In what seems stranger than science fiction or the South Park episode with the mad scientist creating new life forms — and certainly far creepier — the British Parliament has given its approval for the creation of animal-human embryos for research.  

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Vote for your choice for Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat which will be decided at the Republican Party of Virginia Convention this coming weekend in Richmond. Voting ends at midnight Thursday.

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Want to know what people are thinking? On any topic imaginable? Check the polls. There are polls for everything now.

Guess what? We’re joining the fray! Of course it won’t be scientific, but we’re glad to be able to offer … Read more>

We realize the nomination for the Democrat presidential nomination is a tooth and nail fight, but if Senator Barack Obama really is the presumptive nominee, why is he trying to one-up rival Senator Hillary Clinton? You may remember during her … Read more>

Nothing irks me more than our cultural illiteracy — and of all of our massive misunderstandings of American culture, nothing has come to be more misunderstood in recent years as Memorial Day.

It’s almost understandable since most people get their … Read more>

According the the May 26 Richmond Times-Dispatch, the remaining seven of several saved cedar waxwings — so cruelly ensnared by the glue traps set for pigeons atop the General Assembly Building (and commented upon here) — were released back to … Read more>

Previously, we asked what former Governor Mark Warner thinks of his successor’s tax increase proposal; Warner of expertise in that genre, and of specific greatness in birthing Virginia’s all-time record tax increase after promising not to raise taxes during his campaign; … Read more>

The Roanoke Times editorial page has been kind enough to weigh in on this week’s decision by two judges on the Fourth Circuit to strike down Virginia’s ban on partial-birth infanticide. Big shock — they agree with the ruling.

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Virginia Catholic Conference Executive Director Jeff Caruso issued the following statement in reaction to the 2-1 decision to strike down Virginia’s partial-birth abortion ban by a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals:

I cannot imagine that protecting the gruesome

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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave birth to her fifth child, Trig Paxson Van Palin, on April 18. According to the 2-1 ruling earlier this week on Virginia’s partial-birth abortion law by a three judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit … Read more>