Editors’ note: Excerpted from The Hill, September 1, 2019. By Brett Samuels Ken Cuccinelli is wielding immense power as the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), where he has rolled out multiple significant and controversial policies in recent… Read More ›
Issues
THE SUBSTITUTION ORDER by Martin Clark: A Review
Reviewed by Jim McCarthy The author is a retired circuit court judge having served 27 years on the bench in Virginia. The Substitution Order, the latest of four works, was recently reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, catching this reader’s… Read More ›
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet nicely complements “Virginia Is For Lovers.” And, if recent data are evidence of the ways counted, a very large number of folks who do not reside in the Commonwealth have expressed that love. Political contributions data… Read More ›
Kritarchy
Virginia Dare was the first reported child born to early English colonialists in Roanoke Colony (Lost Colony) on August 18, 1587, some three decades before the Jamestown settlement and the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to Virginia’s shores. In… Read More ›
Why Are Some Afraid of Voting by Ex-Offenders?
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from a New York Times editorial, August 10, 2019. Coral Nichols will be eligible to vote when she’s 190. That’s assuming the 40-year-old Floridian — who served five years in prison for fraud and embezzlement, followed by nearly 10… Read More ›
1619: A Project
VoxFairfax Editors’ Message: From early grade school instruction, the emergence of the United States of America tends to be characterized as a “birth.” The invasion of this continent’s eastern shores by Europeans was not a birth at all but, ultimately,… Read More ›
Chazer-in-Chief
By Michael Fruitman Editors’ Note: This op-ed/column is a personal opinion piece by Mr. Fruitman. I am a Jew. An American Jew. I once believed that anti-Semitism belonged to a bygone era. And certainly would never be espoused by a President… Read More ›
Political Courage is Not Fatal–and is Spreading
Beat ’em. Beat every single one of them. Even the safe ones in the House, beat ’em. Beat ’em in the Senate. Take back the Senate. These words come not from a Democrat but from a former Republican member of… Read More ›
Staunton on Avon
Theatre Review by Jim McCarthy The plays of William Shakespeare (1564–1616) were first performed in London beginning in 1599 at the Globe and Blackfriars theatres by several acing troupes, including Lord Chamberlain’s Men, an ensemble founded by the Bard himself…. Read More ›