night‚ is a special case even by the modern GOP’s standards. Robinson‚ North Carolina’s current lieutenant governor‚ has hurled hateful remarks at everyone from Michelle Obama to the survivors of the Parkland...

Alabama lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday night to a bill intended to give legal protection to in vitro fertilization clinics after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling caused some to pause services. Gov. Kay Ivey announced shortly after that she had signed the bill into law. Lawmakers have scrambled to provide immunity that would allow clinics to resume services after the court ruled that frozen embryos held in storage have the legal status of children for purposes of...