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Virginia is the new Illinois.

The practice of drawing partisan districts is named after Elbridge Gerry, the 19th century Massachusetts governor. Even he might blush at the extreme gerrymander that Democrats in the commonwealth are pushing.

They want to go from a congressional delegation with 6 Democrats and 5 Republicans -- broadly ...Read more

Alex Pretti wasn't killed while "protesting."

This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street the fateful morning when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting.

But if Pretti had been a mere protester, he'd very likely be alive today.

Now that we've seen videos of an earlier ...Read more

Thomas Jefferson doesn't have much in common with Tim Walz, but in his more radical moments, the Sage of Monticello might have appreciated the spirit of the Minnesota governor's campaign to resist federal immigration enforcement.

In 1798, Jefferson authored a first draft of the Kentucky Resolutions outlining a purported right of states to ...Read more