Youngkin appoints working group to review Virginia National Guard sexual-assault policies
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has ordered a top-down review of policies aimed at preventing sexual assault in the Virginia National Guard and the Virginia Defense Force.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has ordered a top-down review of policies aimed at preventing sexual assault in the Virginia National Guard and the Virginia Defense Force.
Seventy years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about the cost of a military-industrial complex, America is still stealing from its own people to fund a global empire.
Virginia Democratic Party primary voters generally get it wrong – Ralph Northam over Tom Perriello in 2017, Terry McAuliffe over the two Jennifers in 2021.
A few weeks back, I got an odd phone call from a politically connected reader who wanted me to stop referring to the Augusta County Board of Supervisors as being all-MAGA.

Credit where credit is due: our two local MAGA congressman, Ben Cline and John McGuire, issued statements condemning the weekend shootings of two Minnesota Democratic Party lawmakers and their spouses.
On Father’s Day, imagine fathers and father figures sitting down with their sons and the young men in their lives—to talk, to listen, and to speak the truth about the dangerous forces vying for boys’ attention.
Two Minnesota Democratic state lawmakers were among four people shot early Saturday morning in what Gov. Tim Walz described as “politically motivated assassinations.”
In Trump’s America, the bar for martial law is no longer constitutional—it’s personal.
The Augusta County Library in Fishersville has cancelled a pride event scheduled for Monday at the direction of the Board of Supervisors.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin confirmed Friday that he has ordered the Virginia National Guard to be available to stage at weekend No Kings Day protests across the state.
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