On August 22, 1609, Sir Richard Moryson appealed to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, to sentence Irish Pirates to Virginia as punishment for their crimes.
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On August 22, 1609, Sir Richard Moryson appealed to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, to sentence Irish Pirates to Virginia as punishment for their crimes.

Should the Trump administration succeed in pushing for true tax reform, Democrats will find it very difficult to demonstrate why they are an alternative.

McAuilffe returns to heavy-handed approach on Medicaid expansion… before doing exactly what Speaker Howell and the General Assembly tells him to do.

The clear message from this poll is that the fringe hate groups are very fringe hate groups, and almost all Americans have completely rejected and disavowed their hatred.

Northam’s position on Confederate iconoclasm has seen his handlers go from full-throated enthusiasm to a very rapid backtracking over the last few days

To be “intolerant” is to commit the gravest social error, and will cause one to be excommunicated from the cathedrals of academia and politics.

Being able to condemn extremism in whatever form it takes is not the practice of moral equivocation, but desperately needed moral consistency.

At least now Virginians know that Northam is willing to bargain with just about anything to become governor.

…and so the For Sale sign goes up on the Governor’s Mansion. Or at the very least, its policies.

Most significant? The Virginia PBA endorsed Herring over Cuccinelli in 2013 — a sea change in a Virginia environment supposedly leaning the Democrats way.