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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,...
Virginia is for Lovers. Some Restrictions Apply.
E.W. Jackson—You can’t be a Democrat and a Christian at the same time
Five days after he was scheduled to appear at the Madison County Republicans annual BBQ, Lt. Governor candidate E.W. Jackson had this to say to WLEE host Jack Gravely.. “I believe that the Democrat Party has become an anti-God party, I think it’s an anti-life party, I...
MCDC—Special Meeting Saturday, August 10th, 2013
"Thomas Jefferson wrote, 'Come forward then and give us the aid of your talents and the weight of your character towards the new establishment of [democracy].' The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia is proud to work in this...
America’s Dangerous Pipelines
A new analysis by Richard Stover, Ph.D., and the Center for Biological Diversity of oil and gas pipeline safety in the United States reveals a troubling history of spills, contamination, injuries and deaths....
