Why Assad isn’t ‘Our son of a bitch’
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While Franklin Roosevelt may not have said that Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza “may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch,” he probably thought it.
Search Results for national security
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Foreign policy comes back to haunt us
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From the start, opponents of the American empire warned that the government could not violate the rights of foreigners without eventually violating the rights of Americans.
Four Virginia newspapers, one television station capture Farm Bureau Journalism Awards
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The Tidewater News in Franklin claimed Virginia Farm Bureau Federation’s Ishee-Quann Award for Media Excellence, which recognizes the best of all entries in the organization’s annual Journalism Award competition.
Let the refugees in
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Hysteria over the Islamic State is now focused on the refugees seeking to escape the violence in Syria and Iraq. Predictably, the Republican-controlled House yesterday voted to increase background checks on potential refugees, a demand for omniscience that would amount to exclusion.
America, the Glutiful
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It’s not about what we’re telling the world when we react to terrorism by pushing yet again to close our borders to people fleeing a civil war.
Stadium policies set for 2015 ACC Championship Game
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The following policies will be in effect for the 2015 Dr Pepper Atlantic Coast Conference Football Championship Game, each of which mirrors those in place for NFL games at Bank of America Stadium:
Legal justice for servicemembers
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The US Government emphatically states though the website of its Office of Personnel Management that “employees have a responsibility to report waste, fraud and abuse,” and that the American “public is also invited to share such concerns.”
Nelson Mandela’s prison guard to speak at Bridgewater College on Nov. 15
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Afrikaner Christo Brand – one of the men who guarded Nelson Mandela for 12 years in a South African prison and who became the future South African president’s confidant and accomplice – will speak at Bridgewater College on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m., in Cole Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
CIT announces FY2016 solicitation for Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund
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The Center for Innovative Technology announced the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) Request for Proposals (RFP) for FY2016. The solicitation opens on October 30, 2015 and Letters of Intent (LOIs) are due by Friday, December 4. Award announcements are planned for early June 2016.
Virginia Tech researchers study circadian rhythms to understand effects of shift work
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A new award from the National Science Foundation may help researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute unlock the secrets of the body’s internal clock.
