Most folks relate “up” with north and “down” with south. East and west are, at best, consigned to left and right as in describing California as the Left Coast. North and south are two of the cardinal directions within the… Read More ›
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Slings and Arrows
Conservative Republicans (maybe all Republicans) have resorted to a couple of new buzzword terms to demonize Democratic efforts to enact broad federal voting rights legislation and support for abortion rights. The evil theory in the first instance is termed “federalization.”… Read More ›
Most Important Product
Over eight years, 1954-1962, Ronald Reagan, as spokes master for the popular TV series General Electric Theatre, opened each episode with an introduction that “Progress is our most important product.” While economists and other corporate pundits might agree on measures… Read More ›
An Era for ERA?
Editors’ Note: Excerpted and reprinted from The Washington Post, February 9, 2022. By Casey Park A few years ago, Kati Hornung made her family a promise: As soon as Virginia ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, she’d be done. She’d stay… Read More ›
Beyond Our Border
NORTH CAROLINA Other than a common border of some 230+ miles, Virginia and the Tar Heel State are as different as their names. While the Commonwealth was able recently to rely upon its Supreme Court to draw political boundary maps… Read More ›
GMU Re-Koched
There are several cognitive cautions that may sensitize a reader’s appreciation of important information. Among these is the elegant French caution that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Another is the guide that instructs the reader… Read More ›
2024: Biden-Cheney?
Editors’ Note: Reposted from The New York Times, January 11, 2022. By Thomas Friedman As I’ve noted before, one reason I pay very close attention to the Israeli-Palestinian arena is that a lot of trends get perfected there first and then go global… Read More ›
Silence of the Lambs
On January 21, 2022, one day before the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Virginia’s new attorney general, by way of the state’s solicitor general, advised SCOTUS that the landmark case was “wrongly decided” and that “Virginia is now of… Read More ›
What Are Republicans For?
1 President Joe Biden receives virtually no praise in the media for his prosaic speeches and comments. His narratives are not at all poetic or comparable to alliterative snippets such as “nattering nabobs of negativism” uttered by (but not written… Read More ›
Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind
Close encounters of the third kind (1977 film title) is a fixed expression in the national lexicon meaning the direct observation of beings from other universes. Sci-fi enthusiasts define encounters of the fourth kind to be instances of alien abduction…. Read More ›