I learned a new phrase this week: Gish gallop. Thank you, Dr. Heather Cox Richardson. In her June 27 “Letters from an American,” she recapped that night’s first Presidential debate between Democratic ...

“President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. ‘Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of ...

Clarence Franklin Osborne was 27 years old when killed in action in the final weeks of World War II and was buried in the U.S. Military Cemetery in St. Avold, France. His body was later returned to ...

I miss the department stores of downtown Richmond from years past. The Nordstroms and Macys of the day were Miller & Rhoads and Thalhimer’s, multi-story buildings that faced Broad and Grace Streets ...

Since winning the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s Fifth District, author Leslie Cockburn has been plagued by accusations of anti-Semitism from Richmond all the way to Israel. These accusations ...

There is no shortage of issues upon which Republicans and Democrats can respectfully disagree. We’re silly people sometimes though, and respect seems to come at quite a cost. There are a handful of ...

[Editor’s note: June 28, 2024, a date will live in the annals of history after the overwhelmingly conservative Supreme Court struck down obstruction charges used for hundreds of January 6 insurrection ...

Glenn Youngkin’s blank-slate strategy to win Virginia’s gubernatorial election ran aground again in Fredericksburg as he couldn’t bring himself to refute the Big Lie – even entertaining the ...

7) The January 6, 2021, riot alarmed him to the point that he testified at the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol (video) where he characterized Donald ...

The word outrage in politics is much abused. Today, it will be applied in a case so appropriate, the extremes certain members of the progressive left — Lowell Feld at Blue Virginia and the Democratic ...

At Wednesday night’s Augusta County Board of Supervisors meeting, during “Matters to Be Presented By the Public,” former Board Chairman Tracy Pyles approached the podium to address the seven ...

This was from my endorsement of President Biden’s re-election just under four months ago: There will be, at most, six candidates on the presidential ballot here in Virginia (or anywhere else): ...