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Op-Ed by Adam Sharp U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) decided last week to decline the $85 million available to him in taxpayer funds for the general election. I hope all candidates eventually do the same.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “The market is closed.” That’s the quick rendering from Gregg Doud, the chief economist at the Washington, D.C.,-based National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, regarding the access that U.S. beef producers currently have to the China market. Which is to say, none. This would seem to shed…
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Op-Ed by Al Weed Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more The Senate debate on the Lieberman-Warner bill to reduce carbon emissions was the first serious national recognition of the challenge of climate change. Al Gore’s Nobel Prize notwithstanding, until an effort to change our energy culture through public policy is made, the U.S. is…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Considering what we’ve had to go through with Michael Vick over the course of the past year, I’m not all that fond of the phrase Don’t have a dog in this fight anymore, but when it comes to the ongoing mess involving the Augusta County GOP, I really don’t have…
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Op-Ed by Clyde Winter ClydeWinter.wordpress.com Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more There have been over 60,000 official U.S. casualties, and about 4,000 U.S. dead in Iraq. So far. (That doesn’t count, for some reason, the “private contractors.”) There is no rural community, no urban or suburban neighborhood, without families that have suffered devastating combat…
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The Politcs Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Why is Bob Goodlatte banging the drum on the Second Amendment? “You can count on me to fight to protect our rights,” Goodlatte wrote in a fund-raising letter dated May 16 that he began with mention of a case now in front of the United States Supreme…
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Op-Ed by Edward R. Long On May 6, Democrat Sen. Harry Reid accused big oil companies of shutting down refineries temporarily to raise gasoline prices and rake in”obscene profits.” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., stated that it would take too long to bring new sources online and that there would never be drilling for oil in…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Ed Keenan once came within a few inches of blowing up half of Augusta County. He’s spent the past couple of years trying to figure out why. “When the train started out that day, the licensed engineer didn’t know he was supposed to be supervising me, I didn’t…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte A recent statistic from the Department of Justice shows that someone is assaulted in the U.S. every 7.2 seconds, raped every 2.7 minutes and murdered every 31 minutes. These figures are truly disturbing and something must be done. That is why I joined my Republican colleagues from the House Judiciary Committee…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The last time that you were paying any attention to the U.S. Senate race, former governor Jim Gilmore was the Republican candidate. Be careful now, though, because Gilmore has two opponents for that GOP nomination that you might have assumed was an automatic. Northern Virginia state delegate Bob…
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