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Commentary

The Surreptitious Disappearance of the Capitol Square Preservation Council

  Breathtaking. Unsettling. Healing. Those meant-to-catch-your-attention words come from an article by the British newspaper The Guardian on the “reimagined” statue of Stonewall Jackson, currently on display at a contemporary “art” museum in...

If The World Is Getting Hotter, Why On Day 14 After Paralyzing Ice Storm Does SWVA Still Look Like Frozen Tundra With Wind Chills...

Full disclosure: One, I am not a climatologist. Two, I understand the difference between weather...

The 45-Day April Special Election Is NOT “Affordable”

AFFORDABLE The goal for 2026 is affordable! A special election to address ONLY a single issue,...

Steps To Help Have A Healthy Brain In Your Later Years

By Dr. Thomas Chin Virginia native Dr. Thomas Chin MD attended William and Mary, the Medical...

Does Spending $62 Billion on Utility Batteries Lower Your Cost of Electricity? Of Course Not

The 2026 General Assembly is likely to amend the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) to...

Censoring Eisenhower and Religious Freedom in the Military

If President Eisenhower were alive today, the five-star general may be shocked to know that his own speeches are too offensive to be quoted...

America’s First Civil Right

The problem today is not Christianity or secular humanism – it is the increasing force of government power in situations of religious expression. When...

No Roanoke Rail Excursions This Fall

To All Our Excursion Friends: The Roanoke Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, will not be operating our fall excursions this November as we have the...

An Abuse of Power

I was shocked to hear of the pay increase proposed by Roanoke Mayor David Bowers and council members Bill Bestpitch, Sherman Lea and...

Griffith Will Not Support Any Attempt to Exempt Lawmakers From Obamacare

An article was published recently in Politico, a respected inside-the-beltway news journal, saying that some Democrats are trying to exempt Congressmen and Congressional...

The Ethanol Mandate: Hurting American’s Economy

Who’s paying the costs of the federal ethanol mandate?  Every family who shops in a grocery store or dines at a restaurant, every...