Virgil Goode News

The race to win a job that pays $36,000 a year and requires skills hardly more demanding than the ability to stand for long periods of time is attracting an inordinate amount of attention this year in Virginia.

A week ago, Democrats quoted late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel in their demand that a challenge to Barack Obama's eligibility to be president be dismissed.

They campaign in near anonymity, these third-party contenders who stand no shot at the presidency.

Many cases challenging Barack Obama's presidential eligibility have come and gone, but now an appeal has been filed with a state Supreme Court led by a newly elected chief justice who has expressed doubt about Obama's qualification for office.

As our nation commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, one group has been wholly overlooked in the modern portrayals of how America ended slavery in the 1860s.