Date
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Title
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Subject
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2008.04.22
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An illegic election primer
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High schooler Jimmie Newby gives his views on the Williamsburg
city council elections
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2008.04.12
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Sick transit inglorious
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You can’t get there from here on a Williamsburg Area Transport bus.
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2008.03.26
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Cringe at truth
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Are semantics getting in the way of our discussion of
racism?
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2008.03.08
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More empty promises
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Why you can’t trust the promises made in political
campaigns.
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2008.02.27
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Nichol as Socrates
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Striking similarities between the plight of former
William & Mary president Gene Nichol and Socrates
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2008.02.09
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Show wasn’t in her district
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Delegate Pogge and others on the right dabble in
censorship of William & Mary’s sex workers show
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2008.01.23
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Intellectual disability
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Local boards and state legislators once again prove that
intellectual disability has little to do with mental health
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2008.01.12
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An impeachable offense
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George Bush and other English manglers have left the
language in a state of total disrepair
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2007.12.26
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Equal treatment should rule
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All media, including local radio stations, should give
equal time to political candidates
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2007.12.08
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Give me progress, not guilt
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The College of
William & Mary should not
apologize for the presence of slaves on campus
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2007.11.28
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E Pluribus bummed
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An allegedly purple-turning state stays red in James
City County
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2007.11.10
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Two reforms for high school
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Some suggestions for changing course in the public high
schools
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2007.10.24
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Who shot Dan Quayle?
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As a result of putting standardized tests on an
educational pedestal, our public high schools are in deep trouble.
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2007.10.13
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Cub reporter tells all
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High school junior Jimmy Newby sits in for Lew and
covers a debate – sort of.
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2007.09.26
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What would you do?
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Democratic candidate for the House of Delegates finds himself
in hot water as a result of blogger info
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2007.09.08
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What price representation?
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Should constituents whose representatives or senators
are absent for long periods due to illness be without representation?
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2007.08.22
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No guts on gun control
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While Democrats cave in to the NRA there is talk of
arming college students to fend off future Chos
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2007.08.11
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Where to take Internet date
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Where to go in Williamsburg
on a hot date. Probably not the Matoaka Amphitheater
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2007.07.25
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We need smaller schools
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Is building more large high schools and middle schools
really what we should be doing?
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2007.07.14
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Abuser fees abuse reason
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New abuser fees leave Virginia
drivers in the lurch
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2007.06.27
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Quid pro quo transpo
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Virginia’s
latest transportation legislation is balkanizing the state
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2007.06.09
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A Republican dynasty
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Republican attempts at a gynecological dynasty in Virginia’s
96th House district.
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2007.05.23
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Why water the lawn?
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The lunacy and waste involved in maintaining the perfect
lawn.
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2007.05.12
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Undeserved fanfare
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Going overboard for the queen’s visit to Jamestown
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2007.04.25
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After a horrific slaughter
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What is there to learn from the massacre at Virginia
Tech?
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2007.04.14
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Melanie Rapp gets it right
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Del. Rapp gets it right with respect to the crazed transportation
bill and an attempted smoking ban.
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2007.03.28
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6 rules that were bent
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James City
County’s use of the process of
eminent domain
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2007.03.10
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The big scheme of things
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Maybe the eclipse of the moon is more important than we
think
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2007.02.28
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Sex is here, get over it
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Does W&M president Gene Nichol deserve the punches he
taking over a cross and a sex show?
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2007.02.10
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Metaphor bowl
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Why baseball is a better metaphor for social behavior
than football
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2007.01.24
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Beware academic bill
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Yet another conservative attempt to ensure “diversity”
in the state’s colleges and universities.
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2007.01.12
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Hard to digest
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Cannibalism in Jamestown
and the Virginia General
Assembly
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2006.12.27
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Playback is hell
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A look back at 2006 on the national, state and local
levels.
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2006.12.08
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Tempests of boredom
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Tempests in a teapot over a cross removal, a
gay-straight alliance club and Webb’s reaction to Bush
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2006.11.22
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Roosting with the royals
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On the impending visit of the British royals to Jamestown.
