With many places reconsidering Confederate statues on government property and removing them, is it time again to think about those on Little Rock and Arkansas property?
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam apparently has told his staff he won't resign. The alternative has grown more problematic, because another woman has alleged she was raped by the lieutenant governor.
Virginia is for politics lovers, if you like a good disaster. The latest: Attorney General Mark Herring says HE once donned blackface — 39 years ago, as a 19-year-old college student, to join pals in impersonating a musical group they admired.
Arkansas is among the state's whose concealed carry permits won't be automatically honored in Virginia. The attorney general says our concealed carry permit law is too weak.
Talking Points Memo says the decision is merely procedural and no reflection on the merits, but it is nonetheless not a happy sign that the U.S. Supreme Court has put a halt to enforcement of a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling striking down the ban on same-sex marriage in Virginia.
Virginia Republicans have decided to have all the pleasure of Obamacare without any of the guilt, just like Arkansas. They'll take the money the Affordable Care Act provides for Medicaid expansion. They'll direct it in a way to provide a windfall for the private insurance industry. But they just won't call it Obamacare.
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This is 11 minutes of video worth watching to see the logical conclusion of the Republican war on women in Virginia.