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Around the Novahood
TWITTER ON MIDDLE EAST SPARKS DEBATE A message posted by a Fairfax County School Board member stating, “… Israel kills Palestinians & desecrates the Holy Land right now. Apartheid & colonization were wrong yesterday and will be today, here and… Read More ›
The Autopsy Alibi
Movies and television have substantially defined our conception of the term forensics as scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of crime. The “autopsy,” a postmortem medical examination to ascertain cause of death and whether such death… 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 ›
Who Needs Bureaucracy?
News junkies would be hard pressed to recall praise from an elected official over the work of a federal bureau. Sometimes, and sometimes not, during hurricane season, FEMA is lauded for its relief and rescue efforts. However, a walk through… Read More ›
Where Are They Today?
ALBERT ARNOLD GORE, JR. It was January 6, 2001. Vice President Al Gore presided over a joint session of Congress in the House chamber, officially tallying the electoral votes that made George W. Bush the next president and himself a… Read More ›
Beyond Our Border
Editors’ Note: VoxFairfax decided to supplement the geographical view of our features Around the Novahood and Beyond the Novahood by introducing a new feature intended as a reminder that, beyond the Commonwealth, there exists another universe of events of interest. Many… Read More ›
Lex Obscura
We concocted the term “lex obscura” (law in a darkened enclosure) to describe the distance a word or term may have traveled or matured from creation to contemporary usage. In the fallout from hundreds of pieces of legislation introduced across… Read More ›
Two May Not Be Better than One
A simple Google search inquiring “why do US state legislatures have two chambers” returns no sources providing convincing, rational reasons. Rather, reviewing a number of the results, one hears the words from grammar and high school civics course resonating that… Read More ›