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The Old Dominion is trending in an ominous direction, and it’s a problem for the whole country. On Monday, the Virginia General Assembly ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. Advocates of the ERA have argued that Virginia is the 38th and final state needed to add it to the Constitution, though the legal argument for that is dubious. Nevertheless, if the ERA were to become law, it would almost certainly provide the legal basis to enshrine left-wing social dogmas nationwide, among other negative consequences. Other states should take note: No matter how conservative your state has been in the past, you’re...

North Carolina may be regarded as a red state, but it is trending Democratic in congressional races, and not just because Democrat Heath Shuler defeated Republican incumbent Charles Taylor in November. Tar Heel voters cast 53 percent of their total votes for Democrats in the 13 congressional districts in November, according to figures compiled by Hotline, a Washington-based political newsletter. It would be easy to dismiss the strong Democratic showing as an aberration, but that is how the votes had been trending. In 2000, Democrats won only 44 percent of the vote. By 2004 that had risen to 48.9 percent,...

The Canadian electorate, characteristically one of the most docile in the democratic world, suddenly seemed to have awakened from their sleep last week and decided that they had had enough. A poll, highly credible because it was conducted for the left-leaning Globe and Mail, showed a startling 10-percentage-point leap in electoral support for the Conservative Party. It was enough to assure them a minority government in the general election Jan. 23, with the bare possibility of a full majority. Moreover, the response to the poll of the Liberal Party and its leader, Prime Minister Paul Martin, was so strident that...

Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Presidential candidate will be speaking at the downtown Colorado Springs, Pioneer Museum. September 7th, A Rally will be held starting at 6 PM.