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With an ever-growing prison population within the United States, many lawmakers are beginning to push legislation to improve the standards for release within the criminal justice system.
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Three things are happening, have been happening, relative to COVID-19, international politics, and the 2020 presidential election.
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The U.S. House on Wednesday followed the Senate’s lead and overwhelmingly passed historic public lands legislation to guarantee federal funds for local, state and national parks, trails and recreation facilities.
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Unless we take back the reins—and soon—looking back on this time years from now, historians may well point to the events of 2020 as the death blow to America’s short-lived experiment in self-government.
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The drumbeat to “defund the police” is troubling to me, and it’s worth musing aloud if the push from the fringes of the Democratic Party might not have an impact that most of us don’t want to see on Nov. 3.
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The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association has launched a digital campaign to encourage widespread use of face coverings by giving away a limited number of blue cloth masks bearing the slogan “I (Heart) Virginia Hospitals.”
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For those old enough to have lived through the McCarthy era, there is a whiff of something in the air that reeks of the heightened paranoia, finger-pointing, fear-mongering, totalitarian tactics that were hallmarks of the 1950s.
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What if somebody, I dunno, like, a president type person, or somebody who wants to be president, were to step up and, again, dunno, tried to rally us around something, toward something?
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Colin Kaepernick tweeted over the weekend about July 4 being a “celebration of white supremacy,” which, OK, hate to admit it, his detractors were right, he really is all about himself.
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Walking through the park this weekend I noticed a man on a bench reading Metaxas’ acclaimed biography of German theologian and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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