By Lorraine Marie Simonis Ms. Simonis is a J.D. candidate at the University of Virginia School of Law, graduating in May 2018. Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. A bill to ban “sanctuary cities” in Virginia–which… Read More ›
Issues
As the General Assembly Takes Up Gun Safety Legislation, Let’s Recall the Supreme Court’s Heller Decision
Editors’ Note, July 8, 2019: The article that follows was originally published 15 months ago. Given that tomorrow will see the start of Governor Northam’s special legislative session on gun safety laws, we thought it an opportune time to revisit… Read More ›
HOW A MINORITY AND A PROPAGANDA BLITZ ELECTED A PRESIDENT
The 2016 presidential election witnessed 137 million votes cast with 66 million and 63 million cast respectively for the Democratic and Republican candidates. Under our constitutional structure reflected in the Electoral College system, the popular votes translated into 302 electoral… Read More ›
STICKS, STONES, AND NAMES BREAK AND HARM POLITICS
Bad is good. Up is down. North is south. Ignorance is smart. Remember George Orwell’s 1984 and Newspeak? Do you get the feeling that familiar anchors of acceptable societal behavior are slipping away? And if so, what is at risk?… Read More ›
COUNTY MUGGED AND CLUBBED FOR $1.5 MILLION
The victims are Arlington County’s 220,000 residents at the hands of 7200 country club members [of the Army Navy Country Club or ANCC] led by 140 members of the General Assembly [GA] spearheaded, in turn, by a non-Arlington delegate, Thugo. … Read More ›
RESISTING THE REPETITION OF HISTORY
In 1964, the 24th Amendment outlawed the poll tax in federal elections but four states retained the restriction—Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia. The year prior, Annie E. Harper was among a group of Fairfax residents who filed suit challenging the… Read More ›
WHITE TRASH: A BOOK REVIEW
Fans of American history who appreciate the view of iconoclasts such as Howard Zinn and Eric Foner will enjoy White Trash, subtitled The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, by Nancy Isenberg, as she persuasively and skillfully traces the… Read More ›
THE GERRYMANDER EFFECT IN STATE AND NATIONAL ELECTIONS
In the 2017 elections in Virginia for its lower house, Democrats outpolled Republicans 53 to 43% by a margin of 231,000 votes but secured only 49 of 100 seats at stake. In similar fashion, the Wisconsin case now before… Read More ›