Schmookler video going viral

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If Andy Schmookler can translate YouTube views into votes, he’s halfway to a monumental upset. A video of a speech given by the Sixth District Democratic congressional nominee is approaching 90,000 views on YouTube. Incumbent Bob Goodlatte won re-election in 2008 with 192,000 votes in the Sixth, garnering 63 percent of the vote in his race with Democrat Sam Rasoul.

Chris Marston: From the Pumpkin Patch

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More than 400 people attended a peace rally at the Islamic Center of the Shenandoah Valley on Sunday. The rally came after someone vandalized the Islamic Center on Friday and the Reedemer Classical School in Keezletown on Saturday. Vulgarities like those painted on both of these buildings should not be considered a healthy example of our American freedoms. We may not share the same beliefs as our neighbor, but our American values should ring clear. It is our American right to freely celebrate and practice whatever religion we might want to.

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Chris Graham: The last Chick-fil-A sandwich

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Chick-fil-A makes a damn good chicken sandwich. What is good to the taste buds might be hard to stomach considering the hateful comments from company president Dan Cathy, who in a radio interview this week said the U.S. is “inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage”