The kickoff to the holiday selling season starts this month. It is an important time of year for retailers as holiday sales represent about 20% of the retail industry’s total sales. Despite businesses having uncertainty over tariffs and seeing somewhat slower economic growth, consumer spending continues to expand at a...
With the opening of Virginia’s I-395 Express Lanes now open up to the Potomac River, its worth asking: “How many express toll lane projects are in operation in the United States today?” As of mid-summer, according to a tally provided by the International Bridge, Tunnel & Turnpike Association’s TollMiner database,...
“Demography is Destiny.” It was a phrase first popularized in the 1970 bestselling book The Real Majority by Democrats Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg in which they argued that the Democratic Party was veering leftward (particularly on social issues and “law and order”) and that, to win, the Party had...
You know Virginia has changed when being labeled a socialist by your opponent is less damaging than being labeled a Republican. Republican candidates all across the commonwealth sought to link their opponents with the national Democrats running for president on platforms of economic wealth transfer and nationalized health care. In...
Virginia is a blue state now. Not only do Democrats occupy all statewide elected positions — two U.S. senators, governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general — with yesterday’s election, they control both houses of the General Assembly. Republicans got their booties kicked. And the butt-stomping is not likely to subside....
Early last month the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) filed a complaint against the Attorney General of California and the Secretary of California’s Department of Agriculture to stop the state’s Proposition 12 law, which flies in the face of the federal Commerce Clause. Their move for a preliminary injunction to...
In the Virginia General Assembly elections held Tuesday, President Donald Trump fueled the Democratic takeover of both the House of Delegates and State Senate.From our friends over at Wikipedia on the definition of fire: “Fires start when a flammable or a combustible material, in combination with a sufficient quantity of...
Are a majority of Democratic candidates for the Virginia General Assembly “anti-worker?” Based on their response to a Virginia Chamber of Commerce survey, it would seem that way. General Assembly candidates were surveyed on whether they would support Virginia’s Right To Work (RTW) laws. Republicans were unanimously supportive. Democrats were...
Three health insurance proposals which passed the Virginia General Assembly only to be vetoed are now front and center in the November election. What were they? Were they efforts to weaken and ultimately destroy the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) or efforts to provide lower-cost choices for those unable to afford...
By Chris SaxmanSome things just have to be challenged at the outset before they gain traction and become an untrue reality. Gaining traction among too many candidates for the General Assembly is a ranking was released by a British organization, Oxfam, that graded American states and the District of Columbia...
