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BRYAN CLARK The leadership of the Department of Justice ought to be routed for the blatant contempt they showed for the First Amendment last week when they seized the Associated Press’s phone records. Attorney General Eric Holder, while noting that he had not ordered the seizure, defended it nonetheless, saying that a 2012 story written [...]
During the Watergate brouhaha — the real one 40 years ago — I was one of a number of newspaper reporters who received telephone calls from people purporting to be agents of the Internal Revenue Service. I was told I might be subject to an audit of my income taxes so it would be wise [...]
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I’m a member of the National Rifle Association and a former Army officer with assignments in the military police, artillery, and operations research and intelligence at the Pentagon. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. The rest of this article is exclusive, use Cleeng again to view it. The rest of [...]
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Two emotional activities will be part of Jefferson County’s Relay For Life event next month at Charles Town Middle School football field: the Survivors Lap and the Luminaria Ceremony. On June 22 at 2 p.m., cancer survivors from the Jefferson County area – anyone who has ever been diagnosed with cancer – are invited to [...]
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One of the important issues regarding the revision of the Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan has to do with growth. The Plan includes proposals to address how to accommodate future growth, or as some suggest, how to control it. One of the recurring themes I kept hearing at meetings is that we need to manage future [...]
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A few days ago Laurence Leamer, author of the new book “The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption,” tweeted, “Why hasn’t the West Virginia (press) asked why Don Blankenship has not been indicted for his role in the Upper Big Branch disaster?” Leamer’s question is rhetorical and in the haiku of [...]
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While preparing for the North River Mills/Ice Mountain festival, I kept half expecting a phone call from our fearless leader, Steve Bailes, announcing a cancellation. When the time came for the artist’s reception at the Narrow Gallery (an old corn crib) on Friday evening, we went ahead as planned. The group was the usual size, [...]
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The image may be hard to decipher at first, but squint a little and the crumpled, lifeless bodies of Confederate soldiers materialize. The bodies twist and melt into each other, eventually blurring out. It’s difficult to tell if the line ends or is swallowed up by the ominous black shadows in the distance. Two dark, [...]
Continue reading …An article in the Huntington Herald-Dispatch about a week ago proclaimed a milestone for the Toyota engine and transmission plant in Buffalo — it had produced its 10 millionth power train, the first plant outside of Japan to reach that milestone. The event was attended by some heavyweights, including the honorary chairman of Toyota, Shoichiro [...]
Continue reading …A battle of major consequence for American democracy is slowly unfolding behind closed doors at the Securities Exchange Commission. A proposal sent to the SEC by a group of law professors would give the shareholders of publicly traded corporations the right to know how their invested funds are being put to political use. The immediate [...]
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