The Virginia Star

October 26, 2021

McAuliffe Campaign Brings Out ‘Big Guns’ in Final Weeks

Gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, seeking his second non-consecutive term Virginia's Governor, has been campaigning with powerful Democrat Party allies during the final stretch of his campaign against Republican Glenn Youngkin. President Joe Biden will campaign for McAuliffe this week in...

October 26, 2021

Commentary: Newly Uncovered Documents Show Senior Virginia Officials Smearing a Whistleblower to Avoid Congressional Oversight

Whistleblowers—and the truths they tell—far too often become the first casualties in the clash of bigger forces with other agendas. People tend to oversimplify complex stories to fit their preferred political narrative or to protect their own interests. If the...

October 26, 2021

Commentary: The Unemployment Rate Does Not Offer Guidance Now

The Labor Department’s official unemployment rate—the most well-known gauge of the labor market’s health—counts as unemployed only those who aren’t working but are actively seeking a job. Yet there is very little that we can infer from the jobless rate...

October 26, 2021

Border Patrol Reports 192,000 Border Encounters in September, Says 26 Percent Immigrants Making Multiple Tries

The United States recorded 192,001 encounters with immigrants last month along the country's southwest border with Mexico, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The agency on Friday reported 1.7 million apprehensions along the entire U.S. southern border in fiscal...

October 26, 2021

Nurses in Illinois Win Temporary Restraining Order Against Vaccine Mandate

An Illinois judge granted a temporary restraining order to nurses who sued Riverside Healthcare over the hospital system's vaccine mandate. Kankakee County Judge Nancy Nicholson granted a temporary restraining order until Nov. 19. She will then hold a hearing on...

October 26, 2021

Tea Party Patriots Action Calls on National School Boards Association Leadership to Resign

Tea Party Patriots Action (TPPA) on Monday called on the leadership of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to resign. The organization apologized on Friday for a letter sent to the Biden administration, which called on the federal government to...

October 26, 2021

Facebook Employees Actively Censored Conservative Websites, Even in Defiance of Managers

A series of new leaks from Big Tech giant Facebook has revealed even more bias against conservatives from the company’s employees, even to the point of causing internal debates between employees and upper management, according to the New York Post....

October 26, 2021

Biden’s Approval Hits New Low in FiveThirtyEight Tracker

President Joe Biden’s approval rating hit a new low of just over 43% in FiveThirtyEight’s polling tracker as he confronts multiple economic and legislative headwinds. Biden’s approval stood at 43.5%, and has steadily declined since July. His disapproval stood at 50.6%,...

October 26, 2021

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Stokes ‘Hyperinflation’ Fears

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stirred up more fears around inflation with his comments over the weekend saying that hyperinflation is “happening.” “Hyperinflation is going to change everything,” the tech leader posted on Twitter. “It’s happening.” The post sparked a flurry...

October 26, 2021

Legislation Would Allow Pennsylvanians to Sue Big Tech Companies for Censorship

Two Pennsylvania state senators said recently they want to hold social media companies accountable for religious or political censorship. Sens. Doug Mastriano, R-Gettysburg, and Scott Hutchinson, R-Oil City, said their Senate Bill 604, also called the Social Media Accountability Act,...

October 26, 2021

Commentary: Targeting Citizens for Expressing Traditional Values is a Hallmark of Tyranny

All my life I’ve felt a bond with places and with people. Growing up in Boonville, North Carolina, population then about 600, I went to elementary school and the Methodist church, knew many of the merchants in town—Harvey Smith, grocer...

October 26, 2021

Commentary: Tennessee Legislature Must Pass Big COVID Test in ‘Special Session’

The red state/blue state dichotomy is not simple. Nowhere is that more apparent than Tennessee where—despite having one of the most conservative electorates in the country—the leadership has been passive at best in responding to the wishes of their supporters during these...

October 26, 2021

Music Spotlight: Jacob Bryant

Jacob Bryant readies the forthcoming album Bar Stool Preachers with his latest release "Devil & An Old Six String.”

October 26, 2021

Commentary: $28 Per Day Triggers IRS Surveillance Program

The entire Democrat multi-trillion dollar socialist spending scam is bad for Americans, and bad for our economy. One particular provision that is especially terrible is their “IRS Surveillance” program, which would grant the government access to spy on nearly every...

October 26, 2021

‘Way Off Track’: Emissions Levels Hit New Record in 2020 Despite Pandemic, Paris Accords

Total global greenhouse gas emission levels hit a new record last year despite the pandemic-induced economic shutdowns and previous commitments from world leaders, the United Nations said. “The abundance of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere once again reached a...

