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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...

Thoughts on The Virginia Tech / Amazon Collaboration

I am writing in response to the article title Virginia Tech/ Amazon Establish Machine Learning Research Leadership, published on your website on March 10,...

VA Senate Violating Committee Protocol to Protect Infanticide

This was originally published on March 7 by the Virginia Family Foundation. On Friday, March 4, a Senate Rules committee, comprised of 12 Democrats and...

Youngkin: “The General Assembly Should Give Virginians Their Money Back”

Facing the highest gas prices on record and the highest inflation rates in decades, families across Virginia are having to do more with their...

Bravery of Ukrainians Evokes W. H. Auden’s Classic Poem”

Does anyone else find themselves utterly humbled by the bravery of the Ukrainian defenders — and also by the Russians demonstrating against Putin’s invasion? There...

National Security, West Virginia Natural Gas and Hampton Roads – A Proposed Federal Law

By James C. Sherlock, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and republished here by agreement.  This is a series of columns recommending bringing West Virginia...

Virginia’s Natural Gas Pipelines, Virginia’s Economy and the World

By James C. Sherlock, originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and republished here by agreement. God looks after the United States of America.  The fracking revolution...