Any review of the career of Ken Cuccinelli tends to affirm UVA politics expert Larry Sabato’s comment in 2010, “You can only conclude that he enjoys being the center of pointless controversy.” Cooch was born in New Jersey but has… Read More ›
Issues
Ethics, Service, Not Self-Indulgence
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, December 22, 2019. VoxFairfax commentary: Members and former members of Congress have consistently and persistently indulged their most crass appetites for money, sex, and power. By the grace of the Constitution, Congress… Read More ›
Reparations: Yea, Nay, or Maybe?
Reparations: the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. The issue of reparations for African-Americans due to the treatment of their ancestors as slaves has been… Read More ›
Brief Cases
Brief Cases will be published occasionally to update information on previously published articles and/or to add comment upon them. Sometimes the content will be new, particularly as we deem the material to be of note. FISHY STORY REDUX: VIRGINIA MENHADEN… Read More ›
GMU Prof Speaks Ex Cathedra
When Popes of the Roman Catholic Church speak ex cathedra (not from the cathedral but from the throne), they communicate infallible doctrine. The Winchester Star newspaper is an unabashed advocate of conservatism, sometimes to the extent that its guest editorials… Read More ›
Have They No Decency?
The Commonwealth has a well known reputation as an anti-labor jurisdiction which… Read More ›
Benestrophe and Social Change
By Frank Blechman We all know about catastrophes: series of painful, traumatic, and dislocating bad events. Plagues, wars, floods, fires, earthquakes, shipwrecks, are familiar old examples. Climate change is a new one. We fear them. Sometimes, we imagine that we… Read More ›
What Happens When 65 Million People Say “I Told You So?”
63 million: MAJORITY 65 million: MINORITY What’s wrong with this picture? Over the course of the several days of hearings as the articles of impeachment were being debated, opponents of the proceedings often claimed that the impeachment is an effort… Read More ›
Faithfulness of 100 Jurors
Editors’ Note: Some material adapted from Take Care, December 19, 2019, which comments upon a wide range of legal issues. Given the pre-hearing statements of the Senate Majority Leader, the public may wonder how this panel of 100 jurors will… Read More ›