If the election were held today, the editors at RealClearPolitics currently assess the Senate races across the country as breaking 46 seats for the Republicans, 44 seats for the Democrats, with 10 “toss-ups.” Eliminating the toss-ups, Republicans lose the Senate…
Republicans in the Commonwealth of Virginia may have to get used to winning again if Lt. Col. Daniel Gade’s impressive victory in the June 23 GOP Senate primary — the best turnout for a Republican in decades — is any…
I recall reading an account of the Passenger Pigeon Project, and a related effort called Revive & Restore, the latter being an effort to genetically reproduce and bring back the now extinct Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius, long gone for over…
A dozen years ago I wrote a piece for this site entitled “Indentured Grandchildren” (August 26, 2009), in which I lamented that the national debt was approaching 54 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) and, per the Congressional Budget Office…
For many years I would threaten my wife with the possibility of working from home. Her consistent response was, “In sickness and in health, but not for lunch!” A good line but, ultimately, no defense to the onslaught of the…
The Virginia Republican Party has taken a beating these past few years, going back to the legal misfortune of Gov. Bob McDonnell in 2014 and 2015. And the Trump brand did not play well in the northern suburbs, which now…
American Restoration: How Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice Can Heal Our Nation By Timothy S. Goeglein and Craig Osten (Regnery Gateway, 216 pages, $28.99) Liberty can no more exist without virtue than the body can live and move without a…
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse Timothy P. Carney (Harper, 348 pages, $27.99) How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause our cure. — Samuel Johnson Donald Trump’s electoral…
In the last century, and especially the last decade, the locus of church-state or “Free Exercise” conflicts, and related Supreme Court cases, has shifted from arguments over legislative enactments to controversies surrounding administrative or agency decisions. Moreover, many of these…
H. Buckley views the 2016 presidential election as a watershed event that crystallized a new, self-conscious political and social class of Americans who were on the losing side of globalization, lax immigration policies, and a general indifference on the part of the New Class, on the Left and the Right, who make up the top 10 percent of the population, “the professionals earning more than $200,000 a year, whose toast always falls butter side up and who pass on their advantages to their children.”