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John Merli: Richmond is fixing the unbroken
Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed into law two dubiously wrought measures pertaining to voter ID requirements.
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Michael Shannon: Media plays judge and jury for Zimmerman
When it appeared justice may be allowed to take its course, the Washington Post used a botched CNN idea to attack George Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon Martin.
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Charles Reichley: The law of unintended consequences
The problem with government is power, and the good intentions by which people with power are driven to wield it.
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Marsha Mercer: Health care and the great game of 'if '
If the Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare,” next month, what then?
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Michael Shannon: Obama's shift on marriage
President Barack Obama views on same-sex marriage have not "evolved," they've revolved.
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Marsha Mercer: Emptying the pot Clinton stirred
Political strategizing has been at the heart of the war over marriage equality since the Defense of Marriage Act was a glimmer in Bob Dole’s eye in 1996.
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John Merli: In Indiana: Ideologues 1, Compromise 0
Longtime conservative Sen. Richard Lugar’s defeat in Indiana's GOP primary says an awful lot about how far we have not come as a nation.
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Michael Shannon: Where 'you can't get there from here'
Many drivers here play an organic role in the traffic circulatory system, functioning as automotive plaque that clogs the arteries and slows us down.
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Charles Reichley: Why Winter's Branch bike trail won't work
This $600,000 project seems to be an overpriced luxury for a city under financial pressure, offering little benefit for the cost.
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Marsha Mercer: The first lady's weighty bully pulpit
Few things rattle the Obama haters more than first lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to reduce childhood obesity.
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John Merli: The subtly shameless GOP voter ploy
The number of cases of intentional voter fraud are so scarce as to be virtually non-existent here.
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Michael Shannon: Obama's Osama ad shows lack of taste
The ad’s message problem is the complete lack of a sense of proportion.
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Marsha Mercer: More connected, but more lonely?
Americans love independence and prize freedom. We fear and hate loneliness.
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John Merli: For us, it's no longer a matter of trust
When society’s steadfast and reliable become wobbly and irresponsible like everyone else, we’ve got a serious problem.
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Michael Shannon: Versailles finally arrives in Great Falls
Even a property-rights conservative must admit it’s always an ominous sign when a prospective neighbor decides to give his soon-to-be-constructed house a name.
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Charles Reichley: Prince William's school tax quandary
The real shame is that nobody is talking about how the county still spends too much money.
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Marsha Mercer: 'Hopefully' beats the grammar police
The bad news came in a tweet. “Hopefully, you will appreciate this style update …We now support modern usage of hopefully: it’s hoped, we hope.”
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Michael Shannon: A white elephant, paid off with silver
There’s something about 19th-century transportation solutions that liberals find irresistible.
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Marsha Mercer: How multitasking hurts productivity
Yes, we’re doing more things at the same time — but badly.
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John Merli: Marshall is right on detention bill
Del. Robert Marshall has always been a bit too conservative for my tastes on social issues, but he hit a home run in the General Assembly on individual rights.
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Charles Reichley: Getting past our varied ethnicities
We cannot survive as a nation whose leaders seek to divide us by race, color, sex or class, to turn us against each other.
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Marsha Mercer: Taxing thoughts about GSA scandal
Nobody ever woke up to a front-page news story about government frugality. That would be a dream.
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John Merli: Why summer at home could be a gas
If it seems gas prices in Prince William and the rest of the commonwealth are continuing to rise almost by the hour, your wallet isn’t imagining things.
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Michael Shannon: Pyrrhic victory for Prince William teachers
Teachers wanted a raise in the worst way and it looks like that’s what the School Board gave them.
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Marsha Mercer: 'Obamacare' as compliment, not insult
President Barack Obama almost let his foes turn “Obamacare” into the political equivalent of “pink slime,” the distasteful beef product made of leftover trimmings.
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