Editor Northern Virginia Daily Sir: Once again it is time to celebrate the Fourth of July or Independence Day, another name for it. When you get up that morning, take...
Letters to the Editor
July 3, 2009
Letters to the Editor
Editor Northern Virginia Daily Sir: Once again it is time to celebrate the Fourth of July or Independence Day, another name for it. When you get up that morning, take...
July 1, 2009
Letters
Editor Northern Virginia Daily Sir: Well, there he goes again, Dick Traczyk, friend of developers everywhere, pushing to spend money on something the county is losing money on. Not a...
Some inaugural religion
American presidents have never neglected religion in their inaugural addresses. A survey of addresses by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George W. Bush and Barack Obama presents a wide range of presidential attitudes toward religion and the uses of religion in public life.
Some inaugural religion
December 8, 2008
From songs into stamps
By Charles A. Miller Take me out to the ball game ... It's the unofficial anthem of baseball. After "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Happy Birthday," it's probably the song most...
From songs into stamps
Wading afresh into the legal thicket of racial preferences, the Supreme Court held Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., suffered discrimination when the city voided a promotion exam...
The Warren County School Board was in an admittedly touchy spot about choosing a name for the county's new middle school. But in opting to call the renovated building "Warren County Middle School" the board dodged an important issue for the county: How will it finally acknowledge and offer some form of reckoning for its role in the fight over school integration?
The protests and clashes continue in Iran although their scope and significance are shrouded by the government's determined efforts to restrict coverage of the mayhem.
The deadly, horrid collision of two Metro subway cars on Monday hit home not only because of the TV coverage that blanketed the area but also because many of us have ridden the D.C. subway system.
A challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was widely expected to be the most important ruling of the Supreme Court's term, but the justices instead sidestepped the question of its constitutionality.
While President Obama decries the "wild risk-taking" and "lack of oversight" that precipitated the financial meltdown and its severe economic consequences, his remedy is more hodge-podge than systemic reform.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians marched silently through the streets of Tehran on Monday in the largest antigovernment demonstration since the Islamic revolution deposed the shah in 1979.
Although he was the first Democrat to enter the 2009 governor's race and had come within an eyelash of winning election as attorney general four years ago, state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds was quickly overshadowed by his flashier, better financed rivals.
Don Blankenship, the chairman and CEO of Massey Energy, has long played an outsized role in West Virginia politics, generously contributing to candidates for the legislature and, most controversially, for the state Supreme Court.
Wading into the thorny topic of U.S.-Islamic relations, President Obama on Thursday urged "a new beginning" to supplant festering suspicions with cooperation to extinguish extremist violence and cure religious divisions.
Even as the United States moves to beef up its forces in Afghanistan to counter the resurgent Taliban, its tactics, especially airstrikes that result in civilian casualties, risk undermining crucial popular support.
Finally there's a part of the government's stimulus plan that benefits cheapskates. It's the so-called "Cash for Clunkers" program, better known as the Car Allowance and Rebate System.
After what seemed like a long interval, the news has been full of aviation accidents. In January, we saw video of a U.S. Airways jet landing in the Hudson River in New York after it ran into a flock of geese.
Somewhere last week, my Uncle Bill was looking down and shaking his head. On some level, I'm glad Bill didn't live long enough to see General Motors go into bankruptcy. He would not have been very happy about it.
At first glance, the Overlord Arch seems out of place on the outskirts of Bedford. Looming into the sky, with the Blue Ridge Mountains behind it in the west, the arch looks like a piece of architecture from another world -- nothing like the quaint buildings in the city's downtown area or its quiet residential neighborhoods.