Border wall speech: Or obfuscation?
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A funny thing happened on the way to President Trump delivering his beeg, important Oval Office address on the need for a border wall: that wasn’t really about a border wall.
Search Results for Donald Trump
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Sen. Warner to Senate: Reopen the government
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) joined Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) in calling for the Senate to vote on House-passed spending bills that would reopen the government immediately.
Beyer bill to give federal employees affected by government shutdown back pay passes House
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Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today hailed House passage of the legislative text of his bill to give back pay to federal employees in agencies affected by the partial government shutdown.
Let’s all pretend there already is a wall
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Congress isn’t going to give in to President Trump on his ransom demand for $5 billion for a border wall that the rest of us know will never actually be built.
David Swanson: Charlottesville as cartoon
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Here in Charlottesville, as in most places, we like our stories simple. Most books by local author John Grisham have good guys and bad guys. When a UVa sports team wins, everybody says “Yay, we won!” When it loses, three-quarters of the people say “Boo, we lost!”
Breaking down Hugh Freeze to Liberty Football: Home-run hire
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Liberty has a new football coach: Hugh Freeze, and this is either, a) huge news, because Freeze is a former SEC head coach, or b) are you serious, this is the guy who was run out of town because of a scandal involving phone calls to escort services?
Don Beyer statement on National Climate Assessment
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Rep. Don Beyer issued the following statement today on the National Climate Assessment, after the Trump Administration’s release of that document over a holiday weekend.
National Thanksgiving Turkey landing at Virginia Tech Gobbler’s Rest again
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Virginia Tech can add another feather to its cap: It will once again be home to the National Thanksgiving Turkey and its alternate “wingman.”
Chris Graham: Shifting political winds in Waynesboro
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Barack Obama received 3,840 votes in Waynesboro in his 2012 presidential re-election run. Jennifer Lewis, political neophyte, received, wait for it, 3,840 votes in Waynesboro in her 2018 bid for the Sixth District congressional seat.
David Swanson: Charlottesville-The Movie
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This past Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., I watched the premier of the film Charlottesville, produced by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
