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GOP Losses In Va. Likely To Quiet Presidential Speculation About Youngkin

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin cast Virginia’s legislative races in monumental terms when he campaigned with a Republican candidate in one of the most competitive districts a few days before the election. The first-term governor with growing national recognition told a cheering crowd at a historic waterside venue that voters could help build on the “movement” he started with his own victory in 2021 by handing the party full control of the statehouse and keeping the “spirit of Virginia” alive. After Tuesday’s voting didn’t go as he had hoped, the rhetoric was ...

Oklahoma Dominant In 59-20 Home Win Over Mountaineers

By BOB HERTZEL WV News Oklahoma showed West Virginia it isn’t in the same league as the Sooners while dominating them in every facet of the game except manners during a 59-20 pummeling that put an end to the longshot dreams of reaching the Big 12 title game the Mountaineers were holding. In the last scheduled game between the two schools, the Sooners leaving for the SEC next season, quarterback Dillon Gabriel put on one of the most productive games anyone ever has had against WVU. The left-handed quarterback threw five touchdown passes and ran for three. By any count that is ...

Drop Obsession With Gender Identity

Let’s make a deal. American parents stop harassing schools over library books that deal sympathetically with differences in sexual preference. And America’s schools stop withholding information about a student’s said preference from the parents. First, the ugly clashes over offerings at school libraries. Parents should understand that reading a wide range of viewpoints improves critical thinking. The sons and daughters of lesbian parents I’ve known all turned out heterosexual. Not a scientific sampling, I know, but if the school library contains a book that makes the ...

There’s Likely To Be Change

Decorous panic is a difficult mannerism to master, as Democrats are finding out. Their divorce from President Biden is becoming increasingly likely. The headlines from the New York Times-Siena College poll were deflating: Donald Trump leading Biden in five of six swing states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania) and within the margin of polling error in Wisconsin (Biden +2). Beyond Biden’s obvious difficulty (he is “just too old to be an effective president,” 47 percent strongly agree, and 24 percent somewhat agree), the poll held grim data. “Do you think ...

International Chaos — It’s Easy For Us to Connect Dots to Biden

While in an airport restaurant during the 2020 presidential campaign, I met a chaplain who serves in the military. “I did not vote for (former President Donald) Trump in 2016,” he told me, “But I intend to do so this time.” When Trump first ran, the chaplain said, he found Trump “crass” and “obnoxious,” and felt he lacked the “temperament to be president.” So, what happened? He explained that his son, also in the military, serves in special operations where he undertakes highly secretive, extremely dangerous missions. “But my son,” he said, “feels safe ...

Hollywood Actors Union Board Approves Deal

Board members from Hollywood’s actors union voted Friday to approve the deal with studios that ended their strike after nearly four months, with the union’s leadership touting the gains made in weeks of methodical negotiations. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists’ executive director and chief negotiator, announced at an afternoon news conference that the tentative agreement was approved with 86% of the vote. The three-year contract agreement next goes to a vote from the union’s members, who are now learning what ...