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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com An estimated 672,000 Virginians aged 17 to 24 could not join the military if they walked into a recruiter’s office today, according to Mission: Readiness, Military Leaders for Kids.
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Column by Sanford D. Horn Submit guest columns: [email protected] Article II, Section I of the Constitution of the United States of America requires the President swear an oath of office that includes the words to “protect and defend” that very document. Upon the administration of said oath, that president becomes Commander in Chief of…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Following a 2007 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation today jointly issued a final rule on curbing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from light-duty vehicles, which contribute about one-fourth of America’s share of the world’s climate-change pollution.
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Column by J.R. Tolbert Submit guest columns: [email protected] Forty years ago, nearly 20 million Americans participated in what was the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Inspired by Sen. Gaylord Nelson after witnessing an oil spill off California’s coast, Earth Day was started to spotlight issues related to environmental degradation and the need to…
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Column by Sanford D. Horn Submit guest columns: [email protected] In children’s literature, the wolf is portrayed as the ruffian, the evil-doer. He went after grandmother in Little Red Riding Hood, he huffed and puffed in The Three Little Pigs, and of course there’s Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Back in the adult world,…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Everything you wanted to know about the State of the Union, but were afraid to ask. We have the full texts and videos of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s Republican response. We also have reactions from Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner, congressmen…
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] 10th District Congressman Frank Wolf, author of the 1998 legislation creating the National Terrorism Commission, today called on President Obama to bring back the co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission to evaluate which of the panel’s recommendations have been implemented and which ones have not. Wolf also called for the…
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Column by Eleanor LeCain Submit guest columns: [email protected] In March 2003, I traveled to Afghanistan to facilitate a leadership training for a group of Afghan women who were hoping to help lead their country away from the abyss that had been Taliban rule. Afghans I met – men and women – were grateful that…
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Column by Tom Perriello www.perriello.house.gov As this year winds to a close, I continue to focus on economic recovery and the fiscal discipline to bring our deficit under control. First, I have once again signed on as co-sponsor of a measure to block members of Congress from receiving automatic pay increases, this time for the…
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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns and letters: [email protected] I have not gone off my rocker. At least no more than usual. In this season of giving, I wish to make the case that we are not spending enough for both national defense and health care. Yes, I know, such a pronouncement runs…
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