
Former Staunton City Council member Erik Curren pressing former colleagues on 2020, Capitol insurrection
Former Staunton City Council member Erik Curren wants to city leaders to take what seems to be a pretty basic stand.

Former Staunton City Council member Erik Curren wants to city leaders to take what seems to be a pretty basic stand.

The Security Clearance Review Act would empower the director of the FBI to issue a written recommendation to the president that an individual flagged by the White House security office be denied final approval to receive a security clearance.

The Biden administration, inheriting a polarized country and a pandemic, does not want to have the added burden of dealing with a nuclear crisis in its very first year as well.

Northern Virginia Congressman Gerry Connolly today announced his endorsement of Mark Herring for re-election as attorney general.

In the wake of the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, “domestic terrorism” has become the new poster child for expanding the government’s powers at the expense of civil liberties.

Jennifer Carroll Foy released a statement on the importance of expanding abortion access and protecting reproductive freedom Friday on the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.

Today might be the most important inauguration day since the first one, back in 1789. It’s a credit to those folks that the Frankenstein creation that got us to that day worked to get us to this one. The states certified their elections, Congress, eventually, resoundingly, followed suit. The system … worked. Barely, sure, but it worked.

It took no time at all for the switch to be thrown and the nation’s capital to be placed under a military lockdown, online speech forums restricted, and individuals with subversive or controversial viewpoints ferreted out, investigated, shamed or shunned.

“Ben Cline must resign” has a nice ring to it, in terms of messaging; it rhymes, anyway. Bad news, though, for those who’d like to see it happen: no, he’s not going to, not in this current environment.

A coalition of more than 1,100 civic leaders and civil rights activists has sent a letter to First District Republican Congressman Rob Wittman demanding he resign.
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