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Opinion

That’s all, folks: Donald Trump wins, and the Odd Dominion turns out the lights

Just so you know, I had always planned to make this the final edition of the Odd Dominion column. When I first started scribbling this occasionally amusing trifle way back […]

dancatalano | November 15, 2016

Opinion

Faraway, so close: What does the future hold?

Although it seems almost impossible to believe, this is the final column we will publish before the awesomely epic election of 2016. Yes, we will pen one more before the […]

dancatalano | October 26, 2016

Opinion

Off the rails: The Trump train goes over a cliff

Wow. Just wow. We have been following politics for a very long time (too long, perhaps), and we honestly have never seen anything quite like the insane gyrations currently rocking […]

dancatalano | October 11, 2016

Opinion

Fighting the tide: Can Virginia’s Republicans overcome a Clinton victory?

Here’s one case study showing just how difficult it’s becoming for Virginia Republicans running local races: A recent internal poll conducted for the campaign of Democrat LuAnn Bennett, who is […]

dancatalano | September 28, 2016

Opinion

The home stretch: Galloping toward the electoral finish line

Believe it or not, election day 2016 is now less than eight weeks away, which means that finally—after a seeming eternity of arguments, attack ads, innuendo and outrageous antics—Virginians will […]

dancatalano | September 15, 2016

Opinion

Voting wars: The fight for the franchise heats up

There’s a basic truism in modern American politics: The more people vote, the more Democrats win. This trend began in 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. […]

dancatalano | August 31, 2016

Opinion

Trump is toast: Will the House and Senate follow?

If there’s one thing we love about penning this column, it’s making ridiculously premature predictions. And though we’ve whiffed a few (like that time we opined that Bernie Sanders would […]

dancatalano | August 17, 2016

Opinion

Counterpunch: The Democrats convene, and Trump plays mean

We simply must begin this edition by saluting Charlottesville’s latest (and most lovable) political luminaries: Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star parents whose son, Army Captain Humayun Khan (a […]

dancatalano | August 2, 2016

Opinion

Doom and gloom: Trump bets big on fear at the Republican Convention

First off, before we dive into the current parade of political lunacy, we would like to pause for one moment and express our gratitude to Donald J. Trump, who has […]

dancatalano | July 26, 2016

Opinion

Stewart’s folly: Virginia’s top Trump plumper steps in it again

They say you can tell a great deal about a man by the company he keeps. As with almost everything else about Donald Trump, this rule of thumb does not […]

dancatalano | July 20, 2016

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