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Gun play

Usually, when we sit to pen our modest column, we are all giggles and light. But every once in a while we squat,...

Courting disaster

In our experience, the current Republican majority in the General Assembly excels at exactly one thing: grandstanding...

Drawn and quartered

As you may or may not know, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 recently turned 50, resulting in a flurry of news stories...

Swing state blues

So here’s the current conventional political wisdom about Virginia: a once-reliable Republican bastion that has, in...

Jim jumps in

If you’re like us, you spend at least a few minutes every day thinking “What’s good ol’ Jim up to these days?” Jim...

Joy and pain

In politics, as in life, there are weeks that simply take your breath away. Weeks where things move so quickly, and...

Off to the races

Well, there you go. The feverish excitement of Virginia’s primary season is over, with literally dozens of voters...

Immortal Joe Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner

There have been, in the history of this column, a grand total of three all-timers. The first was U.S. Representative...

Culture clash

As we have noted in the past, the Republican party’s traditional focus on the three G’s (God, guns and gays) has long...

You’re so money

We’d like to kick off this edition of the Odd Dominion with a surprising number: $17,640. That’s the annual base pay...