Morgan Griffith: Two churches and Thanksgiving
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Most Virginians and most Americans are familiar with the words of Patrick Henry, “Give me liberty or give me death!” Fewer are familiar with where he said it.
Search Results for civil rights
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Alon Ben-Meir: Erdogan’s hooligans came knocking on NYU’s doors
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Last week I conducted a panel discussion about Turkey under the leadership of Erdogan. The day before the event, we were alerted that several of Erdogan’s stooges will await us to disrupt the event, and we feared that violence may erupt.
Playwright Paula Vogel is third speaker in W&L’s Ethics of Identity Series
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Playwright Paula Vogel is the third speaker in the 2017-18 Ethics of Identity series, sponsored by the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics at Washington and Lee University.
Alon Ben-Meir: Saudi butchery in Yemen, and the world’s apathy
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The cold-blooded killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, however gruesome, pales compared to the brutality and gross human rights violations Saudi Arabia is committing in Yemen.
Herring urges Trump administration to protect military servicemembers from financial exploitation
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Attorney General Mark Herring today called on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to continue protecting military servicemembers against predatory lenders under the Military Lending Act.
Students examine impacts of Mountain Valley Pipeline construction through ecological, cultural lens
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Virginia Tech faculty and eight undergraduate students from universities around the country spent the summer monitoring ecological and social impacts of Mountain Valley Pipeline construction.
Will Iranian terrorists be given free rein to target expatriate activists?
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On June 30, a large delegation from the Iranian American Community of Maryland attended the annual gathering of the Iranian opposition near Paris.
Older, and wiser
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After losing my first and only run for public office, for a seat on Waynesboro City Council in 2008, I was told by a conservative businessman who had opposed my run that I’d eventually come around to his way of thinking.
If you want to ‘Save the Name,’ just own it already
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I saw the first “Save the Name” sign in a front yard in Waynesboro a few weeks ago, and wondered to myself why someone here would care what Staunton called its high school.
Alon Ben-Meir: Erdogan’s re-election and its dire consequences
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The reelection of Turkey’s President Erdogan, falsely considered to be free, fair, and representative of the will of the majority of the Turkish population, has dire implications both domestic and foreign.
