Gifts for sharpening rhetorical swords - 7/1/2007
Bush is feeding China's worst instincts - 6/24/2007
Heroism in the face of stupidity, and worse - 6/17/2007
Treating oil addiction with a dose of harm - 6/10/2007
That old, familiar feeling in Iran - 6/3/2007
Remember the fallen and why they fell - 5/27/2007
Messenger Moore refuses to be silenced - 5/20/2007
Our enemies' friend is ... us - 5/15/2007
A peace movement buried in flowers - 5/13/2007
Billions of defense dollars are wasted - 5/8/2007
Cultivate Roanoke's river asset - 5/6/2007
Making the Roanoke River the asset it should be - 5/1/2007
This is no 'witch hunt'; it's accountability - 4/29/2007
Poor spokesmen for the Second Amendment - 4/24/2007
Mysteries of life, and of living - 4/22/2007
Letting down our Guard - 4/17/2007
The Second Amendment is what it is, alas - 4/15/2007
Peace in an old war zone - 4/10/2007
Symbols of a new life of the spirit - 4/8/2007
Fuel addiction and starvation - 4/3/2007
A poor model for nuclear disarmament - 4/1/2007
That whacky Inhofe; what fun - 3/27/2007
Virginia's transportation dead end - 3/25/2007
U.S. automakers still don't get it - 3/20/2007
Spring breaks through, but not the grass - 3/18/2007
The pirates of Wall Street hope to put into port - 3/13/2007
No outsourcing of responsibility - 3/11/2007
FDA and strains on the public trust - 3/6/2007
Don't dismiss our Luddites lightly - 3/4/2007
Lawmakers' silver lining is a mirage - 2/27/2007
The court's continuing challenge - 2/25/2007
'In God We Trust,' not lawmakers - 2/20/2007
In six short years, a more dangerous world - 2/18/2007
Va.'s utility re-regulation is not a capital idea - 2/13/2007
Heat's on, but we are, regrettably, only human - 2/11/2007
Taking license with liberty - 2/6/2007
Going beyond football, to life - 2/4/2007
Making a play for fat corporate earnings - 1/30/2007
Euphemizing the republic to death - 1/28/2007
A compromise wrapped in politics - 1/23/2007
The cure rages on - 1/21/2007
Big Pharma vs. the people - 1/16/2007
Let's hope hearts will burn anew - 1/14/2007
Waking up to a fiscal nightmare - 1/9/2007
Redistricting, then and now - 1/7/2007
Congress should reassert itself on chemical security - 1/2/2007
Let's resolve to fix health care - 12/31/2006
Knock it off, and pay attention - 12/26/2006
May the perpetual light shine - 12/24/2006
Highway (fund) robbery, the redux edition - 12/19/2006
Then the roof comes crashing in - 12/17/2006
'The Decider' goes his own way again, in space - 12/12/2006
The story is in the sharing - 12/10/2006
COMMENTARYThe public interest is easily railroaded - 12/5/2006
New Orleans gathers the moxie to party on - 12/3/2006
A hard lesson in utility (regulation) - 11/28/2006
Change happens - 11/26/2006
Through the pain, the game went on - 11/21/2006
A distillation of dissenting views - 11/14/2006
An idealism forged in the fires of war and want - 11/12/2006
Take this election -- please - 11/7/2006
Take a healthy skepticism to the polls - 11/5/2006
Give us the right to breathe free - 10/31/2006
Hopes of liberating Iraqi oil - 10/29/2006
Squawking chickens hit legislators' door - 10/24/2006
'Liberations' past, and lessons unlearned - 10/22/2006
Getting I-81 off K Street and on track - 10/17/2006
Embarking on another adventure - 7/2/2006
Desecrating the spirit of liberty - 6/25/2006
Some tales reveal truth, even when late - 6/18/2006
Gatekeeping a community conversation - 6/11/2006
An unhealthly overindulgence of 'the complex' - 6/4/2006
Worry about real problems - 5/28/2006
A moral case for extending the estate tax - 5/21/2006
Remember good mothers with thanks - 5/14/2006
No deal on electricity deregulation - 5/7/2006
Confusing raw power with wisdom - 4/16/2006
Heal the cuts of raw politics through humor - 4/9/2006
The peril of an eroding political center - 4/2/2006
To recommend, not to mandate, ballot choices - 3/26/2006
Be on guard against perils of dictatorship - 3/19/2006
Recalling the memory of a mentor - 2/26/2006
The first president named George - 2/19/2006
No place for offenses against decency - 2/12/2006
More rhetoric than cure for oil addiction - 2/5/2006
'Inefficiency' of dumping on students - 1/29/2006
Taking life and its meaning a day at a time - 1/22/2006
Calculating the true costs of war in Iraq - 1/15/2006
Remember the lessons of the past - 1/8/2006
The times are changing, so do the math - 1/1/2006
Nurturing the seedling
of hope and joy - 12/25/2005
The reason for the season - 12/18/2005
Denton index - 12/16/2005
