Bob Topper: What we need to do to really Make America Great Again
For 10 years we have heard the far right’s cry to Make America Great Again. But how did America become a superpower; what is it that made America a great nation?
For 10 years we have heard the far right’s cry to Make America Great Again. But how did America become a superpower; what is it that made America a great nation?
House Speaker Mike Johnson, with the votes of our local congressmen, Ben Cline and John McGuire, got the bare minimum of votes needed – 218 – to win re-election to the congressional leadership post on Friday.

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Understandably, we’re not hearing a lot, which is to say, anything, from the former defenders of Matt Gaetz, who was Donald Trump’s pick to be Attorney General, you may remember. Trump wanted a guy who the House Ethics Committee says sex-trafficked a 17-year-old high school junior, regularly paid other women to have sex with him,…
Christopher Kavanaugh is stepping down as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia at the end of the day on Friday.
Catastrophic cuts are in the offing for Medicaid, the nation’s largest single source of health coverage, serving primarily low-income Americans. But catastrophe isn’t inevitable.
You’ve probably heard about the drones the size of SUVs flying over New Jersey, and then Pennsylvania and upstate New York, and apparently, also in Northern Virginia.
After losing a bid to strike an American law to ban use its social media platform, TikTok faces a January 19, 2025 deadline.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin is trying to give Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears an early Christmas present – a generated controversy over immigration to use in her 2025 gubernatorial campaign.
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