Author: Patrick Houck

Loudoun County voters first elected Buta Biberaj as their commonwealth’s attorney in 2019. She won on a platform that emphasized avoiding incarcerating criminals. Despite that, Biberjai sought to jail Scott Smith for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest at a Loudoun County School Board meeting. As the county’s top prosecutor, Biberaj knew about the sexual assault case involving Smith’s daughter. She presumably would understand why Smith got upset that day. Yet she argued for jailing Smith anyway. Biberaj also pushed for a fine and anger management classes, even though Smith only faced two misdemeanors. Evidence of Anti-Conservative Bias?  On the surface,…

Xi Van Fleet knows how brutal revolution can be. As a young girl, she survived Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Under the traumatic circumstances, two million of her countrymen died. Desperate to escape oppression, Van Fleet eventually immigrated to the United States. She settled in Northern Virginia and became a mother. Although worried about the FBI’s orders to investigate protesting parents, Van Fleet has decided to speak out. This isn’t her first time in the spotlight, however. She made headlines in June criticizing critical race theory at school board meetings in Fairfax and Loudoun counties. In an interview with Fox News,…

Although Denmark represents Bernie Sanders’ model for democratic socialism, the United States could learn something from the tiny Nordic country. In one way, at least. Large swaths of the U.S. remain beholden to COVID-19 restrictions. In liberal enclaves from coast to coast, American citizens have to comply with various decrees. The San Francisco Bay Area just reinstated a mask mandate, despite the inability of one leading Democrat to follow it. In Los Angeles, millions of residents have to show proof of vaccination to enjoy indoor gatherings. Meanwhile, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) requires residents to mask up in most outdoor settings.…

SponsoredSupport America’s Law Enforcement – Sign the Petition Today! A surging national murder rate has emboldened critics of the Defund the Police movement. Calls to neuter law enforcement hasn’t led to signing Kumbaya with violent criminals. Despite progressive hopes, the FBI confirmed that the 2020 murder surge was one for the record books. In fact, last year represented the single largest increase in murders since the Bureau began national record-keeping in the 1960s. And it wasn’t even close. According to the Uniform Crime Report, the previous record-breaking year, 1968 (a year synonymous with turmoil) witnessed a 12.7% increase in murders.…

Loudoun County parents wasted no time chastising members of the Loudoun County School Board Tuesday evening. Their condemnation followed a report by the Daily Wire alleging a cover-up led to one father’s arrest at a school board meeting in June. Authorities charged Scott Smith with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest at a June 22 meeting. The meeting’s agenda included Critical Race Theory, transgender bathroom rights and public comment section Afterward, the image of sheriff deputies escorting a bloodied Smith away quickly went viral. Some liberals used the display to portray parents as a dangerous threat to school personnel. Indeed, the…

Historians shouldn’t sugarcoat the past, but the practice of judging history by way of the present is sloppy. Leftists use this practice, known as presentism, to make unsound arguments all the time. Sometimes it works. More often, it backfires as people see through this common fallacy. Hopefully, most people will see right through Vice President Kamala Harris’ remarks on Tuesday when she blasted the explorers who led the European “discovery” of America. Per the Daily Wire: Speaking at the National Congress of American Indians 78th Annual Convention on Tuesday, the day after Columbus Day, Vice President Kamala Harris took the opportunity…

A new climate change pledge has the U.S. manufacturing and agriculture sectors up in arms. The Global Methane Pledge hopes to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030. The United States and European Union revealed the plan on Sept. 18, two months before the next UN Climate Change Conference. https://twitter.com/ClimateEnvoy/status/1439018010686246914 Thirty-one countries have signed the pledge so far. Combined, they represent 60% of the global economy. The plan’s supporters say that by meeting its goals, the international community will slow global warming by 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2050. But Obstacles Remain However, nine out of the world’s top 20…

One of the major airlines in the United States has cancelled more than 2,000 flights since Saturday. The mass cancellations have disrupted the travel planes of thousands of customers. Despite online speculation, Southwest Airlines (SWA) blamed bad weather, air traffic control issues and staff shortages for destabilizing daily operations. Still, the story took on a life of its own on Twitter over the weekend. Several well-known conservatives mistakenly claimed that a mass walkout by SWA employees over the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate brought the airline to a screening halt. (RELATED: Hospital System Denying Organ Transplants for Almost All Unvaccinated) https://twitter.com/WatchChad/status/1447399431649779712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1447399431649779712%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fsouthwest-airlines-cancellations-pilot-vaccine-mandate-1637440…

Selling U.S. weapons has become a booming business in Afghanistan. From Kabul to Kandahar and smaller cities and towns in between, war booty is available to anyone off the street. Among the enormous stock left behind are the items that once equipped Afghan security forces. For years, it remained an open secret that the gamble to equip Afghanistan’s army and police was a farce. A Cascading Collapse Some local forces fought bravely for the U.S.-backed government during the Taliban’s final offensive. Still, more lay down their arms, defected or capitulated from a sense of helplessness brought on by years of…

This isn’t Terry McAuliffe’s first rodeo. The Democrat previously served as Virginia’s 72nd governor from 2014 to 2018. But the fight to reclaim power in Richmond presents unique challenges. For one thing, McAuliffe comes with baggage. Even the far-left Mother Jones has attacked him for his “brazen mixing of his campaign fundraising activity and attempts to enrich himself personally.” More than that, there was an FBI investigation into McAuliffe’s campaign finances. The evidence was inconclusive. CNN reported how one six-figure donation got investigators’ attention: Among the McAuliffe donations that drew the interest of the investigators was $120,000 from a Chinese…