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June 11, 2008
Choice of Hillary would be clunker
Vanquished but never silent, Hillary Clinton distorts a punch line, amid sulking, pleading to Barack Obama: “Take me as VP, please.”June 10, 2008
Dems produce oil for economic skid
Thank heaven for Democrats. They promised change in gas prices when they took back Congress in 2006, and, by Jove, it happened.Dems produce oil for economic skid
Thank heaven for Democrats. They promised change in gas prices when they took back Congress in 2006, and, by Jove, it happened. The change has been different than the one for which America hoped.June 09, 2008
Care needed in manager search
Quiet in the City Hall cacophony makes more shrill the discordant sounds over the looming departure of the city manager.June 07, 2008
Crime and punishment
Raskolnikov, the protagonist in Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, fancies that he can achieve intellectual superiority by ignoring his own act of gratuitous violence.June 06, 2008
Republicans, take notice
Having slipped beyond the walls of the establishment, Bob Barr resides now in its shadows, in a place known as the fringe, whose primary inhabitants are few and familiar, among them Ralph Nader and, long ago, Lyndon LaRouche.June 05, 2008
Good luck to WHS baseball
A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:June 04, 2008
Lofton Lake raises political questions
Amid the tempest over Doug Walker’s looming departure from City Hall emerge bedfellows and politics strangely familiar and curiosity freshly stirred.June 03, 2008
Time for McCain to face opponent
John McCain finally faces the challenge that loomed during six months of opposition party primaries: How to best a foe whose rhetorical skills and ability to energize contrast sharply with his stoically delivered straight talk.June 02, 2008
Warner-Lieberman bill raises concern
Confronting a perceived apocalypse, ecological messiahs John Warner and Joe Lieberman might achieve a crisis.May 31, 2008
Webb would be good VP choice
It is as bad as this for Barack Obama: hopes of injecting a flagging campaign with new energy and muscle have shifted to his selection of a running mate.May 30, 2008
The man Hillary cannot overcome
Lurking in the shadows of inconvenient truths is the familiar form of an erstwhile president whose heart seems to warm to the precise extent that his wife’s anticipation of oval glory cools.May 29, 2008
Heartfelt praise for city garden project
A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:May 28, 2008
Walker’s parting breaks the peace
The flickering light of comity on the Waynesboro City Council has been snuffed by a familiar gust of dysfunction, which is neither remarkable nor pernicious except for one whose title has become suddenly transitory.May 27, 2008
Soapbox derby needs welcome
In advance of this weekend’s annual whir of wheels, the discordant hum of selected merchants’ wrath wafts from the economic dust bowl popularly known as downtown. The Blue Ridge Soapbox Derby Classic will take place Saturday in Waynesboro.May 25, 2008
A warrior’s spirit endures unbroken
In the wee-hour darkness, the stocky young colonel stood on an earthen mound gazing into the faces of the 750 warriors before him. “Men,” he said, “I am not a religious man and I don’t know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask you to pray with me for the success of the mission before us.May 24, 2008
Wanted: Skilled terrorist trackers
His legacy nibbled to bits by the perpetual occupation of Iraq, President Bush advances toward the respite of political oblivion with the ghosts of obscure but fateful failures on his trail.May 22, 2008
Congress plays the blame game
A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:May 21, 2008
Suggestions for local economies
I’m not a travel, engineering or financial expert but I do quite a bit of thinking and, I hope, reasoning.Council gets it right on budget
Payoffs for taxpayers are rare. Waynesboro’s get one starting tonight, and there is sufficient cause for hope that it will be the first of many.May 20, 2008
Goodlatte, peers rain farm folly
Amid persistent drought in the Shenandoah Valley last week, Washington received a torrential soaking. Faux tears fell from the eyes of politicians moved to the point of appeasement over the conceptual plight of that maudlin anachronism popularly known as the family farm.May 19, 2008
Enviros light up a contradiction
Drilling into the sophistic strata that pass for rationale in the dimly lit celestial space occupied by environmentalists, one discovers veins pulsing with myth, contradiction and, of course, mercury.May 17, 2008
Stormwater info runs dry
Having correctly decided against increasing taxes, the Waynesboro City Council now must play the part of budgetary mercenary, wading through the numeric jungle in search of $600,000 wanted for dead, at least until next year.May 16, 2008
McCain timing hardly magical
Check your pots for chickens. If no cluckers are found, it is only because the Straight Talk Express has not yet rumbled onto Pennsylvania Avenue and deposited its contents, an Arizona senator foremost among them, on the White House lawn.May 15, 2008
Local students deserve praise
A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:Local students deserve praise
A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:May 14, 2008
Augusta GOP needs new step
Affected by a level of delirium suggestive of a Stephen King short story, Augusta County Republicans have taken to feeding on their own flesh in desperate hope of sustaining starving ambitions. Worse, the loss of mind is spreading.May 13, 2008
Kaine’s plan is a burden
Employing a tactic of leftist politicos and street hustlers, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine pointed to a looming transportation apocalypse while extending government’s sticky mitts toward taxpayers’ back pockets Monday.May 12, 2008
Education law toes the line
When the law, families and education intersect, as they do in America with increased frequency, ugly collisions are inevitable.May 10, 2008
