■ Jan 4 General Assy hearing at Gov't Center
... [
Sign up to speak!] -- The Fx Co delegation to the
Va General Assy will hold its annual pre-session public hearing at the Gov't
Center on Saturday, Jan 4, 2025,
starting at 9 AM.
FCPS ClgBd: FCPS College Board Reports for 2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023 ... Note: FCTA had to FOIA these reports and provide hosting, as FCPS does not post them on its web site.
■ FCTA provides full text of
Classics in Western Literature
... The Great Books provide valuable lessons in life, but unfortunately
are not emphasized these days. Here are 70+ local HTML copies of books
that every educated person should make an effort to read and be able to
discuss intelligently.
Recent Posts: Local, Virginia, and Perspective FCTA Wonders:
(1) Is it worse to not learn because gov't schools are closed, or to not learn reading, math, and 1776 history when gov't schools are open? (2) Will Va. adopt destructive and expensive green energy policies like California? (3) Can U.S. citizens' trust be restored in government, corporate, and educational institutions? (4) Will the U.S. return to equal justice under the law?
2024-12-18 (Tax) Fx GOP: Union-Friendly (Taxpayer-Unfriendly) Accotink Wastewater Fix The $71,699,000 rehabilitation of the Accotink Wastewater Pump Station is about to cost you, dear taxpayer, millions more than necessary. And why? Because Board Chairman Jeff McKay couldn't resist slapping on a government-mandated Project Labor Agreement (PLA) -- the first of its kind in Virginia.
2024-12-17 (Nat) AMAC: The End Of The Long Obama Era, by Walter Samuel We have experienced 16 years of Obama-style fascism, with Democrats blindly adopting insane policies from bureaucratic institutions -- not because they appealed to voters or even to many Democrats themselves, but because their "betters" told them to. The November election results seem to indicate that the public has finally had enough.
2024-12-17 (Nat) AMAC: "Conspiracy Theorists" Were Right Again, by Shane Harris FBI involvement in J6 ... the Hunter Biden laptop ... Trump's 2016 campaign spied On ... the Covid-19 lab-leak theory ... transgender surgeries for minors ...
2024-12-02 (Tax) FXX Now: Fairfax Co faces $300M deficit for FY2026, by Scott McCaffrey County supervisors have made unsustainable raise agreements for county employees resulting in a nearly $300M shortfall in the FY2026 budget, and now threaten taxpayers with a real estate tax increase approaching 5 percent.
2024-11-20 (Nat) RealClear Wire: Make Education Great Again!, By Adam Ellwanger Imagine these words as the first speech delivered by the incoming Secretary of Education. ... "Today, I am here to deliver bitter medicine: American education has failed. Teachers and parents, administrators and government—and even students -- all bear some responsibility. ..."
2024-11-16 (Nat) Brownstone: The Revolution Of 2024, by Jeffrey A. Tucker Trump's overwhelming victory is on a scale not seen since 1828 when, four years after the presidency was stolen from Jackson, Old Hickory came back in a wild landslide and cleaned up Washington. Trump arrives in Washington with a mandate for the same, with 81% of the public demanding that the government shrink in size and power.
2024-11-13 (Sch) The Federalist: FCPS sent TJ#1 to China, then reduced TJ to #14, by S Lundquist TJ administrators handed over TJHS blueprints and student research projects to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has since cloned the school by the dozens in China. They then, via equity wokeness, reduced TJ's national merit ranking from #1 to #14.
2024-10-xx (Nat) IMPRIMUS: Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order, by Kevin D. Roberts Adapted from a talk delivered in Christ Chapel at Hillsdale College on October 23, 2024, as part of the Drummond Lectures in Christ Chapel series.
2024-10-28 (Nat) WaPo: Americans don't trust the news media, By Jeff Bezos Journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom in public trust. newspapers, like voting machines, must meet two requirements: They must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement.
2024-10-24 (Env) Daily Reckoning: The Green New Scam Is Dying, by James Rickards Americans are beginning to realize that so-called Global Warming is a false narrative that benefits only the elites pushing that narrative. The bottom line is that the Green New Scam is falling apart. It can't happen soon enough.
