Politics
Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland
Voters in Northern Ireland went to the polls for the second time in less than a year last Thursday ( BBC ). The result left certainties about Ulster…
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Politics
First Blood to President Trump
Previously in these virtual pages, I discussed the idea that the battle pitting President Trump versus the media was actually a race to see which…
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Politics
Myths and Realities From 2016
Democrats have created competing narratives about the 2016 elections, and they’re all wrong. Until they break free of these myths, President Trump…
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Policy
Why Does Every Conversation About Immigration Always Come Down To This?
I’ve always hated this scene in Schindler’s List , not because of the characters per se… but because of how polite and clinical it all was:
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Culture
Suitable For Framing: Boethius On Perspective
It is because you don’t know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.
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Politics
Riggleman Wins What Will Have To Be The Last VTPPF Straw Poll…
This morning’s Bull Elephant has some rather disappointing results . Not the fact that Riggleman won the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation poll…
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Politics
Polls Wrong In Virginia
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star has a fitting tribute to a speaker that, while no favorite of self-declared conservatives, did a great deal for…
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Politics
MSNBC says its job is “control exactly what people think”
Today on MSNBC’s Morning Jo(k)e, we were treated to the usual Trump bashing that has made MSNBC the laughing stock of journalism. Trump is mean, wah…
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Culture
Islamic Society of Virginia Condemns Antisemitism; Helps Raise $40,000 To Restore Jewish Gravesites
The following is a press statement from the Islamic Center of Virginia in response to recent anti-Semitic actions taken in a Jewish cemetery in St…
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Politics
Gillespie Hold Impressive Warchest; Stewart (Nearly) Doubles Grassroots Donation Numbers
InsideNOVA throws a bit of a sharp jab at Prince William County Chairman Corey Stewart’s fundraising totals this week:
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Culture
Incentivizing Salvation and the Jansenist Heresy
This morning’s First Things offers some insight into the modern malady impacting the Catholic Church, and a bit of insight as to Pope Francis’…
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Politics
Virginia House Democrats to Help Elect Republican Governor
“Don’t awaken a sleeping giant,” the saying goes. The 2017 Virginia version might add “especially 45 of them”.
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