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 ›
politics
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Hickory, Dickory, Wokery
Britain’s royalty and Parliament in the late 1650s were not welcoming to Richard Cromwell to become successor as Lord Protector of the realm upon the death of his father, Oliver Cromwell. Historical legend informs that the English rhyme about a… Read More ›
Government by Edict
Editors’ Note: Excerpted, with permission, from Bacon’s Rebellion, March 14, 2022, https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/ By Dick Hall-Sizemore Although the issue of school mask mandates is now behind us, it is instructive to examine the legal arguments advanced by Attorney General Jason Miyares… Read More ›
ICYMI……………..March 21, 1917
One hundred five years ago today, Loretta Perfectus Walsh, a 20-year-old Philadelphia woman, was sworn in as Chief Yeoman, becoming the first woman petty officer in the United States Navy. Walsh enlisted four days earlier under the US Naval Reserve… Read More ›
Around the Novahood
THE EAGLES HAVE LANDED Not quite the 1976 film plot but an exciting event nonetheless . . . in the Dulles Greenway wetlands in Leesburg. Mom Rosa and Dad Martin, who have resided in the Greenway’s wetlands since 2005,… Read More ›