Editors’ Note: While a bit offbeat from our usual offerings, this “lifestyle” piece might be a refuge of sorts from our daily national concerns. Let us know if you enjoy it. Partially sourced from CNN, March 30, 2020. By Matthew… Read More ›
Issues
NRA Cries Firearms Foul
Editors’ Note: Some material sourced from the April 3, 2020, New York Post. In today’s Brief Cases, VoxFairfax considers whether shooting is fun–or not. New York is trampling on Second Amendment rights by shuttering gun stores during the coronavirus pandemic, the National… Read More ›
Pandemic Perspective
By Frank Blechman One month ago, on the eve of Super Tuesday, I wrote a column for this blog about fears that Bernie Sanders was the inevitable presidential nominee of the Democratic Party [https://voxfairfax.com/2020/03/02/on-the-eve-of-super-tuesday/]. I argued then that the nomination… Read More ›
Essential Workers Muzzled
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from the April 2, 2020, New York Times. By David Yaffe-Bellany On March 23, as the coronavirus pandemic put grocery workers on the front lines of a public health crisis, Trader Joe’s sent a memo to store managers… Read More ›
Majority Madness
The following statement caught our attention as one that time and advances in political science have left in the dustbin of academic wisdom: Virginian-Pilot, April 1, 2020 One truth I often tell students: When it comes to politics, Republicans are… Read More ›
Brief Cases
BIBLICAL BATTLE BY BIG BOYS BETRAYS BOISTEROUS BRAGGADOCIO Governor Ralph Northam relied upon 1 Corinthians while Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. rejoined with Exodus 20:16 in a verbal brawl about Liberty University’s decision to allow students back to campus… Read More ›
One Person, One Vote No Longer Fantasy
Election Day, November 5, 2024, Douglas County, Kansas The polls in Douglas County were bannered with long lines as voters queued up for the 2024 presidential election. Sam and Sylvia Appledore, lifetime residents, were all smiles, although they had been… Read More ›
Budgets, Programs, and Values
By Frank Blechman Government watchers love to say that budgets are not just lists of numbers, they really are statements of values. The implication: We put our money where our heart is. The tug of war between the values of… Read More ›