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Story by Matthew Warner What’s so horrible about porn other than the poor quality of most of it? And why should you care? ‘LITERARY OBSCENITY’ Watch out, you writers and purveyors of erotic horror and explicit romance. The folks here in my Bible Belt city of Staunton, Virginia, care quite a bit. Last summer, when…
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Op-Ed by Katy Pitcock Around Virginia, local officials are being swept into the current of trying to “fix” the national immigration situation with hardline local action. Unfortunately, it’s not the first time Virginia’s local leaders “made a statement.” The last time, the movement was called “Massive Resistance.” Then, the civil rights of African-Americans were targeted….
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The Top Story by Chris Graham You see a Confederate-flag bumper sticker on a truck in a parking lot or on the highway, and already you have some ideas in your mind as to the identity of the person who put it there. “Nowadays, you’re not going to see a $30,000 SUV going down the…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop Hello, poetry lovers! The 14th of February every year, It happens all over this planet. For on that day love melts the heart That’s usually taken for granite. Love, dear hearts, is more than a feeling, but it has a way of stirring other emotions in ways often past…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham You see a Confederate-flag bumper sticker on a truck in a parking lot or on the highway, and already you have some ideas in your mind as to the identity of the person who put it there. “Nowadays, you’re not going to see a $30,000 SUV going down the…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I went to see “Talladega Nights” over the weekend, and, well … It wasn’t “Animal House.” Here we go again – he’s going to go on about how “Animal House” changed the world. That is how I judge the quality of a comedy. “Seven years of college down…
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Story by Chris Graham The death penalty has become the central issue in the 2005 Virginia governor’s race – and by extension, so has the view of the Catholic church toward the death penalty. Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate Tim Kaine, a Catholic, has been under fire since the outset of his race against Republican Jerry…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Tim Kaine doesn’t hide the fact that he is a Roman Catholic. “I am a Catholic, and I’m very serious about my faith,” said Kaine, Virginia’s lieutenant governor and the presumptive Democratic Party nominee to run for governor in the Commonwealth in the fall. “I took a year off…
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Every war waged in the name of “security” is paid for by Americans who go without — without affordable healthcare, without stable housing, without a government that prioritizes their well-being.
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By now, it has become painfully clear that the only economic plan being advanced by the Trump administration is the kind that enriches the oligarchy at the expense of everyone else.
