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Rough waters for George Allen
It's no surprise that George Allen wants his Senate seat back. The question for him is whether he understands how much the political landscape has changed in Virginia since his disastrous reelection run in 2006. Republican insiders say that...
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Peter Galuszka
| January 26, 2011; 12:35 PM ET |
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Let the black woman's pain be heard
Apparently Courtland Milloy is so disturbed by Tyler Perry's movie "For Colored Girls," that even when speaking of the FBI sting operation resulting in the arrests of Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson and his wife, Leslie, he still...
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M. E. Schertzer, Silver Spring
| November 18, 2010; 6:23 PM ET |
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Legal immigrants face driver's license woes
Colombian citizen Ledy Serrano was surprised to get a letter from Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles stating that there was something wrong with her driver's license. The mother of three had had one for about a decade, had committed...
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Peter Galuszka
| November 9, 2010; 10:34 AM ET |
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Excellence comes first at Thomas Jefferson
I am an African American student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and I am the president of the Black Student Association mentioned in the Oct. 31 front-page article "One thing elite N.Va. school doesn't do well:...
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Chantelle Ekanem, Reston
| November 4, 2010; 7:02 PM ET |
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The dodgy world of Southern history
Popular histories about the Confederate States of America can be dodgy, as a recent controversy over a school textbook approved for Virginia fourth-graders shows. In her book "Our Virginia: Past and Present," author Joy Masoff claims that thousands of...
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Peter Galuszka
| October 21, 2010; 4:20 PM ET |
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The meaning of Confederate History Month
By John P. Williams Alexandria I found it ironic that The Post placed the article “Faces of the Civil War, staring out across the decades” above Robert McCartney’s column, “McDonnell’s laudable lead on Confederate past,” on the front of the...
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washingtonpost.com editors
| October 10, 2010; 8:32 PM ET |
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