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The Washington Post has some alarming revelations about the U.S. torture network: The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement. The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set …
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Merlin Mann has a particularly great 5ives today: Five rules of thumb The stupider your ringtone, the longer it will take you to answer your phone. The twin miracles of childbirth and pet ownership render you unable to share one photo of anything. If your vanity license plate makes any reference to the make of …
Roanoke College’s Center for Community Research polled 407 likely voters and found that Kaine is leading by 8%, with a ±5% MoE. Wow.
Willie Mae Kilgore has been sued, Laurence Hammack reports in today’s Roanoke Times: In 2003, Kilgore refused to provide a list of absentee voters to Mary Lane, the wife of the Democratic candidate for sheriff, according to a lawsuit refiled Monday in Scott County Circuit Court. The lawsuit portrayed Kilgore as a “strong political partisan” …
AP: Governor Wilder to endorse Lt. Governor Tim Kaine. Honk if you’re surprised.
Claire Guthrie Gastanaga explains the job of attorney general, providing a great frame for selecting a candidate.
Claire Guthrie Gastanaga looks at Kilgore’s hiring and firing record, and finds that he’s all about the white men.
Conaway Haskins offers the The South of the James Politician Ideology Guide, in which he attempts to suss out where Kaine, Kilgore and Potts are on the liberal-conservative scale. He finds Kilgore the farthest right, Kaine a centrist, and Potts liberal.
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As expected, the State Board of Elections heard the complaint about Republican AG candidate Bob McDonnell’s violation of campaign finance laws. As expected, the SBE could do nothing, because they don’t have any enforcement mechanisms. However, the SBE apparently feels that the matter merits action — they referred the matter to the Richmond commonwealth’s attorney …
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