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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?
2026-08-14 (SVa) NY Post: How to Wreck a State in 5 Easy Steps, by Jason Miyares
Political pros have a saying about how our two parties handle defeat and victory. When Republicans lose, the pundits say, they fear they'll never win again; when Democrats win, they govern as though they'll never have to win again. Virginia offers proof of the maxim.
2026-08-04 (Sch) Fx GOP: FCPS Spends $4B/Year, Superintendent Paid More Than the President.
Meanwhile: In 2021, Fairfax County voters approved the money to renovate Centreville High School. Five years later, it still hasn't been built -- and the students inside are done waiting.
2026-08-03 (SVa) AMAC: Democrats Don't Know Their Own Election Laws, by Matt Lamb
Va Senators Warner and Kaine: "In Virginia, we have voter ID and photo ID." If both Democrats had done their homework, they would know that Virginia did have Voter ID until 2020, when Democrat Governor Ralph Northam repealed the state's requirement.
2026-07-31 (SVa) Daily Caller: Bloomberg's Va Gun-Ban Efforts Backfire Spectacularly
Despite massive spending in the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial race, the gun-control organization backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have left the state with far more modern semiautomatic firearms than there were prior to a short-lived ban.
2026-07-30 (Nat) AMAC: DSA's Plan for Communist Revolution, by Sarah Katherine Sisk
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are scheming to gut the Constitution and implement full-scale communism in the United States – and they’re not being shy about it.
2026-07-14 (Nat) Am Greatness: The World Made Anew, by Victor Davis Hanson
With a whimper rather than a bang, the world has become a different place than it was in January 2021, when Donald Trump left office. Almost everything we are now told about the global status quo is mistaken.
2026-07-02 (Tax) FCTA: Fairfax Co, Vienna Real Estate Taxes Over Last 50 Years, by David Swink
A FCTA board member, and Vienna resident since 1975, provides raw real estate tax data for fifty years, from 1976 onward, for both Fairfax County and the Town of Vienna.
2026-06-30 (SVa) Fx GOP: Va Dems Finally Pass $207B Budget; New Energy Tax Added
The Virginia General Assembly's data center tax break fight is over. A last-minute compromise keeps the tax break for data centers -- and bills you for it instead. The $207B budget became law without Spanberger's signature.
2026-06-30 (Nat) SCOTUS: CITIZEN vs. SUBJECT - The Thomas Dissent, by Justice Clarence Thomas
"I am not sure that today's opinion will stand the test of time. The Citizenship Clause 'added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship.' Today's opinion devalues that citizenship. I respectfully dissent."
2026-06-29 (Nat) AMAC: Democrats Have a "DINO" Problem, by Sarah Katherine Sisk
The Democrat establishment is rightly at DEFCON 1 -- and the threat isn't from Republicans, but rather a growing band of openly socialist candidates promising to wreck the party from the inside and build something far more radical in its place. These are the DINOs -- Democrats-In-Name-Only. ... (DemIslamiCommies ??)
2026-06-17 (Tax) Fx GOP: Fx Co Taxpayers Fleeing; 'Undocumenteds' Fill the Gap
The IRS says taxpayers are fleeing Fairfax; the Census says it's growing. Both are right. ... Fairfax's population is growing, so costs are increasing, while the property-tax base that pays for this is moving elsewhere.
2026-06-17 (Sch) Fx GOP: FCPS Refuses Cutting 'Teacher Workdays' to Increase Class Time
... but cutting Christmas and other holidays are being considered.
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