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Marsha Mercer: Regarding Jefferson, slavery and liberty
An exhibit compassionately displays the contradictions of a nation that was founded on the lofty ideals of liberty and freedom while it relied slavery.
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Michael Shannon: Those gutless thugs known as Occupy
U.S. Park police commanders have decided, after four months of hand wringing, that it might be time to enforce the law against camping in McPherson Square.
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John Merli: Those real wax dummies in Richmond
A perpetual standstill in state chambers over essentially procedural matters seems destined to become the norm over the exception this session, given the smoldering attitudes these days on both sides of the aisle in Richmond.
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Michael Shannon: US senator gets the TSA treatment
Now Senator Rand Paul knows what the rest of the flying public has learned: TSA is a law unto itself and is designed to intimidate the public and insulate its employees from outside accountability.
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Charles Reichley: Does Georgetown South get a bad rap?
Georgetown South may actually be undeserving of its bad, criminal reputation.
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Marsha Mercer: How to re-ignite the sparks of '08?
In 2008, voters were willing to buy the promise of hope and change. Yet to shape his own future, Obama needs to inspire a new sense of individual possibility, not imply dependency that his enemies will call socialism.
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John Merli: Some Republican loyalty oafishness
If the Virginia GOP or any other party really wants to make itself more welcoming and inclusive, the takeaway here is the idea of imposing unenforceable loyalty oaths is not a good place to start.
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'Smart' ALECs running Richmond
We’ve already noticed an awful lot of jobs we Americans used to handle ourselves being outsourced to others for one reason or another (usually to save a buck or two by businesses).
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Michael Shannon: In La., colorful funerals, not headstones
Personal preferences are a reliable method of distinguishing between conservatives and Democrats.
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Michael Shannon: Daycare spawned 'occupy' movement
Quite a few members of the daycare generation are currently occupying Obamavilles in New York City, Washington, Oakland and points in between. This is a natural outcome of society's reliance on strangers to raise our kids.
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Reader's Response: 'Occupy Wall Street' shares values with Jesus
Anyone who reads the Bible with an open mind will have to conclude that Jesus shares many of the values of those in the Occupy movement.
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Shannon: Jesus Christ — a liberal Democrat?
It’s tough enough trying to be a Christian in this secular world without taking misleading doctrinal advice from non–believers who deny the divinity of Christ.
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Commentary: Aboard Obama's not-so-magic bus
This week, President Barack Obama once again fired up his Canadian-built Magical Mystery Bus and drove through North Carolina and Virginia as his re-election campaign begins on the taxpayer dime.
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Commentary: What's the value of Occupy (city name)?
People do strange things when frustrated, like protest. Take for instance the new craze sweeping the nation called Occupy (you fill in the city).
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Shannon: What Netflix can teach 'occupy' crowd
Michael Shannon: I wonder how many of the Occupy Wall Street squatters are actually enraged Netflix subscribers or retirees with Netflix stock in their 401(k)s?
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Merli: Cantor and his laughable scare tactics
John Merli: It’s precious few times in these unsettling days that I actually laugh out loud.
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Fliers are indeed political 'junk mail'
When fliers selectively quote from news articles to smear the character of candidates with unsupported charges, it harms our political process.
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Shannon: McDonnell's bad idea will take its toll
Gov. Bob McDonnell's successful effort to reopen rest stops on Interstate 95 was a good idea. His current effort to open tollbooths on I-95 is not.
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Merli: Solyndra: Obama's green humiliation
Solyndra was a new solar panel start-up in California that received a half-billion dollar federal loan, and an accompanying visit by President Barack Obama himself in 2010.
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Merli: The latest snapshot of Virginia voters
Do most Virginia voters favor candidates based on party affiliation, the issues or mere personality? I imagine it’s a variation of all three, of course, but maybe personality (or a lack, thereof ) should actually play a bigger role in such decisions than they do.
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Reichley: The buckpassing over immigration
Nobody is served when laws are ignored, as the current administration has done. We should encourage legal immigration by stopping illegal immigration.
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Letters to the Editor for July 11
Letters to the editor for July 11
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Letters to the editor for July 1, 2011
Letters to the editor for July 1, 2011
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Letters to the editor for July 2, 2011
Letters to the editor for July 2, 2011
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Gray: Setting fire to the debt ceiling?
A warning to America about not raising the debt ceiling: “America, stop playing with fire.”
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