Glenn Youngkin’s blank-slate strategy to win Virginia’s gubernatorial election ran aground again in Fredericksburg as he couldn’t bring himself to refute the Big Lie – even entertaining the ...

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 ...

In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asked her father if there was really a Santa Claus. He suggested she write to The Sun, a prominent New York newspaper because, as he said, “If you see it in ...

Okay, I’ll admit it. My guilty pleasure is that I’ve been a fan of Hulu’s streaming series The Handmaid’s Tale since its beginning. Actually, I read Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about a future ...

For a whole slew of reasons, Southern Unionism during the War of the Rebellion is of special importance to me. Some time in 2010 (during the whole Confederate History Month brouhaha), I came up with ...

“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 ...

The word outrage in politics is much abused. Today, it will be applied in a case so appropriate, the extremes certain members of the progressive left — Lowell Feld at Blue Virginia and the Democratic ...

One of the President’s favorite things to do in speeches is to drop the word “historic” before some pronouncement about his Administration or campaign. Sometimes it’s justified, like when he talks ...

“The United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at ...

Since winning the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s Fifth District, author Leslie Cockburn has been plagued by accusations of anti-Semitism from Richmond all the way to Israel. These accusations ...

This stone cross set up in 1935 by the Daughters of the American Colonists commemorates the 1607 landfall at Cape Henry, in Virginia Beach. On April 26, 1607 British colonists landed at Cape Henry, ...