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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s not just slasher movies and “American Pie.” I think conservatives have a point that the movies that we see playing at the multiplex every weekend are pushing the envelope quite a bit. Even supposedly family-friendly movies feature language and situations that I don’t know that I feel…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] THEY CALLED HIM ‘TURD BLOSSOM’: Karl Rove assails Tim Kaine I think I agree with Tim Kaine. When they send Karl Rove out to attack you, well … “Will all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years,” Rove told Bob Schieffer on the CBS…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “Everywhere I go I see vision. I’m sick of vision, really. I’m sick of the word.” These are the words of the guy who thinks he’s running the show. Thank God he’s not. Seriously, you can’t make this kind of thing up. My jaw dropped…
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Fear and Loathing on the Trail column by Chris Graham [email protected] A generous guy, that Jim Gilmore is. I got my hands on a piece of literature from the Gilmore Senate campaign that the local GOP was distributing last night at the Augusta County Fair. Quite rich, this thing was. It went into great detail…
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Column by Haresh Daswani I believe this is a cycle the whole world encounters during growth. It is not only in Beijing, where we have seen the levels of pollution through pictures trying to present the beauty of the new infrastructure. These pictures also showed the price to the environment for those infrastructures. It was…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] That car is me, ain’t it? “You need to pimp that thing up and start cruising Greenville Avenue again,” my friend Eli insisted. “We could really pick up babes in that car,” our buddy Mordecai chimed in. “Um, fellas, I’m married,” I shot back, stating what I…
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Column by Jim Bishop Greetings from Harrisonburg! I thought this would be my annual beach report, live and direct from the Outer Banks, N.C. But, as Scottish poet Robert (Sun)Burns rightly observed, “The best-laid plans of mice and men gang often go awry” (Gang aft agley). Instead, I’m hunkered down in the bedroom of our…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] NBC News political director Chuck Todd broke it down for us last night on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” Assigning leaners in the Electoral College to the candidates that it appears that they will support, the 2008 presidential race comes down to four states – Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio and…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] GET IT RIGHT: I didn’t say what they’re saying I said A GOP volunteer complained to a staffer working the AFP/New Dominion booth at the Augusta County Fair that he doesn’t believe half of what I write because I wrote a few weeks ago that Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte’s internal…
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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Slow Food Nation leader Alice Waters – founder of Berkeley’s famous Chez Panisse Restaurant and author of eight food books – spoke at the small town (8,000 people) Sebastopol Farmers’ Market in Northern California Aug. 3. She was interviewed about the Aug. 29-31 SFN celebration to happen around San Francisco by…
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