My first instinct upon hearing that Senator JD Vance (R-OH) had an op-ed in the New York Times opposing further aid to Ukraine was to ignore it.After all, Vance has made his hostility to Ukraine’s ...

Chris Saxman represented the 20th District in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002-10. A businessman and active member of the community, he is Executive Director of Virginia FREE, a non-partisan, ...

[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 ...

This was from my endorsement of President Biden’s re-election just under four months ago:. There will be, at most, six candidates on the presidential ballot here in Virginia (or anywhere else): ...

My dad, who passed away in 1975, was a U.S. Navy veteran who served on the USS Wisconsin in the Pacific theater during World War II. He was 19 years old when he went to war. Later in his life, while I ...

All of us here at Bearing Drift offer our sincerest condolences to former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore and his sons, Jay and Ashton, at the death of his wife and their mom, Roxane Gilmore. “Death ...

Tuesday was a late night as primary votes were counted and results posted. At the end of the day all waited for absentee votes to be counted in the VA-05 Congressional race between incumbent Bob Good, ...

One would think that a candidate seeking the Republican nomination for an elected office would be qualified for the job they seek to hold. One would also think that a candidate seeking the Republican ...

Bill Bolling spent 22 years in elected office including eight years as 39th Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He lives in the Richmond area with his wife Jean Ann and teaches ...

They may have been Republicans in Milwaukee, but they sure sounded like San Francisco Democrats for anyone who remembered.

I’ve seen enough Election Nights to keep away from complete exuberance. Even as the Democrats flipped the General Assembly in 2019, I noticed they left seats on the table.When Democrats delighted in ...

“I no longer feel confident predicting political events here. Economic policy? I feel good about using bandwidth.” – Yours truly, literally less than a week ago. “Just when I thought I was out, they ...