Virginian-Pilot is right three times in a row

Someone must be on vacation. The Editorial Board of the Virginian-Pilot has been right a record three times in a row.

In their view of the sentencing of Del. Phil Hamiton, they note “Still unresolved is who at ODU knew about the arrangement, and who approved it. Bribery requires a briber, and so far nobody from ODU has been charged”

That’s always bothered me, too. Convicting someone of taking a bribe while charging absolutely no one of giving a bribe seems like an imbalance of justice.

In commenting on the practice of policemen videotaping arrests, I almost expected to read something along the lines of some anti-police ACLU tirade right out of the 1970s. I was wrong.

“Cameras are everywhere in our public lives today: on street poles, on dashboards, on cops, in our hands. That may be creepy, and it may take some getting used to. But it also won’t change.”

And Portsmouth has a 100% cost overrun for quaint signs built by a company in Baltimore (of all places), cranks out $1.6 million bucks to a marketing company in a no-bid contract (then a bid contract and surprise! the same company won), and messes up state-funded Sheriff funding, and the Pilot rightfully calls for an audit.

3 for 3! Pretty good.

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The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.