Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

– From “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats
Majority rules. It’s a fundamental precept of democracy. Yet, in real life it doesn’t always play out that way. Sometimes, the majority can be [...]

August is usually a slow month for news, so we are spoon-fed anniversaries to contemplate: Hiroshima’s 64th, Woodstock’s 40th, and it was 35 years ago, on Sunday, when Richard M. Nixon resigned from the presidency. Since his death 15 years ago we have been asked to reconsider Richard Nixon.
Fair enough, let’s give the man his [...]

by Bob Gibson
Retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter in May delivered a stirring call for better education of the American public about how government works.
The 19-year veteran of the court observed that surveys show large majorities of Americans cannot name the basic three branches of government: the executive, legislative and judicial branches.
Souter, in a [...]

THE BLOGOSPHERE is all atwitter about the pending oversight of the Federal Trade Commission. New guidelines are expected late this summer and with them will come a bit of taming of the wild, wild world of the Internet.
The FTC is charged with protecting consumers. It administers a wide variety of laws. A quick check of [...]

In recent days, we have heard about the hiring of many fine people for Creigh Deeds campaign. Several of them are veterans of political campaigns in Virginia and elsewhere. Some, however, are top-level officials with the Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA). This is troubling to me for several reasons.
When the never-ending election season turned to [...]

In 2007, the House of Delegates picked up four seats – two of them in Hampton Roads. And in 2007, the State Senate picked up four seats – again, two of them in Hampton Roads.
How did we pick up those four seats in 2007? I believe it was a combination of things. First, we had [...]