October 26, 2021

Virginia Gets the First U.S.-Based Offshore Wind Blade Manufacturing Facility

Offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing is coming to the U.S. and Virginia as part of a partnership between Dominion Energy and Spain-based manufacturer Siemens Gamesa. Dominion Energy has been expanding its offshore wind project with support from Virginia officials, and...

October 26, 2021

Pro-LGBTQ Chalk Displays Go Undisturbed as Conservative Sidewalk Messages Get Defaced

Chalk displays are common tools for spreading messages on college campuses, but they can also be examples of the different treatment that conservative and liberal students experience. This semester, a College Republicans' chapter had their chalk messages defaced while another...

October 26, 2021

Juvenile Court Finds Sufficient Evidence in Loudoun School Assault Case

A juvenile court judge found sufficient evidence to sustain charges of a May sexual assault in a Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) bathroom, allegedly committed by a "gender fluid" student. The judge's decision in the Monday trial is equivalent to...

October 25, 2021

Democrats Descend on Churches in Virginia in Souls to the Polls Campaign Urging Parishioners to Vote for Terry McAuliffe

Democratic leaders are targeting church goers to get out the vote, endorsing Democratic incumbent Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is slightly behind in the polls for the first time after making controversial remarks about parents not having a say in their...

October 25, 2021

Commentary: Activating the ‘Secret Police’ to Aid School Boards

The FBI will investigate threats and intimidation against school board members, administrators, teachers, and staff, United States Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Oct. 4. In so doing, Garland claimed federal jurisdiction over local law enforcement, in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution....

October 25, 2021

Democrats Cut ‘Human Infrastructure’ Spending Plan, But Compromise Still out of Reach So Far

Tense negotiations have continued for months on Democrats’ proposed several trillion dollars in federal spending, leading to major changes for the plan. Notably, Democrats now say the $3.5 trillion "human infrastructure"plan will likely end up closer to $2 trillion, though...

October 25, 2021

‘Ban Buying and Selling of Individual Shares of Stock’ by Lawmakers: Peter Schweizer

Peter Schweizer, author of the 2011 book "Throw Them All Out," said it's still "very hard" to prove a member of Congress has engaged in insider trading despite the passage of the STOCK Act almost 10 years ago. Schweizer called...

October 25, 2021

Indiana Officials Invite Illinois Police Officers to Move There

With the promise of no vaccine mandate and lower property taxes, Indiana officials are trying to lure jilted police officers from Illinois. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a vaccine mandate for police in August. They must show their vaccination status...

October 25, 2021

Another Whistleblower Files SEC Complaint Alleging Facebook Didn’t Do Enough About ‘Hate Speech’, ‘Misinformation’

Another former Facebook employee filed a whistleblower complaint Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging that the tech giant misled its investors by failing to combat the spread of hate and misinformation on its platform, The Washington Post reported....

October 25, 2021

School District Racially Segregates Students, Threatens Them for ‘Biased’ Statements: Lawsuit

A Massachusetts school district is racially segregating students and threatening to punish them for subjectively "offensive" statements they make, violating their civil and constitutional rights at both the state and federal level, according to a new lawsuit seeking permanent injunctions....

October 25, 2021

Poll: Majority of Americans Think COVID-19 Threat is Getting Less Serious

The majority of Americans believe the threat of the coronavirus is getting less serious, and a plurality believe President Joe Biden and government health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci don’t want lockdowns to end, according to a new poll conducted by the...

October 25, 2021

‘Hard to Know Where Pandemic Relief Money Went,’ Admits Federal Spending Watchdog

This week's Golden Horseshoe goes to a broad sweep of federal agencies for a systemic lack of transparency that is hampering efforts to monitor many billions of dollars in COVID-19 relief spending, according to a report by the Pandemic Response...

October 25, 2021

DHS to Shell Out Nearly $500k for Border Fence Around Biden’s Delaware Beach House

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will spend nearly half a million dollars constructing a security fence around President Joe Biden's Delaware beach property, a move that comes after Biden himself has aborted construction on a wall along the southern...

October 25, 2021

Las Vegas Businessman Charged with Voting Twice in November 2020 Election

A prominent Las Vegas businessman is facing potential prison time for allegedly voting twice during the 2020 presidential election. According to the Associated Press, Donald “Kirk” Hartle is facing two felony counts of casting fraudulent votes, one of which was...

October 25, 2021

Pennsylvania State Senators Legislating to Prevent Privatizing Election Administration

Pennsylvania lawmakers plan to introduce a measure banning private organizations from funding election administration in the Keystone State. The bill’s sponsors, state Sens. Lisa Baker (R-Dallas) and Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-Jacobus) have cited the role that the Center for Tech and Civic...

