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BRRRR!
I just went out to get the mail a bit ago, and everything they’ve been saying on the weather is true! Today’s high in Maurertown is 23 degrees, but wind gusts of up to 23 miles per hour is making it...
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Winter Weather Woes
Winter weather has again come to the Shenandoah Valley. It appears that old man weather isn’t looking to serve us with a crippling storm this year but rather wants to visit just often enough to cause...
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Shameful Antics on Inauguration Day
As I mentioned in my post yesterday on Obama’s inauguration, even though I am firmly on the other side of the aisle, I cannot deny the historic significance of the day and the solemnity of the...
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Wait, they’re STILL working on that???
From the PilotOnline: The House Rules Committee on Tuesday killed three resolutions to confer the status on various songs composed by Virginians. The state has been without a tune since 1997, when...
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Dealing with the Death Penalty
Garren Shipley, who barring intervention by Governor Tim Kain will witness the execution of Edward Bell on Thursday evening, has up one of the finest pieces of writing I’ve ever read about the death...
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The Threat to the South
Most of the attention in foreign policy coverage right now is either on the troop increase in Afghanistan, the tension in Israel, or the situation in Pakistan. However, on Sunday something happened to...
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Thanksgiving with the Hills
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I know I have much to be thankful for on this, the most American (and therefore bipartisan) of holidays. I won’t bemoan my meager existence in the cosmos by going line by...
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The Cat’s Meow
Friends and readers will know that I am a cat lover. Not to the point where I subscribe to Cat Fancy and tour the country from show to show with my constant companion Bella, but they are an important...
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Fare thee well to the Nameless Decade
Homer: “C’mon, where’s your freak bus Seth: “I drive a Saturn” Homer: “A Saturn?” Munchie: “We used to have a bus. In a way, the sixties ended the day we sold it–December 31, 1969.” –The Simpsons,...
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We Got Him: Bin Laden Dead.
These are moments that you remember. Where you were, what time it was, the feeling, the incredible emotions. It’s been quite sometime since a President has spoken to the nation with very little...
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