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Although a child of the ’70s, my parents did not subject me to the music revolution of the ’60s. God love them, but hippies they are not. Rather than Janis Joplin, I listened to Karen Carpenter. In lieu of The Beatles, I listened to the Statler Brothers
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Few people saw the split decision of the Supreme Court on the 2010 health-care reform law coming, both in terms of the substance of the ruling, that the individual mandate is indeed constitutional, and in the makeup of the 5-4 majority
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As I recall, the Republicans had a primary election a couple of weeks ago. A Sixth Congressional District and the statewide Senatorial Republican Primary were held on June 12 – and it is not over! We may have to wait until November of this year and the spring of 2014 for the final results. Will Karen Kwaitkowski run again? Will Bob Goodlatte ever retire? And will George Allen get back to the U. S. Senate, or will Jamie Radtke steal enough votes to allow Tim Kaine to make a permanent move up I-95? Stay tuned
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Hundreds of thousands of young immigrants got a better chance to fulfill the American dream last week when President Obama announced that the administration will stop deporting undocumented youth who are law-abiding, pursuing an education or military service, and came to the country before turning 16
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George Allen on Thursday received the endorsement of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who joined Allen on the campaign trail at Company Flowers, a family-owned small business in Arlington. “Few people have the leadership, vision and record of results of George Allen,” said Rubio
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Democrats are fond of saying that working-class Southern white voters who vote Republican “vote against their interests” in so doing, before scratching their heads and grumbling about how good things could be if only. The disconnect to reality is obvious – unless you’re a Democrat
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Virginia’s border state to the south is as much a White House battleground, maybe more. Public Policy Polling released a new poll Tuesday showing Republican Mitt Romney with a narrow 48 percent-46 percent lead over Democrat Barack Obama among North Carolina voters
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Every day, we see the clear connection between the health of our citizens, the health of our environment, and the health of our economy. Unfortunately, national public debate is often dominated by the claim that we must choose between a clean environment and economic prosperity
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U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) today introduced bipartisan legislation, Startup Act 2.0
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I’ve pointed out the sad fact that while Mr. Goodlatte is a Republican, he’s grown and expanded government for nearly 20 years
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