Daily Archives: May 10, 2026

The Virginia Redistricting Debacle

How Democrats’ Amateur-Hour Power Grab Crashed and Burned Before the SCOVA Folks, let’s cut the polite nonsense and talk straight about the biggest self-inflicted wound in a purple-state map fight in recent memory. Virginia Democrats thought they had a layup: ram through a low-turnout April special-election referendum, slap a shiny “voter-approved reform” label on it, and hand themselves a 10-1 congressional slaughter map that would’ve vaporized four Republican seats in one clean stroke. No more nail-biters in the NoVA exurbs or Hampton Roads. Just safe suburban packing, rural cracking, and a permanent Democratic delegation while the rest of the country was…

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Abortion’s Multi-Generational Reckoning

Giving Voice to the Aborted Generations the NYT Erased The New York Times Upshot piece dropped on Saturday, with the headline “U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops.” It’s a data-heavy look at shrinking public school enrollment across 30 states, empty classrooms, budget squeezes, and the tough calls on closures. Fair enough on the symptoms. But when it comes to the cause (the obvious cause), the Times does what it always does: it stops at the polite surface and refuses to name the elephant that’s been sitting in the demographic room for fifty-three years. Here’s their lede:…

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