"Watching the treatment of Creigh Deeds by anonymous White House aides reminds me of how ancient English kings would rip out a subject's guts and show them to him as he lay slowly bleeding to death.
"They were not homeless. Except that now, they are.
A powerful nor'easter, formerly Hurricane Ida will continue to pound the mid-Atlantic coast with high winds, flooding and beach erosion into the end of the week as predicted by AccuWeather.com.
The quotation above represents the last words of General Robert Edward Lee spoken by him at his death on 12 October 1870.
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". . .in studying communities all over America, not just a few unusual corners, we have found evidence that more effective, lower-cost care is possible.
"Somebody please buy Ohio Sen. George Voinovich a ticket to the real South, preferably on a slow-moving train, so he can observe the country he helps govern. Last month, Voinovich charged that Southerners are what's wrong with the Republican Party.
"Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Wednesday that state agencies will need to cut $700 million to $1.5 billion more this year as Virginia continues to suffer from one of the worst financial crises in decades.
Defying age, an artificial hip installed only last October, and the elements 59 year old Tom Watson fired an even par 70 in high winds and rain at Turnberry on Friday to join Fairfax, Virginia's Steve Marino in the final game for today's play at the Open Championship.
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Author's note: The following was originally published in the American Spectator seven years ago.
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"Amid a mundane conversation about fuel prices, Abdul Salam doused an American anthropologist with gasoline and lit her on fire, an attack in a small Afghan village last year that was as ferocious as it was unexpected. When Don M.
Virginians on the Vine has not initiated any private discussions.