No doubt, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is a smart man: a former federal judge, U.S. attorney, Columbia University graduate, the first black American to serve as attorney general. But sometimes you have to wonder if he’s politically tone deaf. There have been the well publicized gaffes and missteps over terror trials in New York City federal courts, the Mirandizing of terrorists and his declaration that Arizona’s new immigration law is unconstitutional, despite his not having read the law. But what is most galling to Virginians — Central Virginians, especially — is his inexplicable behavior and stony silence in the...
