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Ken Cuccinelli wants to protect your right to bear arms—and a whole lot more. A message to real Americans from Ken Cuccinelli’s Virginia Self Defense Law: We know that you aren't just law abiding. You are, in our view, “universally far more law abiding statistically...
US Trade Rep can’t figure out if Trans-Pacific Partnership will protect the environment
By Cory Doctorow The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a secretly negotiated trade agreement let by the USA. Though the text is secret, enough drafts have leaked to make it clear that one of its goals is to ensure that foreign corporations can sue governments over laws...
American Promise
American Promise is an intimate and provocative account, recorded over 12 years, of the experiences of two middle-class...
CNN commentator to Ken Cuccinelli: You are a homophobe
As attorney general of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli fought long and hard to reinstate an unconstitutional law banning consensual sodomy in the state. Defending his record as a state senator who routinely opposed basic legal protections for LGBTQ people, Cuccinelli...
The Fierce Urgency of Now
If you refer to yourself as a patriot, profess to have good business sense, describe yourself as a well-intended person having compassion for your fellow man, or all of the above, I strongly encourage you to discuss favorable with your delegate or senator the...
Richmond’s hell-no Republicans
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS, having been swept from power at the hands of an electorate alienated by their tilt toward extremism, retain just one bastion in Richmond: the state House of Delegates. From that redoubt, they have resorted to political stunts and budgetary...
Rally For Our Youth
Please join us for a “Black Youth Matter” Rally on February 28, 2014 at 7:00 PM at the Freedom Wall (located directly in front of City Hall and beside the city’s amphitheater) on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia and a “Black Boys Matter” movie and...
Myths Not to Live By
Traci Dippert, Chair, Culpeper County Democratic Committee Myths have a place in life, they are just not a good explanation for life’s problems. The local Culpeper Republican Committee recently called on state officials to not participate in the Affordable Care Act...
America’s First President Was The Tea Party’s Worst Nightmare
By Ian Millhiser Five years after General George Washington took command of a revolutionary army, he believed that the revolution was on the verge of collapse. The Articles of Confederation, which bound the thirteen former British colonies together prior to the...
Virginia House Republicans Continue to Push for Extreme Gun Legislation
By Kathy Shupe via Blue Virginia The House Republicans are at it again. After passing HB 705 that would allow out-of-state concealed handgun permits to be recognized in Virginia and HB 878 that would remove local law enforcement’s discretion to comment on Federal...
