Ken Plum: Threats to our government as we know it
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The threats to our democratic-republican form of government are more numerous than weeks of this column could enumerate.
Search Results for Supreme Court
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Warner calls on Trump to keep Census on schedule
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) today is calling for Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to meet the administration’s previously set deadline of July 1 to begin printing materials for the 2020 Census.
How evil wins: The hypocritical double standards of political outrage
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Please spare me the media hysterics and the outrage and the hypocritical double standards of those whose moral conscience appears to be largely dictated by their political loyalties.
The jackboots are coming: Mass arrests, power grabs and the politics of fear
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How do you persuade a populace to embrace totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and “we the people” have none?
You’re under arrest: How the police state muzzles our right to speak truth to power
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What the First Amendment protects—and a healthy constitutional republic requires—are citizens who routinely exercise their right to speak truth to power.
Sorry, Joe, but, you gotta go
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Former vice president Joe Biden is the unquestioned leader out of the gate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential race. You know what that means. Donald Trump is going to get a second term.
The current state of online gambling in Virginia
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If you’re an avid gambler who resides in the no-casino-gambling state of Virginia, you’ll be pleased to know that things could be changing for the better.
Drivers beware: The deadly perils of traffic stops in the American police state
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You’re driving along and you see a pair of flashing blue lights in your rearview mirror. Whether or not you’ve done anything wrong, you get a sinking feeling in your stomach.
Trump, 2020, and the pending constitutional crisis
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There are two parts to the Donald Trump problem that are troubling to me.
‘D’ is for a dictatorship disguised as a democracy
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What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater.
