Warrenton Training Center (aka Rosenwald High School). At 10 a.m. next Saturday, August 3, Fauquier County will commemorate eight schools established for African-American children by Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald. A new historical marker will be unveiled in a ceremony at Eva Walker… Read More ›
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Blueberry-Eating Elk Immigrants Ignite Backlash in Southwest Virginia
Editors’ Note: Parodied from the June 30, 2019, Virginia Mercury. Elks Care, Elks Share. Are YOU an Elk? The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is a fraternal organization with the following mission: To inculcate the principles of Charity,… Read More ›
Netroots Nation: Grassroots Bootcamp
By Michael Fruitman, Co-editor, VoxFairfax Daily Kos is a group blog founded in 2002 by Markos Moulitsas providing a national forum for discussion and action for individuals to engage in liberal, or more precisely, progressive, politics, as well as the… Read More ›
Orcas Beyond the Rule of Law
No lawyer likes to lose a case, especially after trial but few are offered an opportunity for a second chance to snatch that defeat from the jaws of victory. Eugene Scalia, Esq., the President’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, may… Read More ›
Jingo and Jaundice in Virginia History
July 2019 commenced a several-months’-long commemoration of the founding of Virginia’s Jamestown 400 years ago as “the first permanent English settlement in America,” according to website material (www.historicjamestowne.org). At the same time, the event intends to celebrate self-governance and democracy…. Read More ›
The Mueller Report: Everything You’ve Heard About it and So Much More
A Book Report By Barbara Baum Levine, Esq. I highly recommend that all Americans read the Mueller report. Yes, it is a bit of a slog. No, you don’t have to read every Court citation where Mueller is setting forth… Read More ›
Justice Stevens and Justice in Virginia
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who passed at age 99 on July 16, insisted that he was not a liberal jurist but a conservative sitting on a bench that over time had drifted to the right, leaving him crowned… Read More ›
Some Scams Never Die, Never Fade Away
The Commonwealth has no shortage of veterans and military as residents and citizens. Accordingly, the state also has no shortage of individuals who perpetrate schemes to make money from armed services individuals. In October 2017, an Alexandria attorney was sentenced… Read More ›