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2006.11.11
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Kerry had a good point
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Kerry’s “botched joke” might tell us more about
education than we want to know.
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2006.10.25
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Also-rans are off the rails
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Why aren’t independent candidates given a seat at the
debate table?
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2006.10.14
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Paranoid threat
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Why the proposed anti-gay marriage amendment to the
Virginia Constitution should be defeated.
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2006.09.24
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Time for contrition on war
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Republicans, including Rep. Jo Ann Davis, try a unique
election strategy
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2006.09.09
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An award to hucksters
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Astronomers, George Bush, the architect of New Town and
Parks & Rec get a HOOEY
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2006.08.23
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Here is the “real world”
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On George Allen’s “macaca” remark to S.R. Sidarth
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2006.08.12
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Universal health
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Emergency room problems and the need for a single-payer,
universal health plan.
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2006.07.26
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Crippling of the individual
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Given our present nasty state of affairs, perhaps
another look at the Socialism of Albert Einstein and Frank Zeidler is in
order.
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2006.07.08
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Jamestown not worth it
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Should we really be celebrating the questionable
colonization process known as Jamestown?
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2006.06.28
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Harking back to Jefferson
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Our politics and economics could use a good dose of
Jeffersonian logic.
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2006.06.10
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German lesson
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Cheers and jeers to the National Spelling bee, Williamsburg
City Council and Virginia Democrats
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2006.05.24
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Why teens turn violent
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What lies behind the recent outbreak of teen violence?
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2006.05.13
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Stronger zoning
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On the James City Planning Commission and why it should
be elected, not appointed.
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2006.04.26
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A vote for the kid
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Get some new blood on Williamsburg’s
City Council. Vote for Sievers.
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2006.04.08
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Pimps, ho’s and politics
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Aristophanic dysfunction at work in several Williamsburg
milieus.
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2006.03.22
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Transfixed by fear
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We’ve become a nation driven by fear in too many
categories of life.
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2006.03.11
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Faculty politics easy target
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A response to John Tierney of the NY Times relative to
the resignation of Harvard’s Lawrence Summers.
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2006.02.22
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The Persian gulp
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Shenanigans in the 2006 state legislature and Republican
vindictiveness
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2006.02.11
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When consent is implied
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Date rape may not solely be the fault of the male
involved.
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2006.01.25
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Tyranny lives in Virginia
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Tyrannical decisions on the state and local level in Virginia.
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2006.01.14
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Let freedom ring
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Do we really want to spread our concept of freedom and
liberty around the world?
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2005.12.28
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Take them out after 1 year
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Why not try the Athenian election system here?
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2005.12.10
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The chaos of Christmas
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Why December is replete with ersatz holidays.
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2005.11.23
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On the centrist fringe
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It’s time for Virginia Democrats to get off their
meaningless centrist path.
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2005.11.12
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Government absurdity
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Absurdities in recently revealed James
City planning documents
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2005.10.26
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Growth virus is green
VPA Award Winner
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Rampant growth virus sweeps James
City County
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2005.10.08
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Learning from adversity
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Rep. Jo Ann Davis’ fight with breast cancer and a hope
for new advocacies.
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2005.09.28
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They’re running on empty
VPA Award Winner
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James City’s
questionable candidates for the House of Delegates
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2005.09.10
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We could have done more
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The federal
government’s woefully inadequate
response to Katrina
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2005.08.24
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Focus on studies, not sports
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The need to
return to a basic, core curriculum in high schools
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2005.08.13
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Problem? Call Agriculture
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Frustrating laws
and how to deal with them
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2005.07.27
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Beware invasion of privacy
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Invasions of
privacy in the Patriot and No Child Left Behind Acts
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2005.07.09
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Water as a metaphor
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Overdevelopment means
water shortages and crowded schools
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2005.06.22
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Dumber for governor
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The foibles of Virginia’s
race for governor in 2005
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2005.06.11
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Casual boom boom
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Sleazy Internet offers
are a metaphor for other sinister lures
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2005.05.25
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Life on Easement Street
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The challenge to
homeowners by easements for tree trimming and cable laying. Where is our
local government?
