A View from the Right: Domestic oil everywhere, but not a drop to drill

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Op-Ed by Sanford D. Horn Raise your hands if you know Yemen sold 13,000 barrels of crude oil and products each and every day during 2007 to the United States. OK, just raise your hands if you heard of Yemen in the first place. Yemen? Yes, Yemen. “Oh, good one! And ‘Yemen,’ that actually sounds…

That giant sucking sound

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Op-Ed by Sanford D. Horn A quarter of a million dollars. Let’s look at that figure in numerals – $250,000. That is the salary, before benefits, the Alexandria School Board has awarded Dr. Morton Sherman to become the new schools superintendent – effective Aug. 15. Effective Aug. 15? Dr. Sherman will be on the job…

The end of the car tax as we know it – revisited

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The Top Story by Chris Graham Tim Williams doesn’t like passing the buck to taxpayers any more than he has to – particularly when Richmond is awash in money from those same taxpayers. “The state has a surplus, and here they are passing this onto us. I don’t understand that. They made the promise, and…

A violation of constitutional rights? Staunton incident highlights gun-rights debate

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The Top Story by Chris Graham “Three guys came into the restaurant, and two of them had guns in their belts. And, I mean, they didn’t look like undercover police. But then again, what does undercover police look like? But … uh … it just looks kind of odd. They kept getting up and going…

Next on the Mark Warner agenda: Is former governor, White House candidate ready to again be a player on Virginia political scene?

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The Top Story by Chris Graham   Mark Warner made it a point to tell Virginia politics reporters covering the final year of his term as governor of the Old Dominion that he really felt he was hitting his stride in the job – and while the focus of their editors seemed to be on…

Where does Virginia stand on marriage amendment?

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The Top Story by Chris Graham   A majority of Virginians oppose gay marriage. But does that mean that a majority will vote in November in favor of a constitutional amendment that would prohibit gay marriage? “We obviously need to make sure that voters get the message that they need to read the whole thing…

Why didn’t the feds let Chap talk? CIS, Petersen camp both claim politics at heart of dispute

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The Top Story by Chris Graham Democratic Party lieutenant-governor candidate Chap Petersen was supposed to deliver a brief talk to a group of new United States citizens on behalf of a nonpartisan lawyers’ group in Fairfax on Thursday. That was before a couple of phone calls from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services led to…

The Weicker connection: Warner, Potts refute Connecticut newspaper report

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The Top Story by Chris Graham The conspiracy theorists have been having a field day with the report in the Feb. 25 edition of The Hartford Courant that offered up details into how Virginia Democratic Gov. Mark Warner apparently helped to introduce independent gubernatorial candidate Russ Potts to former independent Connecticut governor Lowell Weicker and…