Virginia Democrats were counting on former Gov. Terry McAuliffe to raise money for them. Then he wrote a book about Charlottesville that has some Democrats hopping mad. McAuliffe, now a CNN contributor, has stepped into the fundraising void left by Gov. Ralph Northam, who has been hobbled by his blackface/Klan hood/moonwalking scandal. Democrats were hopeful […]
Just over two months ago, a city worker in Virginia Beach methodically slaughtered 15 of his coworkers and a member of the public in a city building. Authorities are still no closer to determining the motive of the man who will not be named here, even as an independent investigation begins. Over the weekend, a […]
For all the talk of Del. Ibraheem Samirah’s disruption of President Trump’s speech in Jamestown this week, at least one Democrat thought the event was bigger than themselves. those in attendance. Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax not only attended the event, but welcomed President Trump with open arms a handshake from the dais. Some things are […]
If you want a vision of the future of the Democrat Party of Virginia, imagine a young man in a bow-tie screaming at the President – forever. Due apologies to George Orwell aside, Virginia Democrats have now accepted the screaming face of Del. Ibraheem Samirah as the public image of their party in a critical […]
Editorial boards and columnists all around Virginia have called on Democrats not to boycott the historic events at Jamestown tomorrow, but some Democrats are doubling down. “It’s that history, that legacy that has come to define what America is to the world,” wrote the Lynchburg News & Advance’s Editorial Page. “To mar it with a […]
Virginia Democrats were united. If President Trump was going to be at Jamestown to Commemorate 400 years of Democracy, they weren’t. But that was then. Now, as Emily Litella said, “Never mind.” In one of the greatest climb downs in modern political memory, Virginia Democrats have gone from “send him back” to ‘guess we’ll go […]
Mental illness and significant life stress are two key factors in predicting who may perpetrate a mass shooting or other such attack. That’s the central finding of a new report by the U.S. Secret Service released earlier this month n the wake of the mass shooting in Virginia Beach in May. Compiled by the agency’s […]
The Roanoke Times raises 12 questions about Trump. What follows are 12 answers.
Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour could put 3.7 million Americans out of work, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. That didn’t stop all seven of Virginia’s Democrat Representatives from voting for a bill that would do just that earlier this week. “You know there’s not a a city or county in […]
A lawsuit brought by a former legislative aide to Del. Dawn Adams against the delegate alleges that Adams required her, a state employee, to work for her personal business without separate pay. Maureen Hains, who served as Adams’ campaign manager in 2017 before joining her legislative staff, alleges in a lawsuit that Adams required her […]
