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Some of us pretend that we vote “on the issues,” some make a big deal about looking at the candidates’ records. Almost all of us just vote for the person wearing the colors of our favorite team. We’ve all got it all wrong.
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We here at AFP found ourselves in a tight spot relative to Augusta County politics over the past year, and you may have noticed, it’s been kinda quiet on the Augusta County 6 front on our pages the past couple of months.
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Like the proverbial boiling frogs, the government has been gradually acclimating us to the specter of a police state for years now.
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Republican politicians did their best to split hairs on abortion for half a century, using the desire of the religious far right to outlaw reproductive freedom to raise money and whip votes.
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The condition of absurdity has been examined in depth by such heavy-duty philosophers as Kierkegaard and Camus, let alone by countless undergraduates in common-room bull sessions.
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A dual presidential primary election will be held on March 5 in Virginia. In Waynesboro, the registrar is reminding potential voters of important deadlines.
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When Dick Cheney, one of the key architects of the colossal moral failure of going to war in Iraq, states that he no longer recognizes the Republican Party, it’s clear that the U.S. is in serious trouble.
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If the right gets its way, maybe in a decade or two, the United States will be free of its slave-owning past.
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The Trump-packed Supreme Court, in another 6-3 ruling, is relegating the LGBTQ+ community to second-class status.
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Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security.
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