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2005.05.14
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Freedoms threatened
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Attempts by the
right to invade college classrooms
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2005.04.27
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Still too easy to buy guns
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On the Second
Amendment and the suicides of two young students
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2005.04.09
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Christianity in excess
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How local
contests fit into the schisms in the Republican Party
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2005.03.30
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Habla jibber-jabber
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Response to those
opposed to the new Gazette Spanish column
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2005.03.23
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Drug Tests Unconstitutional
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Random drug
testing of students and the legalization of drugs
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2005.03.12
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The joy of newspapering
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On the 2004
awards ceremony of the Virginia Press Assoc.
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2005.02.23
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Pants can droop, morals can’t
VPA Award Winner
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The VA. Senate
vs. the House of Delegates and its loopy legislation
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2005.02.12
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Conflicting quest for values
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Conflicting moral
and political values are affecting education
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2005.01.26
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“Get over it” arrogance
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The hubris of Bush’s
Pax Americana and “We won. You lost. Get over it”
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2005.01.08
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Your government at work
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Trivial and
discriminatory bills in the 2005 VA legislature
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2004.12.22
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Defraying the costs of sprawl
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Growth and sprawl
are strangling Williamsburg and
James City Co.
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2004.12.11
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Christmas traditions?
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Christmas
traditions: More heathen than Christian?
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2004.11.24
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The Land of the Boobies
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Is our School
Board asleep at the switch?
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2004.11.13
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What, me negative? Hah!
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The values issue
in the last election as it pertains to the red states
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2004.10.27
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Fear of the government
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Our fear of
terrorism has led some to fear the government as well
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2004.10.09
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Too far right for constituents
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Rep. Jo Ann Davis,
running unopposed, should moderate her views
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2004.09.22
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“9/11” foes lack specifics
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Why those opposed
to showing Moore’s “F-9/11” at
the Kimball in Williamsburg are
wrong.
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2004.09.11
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Hypocritic Oaths
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Hypocrisy
flourishes at the political conventions
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2004.08.25
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Vital Romance languages
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The importance of
Latin to the study of English and Romance languages
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2004.08.14
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Discrimination hurts tourism
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Virginia’s
history of bigotry now includes gays
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2004.07.28
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Shaky Commitments
VPA Award Winner
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On marriage,
political and educational commitments
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2004.07.10
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“Fahrenheit” is heated
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The positive
polemicism of Michael Moore
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2004.06.23
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Repulsively undemocratic
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On the Electoral College,
the Dillon Rule and other political outrages
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2004.06.12
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History will be the judge
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Reagan, like
Kennedy, must await history’s judgment
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2004.05.26
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Wiseman treated unjustly
VPA Award Winner
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Prof. Lawrence
Wiseman deserved better from William & Mary administration
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2004.05.10
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Leadbeater’s predictions
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Predictions about
the national election and local doings
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2004.04.28
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Bigotry in the Last Word
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Should
heterosexuality join homosexuality in the Last Word?
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2004.04.10
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Blunders worthy of Naso
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Ironic blunders
of those in high places
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2004.03.24
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Social promotion fails students
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Problems with
social promotion and middle schools
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2004.03.13
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Better amendments
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Some divine laws in
Leviticus that should definitely become Constitutional amendments
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2004.03.06
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Linkletter says the darndest things
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Art Linkletter,
the United Seniors Assoc. and the Jost/Norment flap
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2004.02.25
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Much ado about not much
VPA Award Winner
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Why are our
elected officials so interested in sex and Janet Jackson?
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2004.02.14
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Wallowing
in debt
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Federal deficits
and debt and how they affect states and localities
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2004.01.28
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Sneaky retreats
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Do our school
board and supervisors really need to go on retreats?
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2004.01.10
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New ‘Best of’ categories
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The success of Republican
women and other “bests”
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2003.12.24
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Glitter may hide dross
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Suspicious
Christmas gifts from Bush and some locals
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2003.12.13
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Flaws of home-schooling
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Problems with home-schooling
and state regulations of it
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2003.11.26
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Stripping politics naked
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Democratic appeal
to the Southern white voter
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2003.11.08
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Uncontested elections a sham
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