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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] (Third and final installment in a series.) Are we ever going to be able to balance the federal budget again? That’s the question that has fiscal conservatives like me picking through the fiscal proposals of John McCain and Barack Obama searching for needles in the haystack. The bad news: Neither…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Attorney General Bob McDonnell is applying for another job next year, as you might have heard. But first things first. McDonnell is focused through Nov. 4 on the ’08 elections and what he can do to help keep Virginia in the Republican Party column. “It’s a competitive state. It’s obvious…
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Column by W.R. Marshall Gen. David Patraeus is leaving Iraq. Osama Bin Laden has won. A simple declarative statement — and an unfortunately true one. The victory was handed to him by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al; the Neocon architects of the now ironically entitled “War against Terror.” A war that was lost before it…
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz “These are stories that grabbed me; some moved me to tears,” said N. Gerald Shenk, professor of church and society at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and author of the new book, Hope Indeed! “I was hungry to see peace and reconciliation in action,” said Dr. Shenk. “And so, I began collecting…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Local rabbi Joe Blair was among 18 rabbis nationwide selected to participate in the 2008-2009 STAR PEER Executive Leadership Program. Joe Blair is the rabbi at Temple House of Israel in Staunton and Congregation Beth El in Harrisonburg.
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Column by Jim Bishop Attending a funeral isn’t all tears and sorrow. I came away from a funeral service for Kenneth Seitz, Sr., 91, of Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community in Harrisonburg, with a fresh sense of hope and resolve to seize the moment, recognizing that we won’t pass this way again. The service, held June…
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz Eastern Mennonite Seminary is experimenting with different ways of expanding the learning process. The spring semester, six students and one professor tested the limits of online and in-person education with a “hybrid” course called “The Jesus Movement in the Early Context.” The students were all service workers living in various…
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Op-Ed by Sanford D. Horn Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Enough already! Every word, every thought, every nuanced phrase uttered, has been placed under a microscope to the point that if a candidate doesn’t answer quickly enough he or she isn’t smart enough, but if the same candidate answers too quickly, he or…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] U.S. Senate candidate Jim Gilmore is joining President Bush and Republican Party presidential nominee John McCain in criticisms of Democratic Party presidential frontrunner Barack Obama on Iran. Gilmore, the frontrunner in the race to challenge Democrat Mark Warner in Virginia in November, said today that “Sen. Obama’s plans for presidential…
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The Politics Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] You think George Bush using a speech to the Knesset to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Israeli state to compare Barack Obama to Neville Chamberlain is bad, well … Does anybody out there not expect the President from Hell and his Minion McCain to…
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