November 20, 2009
Eminent Domain: City Held the Cards; Victims Hold the Bag
Jay and Stephanie Burkholder never had much of a chance, really. They held title to a building in Roanoke that housed a flooring company, where fewer than...
November 17, 2009
Health Care: Pro-Choice Advocates Don’t Connect the Dots
Pro-choice liberals are horrified that House Democrats made a deal with the devil by passing a health care bill that would expand the prohibition on federal...
November 10, 2009
HEALTH CARE: Reform Tries to Fix What Washington Broke
If the preferences of congressional Democrats hold sway, President Obama eventually will sign a health care bill imposing an individual mandate to purchase...
November 04, 2009
National Implications: McDonnell’s Win Is a Model for Conservative Revival
It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Bob McDonnell’s comfortable win in the race for governor of Virginia—not because it necessarily...
October 27, 2009
Injustice Dept.: Ruling Turns Voting Rights Act on Its Head
You would think that the Obama Justice Department, having badly embarrassed itself in a Philadelphia voter-intimidation case, would take pains not to smear...
October 14, 2009
Miss Croatia Wins World Chess Championship
The World Chess Federation today announced that Barack Obama had become the world chess champion, nudging aside former undisputed champion Viswanathan...
October 13, 2009
Eminent Domain: Details Regarding Roanoke’s Kelo Redux
The seamier side of the story often gets left on the cutting-room floor. So the eminent-domain case related here a few days ago—involving Roanoke’s...
Standing The Watch: Happy Birthday, U.S. Navy
In October 1775, the 13 American Colonies were in outright rebellion against the crown—a rebellion that would change the course of world history....
October 08, 2009
As Team Names Go, ‘Yankees’ Would Never Do
I hope you will not think me a presumptuous goldbricker for taking a few moments away from washing the team’s practice socks—they are drying...
October 06, 2009
Amnesia
Critics of the Obama/Joker poster seem to have rather short memories.
October 02, 2009
Politicians Need a Repudiation-Demand Wizard
If Microsoft and Google have not yet created a campaign-rhetoric wizard, they probably should. Heaven knows there’s a natural market in Virginia...
September 29, 2009
Roanoke: Eminent-Domain Case Looks Like Kelo Redux
When the Supreme Court handed down its disastrous 2005 ruling on eminent domain in Kelo v. New London, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor made a prediction....
September 27, 2009
Ideology and Intellect: For the Community Organizer, Peanut Farmer Simpatico?
Barack Obama has rescued the nation—verily, the world—from economic collapse. He stands on the cusp of achieving higher quality health care...
September 25, 2009
Health Care: Does the GOP Mean What It Says About Choice?
Republicans, says Mitt Romney, “believe in allowing people to have a choice in their health care.“ Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell concurred...
September 22, 2009
Agitprop: Hey, Let’s Get the Artists to Defend Abu Ghraib!
As historians begin to sift through papers from the Bush administration, the extent of its nefariousness is slowly but surely coming to light. We already...
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