By Barbara B. Levine Watching the 1962 movie Cape Fear between visits to various news channels to keep abreast of the current Ukrainian tragedy raised troubling and difficult questions about the way a law-abiding society deals with pure evil. A… Read More ›
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Private Militias Are a Threat to All
Editors’ Note: Crossposted from The New York Times, October 8, 2020. By Mary B. McCord VoxFairfax has commented upon this issue on several occasions. Across the nation, local sheriffs have offered sympathetic comments about private militias often encouraging their activities. Sometimes… Read More ›
Milken: Money Corrupts Absolutely
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, February 18, 2020. By James B. Stewart By pardoning Michael R. Milken, a potent symbol of the “greed is good” 1980s and arguably the most significant white-collar criminal of his generation, President… Read More ›
Shots to the Foot: Second Amendment Sanctuaries
By David Chipman Editors’ Note: Chipman is a former agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and now senior policy adviser for Giffords, the gun safety organization founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. This article appeared in… Read More ›
Armed Sanctuaries Oxymoron
Editors’ Note: Reposted and excerpted from Blue Virginia, December 13, 2019. Turning The Rule Of Law Upside Down By Delegate David Toscano, 57th District The Tazewell County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors recently jumped aboard the fast-moving “Second Amendment sanctuaries” train…. Read More ›
Deep State Rising
Editors’ Note: In 2019 alone, VoxFairfax has run four previous pieces on the deep state, on March 3, 24, 31, and April 14. Using the term “deep state” in our search box will easily find these articles for you. Alternatingly serious and… Read More ›
Not Every Whopper at the White House Is a Burger
Nobelist Joseph Stiglitz cited the fortune of our nation’s commitment to the rule of law as one of the major stabilizing components for development of a democratic nation, politically and economically. In opposition to the rule of law is chaos,… Read More ›
Can Massive Trump Resistance Succeed?
Our nation has experienced many instances of massive resistance since colonial days, most notably the Civil War and the period following the desegregation of public schools, which was led by the Byrd hegemony of Virginia. Sometimes, the resistance has been… Read More ›