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By Lynn R. Mitchell An Alabama blogger has been ordered to pay $3.5 million in settlement after he falsely accused a campaign manager of...

By Lynn R. Mitchell With Florida Senator Marco Rubio set to announce today that he is running for U.S. President, it is worth looking at h...

By Lynn R. Mitchell Journalist Bernie Goldberg asks some pertinent questions about the Rolling Stone rape story directed at the Universi...

By Lynn R. Mitchell Bearing Drift's "Big Line" predictions have not been updated since March 5, 2015, so I'm going to ...

By Lynn R. Mitchell That's my child bonding with a sheep. It is known as Virginia's Switzerland, this rural, mountainous, sou...

By Kathy Walton Lafon Guest Post   Broken Together: As I was delivering singing Valentines yesterday, I was traveling in Augusta Count...

  By Lynn R. Mitchell   "Evil is real. There is no light grey. Murdering innocent people to move a political point of view has bee...

  By Lynn R. Mitchell "Night to Shine." Worldwide. 15,000 volunteers. Countless smiles. Overflowing love. Tonight. Tim Tebow ...

 By Lynn R. Mitchell   I have been wanting a copy of "Back Roads: People, Places and Pie Around Virginia" featuring photos b...

By Lynn R. Mitchell The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) will benefit from a fundraiser being hosted by former Majority Leade...

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By Lynn R. Mitchell Everyone loves the lights of the season so pile the kids in the car and head to Staunton’s Gypsy Hill Park “...

By Lynn R. Mitchell Christmas ornament hand-painted by 10-year-old Stacy in 1975.   As I was growing up, a tradition in our famil...

Churchville Branch of the Augusta County Library. There’s Kindles and laptops and video games and smart phones and every other ...

Staff Sgt. Matthew Ammerman, a native of Noblesville, Ind., was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) when he died...

By Benjamin Dessart While I normally do not give such articles much consideration, the editorial written by the Daily Caller and promoted...

By Daniel Cortez In my 45 years as a writer-broadcaster and political media operative, this remains the worst breach of journalistic ethi...

Jeb Bush. Not conservative enough. Try as I might, it remains impossible to see these two concepts as even remotely related. John Ellis B...

State Senator Emmett Hanger has not announced if he intends to seek reelection for the 24th Senate District seat that he has held since 199...

Jeb Bush came out again on the side of common sense and pragmatic leadership when he addressed The Wall Street Journal  CEO Council annual m...

The Hill has their list of 13 Republicans most likely to be nominees for the Republican presidential nomination for 2016 (see 13 Republicans...

It’s Small Business Saturday in Virginia … shop local. Check out the mom-and-pop businesses that.... ( continue reading here )

By Lynn R. Mitchell   "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of whic...