Lei Zhang says he moved from his home country for a reason, and it wasn’t a trivial one. Lei was born in China in 1966. It’s a historically significant year because it marks the beginning of Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong’s notorious Cultural Revolution, a campaign to reinvigorate the Chinese people’s communist spirit after...
I’d like to address the “woke” movement, or whatever people are calling it. I’m not speaking of racism, or sexism, or gender inequality. Those are significant issues that should — and must — be addressed, though separately, critically, and exclusively. I’m speaking, rather, of this oncoming crazy train, its boxcars and tenders overfilled with ideas...
Surry County commissioners are pushing back against major corporations for what they describe as a “bigoted, left-wing divisive political agenda.” The first step: Removing all Coca-Cola machines from government buildings. The Board of County Commissioners voted to remove roughly 12 of them from county property earlier this month. “I don’t think that the taxpayers and...
