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UVA Plans for Possibility of Rain on Graduation Weekend
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... compelling set of speakers awaits. Stephen Colbert will deliver remarks at Saturday's Valediction, and James Henry Jim Webb is the keynote speaker for Final Exercises on Sunday. Webb is a former U.S. senator and Secretary of the Navy, decorated ... 11 comments
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New way needed to name judges
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... qualified nominee to the 4th Circuit, Duncan Getchell, was blocked by Virginia Sens. John Warner, a Republican, and Jim Webb, a Democrat, because Getchell was not one of the names that Warner and Webb had suggested. If senators have this power in ... Comment?
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UVA Preps Lawn for Graduation Weekend
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... and families. Saturday's valedictory exercises feature keynote speaker Stephen Colbert, and former U.S. Senator Jim Webb will speak at Sunday's final exercises. On May 10, a high ranking member of MS13 was arrested in Harrisonburg. Jose Leonel Ramos ... 2 comments
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Isn't it stunningly idiotic for GOP Rep. Sensenbrenner to defend...
... proved too controversial in the Senate in 2011, when a national commission proposed by former Democratic Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia fell to partisan fighting. The House task force might agree to weed out relatively minor crimes such as possession of ... Comment?
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Uncle: Marathon bombing suspect buried in Virginia
... and the DOJ just waiting for anyone to express their opposition. " It was the Muslim vote in Virginia that gave Jim Webb his edge over George Allen (back in the "macaca" election). All the area around Richmond saw massive bloodshed in the battles of ... Comment?
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Allison Jaslow to receive UCM Alumni Award
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... to win a successful campaign against an incumbent. In 2011, she became press secretary in the office of Senator Jim Webb, D-Va. While working with Webb, Jaslow managed the Senator's constituent-focused communications strategy, served as ... Comment?
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Rigell renews push to allow drilling off Va. coast
... new bill is similar to one he introduced in early 2012 and to another measure introduced by Warner and then-Sen. Jim Webb in 2011. Neither was passed. The new bill proposes that Virginia collect 37.5 percent of government revenue - a similar ... Comment?
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Tricare fee hikes, small pay raise don't faze senators
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... 'difficult choices' that her panel will have to review. Gillibrand's predecessor - Marine Corps veteran Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. - was a champion of military pay and benefits, especially retired pay. Webb, who grew up in a military family and said he ... Comment?
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... We are almost there. And when we are there, we will turn to Wesley Clark and a few others (former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, for example) - and David Petraeus. Historic periods generally end with a general: Nelson, Washington, Grant, Eisenhower. From ... Comment?
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GOLDMAN: School Board elects to punt in doctorate controversy
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... their students compromise 10 percent of all students but 50 percent of delinquent loans. Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb said they were ripping off veterans, the list is endless, I figure by now you get the drift. Is Walden one of these bad actors? ... Comment?
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... it must be done in a fiscally and operationally sound manner." Levin said he and Sen. John McCain and then-Sen. Jim Webb, who did not seek re-election last year, "advocated" for the United States and Japan to revisit its 2006 agreement that ... Comment?
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Deputy SecDef: 4th submarine to be deployed to Guam
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... it must be done in a fiscally and operationally sound manner." Levin said he and Sen. John McCain and then-Sen. Jim Webb, who did not seek re-election last year, "advocated" for the United States and Japan to revisit its 2006 agreement that includes ... Comment?
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George Will: A bipartisan abdication
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"President Obama has arguably established the authority of the president to intervene militarily virtually anywhere without the consent or the approval of Congress, at his own discretion and for as long as he wishes" - Jim Webb As America tiptoes toward a fourth intervention in an opaque and uncontrollable conflict - now Syria, after Iraq, ... (more) Comment?
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Is Syria our next illegimate war?
"President Obama has arguably established the authority of the president to intervene militarily virtually anywhere without the consent or the approval of Congress, at his own discretion and for as long as he wishes." -- Jim Webb As America tiptoes toward a fourth intervention in an opaque and uncontrollable conflict -- now Syria, after Iraq, ... (more) Comment?
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George Will: Syria may be another presidential conflict
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... anywhere without the consent or the approval of Congress, at his own discretion and for as long as he wishes." Jim Webb As America tiptoes toward a fourth intervention in an opaque and uncontrollable conflict -- now Syria, after Iraq, Afghanistan ... Comment?
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A bipartisan abdication
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"President Obama has arguably established the authority of the president to intervene militarily virtually anywhere without the consent or the approval of Congress, at his own discretion and for as long as he wishes." -- Jim Webb WASHINGTON -- As America tiptoes toward a fourth intervention in an opaque and uncontrollable conflict -- now Syria, ... (more) Comment?
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George Will | A bipartisan abdication on US foreign policy
"President Obama has arguably established the authority of the president to intervene militarily virtually anywhere without the consent or the approval of Congress, at his own discretion and for as long as he wishes." --Jim Webb WASHINGTON -- As America tiptoes toward a fourth intervention in an opaque and uncontrollable conflict --now Syria, ... (more) Comment?
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George Will: A bipartisan abdication
"President Obama has arguably established the authority of the President to intervene militarily virtually anywhere without the consent or the approval of Congress, at his own discretion and for as long as he wishes." - Jim Webb As America tiptoes toward a fourth intervention in an opaque and uncontrollable conflict - now Syria, after Iraq, ... (more) Comment?
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PostScript: Will and a supine Congress
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... branch to start, plan, negotiate, continue and end military conflicts all on its own. As former Virginia senator Jim Webb has argued, Congress's abdication of its role gives the president powers like those of a prime minister, which is not how the ... Comment?
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Ex-senator Webb criticizes Obama over executive power
... criticize presidents for excessive use of executive power, particularly on national security issues. Former senator Jim Webb, D-Va., says that President Obama, like some of his predecessors, is too often exercising unilateral power without ... Comment?
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