Let’s Slow Down On Global Warming Plans Editor, Times-Dispatch: Are we out of our minds? The “promising” ideas that Sam Thernstrom discusses...

This morning, on Independence Day, Americans will turn on their televisions or radios and hear Thomas Jefferson’s ringing affirmation of human dignity:...

ALEX EVANS Guest Columnist Police officers. When we drive past them on the street, we quickly check our speed and hope that we are not violating the speed...

ROBERT A. STRONG Guest Columnist LEXINGTON Republican critics of President Barack Obama’s low-key response to the unfolding events in Iran are fond...

SARAH LONGWELL Guest Columnist WASHINGTON Two weeks ago the House Transportation Committee unveiled the details of its six-year, $450 billion overhaul...

JAYNE BARNARD Guest Columnist WILLIAMSBURG On Monday in a crowded courtroom in New York City, nine citizens stood up and told the story of how Bernard...

WASHINGTON Although New Haven’s firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly—5-4. The egregious...

WASHINGTON In the beginning,“ says a character in a Peter De Vries novel, “the earth was without form and void. Why didn’t they leave...

CHARLOTTESVILLEAfew months ago the director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, told Congress that instability in many countries caused by the global...

WASHINGTON Since its earliest days, the United States has suffered periodic financial crises. The first dates to 1792. In the 19th century, bank panics...

The Henrico County Board of Supervisors held a public hearing June 9 to obtain additional input on the county’s proposed 2026 Comprehensive Plan....

Brief comments on a variety of topics currently in the news . . . . With the Obama administration springing Guantanamo-housed terrorists and, e.g., funding...

All of us can agree that our current health care system is in need of fundamental reforms that will expand access, improve quality, and increase value....

Imagine if you could no longer care for your children and they had to leave your home and be separated from one another. You would want your kids to be...

WASHINGTON Iran today is a revolution in search of its Yeltsin. Without leadership, demonstrators will take to the street only so many times to face tear...

BOSTON From time to time, a message pops into my e-mail announcing that someone is “Following You On Twitter.“ In fact, I don’t go anywhere...

WASHINGTON The Spanish professor is puzzled. Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the U.S. president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for...

WASHINGTON Awise man once said that love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. No one who managed to get through the torture of South Carolina...

Last week Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal wrote a column titled, “This Boomer Isn’t Going to Apologize,“ in response to an earlier...

PEPPER PIKE, Ohio Perhaps the most destructive legislation in our country’s history will soon be voted on in the United States House of Representatives:...

COVINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote—possibly as early as tomorrow—on the American Clean Energy and Security Act...

PARKINSON’S DISEASE: My Fear Of a Demon Iremember three things about Sundays in a small Southern town in the 1950s—church, Sunday dinner, and...

DON GEHRING We find ourselves in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. It is the economic equivalent of 9/11. Most assuredly, there is...

WASHINGTON Raised in an individualistic culture, Americans dislike the concept of the “welfare state” and do not use the term. But make no...

There will be time to talk about costs and coverage, about public and private plans, about reasoning and rationing in health care reform. So the president...

Virginians need electricity. We need a lot of it. In recent years the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s demand, for example, has increased more...

On June 22, 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Olmstead v. L.C. Let’s all take a minute tomorrow and celebrate the 10-year...

A recent contributor to this paper described the act of voting as a “privilege.“ This I find very disturbing, since it is by no means the only...

So tell me again why you aren’t a doctor. Because my father—an Edinburgh-trained general physician and surgeon—urged his son against...

By SAMUEL THERNSTROM WASHINGTON After years of deadlock over climate policy, Congress appears poised to enact the first federal limits on greenhouse gas...