I spent years on a Virginia school board, and I've experienced firsthand the teachers' union's far-left ideology. This week, the group declared its beliefs out loud. The Virginia Education Association (VEA) issued a press release on November 4, 2026, celebrating voters' "approval of constitutional amendments protecting reproductive freedom, securing marriage equality, and automatically restoring voting rights" to felons. It even admitted to supporting the legislation that put the amendments on the ballot. What do those Democrat-led amendments have to do with public education? The VEA's answer is that these issues "matter to our members and school communities."
The nation's 250th birthday is an invitation to consider what made the American experiment unique in the first place. At a time when Americans increasingly disagree about our nation's history, identity, and founding principles, that question lies at the heart of today's debate over American exceptionalism. Too often, the conversation begins with a misunderstanding of the meaning of "exceptional." Many believe it implies that America is inherently superior. Others reject the idea of exceptionalism altogether, arguing that the United States is simply another nation. According to the American Enterprise Institute's America at 250 survey, 32% of Americans believe the United States is "just another country whose political system is not better or worse than other countries." Yet America is exceptional in the literal sense of the word.
Emboldened by the scale of Democratic victories in the midterms, a small group of liberals is trying to blow up a carefully negotiated bipartisan agreement that would make it easier to build in America. read more
Haley Stevens is being called a traitor, but by reversing her endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed, she is showing exactly the kind of courage moderate Democrats once cheered.
Halloween is the season for haunted houses, campfire ghost stories, and manufactured frights. In politics, however, one of the scariest stories is told year-round. The perennial bogeyman? The all-powerful corporate behemoth allegedly buying elections and haunting our democracy. We are told that, unless the government takes radical measures, shadowy corporate titans will devour our civic life whole.
Clownshack,
You are a seriously dumb person.