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Robert Thalhimer
Yes to Protecting the Environment

Amazingly, I read in today’s newspaper that government regulation to protect the environment is a conservative/liberal issue. We should reframe the debate to where it is a human/ecological issue, and we should endeavor to broaden our perspective.
I gain insight to this problem sitting at my home along the James River, which marks the navigation route […]

Larry Sabato
Can Obama Turn Lemons Into Lemonade?

OBAMA’S NEXT CHALLENGE:
Turning Primary Losses Into Electoral Votes
By Rhodes Cook
Senior Columnist
As Barack Obama prepares to move from the primary to the general election phase of the 2008 presidential election, he faces a new challenge which combines both - to bring many of the states where he suffered primary losses this winter and spring into the […]

Robert Thalhimer
The Long Run: Tough Times Ahead for Charities

Many charitable organizations have a June 30 fiscal year, so this is a good time to look forward to fiscal 2009. Budgets are being set, and the seeds of success or failure are being laid. What will the new fiscal year hold in store?
My expectation is that fiscal 2009 will be a very tough year […]

Larry Sabato
VEEPS? Romney for McCain; Webb for Obama

MCCAIN’S VICE-PRESIDENT?
Mitt Romney as running mate
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Special Guest Columnist
For Mitt Romney, the suspension of his campaign at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference two days after Super Tuesday marked the beginning of a new and promising campaign. As he ended his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he staked for himself a position as […]

Chip Jones
Why You Should Like Ike

I like Ike and you should too.
This sentiment struck me after reading an April 30 article in the Washington Post. Walter Pincus reported on newly declassified information that shows President Eisenhower ruled out a proposal by senior Air Force officers to drop nuclear bombs against targets in Communist China in 1958.
The proposal to nuke China […]

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