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October 14, 2008
McCain hopes fall into crater
Echoes of a fabled Civil War strategist ring in the cavernous hollows of John McCain’s flagging presidential campaign, to which Republicans might respond in the fashion of Union soldiers in James Hewitt Ledlie’s Third New York Artillery.October 11, 2008
Role of rule looms large
Leaning forward and gazing through silver-rimmed glasses while describing an obscure rule of bookkeeping, Bob Goodlatte wore the mien of a prim accountant, which, for the moment, is what Washington offers as Wall Street sways.October 10, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACEOctober 09, 2008
McCain plan misses mark
Contrasts appeared Tuesday night in Nashville’s presidential debate, but not the substance of hope for those yet to be swept into Barack Obama’s celestial mist.October 07, 2008
Send earmark pilferers home
As the Dow slipped over another precipice and America’s roiling economic unrest popped and bubbled toward overflowing boil Monday, young Sam Rasoul sat in a conference room at The News Virginian performing a proximate, though presumably unintentional, impersonation of old John McCain.October 04, 2008
A plan for downtown
Having swept clean low-hanging fruit, the Waynesboro City Council and its new majority might now reach higher for a prize that so far has eluded.October 03, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACEOctober 02, 2008
House should again say no
Wafting from the vicinity of the Beltway is the acrid stench of fresh pork, which in the business of news is known as dogs biting men, which is to say not surprising. But there is a fouler air about the 450-page pile of legislation purportedly written to rescue an American economy in flames and hurtling earthward. It assaults the senses, olfactory and intellectual.October 01, 2008
Absence of fire douses McCain
In “The Abolition of Man,” C.S. Lewis admonishes against severing the visceral from the cerebral, which produces the phenomenon he calls “Men without Chests.” “We castrate and bid the geldings to be fruitful,” Lewis laments. So what to call one affected by the atrophy of both heart and mind? Perhaps the Republican ticket, the deficiencies of which may be on display, again, in tonight’s vice presidential debate.September 30, 2008
Hamp, deal good for city
Mike Hamp fulfilled expectation Tuesday, ascending to the city manager’s job left vacant by Doug Walker.September 29, 2008
Bailout exposes partisan excess
Demonstrating either a skeptic’s unbelief or an Epicurean’s stoicism in response to the Treasury Department’s prophecy of an economic earthquake, Democrats sought to feed their friends taxpayer billions from the federal bailout bill amid a clash of ideologies.September 27, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACESeptember 25, 2008
FDR’s Bad Deal gaining new life
Legends and lore are the survivors of wars and cataclysms, and so perhaps Hank Paulson will endure in the manner of other socialists before him, Roosevelt and Lenin. Americans taught to genuflect at the memory of Roosevelt and gnash teeth at that of Lenin might take notice of distinctions, which evanesced as schoolbook fiction subsumed historical fact on the subject of the former.September 24, 2008
Richmond, local schools face similar issue
Guess what? Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro’s public schools have a problem similar to one Richmond is facing.Sound off on city strengths
Alarms ring in the wards of Wall Street and Washington as an economy partly sustained on vapors and paper gasps in the steamy political air. Obscured by the din and haze are the rumbling thunder and thickening clouds over Main Street in Waynesboro, a place where people look to heaven but sometimes miss the sky.September 23, 2008
Details show devilish plan
Theologians describe God as non corporeal, meaning that he neither can be seen nor touched, making physical resemblances between the almighty and Hank Paulson difficult to discern. Undaunted, the Treasury secretary seeks what only God possesses and Congress can grant: omnipotence. Intervention, as its details unravel, appears more devilish than divine.September 22, 2008
US crisis more than economic
Its monolithic successes over the course of more than two centuries sapped of vigor by a decade of monolithic hubris, the American experiment stands wavering on the precipice with the hand of government threatening to sweep the country into an abyss of socialism, or something worse.September 18, 2008
McAuliffe maps road to capital
As plywood Greek columns rose from the stage at Invesco Field last month in Denver, comedy unfurled in the fashion of “The Clouds”: Terry McAuliffe, dean of the Democrats’ school of Thinkery is contemplating a run for Virginia governor.September 17, 2008
Rust Belt shows inaction’s result
Notions flawed but popular cling like moss in the cavernous quiet of Waynesboro’s core. Some town sages, so-called, and others from whom little is expected and less is gained contend that downtown revitalization is unnecessary, a thing sought by a vocal minority in a place where people are mostly satisfied with the current state of affairs.September 15, 2008
Dems offer crude plans
Proving that both the gods and Congress are against us, Democrats step forward this week in the wake of Ike’s battering of Texas with proposals to lift offshore drilling bans while leaving the shackles in place.September 13, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACESeptember 12, 2008
Whom do we desire to be?
Samuel Huntington, a retired political scientist and active firebrand, kindled controversy in 2004 with the release of his book, “Who Are We? The Challenge to America’s National Identity.”September 11, 2008
Frontrunners shun debate
Beyond the bounds of presidential politics, debates are the medium of candidates whose hopes have dwindled to faint.September 10, 2008
Forgetting poses peril
Among other things better known, philosopher George Santayana once declared: “Only the dead have seen the end of wars.” The admonition was a precise response to another slice of myopia from the rarely revered 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, who called World War I “a war to end all wars.”September 09, 2008
Facing folly of Fannie, Freddie
As conservatives preen over the sudden celebrity of Sarah Palin and liberals twitter over the development, socialism’s creep accelerates toward full gallop.September 08, 2008
Bloc’s first hire the right move
Breaking the enduring quiet of Waynesboro’s City Hall, at last, are rumblings.September 07, 2008
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THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACESeptember 05, 2008
Seeking your help for city
Rains are expected to linger in the central Shenandoah Valley today as remnants of Tropical Storm Hanna roll into the upper Southeast, but they are unlikely to dampen the fun at the second annual Chili, Brews ’N Blues Cook-off, rescheduled from noon to 5:30 p.m. Sunday in the Constitution Park Pavilion.September 04, 2008
Rasoul’s call is a right one
The former owner of a business specializing in women’s fitness, Sam Rasoul seeks to shave fat from the federal budget by eliminating pork.September 03, 2008
