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Desperately Seeking Satyendra: Charlottesville Democrats panic over racial city council conundrum

Desperately Seeking Satyendra: Charlottesville Democrats panic over racial city council conundrum

The Charlottesville Democratic Committee (CDC) has woven a tangled web in its decades old “secret” representation agreement with the city’s black community, and now their chickens are coming home to roost. The “deal,” cemented in the early 1980s was reached after the Charlottesville NAACP and affiliated individuals nearly succeeded in pressuring then-Mayor Frank Buck and [...]

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Boom goes bust: Local officials sidestep IMPACT’s Charlottesville Inquisition

Boom goes bust: Local officials sidestep IMPACT’s Charlottesville Inquisition

The Interfaith Movement Promoting Action by Congregations Together (IMPACT)—a political offshoot of the infamous “community organizing” group, ACORN—held their annual Nehemiah Action last evening at the University of Virginia’s University Hall. The gathering is an embarrassing interfaith convocation of local deists, “Christians,” Jews, and Muslims who together advocate for a melding of church (mosque, temple) [...]

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Guest editorial: To the new conservatives

Guest editorial: To the new conservatives

To The New Conservatives (Thoughts to consider for saving this last bastion of freedom) By Hank Martin With the explosion of the TEA Party movement, and all of the other movements that have appeared on the political landscape in the last two years, there exists a temptation to desire and wish for, a viable third [...]

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Planned obsolescence: Charlottesville Planned Parenthood hemorrhaging (blood) money?

Planned obsolescence: Charlottesville Planned Parenthood hemorrhaging (blood) money?

Fortuitously, a conspicuous “for lease” sign recently has materialized in front of Charlottesville’s premier abortion mill—the euphemistically named, Planned Parenthood—indicating there may be trouble brewing in “abortionland.” The readily available “office space,” located inside the existing Planned Parenthood building at 2964 Hydraulic Road, is benignly described by listing agent, Downer & Associates, as follows: If [...]

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Charlottesville’s twisted eco-socialism: Norris, Marx, abortion, property rights, and saving the trees

Charlottesville’s twisted eco-socialism: Norris, Marx, abortion, property rights, and saving the trees

Charlottesville City Council is troubled over the destiny of local trees. Born of this concern is the Charlottesville Tree Commission, an advisory body charged with assisting councilors in: reviewing hazardous trees; informing the public of the city’s tree preservation efforts; engaging the youth; developing a street tree master list; and maintaining a tree inventory. A [...]

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Guest editorial: You have been blessed; now bless others

Guest editorial: You have been blessed; now bless others

You have been blessed; now bless others by Sarah Walls Mathis (age 13 years) “Ain’t I a woman? Look at me. I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when [...]

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Guest editorial: Charlottesville’s do gooders, don’t get it

Guest editorial: Charlottesville’s do gooders, don’t get it

Charlottesville’s do gooders, don’t get it by Steve Lopez So what happens when a bunch of men and women with doctorate degrees read that Charlottesville is the best place in America to retire? Normally they are welcomed members of the community that help make the moniker “best place to live” a self fulfilling prophecy. But [...]

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Guest editorial: Tom Perriello’s question of conscience

Guest editorial: Tom Perriello’s question of conscience

Tom Perriello’s question of conscience by Steve Lopez In 2008 Congressman Tom Perriello was interviewed by 1070 WINA talkshow host Rob Schilling in the run up to his Congressional race against incumbent Virgil Goode. In that interview Mr. Perriello made several statements that outlined his political philosophy. In particular Congressman Perriello focused on the question [...]

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Tom Perriello: A pro-life fraud

Tom Perriello: A pro-life fraud

Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello tells conservatives that he’s pro-life. Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello tells liberals that he’s pro-”choice.” Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello wants each of his constituents to believe that he is on their side of the abortion battle. A much as Two-faced Tom wishes it were so, he cannot maintain diametrically opposed positions on [...]

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Perverted pastor: Charlottesville clergyman says abortion “guided” by the Holy Spirit

Perverted pastor: Charlottesville clergyman says abortion “guided” by the Holy Spirit

In a communication even more perturbing than that of the “Christian” Democrat who declared, “God is neither pro-choice, nor pro-life,” a Charlottesville Presbyterian pastor has made a shocking claim: Decisions to abort a child can be guided by the Holy Spirit. The clergyman’s statement was e-mailed in reaction to a local pro-lifer’s narrative of innocent [...]

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