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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] John McCain did exactly what he wanted to do last night, which could have been the game-changer that he has been trying to make happen for weeks were it the case that all he needed to do was convince fire-breathing Republicans that he was their man. He hit on Bill…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The economy, Iraq, health care and interestingly, term limits. Voters in the Sixth District were able to get a glimpse into the differing approaches of Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte, Democrat Sam Rasoul and independent Janice Lee Allen on those issues and others in a candidates forum sponsored by WSVA-550AM in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] And just like that, we had ourselves a bailout rescue. The House voted 263-171 today to pass a compromise $850 billion plan to buy up securities from Wall Street lenders to take pressure off the financial and credit markets, just four days after a vote on a similar legislative proposal…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A funny thing happened on the way to John McCain riding in on his white horse to solve the Wall Street crisis – the horse was late, and by the time McCain got involved, they’d had the crisis solved without him. And then a funnier thing happened – when McCain…
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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] U.S. Sen. Jim Webb is urging that the $700 billion bailout of the U.S. mortgage industry being contemplated by Congress include a strengthened regulatory structure to prevent future market instability and a cap on executive compensation in companies being rescued by taxpayers. “It is inarguable that the regulatory structure now…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] NO BOUNCE: Obama, McCain still even in polls My suspicions toward the end of last week’s breathless speculation about who Barack Obama would name as his VP were that the process was playing out for far too long for it to have the effect that I suspect that the Obama…
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Notes from the Press column by Chris Graham [email protected] AFP reader Arthur Ross made me do some thinking this morning. “If Virginia has 57 million barrels of oil available, and it is not in the cue to be used, and we use 20 million a day from some source, then the 57 will extend what…
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Earth Talk From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What are the major environmental issues that our next president, be it Obama or McCain, will have to confront? – Melinda Barnes, via e-mail Global warming is unquestionably the most pressing environmental issue facing whoever ends up in the White House in January 2009….
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] COULDN’T FIND ANYTHING A LITTLE MORE RECENT: Gilmore picks on Warner Version 1994.0 Um, hello, 1994 was 14 years ago! I was just graduating from college. People are expected to grow over time, and Mark Warner certainly has. Otherwise, the Gilmore folks wouldn’t have to dig so far back to…
