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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He started his general-election campaign here in June after sewing up the Democratic Party nomination, and he’s going to end it here late Monday night. Still want to quibble over how seriously Barack Obama is taking Virginia? “What better way is there to showcase the importance of this state as…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Republicans and their allies in the mainstream news media are stating publicly that it’s Democrats who are trying to rig the 2008 elections by submitting voter-registration applications with phony names and other such chicanery. Funny how the media is either missing out on the real story or is working in…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Not a day goes by that I don’t hear from an Obama-Biden supporter about the Wilder Effect – or what some folks call the Bradley Effect, the basics being a major-party candidate who is African-American whose support in pre- and post-election polling registers higher than actual performance in the polls….
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith and Grayson Republican Del. Bill Carrico are promising a pitched legislative fight in next year’s Virginia General Assembly to overturn a Virginia State Police policy crafted in response to a ruling from the conservative Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals from the summer banning…
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Staff Report A State Police investigation into an ad that ran in the News Leader two days before the May 6 Staunton City Council elections that some said might have run afoul of Virginia campaign-finance laws has concluded with a finding that there was no evidence of wrongoing, the paper reported this morning. The ad,…
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Column by Leslie Smith Concerned Women for America of North Carolina is calling all citizens to take action to stop the distribution of “Hounddog,” a film depicting child rape. CWA of North Carolina created the “No More Child Porn” campaign in July after learning that the North Carolina Department of Commerce gave $387,000 in taxpayer…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The executive order signed by Gov. Tim Kaine in the runup to the arrival of Tropical Storm Hanna two weeks ago is still in effect as consumers reel from the effects of gas prices that are up as much as 60 cents a gallon since Friday. “If any citizen feels…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia Beach Republican Terrie Suit is resigning from her seat in the Virginia House of Delegates to take a job with the Richmond-based Williams Mullen. “As lifelong military family members, we felt strongly that we should get involved in the community where we lived, plant roots, and advocate on behalf of…
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Column by Sandy Froman The treatment of Sarah Palin has been an appalling display of sexism and elitism. But the hatchet-men are in for a rude awakening. The attacks over the past few days come down to two things: First, Sarah Palin is supposedly out of her depth. She’s only been in high office for…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] She has executive experience, but let’s put Sarah Palin’s Alaska in perspective. It has a population of 670,000 and a state budget of $6.6 billion. Which, essentially, makes it Fairfax County (population 1 million, operating budget of $3.3 billion), only colder. So maybe we can dispense with the…
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