While the individual vote should never be abused or misused in any way, it shouldn’t be unduly restricted, either.

When Bob McDonnell became Virginia’s governor in January 2010, one of his first actions was to announce he was going to target Richmond’s favorite cudgel against local governments: unfunded mandates.

The president will watch in horror as he realizes that Joe Biden is his debate firewall.

Just as it looked as though the Amherst County Board of Supervisors was about to win the 2012 “Most Dysfunctional Government Body in Central Virginia” award, their counterparts in Bedford County emerge from the backfield to make the contest a real horse race.

"Politics is the art of the possible,” said Otto von Bismark, the founder of the modern German state.

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Where one attends college in Virginia can makes a difference financially.

There are a lot of politicians out there today who would just love it if every single news media organization just shriveled up and died.

There likely is no illness scarier to the average person than Alzheimer’s disease, the memory-robbing, soul-hollowing nightmare that plagues one in eight older Americans today. It is a disease that destroys the individual from the mind out, leaving only a shell of what used to be a person someone, some family, loved and cherished.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama talked a lot ... and we mean a lot ... during Wednesday night’s first of three presidential debates. But whether either man who wants to sit in the Oval Office for the next four years said much is another matter entirely.