“President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. ‘Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of ...

Clarence Franklin Osborne was 27 years old when killed in action in the final weeks of World War II and was buried in the U.S. Military Cemetery in St. Avold, France. His body was later returned to ...

Bearing Drift’s Matt Colt Hall, Mike Allers Jr., and Lynn R. Mitchell are working the 7th Congressional District convention today. Matt and Mike have boots on the ground in Doswell, and Lynn is at the ...

[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 ...

Let’s jump right into it. Virginia Republicans have a really good chance to win all three statewide offices – Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General – and also winning back the majority in the ...

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 ...

At Wednesday night’s Augusta County Board of Supervisors meeting, during “Matters to Be Presented By the Public,” former Board Chairman Tracy Pyles approached the podium to address the seven ...

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): ...

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.

I miss the department stores of downtown Richmond from years past. The Nordstroms and Macys of the day were Miller & Rhoads and Thalhimer’s, multi-story buildings that faced Broad and Grace Streets ...

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, ...

Vice President Kamala Harris – the current Democratic nominee for president – announced her selection for running mate/successor today: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The deep-dive on Walz’s tenure as ...