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Column by David Reynolds Last night, if you were able break away from the distant static of the presidential campaign, there was an opportunity to participate in another campaign, this one up close and civil. There was a forum held in Lexington to have the candidates for mayor and city council (all elected at large)…
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Letter from Patricia Bell, Waynesboro Regardless of your political inclinations, you marginalize yourself if you do not register to vote. Take responsibility for yourself and your community by registering to vote before the deadline. Only those who are registered can participate, and voter registration closes in Virginia 29 days before the November election. It is…
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Op-ed by Nina May www.ninamay.com In 1984, after founding the Renaissance Women, to counter the radical feminists who were claiming to speak for all women, we were on the national radar. As a very young, conservative, I was pitted against a veteran feminist, Gloria Steinem, on the “Phil Donahue” show. The issue was whether women…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] News Virginian editor Lee Wolverton and I agree on two things – well, maybe three. I’m adding one that I hope we’d assent to – that it was a pleasure to sit down a few months back and talk issues. Of the other two, I am certain – that we…
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Column by Leslie Smith Concerned Women for America of North Carolina is calling all citizens to take action to stop the distribution of “Hounddog,” a film depicting child rape. CWA of North Carolina created the “No More Child Porn” campaign in July after learning that the North Carolina Department of Commerce gave $387,000 in taxpayer…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] OBAMA AND ‘HONOR’: “What’s happened to John McCain?” the announcer intones. And then reads a script that is basically an amalgam of quotes from stories written about assertions from the John McCain campaign in prominent mainstream-media outlets about what is becoming a chief narrative of the ’08 campaign – that…
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Moving Forward column by Chris Graham [email protected] This is one of the more difficult columns that I’ve found myself having to write. I’ve been troubled in recent days by a run of comments on our website advancing slurs on Barack Obama that have me wondering if what we do here at the AFP is even…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Barack Obama got a six- to eight-point bounce out of the Democratic National Convention. John McCain appears to have gotten at least a similarly-sized bounce out of the Republican National Convention that followed a week later. Advantage: McCain, who has seized the momentum heading into the fall campaign proper. Gallup…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] My in-box was hopping Friday evening with forwards of the e-mail from Anne Kilkenny of Wasilla, Alaska, which you might recognize as the town made famous by former mayor-turned-vice-presidential-nominee Sarah Palin. Seems that e-mail trees can and do make their way to Greater Augusta. “You should check this out –…
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Op-ed by Rick Gray Timing is everything. Four years ago, on Christmas night, I flew to Manchester, N.H., to spend a week of my precious winter holiday knocking on doors for Howard Dean. This year, I’ve slapped a McCain sticker on my bumper and agreed to write this piece. Let me explain. I’m a liberal,…
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