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Slapping Women Is Not a Joke
A Republican Super PAC has put out a new online "game" where they ask their supporters to virtually slap Hillary Clinton across the face. The Super PAC is known as The Hillary Project and is an anti-Hillary Clinton group that lists Christopher Marston--a Virginia...
Stakes High in 2014 Governor Battles
August 5, 2013 By: James Hohmann, Politico MILWAUKEE — Next year, Democrats have a chance to begin to blot out a rare bright spot for Republicans: the nation’s governorships. For all the GOP’s well-documented problems winning national elections lately, it’s easy to...
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s Involvement With Star Scientific
Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican nominee for governor, has said he does not plan to return $18,000 worth of gifts he received from Jonnie R. Williams Sr., the head of the dietary supplement company Star Scientific. The gifts mostly came in the form of meals and free...
Inspector General To Investigate Keystone Xl House of Cards
Last Friday the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General confirmed that it will investigate evidence that the agency violated ethics guidelines when it hired an oil industry consultant to draft the Keystone XL environmental impact statement This evidence...
Jose Antonio Vargas Documents Himself
Legislation to reform the immigration system in the U.S. is winding its way through Congress, which is expected to pick up debate when they return from their summer recess. The U.S. Senate passed their version of a bill with a mix of support from both sides of the...
Imagine There’s No Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell staged 420 filibusters since he became Minority Leader in 2007. It’s the highest rate of obstruction in history – but a badge of honor for McConnell, who once declared himself the “proud guardian of gridlock.” After nearly three decades in Washington,...
Cuccinelli Urges Special Session on Ethics Laws
Yeah, right. Ethics for thee, but not for me.. RICHMOND — Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II urged Gov. Robert F. McDonnell on Monday to call a special General Assembly session to repair “severe holes” in the state’s ethics laws. With McDonnell embroiled in a gifts...
Cuccinelli’s Backward Vision
Thursday marked one year since the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit went into effect, ensuring that all women have access to affordable birth control, regardless of their employer. Birth control is basic preventive care. An estimated 99 percent of women...
Get Involved March & Rally
The Culpeper NAACP invites All PEOPLE to the "Get Involved March & Rally" to educate and activate. We will be marching from the Antioch Baptist Church (202S. West St.) to the Culpeper Government Bld (302 N. Main St), where speeches will be given by civil,...
