A precondition of the rule of law is that those who are ruled (the citizenry) believe they are not alone in adhering to the rule of law, that it is a two-way street. Nor can the fair administration of the… Read More ›
National
ICYMI………….April 4, 1968
Fifty-four years ago today in Memphis, Tennessee, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. He was in the city to support a strike by Black sanitation workers. The decade was marked with assassinations, including that of President John F…. Read More ›
The Public Effectively Has No Right to Know
Editors’ Note: Reposted, with permission, from the Virginia Mercury, March 28, 2022. https://www.virginiamercury.com/2022/03/28/in-its-arrogance-virginia-government-continues-walling-off-the-publics-right-to-know/ By Bob Lewis It may sound almost laughable now – a cruel joke, to be sure – but there was a time when Virginia had a decent… Read More ›
Stem this Wanton Bloodshed
Editors’ Note: Reposted with permission from the Virginia Mercury, March 24, 2022. https://www.virginiamercury.com/2022/03/24/we-must-do-something-to-stem-this-wanton-bloodshed/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=c75058e2-2b46-4209-bc66-e7dbf0589cda By Roger Chesley Please make them stop. I’m talking about the wanton, reckless firearm slayings that happen too often in Virginia and around the country. The victims… Read More ›
The Road to November and Beyond
It would not be too great a stretch to assert that the American public favors fair elections not predetermined by rigged devices such as gerrymandering. After all, fairness is a virtually genetic value pursued, if not perfectly practiced, in most… Read More ›
E Pluribus Unum Religion
In 1939, George Orwell coined the term Judeo-Christian in a book review describing a scheme of ethics or morals based upon communal principles of the two religions. The concept has no precedent in colonial America before its popular introduction in… Read More ›
Not So Distant Comparisons
The verb “juxtapose,” meaning to place closely together for comparison, can prompt intriguing questions and thoughts about the matters in juxtaposition. The front page of a recent edition of The New York Times carried two items that, thousands of miles… Read More ›
Outside the Novahood
WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? RADFORD PONDERS DEATHS OF 80 Who killed Cock Robin? I, said the Sparrow, in the c. 1770 poem, before others confessed, including the Fly, Duck, Beetle, Owl, Rook, Lark, Linnet, Dove, Kite, Crow, Thrush, and Bull…. Read More ›
The Poverty of Hate in Virginia
Whether or not one accepts or agrees with the designation of hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the potential for the existence and proliferation of such organizations should be of concern to all. That concern, in turn,… Read More ›