October 25, 2021

Twitter Flags Tweet from Rep. Jim Banks Calling Rachel Levine a Man as ‘Hateful Conduct’

Twitter flagged a tweet from Republican Rep. Jim Banks sent out on Oct. 19 calling Dr. Rachel Levine, who is transgender, a man, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. “The title of the first female four-star officer gets taken...

October 25, 2021

Texas Republicans Sound Off On Biden’s ‘Pathetic’ Claim That He’s Too Busy to Visit the Border

Texas Republicans described President Joe Biden’s immigration policies as reckless and criticized him for claiming that he has been too busy to visit the southern border since taking office in January. Biden said Thursday night that he “should go down but...

October 25, 2021

Democratic Cities That Sought to Defund Police Reverse Course Amid Rising Crime, Police Shortages

Some Democratic cities that once sought to defund their police departments are now reversing course — some by their own volition, some under pressure from Republican governors or citizen-led initiatives. The course corrections come as major cities have experienced more...

October 25, 2021

School Boards Group That Equated Parental Activism with ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Owes IRS $20 Million

A national education group that implied some parental activism is tantamount to "domestic terrorism" owes nearly $20 million to the IRS, according to tax forms reviewed by Just the News. Most of that comes from "accrued pension liability," as disclosed...

October 25, 2021

Commentary: The Deliberate Attempts to Wreak Havoc on America

Since Jan. 20, 2021, many of us have wondered whether the policies of the Biden administration are driven by folly and stupidity, or whether they are deliberate attempts to wreak havoc on the United States of America. The foolish and...

October 25, 2021

Schumer Endorses Socialist in Buffalo Mayoral Race

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday endorsed India Walton, a democratic socialist, to be the next mayor of Buffalo. “As Buffalo voters start to head to the polls this weekend, I urge them to cast their ballot for India...

October 25, 2021

Federal Government Pays University $750k to Create Tool That Warns Journalists Against Publishing ‘Polarizing’ Content

The National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a $750,000 grant to Temple University researchers for developing a product that tracks local journalism cycles, which is part of their new "Trust & Authenticity in Communication Systems" initiative. The “America's Fourth Estate at Risk:...

October 25, 2021

Intelligence Agencies Reportedly Hacked Ransomware Group Responsible for JBS Attack

National security agencies in multiple countries reportedly succeeded in hacking ransomware gang REvil, the group responsible for the cyber attack on meatpacker JBS, forcing them offline. Tom Kellermann, head of cybersecurity strategy at cloud computing company VMWare, told Reuters that intelligence officials...

October 25, 2021

Big Tech Companies Are Defying Texas’ Vaccine Mandate Ban

Major tech companies are continuing to require their employees to be vaccinated at their Texas facilities, in violation of Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order banning all vaccine mandates. Abbott signed an executive order on Oct. 11 prohibiting “any entity,” including private businesses,...

October 25, 2021

College Republicans Told That They Cannot Endorse Glenn Youngkin

Administrators at Washington and Lee University told conservative students to cease campaigning for Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee for Virginia governor. The university's College Republicans displayed materials supporting Youngkin during a September 12 activities fair, but were told by Director...

October 25, 2021

Youngkin Draws Thousands in Blue-Leaning Richmond Suburb

GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin stopped in Henrico on the first day of his Win with Glenn Bus Tour on Saturday evening. In his speech, attorney general candidate Delegate Jason Miyares (R-Virginia Beach) touted the need for reform in Virginia's...

October 24, 2021

White House Report Proposes Granting Refugee Status for ‘Climate Change Activism’

A Thursday White House report on climate change and national security proposed granting refugee status for individuals identified as “climate change activists” or “environmental defenders.” “Climate activists, or environmental defenders, persecuted for speaking out on government inaction on climate change...

October 24, 2021

Gov. Northam: Virginia Should Reach Universal Broadband by 2024

Virginia is on pace to have universal broadband access throughout the commonwealth by 2024 following a record number of local and private sector applications to match state investments, Gov. Ralph Northam announced. After the most recent application window closed, the...

October 24, 2021

Commentary: Migration Crisis Is a Battle of Americanists Against Transformationists

The ongoing mass illegal migration crisis is best understood as an existential conflict between two forces: Americanists vs. Transformationists. These forces, in turn, represent two competing regimes or ways of life. But first, let us review what has been going...

October 24, 2021

Fiscal Year 2021 Becomes Third-Highest Year on Record in Border Encounters, Reaching 1.7 Million

Border officials encountered the third-highest number of migrants at the southern border on record, reaching more than 1.7 million apprehensions, according to Customs and Border Protection data. Border officials reported 192,000 encounters with migrants attempting to illegally enter the U.S....

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