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Over the past several decades, federal and state transportation policies have struggled to keep pace with a rising population and increasing numbers of motorists and trucks using the roads. As a result, congestion has worsened in most major metropolitan areas, imposing extra costs on all motorists and truckers and… Read more
The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 requires contractors on all federal construction projects to pay their workers the prevailing wage in their locality. The law is intended to ensure that the government does not drive down construction workers' wages, but flaws in the U.S. Department of Labor's wage determination process have… Read more
No metaphor in American letters has had a more profound influence on law and policy than Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state." Today, this figure of speech is accepted by many Americans as a pithy description of the constitutionally prescribed church-state arrangement, and it has become the… Read more
The argument that original meaning should guide constitutional interpretation is nearly as old as the Constitution itself. Before there were strict constructionists, before there were judicial activists, there were originalists. In those early days, few seriously objected to the notion that the Constitution should… Read more
This month, several individuals detained as "enemy combatants" will make their appeals for freedom to the highest court in the land. Perhaps now, more than any other time in recent memory, the eyes of the world are intensely focused… Read more
On August 23, 2011, a 5.8 earthquake centered in Virginia was felt throughout the mid-Atlantic. Minor by the standards...… Read more
BREAKING NEWS—Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman will not be on the Virginia GOP...… Read more
Speaking at Heritage this morning, former Speaker Newt Gingrich called on House Republicans to put politics aside and...… Read more
A recent WORLD magazine article highlights the success of a Virginia organization committed to providing struggling...… Read more
One year ago today President Obama imposed a moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. It banned...… Read more
Randall Stilley has witnessed firsthand the Obama administration's job-killing agenda. As the president and chief...… Read more
Yesterday, the Supreme Court denied Virginia’s motion to bypass the appellate court and go directly to the Supreme Court...… Read more
Virginia residents witnessed a significant victory for religious liberty this week. On Wednesday, Virginia’s State Board...… Read more
One by one, all but seven states have succumbed to pressure to adopt national academic standards. But in a recent bid...… Read more
Long before the House of Representatives considered the repeal of Obamacare, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli...… Read more