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Promises Made with Fingers Crossed
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Won’t You Stay, Just a Little Bit Longer?
While the national leader of the GOP asserts that he is the least racist [seriously?] person we know, the VA GOP in the person of Kirk Cox, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, has requested that the federal district… Read More ›
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OTHER VOICES: The New York Times
Editors’ Note: This New York Times editorial is excerpted and reposted from November 19, 2018. Trump’s Foes by Any Other Name . . . President Trump is trying to wear down America with childish name-calling. Let’s not fall for it…. Read More ›
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Peas in a Pod
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You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught, Redux
This is the title of a song from South Pacific, and seemed appropriate to a news story about the Heritage Foundation’s program for federal judicial clerks as we reported last week [Stealth Tactics to Control US Jurisprudence, VoxFairfax, November 19, 2018]…. Read More ›
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YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS . . .
November 29, 1947: Palestine is partitioned into Jewish and Arab land by the U.N. General Assembly, resulting in the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel the following year, on May 14, 1948. November 29, 1989: 41 years of Communist rule comes to… Read More ›
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Corporate Gadfly Evelyn Y. Davis Dies at 89
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, November 7, 2018. Evelyn Y. Davis, who spent more than 50 years haranguing American executives at shareholder meetings as she pushed companies to be more frugal and transparent, died on Sunday in… Read More ›
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The Art of Name Game Fame
Once upon a time, among folks of a certain age, having a nickname or street name was mostly a badge of honor, emblematic of status in the community. However, in contemporary political parlance, such appellations have morphed into taunts or… Read More ›
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One Not-So-Small Step
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YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS . . .
November 19, 1978: The biggest mass suicide in history occurs as Rev. Jim Jones leads over 900 followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana. November 20, 1945: The Nuremberg War Crime Trials begin. November 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. … Read More ›