One of the great challenges of The Family Foundation is to be a voice of reason in a world where the media carries the message of the left without any challenge to its lack of logic.

Within the past few … Read more>

On Friday, we presented Delegate Todd Gilbert (R-15, Woodstock) with The Family Foundation’s 2013 Legislator of the Year Award. The presentation was made at the Valley Family Forum’s annual dinner in Harrisonburg.

This year, Delegate Gilbert was the House patron … Read more>

McDonnell set to disclose highway funding reforms 1 day before Va. lawmakers convene

McDonnell names Romero as health commissioner

Online, Va. Senate Dems target GOP over social issues

It takes a village to kill this many children

On Wednesday, Let’s Prove … Read more>

When the General Assembly convenes tomorrow, there will be at least one social issue that the media and the radical secular left will be promoting — adding sexual orientation to the Commonwealth’s “non-discrimination” laws. While spun by groups like Equality Virginia … Read more>

Many probably hoped that after the General Assembly left town for a few weeks, cooler heads would prevail and the left’s hysteria would settle down a bit. Those of us who have been around here very long recognized just how … Read more>

One thing we hear often is that the General Assembly needs to work on “real issues,” such as job creation, and stop “wasting time” on social issues; that Virginia’s lawmakers must focus on their most important job — the budget. If … Read more>

Christian conservatives are extremists. Out of touch. Want to force their view of the world, indeed, their religion, on all of us. 

That, basically, is what the Far Left, posing as pragmatists, even as self-styled libertarians, would have the public … Read more>

The normal political diatribe for years, from politicians and pundits alike, has been that the focus of nearly every candidate and elected official is and ought to be the economy. No need to be “distracted” by or waste time on … Read more>

The Sunday before Election Day 2006, a Richmond Times-Dispatch headline screamed that polling showed the Marriage Amendment campaign had tightened. The poll said that the amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman was supported by a slim … Read more>

While some Republicans, in Virginia and nationally, think the time has come and passed on “social issues” (i.e., preserving life and marriage), and that elections can be won only from the “center,” Governor Bob McDonnell has some news for you. … Read more>