Today's Opinions

In what many may consider a surprise for such a conservative area of Virginia, Republican primary voters here not only rejected a tea party activist and two religious crusaders, they chose a nominee for state delegate who’d helped raise taxes.
    Right here, no less, in the state House’s 19th district, which includes Bedford County, Botetourt supervisor Terry Austin won the Republican nomination to succeed retiring delegate Lacey Putney.

At least one top diplomatic official believes that the US military could have prevented an attack in Benghazi last Sept. 11, had fighter jets been deployed in a timely manner.
    Other reports continue to surface claiming a cover-up by the Obama Administration on Benghazi, to deflect the true nature of the attack prior to the November elections.
    Even further, some reports show a president detached from the attack on the American Embassy in which US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was killed.

Virginia will be the most politically-watched state in the country later this year, but you sure wouldn’t know it right now.
    Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for governor, is getting around the state and meeting with supporters. He was in Roanoke last week, and again this week.
    McAuliffe knows that a significant drop in voter turnout from 2012 could very well put his opponent, the extremist attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, in office.