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  Freedom of open road still beckons these two

  Usually, Jack McLaughlin says, no one notices him when he pulls into a gas station on his motorcycle.

  10/16/2011 6:00 AM
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• A royal wedding, a royal divorce

  Kate Middleton and Prince William aren't really getting married at 2 a.m. That's just when any Americans who care will have to set their alarms (or stay up) if they want to watch the event on TV. And a lot of them will.

  04/28/2011 9:36 AM
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• Who cares where a President was born?

  In Arizona, a group of lawmakers with nothing better to do recently came up with a bill that would require any presidential candidate to produce a valid U.S. birth certificate before he or she could appear on the state's ballot. The governor, Jan Brewer, vetoed it.

  04/20/2011 4:02 PM
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• Was the penalty for Tech really fair?

  Here's my question about the $5,000 fine recently levied on Virginia Tech for failure to adequately preserve the safety of its students during the 2007 shootings: If it had turned out that the two initial deaths in West Ambler Johnston Hall had been the only ones, and not the preamble to an unprecented bloodbath precipiated by student Seung-Hui Cho, would the school still have been penalized? I wonder.      

  04/07/2011 11:09 AM
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• A Wal-Mart of a lawsuit

  To me, there is something untidy -- and, ultimately, troubling -- about most class action suits. The current sex-discrimination action against Wal-Mart is a good example.  

  03/30/2011 2:33 PM
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• A real Shaka

  "A good name," it is written somewhere in the Bible, "is worth more than riches." Shaka Smart, the dynamic young coach of the surprising Virginia Commonwealth University basketball team, provides the latest case in point.

  03/29/2011 1:01 PM
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• Women ahead of their time

  Before there was Sarah Palin, there was Geraldine Ferraro. Before there was Lindsey Lohan, there was Elizabeth Taylor.  

  03/27/2011 8:05 PM
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• Keeping cops honest

  I can't tell you exactly what happened between Sam McConville and a couple of Lynchburg police officers in the parking lot of McConville's tour bus company lot back in 2008, because I wasn't there.    

  03/26/2011 11:44 AM
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• Should CVCC have a basketball team?

  This Thursday, officials from the state's community colleges will be meeting in Lynchburg. I'd love to see them devote just a small portion of their time together to the possibility of starting a statewide community college basketball league.

  03/23/2011 4:46 PM
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• Do we really have a foreign policy?

  Art Buchwald, the late humorous columnist, once wrote that everyone in the world should be able to vote for the President of the United State, since the U.S. seems to think the whole world is its responsibility.  

  03/21/2011 3:39 PM
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