Tom McLaughlin

Now here’s an opening sentence I can get behind: “Even with the world off its axis as the coronavirus continues to spread ....”

In the days and weeks ahead, we’re going to have to get used to our new reality of coronavirus.

We received an e-mail Tuesday from the office of state Sen. Frank Ruff requesting the publication of a press release. Panic attack seems more like it. But you be the judge:

It’s still early, but our great Commonwealth may be in the process of producing the dumbest political complaint of the new decade: the 2020 General Assembly session has split us into “two Virginias.”

After suggesting here last week that America was in truly sad shape if our best hope for political courage resided in the person of Mitt Romney, a correction is in order: the Utah Republican made history on Wednesday by becoming the first-ever U.S. Senator to vote to convict and remove an impeached president of his own party.

I have generally refrained from saying much about the impeachment proceedings underway against President Trump, because you can find scads of commentary on the topic from people who are both better informed and better writers than me.