Op-Ed

Mar 03, 2022

In 1963, two years after the Berlin Wall was constructed with Russian support to stop people from leaving communist East…

Mar 02, 2022

‘I am the son of a Hungarian Freedom Fighter who was forced to flee his home city of Budapest when the Soviet tanks rolled in in 1956.’

Feb 24, 2022

Putin’s vile aggression is about one single proposition: a return of Russian domination over the post-WW II captured lands of the former Soviet Union. He seeks a resurgent Russian empire, not in the form of a communist dictatorship, but rather one closer to Czarist Russia that existed before the USSR.

Feb 17, 2022

Pandemics are not new. They have been around as long as the human race has been and will be in…

Feb 15, 2022

The press release from the governor’s office noted in the first paragraph that Youngkin “does not believe in mandating the vaccine,” the nod to the base, who are of course the people who are not yet vaccinated, and thus would seem to be the target audience for the PSA.

Feb 03, 2022

In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a crime wave occurring in America. Some people want to assign the problem to gun…

Feb 01, 2022

Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears made history this past November as the first Black woman — indeed the first woman ever…

Jan 27, 2022

If you spend enough time in politics, don’t be surprised when people ask you to endorse their political candidacy for…

Jan 20, 2022

I was a legislator in the Virginia General Assembly for 16 years following a 28-year career in the U.S. Army. The…

Jan 14, 2022

Having settled on my New Year resolutions (which I am happily observing with varying degrees of success,) I thought I…