The United States has expended a godawful lot of time, money, energy, and lives in the pursuit of national security since the terrorist attacks of 9/11....

WEEK’S END A new report finds that Virginia’s tax system is still regressive: Low-income earners pay a higher percentage of their income than...

President Barack Obama declined to meet with the Dalai Lama prior to his trip to China. Diplomatic pleasantries argue against offending the communists,...

Abstinence-only speaker Pam Stenzel’s presentation at Douglas Freeman High earlier this week drew mixed reactions. Stenzel apparently hectored students...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has finally unveiled his own bill to further nationalize health care. It may be slightly better than House Speaker Nancy...

This week President Barack Obama held a “town hall” with college students in Shanghai. He took the opportunity to express his commitment to...

After the execution of John Allen Muhammad, The Times-Dispatch’s Frank Green reported that “little noticed amid the recent activity in the...

Recognition as a deli maven confers high honor indeed. The title suggests taste, knowledge, attitude, and serious health issues. A trip to a genuine deli...

Sarah Palin’s memoir officially has landed, and the American carnival continues. Going Rogue made the best-seller lists even before it appeared in...

That did not take long. Bob McDonnell already has been touted as a candidate for national office in 2012. We have a hunch that he intends to devote his...

Members of a Tea Party group in Danville recently announced plans to burn Rep. Tom Perriello in effigy, along with Nancy Pelosi. (Unfavorable publicity...

It’s hard to recall an issue that has sparked as much heated debate as the current effort to reform the American health care system. Emotion has...

The Daughters of Charity took seriously the commandment to love one another. In 1834 they established the St. Joseph Academy and Orphan Asylum at Fourth...

For many years, the federal government has been insisting that states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, including Virginia, clean up their act. For many...

Sixty years ago, Mao Zedong’s communists triumphed in China. Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalists withdrew across the strait to establish the Republic...

Last year Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential nominee to carry Virginia since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. His almost 2 million votes translated...

As state officials wrestle with harsh cuts in the commonwealth’s budget, it’s worth pausing to note that during the past decade, the state’s...

The count is finished, the total is in: Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill would create a whopping 111 new boards, commissions, bureaucracies, and programs....

File this one under “Life’s Little Ironies, Dept. of”: On Monday, the same day Germans celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of...

WEEK’S END The rains proved prolonged but not persistently heavy. Many drivers put their windshield wipers on intermittent. Many also failed to turn...

The Obama administration intends to try terror suspects in civilian courts. Yesterday Sen. Jim Webb said: “I have never disputed the constitutional...

The Berlin Wall resembled an ideological scar and not only severed a city but symbolized the failure of an evil system. In free societies fences and walls...

The hard-left advocacy group MoveOn is taking to the airwaves to blast some of the Democrats who voted against the Pelosicare measure in the House. Among...

Richmond traces its roots to the 1600s when, shortly after the landing at Jamestown, Christopher Newport explored the falls of the James. William Byrd...

A new report from the Commonwealth Institute, a liberal Virginia think tank, makes an excellent point. Virginia has enacted many special tax breaks over...

An alert reader recently sent us a copy of a news story that reported: “In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities...

Soon after the Fort Hood massacre, President Barack Obama advised citizens not to jump to conclusions—which is to say, he urged them to ignore the...

War makes strange giant creatures out of the little routine men who inhabit the Earth.—WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle.

Diehards who tuned in Saturday’s game between UVa and Miami saw not only a drubbing but a sea of empty seats. Now, the Wahoos may not be the biggest...

The following story from the cultural front caught our eye: “The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight...