Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia has signed into law a bill that ends tax exemptions for Confederacy-honoring organizations in the state.
Huh. Funny, I thought the Democratic Party was the one that was running on a platform of protecting civil right, like freedom of thought, association and speech from that eeeevil, fascist Republican king, Donald Trump. Did I get that mixed up somehow? I guess I did.
“The signing by Ms. Spanberger on Monday is the culmination of a years long Democrat-led push to shake off the state’s legacy as the capital of the 11 Southern, slaveholding states that seceded from the country in the 1860s,” sayeth the New York Times in a sympathetic news story [Gift Link]that again proves there is no Democratic Party initiative so indefensible that the Times won’t try to spin it into virtue.
Awww, is Virginia all sad because of its history, and trying to erase it so nobody remembers? Tough. History is history and facts are facts. It is totalitarians and the followers of Orwell’s Big Brother who try to alter the past to confuse the public. Virginia was at the very center of the Civil War. Its citizens and soldiers were courageously trying to defend their “country” as they understood it. Those alive today who see those patriots as worthy of praise, study and honor have a fully defensible position, and even if it weren’t defensible, it is as worthy of non-profit status as any other position.
Ethics Alarms 
One of my favorite historical ironies is that the capture of John Brown, an actual insurrectionist supported and assisted by foreign agents, was carried out by one Colonel Robert E. Lee, assisted by a Lieutenant J.E.B. Stuart.
Jeb’s name has been stripped from a High School, and Lee’s from VA’s longest street.
Speaking of obviously unconstitutional laws:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-dems-ripped-bill-dubbed-stop-nick-shirley-act-could-penalize-independent-journalists
-Jut
Justice Jackson will probably say something of approximate substance in defense of this law like, “Just to be clear, I am going to circle back and say to be completely frank, no one knows what will happen now.”
The CIA lady was having a good day Monday. She signed a bill “that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement among states to award their presidential electoral votes to the nationwide popular vote winner.”
I hope the states doing this come to regret it. If so, I will cackle like a mad woman.
It seems to me that if you are going to erase history you have to change the name of the state or at least the name of the capital given that Richmond was the capital of the confedracy.
To believe that some poor white farmer conscripted into service to fight for the institution of slavery and not fighting to protect their homeland, many of whom died or lost limbs being patriotic to their cause, is about as superficial understanding of that period as you can get.
I believe that given that we are being prepared for all of US history when the Left assumes complete dominance over a populace that lacks the capacity to think for itself. When that happens we will all be saying “ yes massa” and think nothing of it.
Hey Jack, Its a day early for this, but on the flip side, there is at least one lawmaker who calls out against making laws they know they will loose in court and waste time doing so.
Quote: “You cannot vote yes for a law that controls local, county, state, and federal,” she said during the session. “Why do we keep passing laws that are gonna end up in court?”
Article: https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/new-jersey-lawmaker-loses-it-on-democrats-stop-passing-unenforceable-laws-against-the-federal-government/
Ethics Hero.
Looking at the (now closed) comments, it seems very few of those have much of a clue as to what makes this law likely to be struck down if challenged. It’s all just “Confederates bad!”, so rights/laws/protections for anything associated with them don’t apply.