Tag: Virginia

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In one county (Franklin), it is claimed 99 people out of 100 are making, or have some connection with, illicit liquor.
-Official Records, (US) National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, 1935

My brother Forrest once said that nothing could kill us, that we could never die.
-Jack Bondurant, Lawless
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Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia.

(Read Part 1 here)

War with the Powhatans

As the English presence in the Chesapeake Bay region increased, tensions with the Indians worsened. From the point of view of the English Virginians – the primary Indian enemy was the Powatan Tribe. The Powhatans were not a single tribe, instead the “tribe” was several Algonquin tribes united in a confederacy by Powhatan and his brothers. Tribes joined or left the confederacy through the first half of the seventeenth century. (more…)

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The settlement of Virginia, and the rest of North America, was similar in many ways to the settlement of Britain by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes; three Germanic tribes that combined to become the Anglo-Saxons or the English. In both places, Anglo-Saxons became the dominant people of the land. (more…)

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Brion T. McClanahan, Editor
Virginia First: The 1607 Project
McClellanville, S. C.: Abbeville Institute Press, 2024

Virginia itself was the mother of States and in Colonial times extended in fact, as other colonies did in theory, to the Mississippi . . . — Madison Grant

The earliest Anglo colony in what is now the United States was in Jamestown, Virginia, which was first settled in 1607. (more…)

Judge Claude Worrell

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A momentous, and rare, legal victory has been achieved in the cases of Augustus Invictus, Jacob Dix, and the other defendants recently charged under Virginia’s “burning an object” statute for non-violent participation in the Charlottesville torchlight demonstration, Unite the Right, that was held six years ago on August 11, 2017.

Various Unite the Right protesters have been rounded up and charged in a dragnet by Albemarle County’s Soros-funded prosecutor Jim Hingely. (more…)

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At least all publicity is good publicity — or is it?

Speaking of tarnished reputations, Townhall featured a story recently, “Dem Candidate Is Livid GOP Discovered Her Chaturbate Channel.” It turns out that Susanna Gibson, who is running for the Virginia House of Delegates, was found out to be a part-time cam girl who goes by “hotwifeexperience.” (more…)

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A blogger associated with the antifa bragged at the beginning of this week that arrests were imminent against demonstrators who had participated in the August 11, 2017 tiki torch march in Charlottesville, Virginia. Three people have been arrested so far, but this may be only the beginning. (more…)

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After nearly 20 years of exile in New York City, I recently returned home to the South. I went to New York for a job and arrived full of hope, delighted at the prospect of a new life in “the greatest city in the world.” My preconceptions about the city were almost all positive, and, as I later discovered, heavily romanticized. (more…)

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National divorce is the natural consequence of America’s highly politicized culture. Cable news channels routinely feature the term “civil war.” Average Americans divide along political lines in their personal and social lives, and nowhere is this more pronounced than on college campuses. America’s internal divisions are here to stay. (more…)

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History is important, American history particularly so. For better or worse — and I still don’t know if it’s for better or worse — everything America does and fails to do affects the world. President Clinton was very cautious about getting involved in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s because he was thinking of the Vietnam War. George W. Bush went on to attack Iraq because he was thinking of the “lessons” of the Second World War. (more…)

Thomas Nelson Page

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What was life like in the antebellum South? Obviously it’s going to be a matter of perspective. Thomas Nelson Page provided one such viewpoint, the type we seldom hear about lately. He was a lawyer in his early career and a diplomat later, but is best known as a writer.

Aside from several novels, he published a non-fiction account of the Old South as he remembered it during his boyhood. This was Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897). It’s a quick read, providing a glimpse into a bygone time. (more…)

Captain John Smith, one of the Jamestown colony’s early leaders.

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The Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony receive a great deal of glory. This glory is well deserved, but other shiploads of colonists did valorous things as well. The same year the Mayflower[1] crossed the Atlantic, so too did the Bona Nova. The latter vessel’s destination was Virginia, but it was swept northwards by the tides and wind. The crew recovered the situation by beating against the wind back towards Virginia, arriving in January of 1621. (more…)

Glenn Youngkin

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Surprisingly, moderate Republican Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia gubernatorial race this week. Once a battleground, Virginia has become a solid blue state in recent years. Republicans last won a statewide race in 2009, and few commentators gave Youngkin a shot to win. Donald Trump lost the state by 10 points in 2020, and Republicans lost the gubernatorial race in 2017 by the same margin. This time, however, the Republican candidate won it by over two points. (more…)