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Column by W.R. Marshall “A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.” – Thomas Pynchon Why Pynchon? Because he appeals to the intellect. And because it’s literal. There is a screaming across the sky, a constant shrill chorus filling the air. And it has…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] So now the world knows how badly Waynesboro wants its Obama-Biden signs. I wasn’t aiming at getting coverage on the front page of the Washington Post’s Virginia section, but sometimes these little crusades that you start at 2 in the morning trying to post an item on what you assumed…
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Column by Jim Bishop Operating from the [erroneous] assumption that it can be done, I’ve taken it upun myself once again to locate a good pun. So far, I haven’t been able to opun the door. Let me pry this … “Knock-knock!” “Who’s there?” “Luck.” “Luck who?” “Luck through the key hole and find out.”
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Many Charles Dickens fans just assume that it was supposed to be John Jasper who would turn out to be the murderer at the end of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Everything seems to point back to Jasper, most notably his affections for Rosa Bud, Drood’s fiancee, though a small…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Gilmore spent two hours in Waynesboro on Monday visiting with the editorial staff at The News Virginian. His timing could have been better, given what happened later Monday in the River City. “The thing that I have a dilemma about this is I don’t like to raise taxes on…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Dayanara Delgado Najarro came to America a few years back for the same reason that my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents did back in the 1730s. The operative word here is opportunity. “I’m trying to get a better education than what I had and a better opportunity than I would have in my country….
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Op-ed by Nina May www.ninamay.com In 1984, after founding the Renaissance Women, to counter the radical feminists who were claiming to speak for all women, we were on the national radar. As a very young, conservative, I was pitted against a veteran feminist, Gloria Steinem, on the “Phil Donahue” show. The issue was whether women…
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Column by Haresh Daswani Given that the world financial situation has become shaky, given that people were buying houses they cannot really afford, at prices higher than what is deemed fit, it is inevitable that price correction in real estate will cause chaos within the banking sector. It is also interesting to see that our…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Richard Clarke never thought he’d be out on the stump for a presidential candidate. A counterterrorism expert who worked in the federal government for 30 years, his job was to make it so that nobody outside a small circle of people in the State Department ever knew his name. But…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Eighty-three percent of vehicle occupants are using their seat belts during daylight hours, according to a new U.S. Department of Transportation report released last week. That’s up from 82 percent last year and represents an all-time high in terms of measurable use. “More and more Americans are realizing that the…
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