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The Top Story by Chris Graham You listen to Bob Goodlatte, Republican congressman from the Sixth District of Red State Virginia, heading into his eighth term, finishing out his second two-year term as chairman of the powerful House Agriculture Committee, talk about life on Capitol Hill, and you realize pretty quickly that a sea…
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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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The Top Story by Chris Graham Brenda Gordon didn’t want to admit to herself that she believed in ghosts. Being confronted with evidence of their existence will tend to make a believer out of anybody, of course. “I moved into the house that my dad lived in, and he’s been dead since 1997, and the…
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Story by Chris Graham Bill Goldberg is thinking about getting back in the ring – but it’s not necessarily a wrestling ring that has his eye right now. “My relationship from the beginning with Jeremy is as color commentator – but if I was to participate in the MMA world as a fighter, I guess…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I wisecracked recently to a friend about how I was watching the start of a NASCAR race on TV recently when I was struck by something that I heard the public-address announcer at the race track du jour say about how the fans in attendance needed to take…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham It has come down to that time – the time when we announce our endorsements. Ahem – here goes. I endorse – peanut butter.
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Story by Chris Graham Legislation opening up the Virginia cable-television market to competition among service providers isn’t exactly being welcomed with open arms by, well, pretty much anybody who was involved in the discussions that led to the compromise measure that was signed into law by Gov. Tim Kaine last week. “From our perspective, any…
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Story by Chris Graham It has been described as a cartoon controversy. But the issue involving the drawings depicting the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper last fall is a lot more than that. “I liken this to a stovetop, and the pots are at a rolling boil right now in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan,…
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Story by Chris Graham Supporters of public broadcasting had thought that the war on PBS and NPR was over. “Basically, what we’re seeing here is that the administration is laying the foundation for the elimination of all federal funding for public broadcasting indefinitely,” said Kristin Wilson, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.,-based Association of Public…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Daryl Davis has plenty of detractors – people who question his motives for wanting to meet with white supremacists, who wonder why an African-American man would of his own volition attend rallies of the Ku Klux Klan, who outright doubt his stories of conversions of racial separatists as…
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