Many Americans likely were surprised, and perhaps even outraged, to learn of the comfortable conditions in which the enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay...

When stories of troubles involving the Virginia Information Technologies Agency and Northrop Grumman first broke, we suspended judgment. We preferred to...

“Barrels of Good Will for Obama, but Few Foreign Policy Benefits,“ read a recent New York Times headline. Polls show that foreigners generally...

Intellectuals, Bill Cosby once said, are those who study what people do naturally. Here is proof that he is right. Researchers at Stanford University have...

According to an organization whose members make money from building public-infrastructure projects, Virginia needs to spend a lot more money on public-infrastructure...

California appears poised to ban energy-sucking big-screen plasma TVs, despite vigorous lobbying by the Arlington, Va.-based Consumer Electronics Association....

The incidents dismay. This week vandals disfigured Henrico’s Three Lakes Park with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti. This was Central Virginia’s...

“The administration has inherited a system that can no longer pay for itself,“ according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. He was talking...

Extraordinary rendition. Guantanamo. Warrantless wiretapping. State-secrets privilege. Military commissions. Indefinite detention without trial. For a...

Well, so much for that. Richmond’s new ball team will officially be known not as the Generals, the Ravens, or any of the other spiffy monikers suggested...

When he defeated the legendary Adam Clayton Powell in a 1970 primary, Charles Rangel ran as something of a reformer. Voters weary of Powell’s flamboyant...

Far be it from us to second-guess the philosophers who chose the name “Hush Puppies” as a finalist from among the thousands of suggestions...

You wouldn’t expect former Virginia Democratic Party chairman Paul Goldman and former GOP governor and senator George Allen to team up on too many...

Four years ago a Danish newspaper published cartoons that mocked the Prophet Muhammad. The newspaper did so to push back against a growing tendency toward...

Transportation plays a central role in the gubernatorial campaign. In Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads it may prove decisive. Stories about the state’s...

Chicago’s defeat in the Olympics sweepstakes has prompted great silliness. Conservatives mock the presentations made by the Obamas (which were, as...

Two headlines from the spring describe the challenges that will await the governor Virginia will elect in November: “Stimulus Package Being Felt...

Democrats have been dismissive toward one of the GOP suggestions for health care: legal reforms to reduce medical-malpractice lawsuits. Republicans contend...

On Sunday, President Barack Obama and his family worshipped at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square. The lovely edifice lies just a short...

According to records released by his office, Gov. Tim Kaine was out of state for all or part of 12 days in September. His peregrinations included Texas,...

News regarding on-time arrivals at Richmond International Airport dismays but does not surprise. The data also corresponds to the experience of this office’s...

Although the health care debate has sucked nearly every ounce of air out of other policy debates, it’s important for Americans to remember another...

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg’s best-selling book Liberal Fascism carries a title designed to provoke. You’d think liberals would...

Gov. Tim Kaine, Rep. Jim Moran, former DNC head Terry McAuliffe, Doug Wilder—and no doubt many other influential Democrats—have a message for...

File this under “Only in France”: France apparently operates Europe’s nastiest prisons. The places are overcrowded and are deteriorating...

The news that President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize inspired almost universal incredulity. Even his most loyal supporters responded with a “what?“...

This weekend Richmond may set its all-time record for festivals. In addition to the Richmond Folk Festival, Central Virginia will celebrate the Festival...

Embarrassing as many of the audits produced by Richmond Auditor Umesh Dalal have been, at least the city has had the courage to give them a full airing—until...

South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson pointed at President Barack Obama, sneered, and shouted, “You lie!“—and promptly became a conservative...

A friend passes along the following—apparently accurate—diagnosis of a newly discovered malady: “Thesitis—an obsessive-compulsive...