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REUTERS/Larry Downing President-elect Joe Biden has selected retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin III to be secretary of defense, but Austin hasn't been retired for the minimum of seven years required before former officers can assume that civilian leadership position. Austin would need a waiver, which have only been granted twice, and there's a reason that recently retired officers rarely lead the Pentagon, writes Dr. Dwight Stirling, a lecturer in law at the University of Southern California and a reserve JAG officer in the California National Guard. By all accounts,...

BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO Richmond Times-Dispatch In toppling monuments to Confederates, Gov. Ralph Northam — and he’s too modest to admit it — is erecting one to himself. It’s not bronze or marble or granite, though as a soon-to-be-lame-duck governor, Northam qualifies for an official portrait. Northam’s unlikely monument — one more oriented to the future than the past — largely will be fashioned from Virginia’s budget, etched with dollars for programs that aim to expand democracy in a state that long resisted it. On Wednesday, in the first step ...

You Make a Difference! Our mission and operations are funded entirely by Patriots like you! Please support the 2021 Patriots' Day Campaign now. The Bill of Rights December 15, 1791, marks the ratification of our Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to our Constitution, and the Rule of Law it enshrines. The Bill of Rights was inspired by three remarkable documents: John Locke’s 1689 thesis, “Two Treatises of Government,” regarding the protection of “property” (in the Latin context, proprius, or one’s own “life, liberty and estate”); in part from th...

A DC-area school board votes to rename schools named for Thomas Jefferson and George Mason.