In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asked her father if there was really a Santa Claus. He suggested she write to The Sun, a prominent New York newspaper because, as he said, “If you see it in ...

At Wednesday night’s Augusta County Board of Supervisors meeting, during “Matters to Be Presented By the Public,” former Board Chairman Tracy Pyles approached the podium to address the seven ...

The recent attacks in Paris have ignited a firestorm of controversy about refugees in the United States. Based on information that has been released in this still on-going investigation, at least one ...

When Donald Trump calls you out for racially insensitive comments, you have a problem – and Jeb Bush has a problem. The former Florida Governor went down the rabbit hole and continued to defend using ...

“President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. ‘Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of ...

Clarence Franklin Osborne was 27 years old when killed in action in the final weeks of World War II and was buried in the U.S. Military Cemetery in St. Avold, France. His body was later returned to ...

I enjoyed reading this article in the Richmond Times Dispatch: Goofy kids upstaging their political parents with welcome comic relief: ‘We all needed that laugh.’ It reminded me of a story involving ...

One of the President’s favorite things to do in speeches is to drop the word “historic” before some pronouncement about his Administration or campaign. Sometimes it’s justified, like when he talks ...

Since winning the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s Fifth District, author Leslie Cockburn has been plagued by accusations of anti-Semitism from Richmond all the way to Israel. These accusations ...

This stone cross set up in 1935 by the Daughters of the American Colonists commemorates the 1607 landfall at Cape Henry, in Virginia Beach. On April 26, 1607 British colonists landed at Cape Henry, ...

[Editor’s note: June 28, 2024, a date will live in the annals of history after the overwhelmingly conservative Supreme Court struck down obstruction charges used for hundreds of January 6 insurrection ...

7) The January 6, 2021, riot alarmed him to the point that he testified at the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol (video) where he characterized Donald ...