Bearing Drift’s Matt Colt Hall, Mike Allers Jr., and Lynn R. Mitchell are working the 7th Congressional District convention today. Matt and Mike have boots on the ground in Doswell, and Lynn is at the ...

“President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. ‘Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of ...

Clarence Franklin Osborne was 27 years old when killed in action in the final weeks of World War II and was buried in the U.S. Military Cemetery in St. Avold, France. His body was later returned to ...

I miss the department stores of downtown Richmond from years past. The Nordstroms and Macys of the day were Miller & Rhoads and Thalhimer’s, multi-story buildings that faced Broad and Grace Streets ...

I learned a new phrase this week: Gish gallop. Thank you, Dr. Heather Cox Richardson. In her June 27 “Letters from an American,” she recapped that night’s first Presidential debate between Democratic ...

[Editor’s note: June 28, 2024, a date will live in the annals of history after the overwhelmingly conservative Supreme Court struck down obstruction charges used for hundreds of January 6 insurrection ...

Let’s jump right into it. Virginia Republicans have a really good chance to win all three statewide offices – Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General – and also winning back the majority in the ...

My dad, who passed away in 1975, was a U.S. Navy veteran who served on the USS Wisconsin in the Pacific theater during World War II. He was 19 years old when he went to war. Later in his life, while I ...

At Wednesday night’s Augusta County Board of Supervisors meeting, during “Matters to Be Presented By the Public,” former Board Chairman Tracy Pyles approached the podium to address the seven ...

This was from my endorsement of President Biden’s re-election just under four months ago: There will be, at most, six candidates on the presidential ballot here in Virginia (or anywhere else): ...

All of us here at Bearing Drift offer our sincerest condolences to former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore and his sons, Jay and Ashton, at the death of his wife and their mom, Roxane Gilmore.