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Politifact Finds Scott Statement on Debt-Limit Deal To Be True | Richmond Times-Dispatch

August 29, 2011

Jason Peuquet, a policy analyst with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said Scott is justified in using the lower figure. "It seems the $2.1 (trillion) is what people are focusing on most because the goal of the super committee is backed ...

Nuechterlein: What Has America Learned? | Richmond Times-Dispatch

October 6, 2010

A new book by Peter Beinart titled The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris presents a sobering account of how America came to believe that it has ...

Religious Freedom Act: Prince of Peace | Richmond Times-Dispatch

September 14, 2010

In The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, Eliza Griswold explains that the IRFA "requires that the United States ...

For Obama, Realism Trumps Idealism | Richmond Times-Dispatch

August 2, 2010

A provocative new book by Peter Beinart, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, traces the struggle between these competing foreign policy ...

It’s Time to Bring Majority Rule to the American Election Process

  • By
  • Blair Bobier,
  • New America Foundation
July 5, 2009 |

Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial primary made all sorts of national news last month. The more typical stories equated former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe's defeat with the end of the Clinton era. Yet, despite the abundance of coverage, one significant detail has been left out of the generally agreed upon "story" about Virginia's recent gubernatorial primary -- the losing candidates received more votes than the winner.

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