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Michael Farris, erstwhile candidate for lieutenant governor and current head of Patrick Henry College, was portrayed in a recent Bob Novak column as favoring an Obama presidency because it would serve as something like a “biblical plague visited upon a sinful people.“

But he says it just ain’t so:

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Quiet Time

Bob Rayner

May 16, 2008 10:58 AM

One thing’s certain: City Hall will be a duller place without Doug Wilder. And that’s a mixed blessing—at best.

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Historical Cycle?

Bart Hinkle

May 16, 2008 10:19 AM

Richmond’s Police Chief, Rodney Monroe, and its School Superintendent, Deborah Jewell-Sherman, are departing their posts.

It’s not the first time two of the city’s top administrators have left at roughly the same time. In fact, that was the situation just six years ago—when Superintendent Albert Williams announced his departure not long after Richmond’s top cop, Jerry Oliver, packed his backs to take over as the new chief in Detroit.

P.S.—And now the Mayor!

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Words Do Matter!

Bob Rayner

May 15, 2008 5:15 PM

President George W. Bush, speaking to the Israeli parliament:

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.‘ We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.“

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