For-profit insurance companies are the problem, not the solution.

I can no longer stand on the sideline and read the one-sided story about public school trailer classrooms and whether or not the Planning Commission should be conducting Public Facility Reviews.

Imagine you’re an assistant football coach who finds himself taking leadership of a team in the middle of an uninspiring season.

Here’s a dirty little secret about health care reform that Democrats in Washington would prefer you didn’t know: They’re counting on people to stay uninsured.

It’s kind of funny how opinions change as you get older. I remember being an activist in my college days, eager to stand up for what I believed was right and wanting to change all that was unfair in the world.

Don’t look now, but gas prices are creeping up again.

Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter suggests that, in response to the Fort Hood massacre, we should “pray for the families involved…” I have a better idea. Why don’t we stop electing people like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to positions of responsibility?

Terrorist Nidal Hassan committed the first act of Islamic terrorism on American soil since George W. Bush left office.

Generally, as most of us get older, we have a very good idea of what our likes and dislikes are.

The suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, it turns out, exhibited telltale warning signs that something was amiss, but none of them seemed alarming enough to prompt authorities to act. The killings at the Texas base should lower that threshold.

I want to express my deep gratitude to all of you who shared your time and resources by volunteering on my campaign, offering advice, graciously talking with me when I knocked on your doors, and who cast your vote for me. It was truly a pleasure to meet you and to work with you.

So now health care reform rests on the shoulders of the Senate and in the hands of Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.

Although serious problems exist within our current health care system, and despite recent legislation which poses it serious peril, history and economics teach us markets are resilient.

We heard the news of the landmark vote on health care in the House of Representatives over coffee on Sunday morning.

The cost of our political classes’ obsession with multiculturalism and Political Correctness is not just sanctimonious news conferences and racial special interest groups.

This is directed to those liberal do-gooders who are opposed to the death penalty by lethal injection because they believe that it it is cruel and inhuman punishment.

I know they’re just the comics.

When the City of Manassas shut down its Recreation and Parks Department last December, the city lost an advocate for recreation.

The liberal media often sends us a message that social issues are of little if any importance at all.

Our cousins in monarchial realms say, “The king is dead, long live the king!” As good republicans, American political groupies prefer, “The election is over, may the next one begin.” Here we go.

One winter morning a couple of years ago, I was shoveling snow that had fallen overnight when someone said, “I could do that for you.”

Tomorrow, barring any intervention, the D.C. sniper will die.

Who appointed Steve Willis as speaker for Rep. Gerry Connolly’s constituents (News & Messenger, Sept. 20)? 

Now that Virginia’s statewide elections are over, people will begin to ask the question, has Virginia returned to its red state roots? Red is, of course, referring to the color representing Republican control on Election Day maps.

In almost every edition, the weekly Washington Business Journal lists the top 50 to 100 businesses in a particular category in the metropolitan area.

Last Tuesday, I, like many other Virginians, went to the polls and cast my vote.

Just as it has done for the past eight Thanksgivings, your local paper wants to give you a Thanksgiving Day edition loaded with good news — news about people who have made a difference in the lives of others.

Thursday’s shooting at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army post is the deadliest shooting on an American military base in U.S. history.

On Tuesday, the residents of the 51st District made their choice for the Virginia House of Delegates.

I have lived in Prince William County for nearly 30 years, and for the first time, I am truly embarrassed for my hometown.