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A historic first today: The U. S. Constitution read aloud in Congress; full text to follow along

2011-01-06 04:35:12

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The GOP's fairness fakery

2007-09-27 00:00:00

A show of hands: What words do you associate with Americans? No, not "no money down." Name one quality we like to think matters most to us. Fairness, right? That makes us decent people, but it also makes us suckers. Tell us we're being unfair and we're...

Joel Stein: Borat's biggest patsies -- reporters

2006-11-14 00:00:00

I AM NOT a great journalist. You may have gathered that by the fact that most of the quotes in these columns come either from my wife, my mom or Danny Bonaduce. But this month I've been pleased to find out that there are far worse journalists than me....

All together now

2008-03-29 00:00:00

You know a nation is in trouble when the worst epithet its citizens can hurl at each other is the title of a folk song: "Kumbaya," an African American spiritual whose name (and chorus) translates from the Gullah dialect as "come by here." It has had...

Fight today or occupy forever

2007-01-25 00:00:00

'AS I LOOK AT Iraq, I recall the words of former general and soon-to-be-President Dwight Eisenhower during the dark days of the Korean War, which had fallen into a bloody stalemate. 'When comes the end?' � And as soon as he became president, he brought...

Jonah Goldberg: The Dems' identity crisis

2006-10-26 00:00:00

NATIONAL REVIEW Editor Rich Lowry recently noted an explosion of "precriminations" among Republicans looking to assign blame for GOP losses in advance of election day. Blogger Glenn Reynolds offered a "pre-mortem" along similar lines. And the media have...

'Prayers' just won't do

2008-02-16 00:00:00

It's been a particularly grim and bloody month on one of the world's great killing fields -- the United States of America. On Friday, Los Angeles paused for the largest police funeral in its history when it buried Officer Randal Simmons, a 51-year-old...

Rematch for Clinton's split decisions

2007-06-08 00:00:00

The most dramatic exchange in Sunday's Democratic presidential debate came at a moment when none of the candidates said a word. Asked by moderator Wolf Blitzer of CNN whether they would seek to repeal former President Bill Clinton's "don't ask, don't...

Ray Nance dies at 94; D-day survivor was last of 'Bedford Boys'

2009-05-06 20:08:00

Ray Nance was a 29-year-old Army first lieutenant when he stepped from his landing craft into the water off Normandy, France, on D-day, June 6, 1944. The son of a tobacco farmer, Nance was one of 27 men from the central Virginia community of Bedford...

Obama's VP strategy

2008-08-23 00:00:00

The swirl of frenetic attention on Barack Obama's selection of a running mate is good political entertainment, but keep in mind that it's mostly a media event rather than a campaign milestone. Vice presidential candidates can hurt a ticket -- think Tom...

Time of day calling it quits at AT&T

2007-08-29 00:00:00

It's the end of time, at least as far as AT&T is concerned. The brief note in customers' bills hardly does justice to the momentousness of the decision. "Service withdrawal," it blandly declares. "Effective September 2007, Time of Day information service...

Double whammy for Republicans

2007-08-12 00:00:00

++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ Myrtle Beach, S.C. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is an ardent, unwavering supporter of the Iraq war. In the House of Representatives during the 1990s, he served as a manager of the...

Frost is most likely from Bedford to Central Virginia into Lynchburg and south toward Altavista and Charlotte Court House

2013-05-13 15:05:00

Annie Pollard is the Sixth District representative on the Bedford County Board of Supervisors.

2013-05-01 12:47:00

The Bedford County Sheriff's Office is looking for DeAngelo Brown.

2013-04-29 14:31:00