Virginia Democrat Will Not Seek Reelection

Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton is bowing out. The Democratic politician representing a congressional district in Northern Virginia will retire at the end of this term. In April, Wexton announced doctors had diagnosed her with Parkinson’s Disease. In a statement on Monday morning, she announced that she hadn’t made progress in managing her symptoms as she had hoped. After noticing women […]

Voyeurism Isn’t Good for the Soul (or Politics)

The scandal of the week involving Susanna Gibson is an indictment of our politics. Shame on us all for participating in it. HAMLET  Get thee ⟨to⟩ a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves ⟨all;⟩ believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. — William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” Act 3, Scene 1 (1601) Ophelia has given herself to Hamlet. Yet having placed her trust totally in […]

Democrat House of Delegates Candidate In Hot Water Over X-Rated Videos ‘For A Good Cause’

Virginia Democrat Susanna Gibson is running neck and neck in one of the most competitive districts in this November’s state elections that will determine control of the Republican-held House of Delegates and the Democratic-run Senate of Virginia. Pundits consider their outcome intertwined with Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s political aspirations. Seizing control of both chambers of […]