politics
Virginia Trumpometer
VoxFairfax is indebted to the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) for its continued publication of data concerning the Commonwealth’s political landscape. On May 5 (Cinco de Mayo), VPAP published a visual tracking data of individual donors to the presidential campaign… Read More ›
Subtle Perpetuators of Inequity
From inception, the nation’s criminal justice system has had an unhealthy set of roots in slavery and racism. A sample of that codex is found in the 13th Amendment, passed in 1865, which declared slavery unconstitutional but hedged with “except… Read More ›
Electrifying America Like the New Deal
Editors’ Note: Reposted from The New York Times, May 1, 2021. Expenditures by the federal government are not necessarily expenses qua expenses but, rather, are often investments in the nation’s future prosperity, particularly those dedicated to children, families, education. Social Security… Read More ›
The Sons of the Fathers: Evangelicals’ Demise?
Editors’ Note: Reposted from The New York Times, April 12, 2021. Dwindling support in the evangelical world for conservative Republicans. By Ruth Graham Abraham Piper became a sensation on TikTok nearly overnight. He posted his first video in November, and… Read More ›
Beyond Our Border
NORWAY A sign of the times? Police in Oslo wondered “how could this happen?” The body of a man dead for nine years was found in December 2020. The discovery was made by a maintenance worker entering for a necessary… Read More ›
Who Owns the Space Behind Your Airplane Seat?
Editors’ Note: Reposted from The New York Times, March 21, 2021. We have often remarked that some book reviews are as compelling as the volumes themselves. Here, the reviewer challenges cherished concepts about ownership and possession. Milton Friedman, James Buchanan,… Read More ›
Rest in Peace
In Memoriam The nation mourns the passing of an individual who over decades made major contributions to his party and his country, and who forever changed the vice presidency. Walter F. Mondale, 1928 – 2021 Walter “Fritz” Mondale, protégé of former… Read More ›
Dillon Rule Rules
That the Commonwealth is a “Dillon Rule” state is a fact of reality cognitively and consciously known to only a small population of residents and geeks who author or edit blogs on politics. In short, the rule means that local… Read More ›
Virginia Lockjaw
An article in Slate revealed that the reporter had inadvertently stumbled upon an unusual medical condition resembling lockjaw and affecting mostly elected GOP officials in the Commonwealth. Diagnostically, the definition is a spasm of the jaw muscles causing the mouth… Read More ›