Friday, November 29, 2013

The Pope's Medieval Economics - Still and Again

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With a brief respite for Thanksgiving, social media and the blogosphere have been astir with conversations about Pope Francis' new ap...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Kennedy and Nixon at the 2013 Virginia Film Festival

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Wesley Buell Frazier (left) and Larry Sabato Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas, o...

From the Archives: 'West Side Racist?'

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In a recent commentary on controversies surrounding sports team names, Winston Jones wrote in the Douglas County (Ga.) Sentinel : Our soci...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

From the Archives: 'Act Now to Save Lives After a Nuclear War'

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Thirty years ago tonight, ABC-TV broadcast The Day After , a movie about the aftermath of nuclear war set in the American heartland. Direct...
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Friday, November 15, 2013

SNL Alumnus Will Forte Discusses 'Nebraska' at 2013 Virginia Film Festival

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Will Forte at 2013 Virginia Film Festival The new Alexander Payne film, Nebraska , opens in cinemas across the United States today. It h...
Saturday, November 09, 2013

Daily Progress to Charge More for Thanksgiving Day Edition

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Today I received this message in my email box from Lawrence McConnell, publisher of the Charlottesville Daily Progress : On Thanksgiving Da...
Monday, November 04, 2013

Robert Sarvis Finishes Campaign in Downtown Charlottesville

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Robert Sarvis in Charlottesville Virginia gubernatorial candidate Robert Sarvis held his final campaign rally at the Free Speech Monumen...
Sunday, November 03, 2013

Full Text: E.W. Jackson's Unjustifiable Characterization of Gays as 'Totalitarian'

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E.W. Jackson, May 2013 In August, I noted in this space that the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star had a month earlier published an opini...
Saturday, November 02, 2013

The Libertarian Evolution of George F. Will

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Reason magazine's current issue has a lengthy interview with conservative columnist George F. Will, conducted by Nick Gillespie and Mat...
Friday, November 01, 2013

Does Robert Sarvis Disdain Austrian Economics?

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Robert Sarvis Various individuals who have been trying to cast doubt on Virginia gubernatorial candidate Robert Sarvis' libertarian ...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Rebublican Political Action Committee Needs Proofreader

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Yesterday evening, I saw an independent pro-Cuccinelli TV ad on the NBC29 5 o'clock news in Charlottesville. Produced by something cal...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Bill Clinton Came to Charlottesville

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Terry McAuliffe, Bill Clinton About one thousand supporters of gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe gathered at the Paramount Theater ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Refuse to Vote for Any of These Candidates

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Competition has been described as the lifeblood of any democracy. If that's the case, Virginia's democracy is pretty anemic. Tw...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Recent Articles on Examiner.com: Virginia Politics, Tina Fey, Paranoia, and JFK

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Over the past few weeks, I have posted a number of articles as the Charlottesville Libertarian Examiner on Examiner.com, mostly interview...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Bill Clinton Coming to Charlottesville

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Paramount Theatre, Charlottesville After noting Hillary Rodham Clinton's birthday yesterday, I was reminded that her husband, forme...