Susan Shaer: A Mother’s Day message
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Security. It’s something we all want and need. Especially mothers. It is also something that I, as many Americans, often take for granted
Search Results for civil rights
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PPP breaks down Virginia electorate on 2014 Senate race, 2016 presidential race, more
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-An epic US Senate contest in 2014 between Mark Warner and Bob McDonnell…might not be that epic. Warner leads McDonnell 51-40 in a hypothetical head to head. Warner would take 14% of the Republican vote while McDonnell gets just 7% of Democrats, and Warner has a narrow edge with independents as well. McDonnell is popular…
McDonnell signs controversial ultrasound bill
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Gov. Bob McDonnell followed through with signing controversial legislation requiring women in Virginia seeking abortions to first undergo an ultrasound procedure. Comments made by the rumored top contender for a spot on the GOP presidential ticket are fueling McDonnell’s critics who say the law is an invasive government overreach.
Critics blast McDonnell administration over weekend arrests
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The ACLU of Virginia is offering to assist reproductive rights protestors who were arrested Saturday at the state Capitol, if their constitutional right to free speech was violated. Approximately 1,000 demonstrators converged on the Capitol grounds to protest the passage of a bill to require pregnant women to undergo an ultrasound procedure prior to being…
Ken Plum: Repeat of a sordid history
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The Virginia General Assembly may be about to repeat an unfortunate chapter of its history by passing bills that will have the effect of suppressing voter participation. Although the bills are justified by the proponents as preventing voter fraud, no examples of voter wrongdoing have been shown. At the turn of the 20th century Virginians…
Chris Graham: Breaking down the McDonnell-Romney endorsement
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The cynic’s view could be that Bob McDonnell is jumping on the Mitt Romney bandwagon with his endorsement today of presumptive GOP presidential nomination frontrunner Mitt Romney. If you believe that Romney is not only the frontrunner but the all-but-declared nominee, then the Virginia governor would be guilty of bandwagon-jumping. But then there’s this hard…
Remarks by Obama, Al-Maliki at joint press conference
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Please have a seat. Good afternoon, everyone. When I took office, nearly 150,000 American troops were deployed in Iraq, and I pledged to end this war, responsibly. Today, only several thousand troops remain there, and more are coming home every day. This is a season of homecomings, and military families across America are…
Sanford D. Horn: Catholic crosses crux of crazy complaint
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Following the ousting of several North African leaders in recent months in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, and the dissolution of their respective tyrannical regimes, panic set in around the western world as those nations are pursuing the installation of Sharia Law. What is infinitely more disturbing here in the United States is that Muslims are…
Transcript: President’s remarks to UN
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Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: It is a great honor for me to be here today. I would like to talk to you about a subject that is at the heart of the United Nations – the pursuit of peace in an imperfect world. War and conflict have been with…
Presidential address on jobs
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Tonight we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, and a political crisis that’s made things worse. This past week, reporters have been asking, “What will this speech mean for the President? What will it mean for Congress? How…
