Preemptive war, permanent emergency: The real cost of Trump’s Iran strike
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The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces. War abroad and war at home are no longer separate enterprises.
Search Results for U.S. House
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Virginia taxpayers to gift $500K to Korean company for 60 jobs in Henry County
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Every time we get a press release from the governor’s office like the one we got today about Fukoku Korea, we’re going to point out how much the state is handing out in welfare dollars to billion-dollar companies so that they can make money off us.
Early innings of a dangerous ballgame: Distortions, atrocities in the Middle East
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War is terrible, and unfortunately, we have another one on our hands; in the Middle East, of all places, where we don’t exactly have a sparkling track record.
Earl Zimmerman: March 2026 Climate and Energy News Roundup
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The Rockingham County Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected an application to build a 20-acre solar panel facility northeast of Harrisonburg.
Bob Topper: AI, and the lessons unlearned from our economic history
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In the last century people marveled at the Wright Brothers’ success. Just 66 years later, an awestruck world watched American astronauts walk on the moon.
Alon Ben-Meir: From anti-Russian McCarthyism to pro-Russian Trumpism
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Back in the 1950s, in the United States, even a whisper of sympathy for Russia or the Soviet Union was unthinkable and seen as almost traitorous.
We are now at war with Iran: Trump launches strikes; objectives not clear
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The U.S. and Israel are now at war with Iran, over Iran’s nuclear program, which was supposedly obliterated, per the insistence of Donald Trump, a few months ago by a round of U.S. and Israeli air strikes, but apparently wasn’t.
A cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome: Group wisdom from ‘The West Wing’
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When I began watching reruns of “The West Wing,” I thought I had discovered a cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome, the malady Republicans created to disturb the sleep of thoughtful Americans.
High-stakes SOTU: Kaine invites Harrisonburg dentist to presidential address
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A Harrisonburg dentist will join U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., at tonight’s State of the Union address by President Donald Trump at 9 p.m.
Should billionaires have it all? Not if we want a democratic society
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California politics is currently being shaken up thanks to a drive to enact a one-time wealth tax on the state’s billionaires to offset federal cuts to healthcare.
