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    ‘TO THE GULAG, WE GO!’: Riley and Carol’s Excellent Adventure

    April 19, 2025 /

    Here is a detailed look at what West Virginia's two obsequious, Trump-uber-alles congressional representatives Riley Moore and Carol Miller are spending down their political capital to support: A concentration camp-for-hire and gulag in El Salvador described as "the worst prison in the world."

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    EDITOR/IAL: Score one — a big one — for Manchin

    August 9, 2022 /

    The Earth wins one (with some important caveats) as Joe Manchin finally steps up and does right by the Biden administration's grand climate hopes. It's not everything, but it is a serious something.

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    INTRODUCTION: Is Joe Manchin the Anti-Byrd?

    June 8, 2022 /

    However complicated his life, Robert C. Byrd left a legacy of accomplishment that benefited the state and nation. His career's end game also set the example of what a senator looks like when they object when America runs off the rails. So, a key question about Joseph Manchin III: Is he the Anti-Byrd?

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    REFLECTIONS: Ted Boettner on “Status Quo Joe”

    June 8, 2022 /

    “I don't think Manchin thinks there is anything fundamentally wrong with business as usual and that the inequality we see today is just and acceptable. Byrd, at least partly, seemed to believe in a higher purpose beyond himself. I don't see that with Manchin, who seems mostly motivated by financial interests and political gamesmanship.”

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    MANCHIN/BYRD COMMENTARY: The word inside of West Virginia

    June 8, 2022 /

    “Assuming Manchin does not come home to his party on Build Back Better, voting rights, and Roe (a safe assumption at this point), he’ll have lost many more votes on his left side than he could ever hope to pick up on his right … If he doesn’t come back to his own party in really stunning fashion soon, you can expect Joe Manchin will be driving his Maserati to K street, instead of the Capitol, come 2025 ..."

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    CARTOONERY: Black By God acidly sketches Joe Manchin’s life & times

    June 8, 2022 /

    'BLACK BY GOD: The West Virginian' revives in the state a formally potent tradition — the zinger, draw-truth-to-power editorial cartoon and Joe Manchin has been a favorite zingee of this “storytelling organization centering Black voices from the Mountain State.”

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    DOGGEREL: The Ballad of Bobby & Joe

    June 8, 2022 /

    'Joe turns out to be, right now, / the guy who stops all bills, / to bring more billions back to West Virginia / and its rolling hills. / And maybe there’s a Byrd somewhere / who’s spinning in his grave, / as Joe keeps sucker-punching bills / the world needs to be saved …'

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    CARTOON: A funny thing happened to Joe Manchin on his way to Heaven …

    November 4, 2021 /

    Here's what happened when West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin showed up at the Pearly Gates of Heaven, briefcase in hand ...

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    PHOTO/EDITORIAL: Springtime for a Supermajority in W.Va.

    March 29, 2021 /

    The desire to bust out of a politically benighted, often colonially run, and depressed-in-every-which-way state has a long and storied past. Where I am right now on the 'fight/flight/freeze' syndrome that comes with living in West Virginia.

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    EDITORIAL: An Open Letter to Shelley Moore Capito

    February 12, 2021 /

    Which will it be. Either: Shelley Moore Capito stood for a president willing to launch a vicious attack mob at the heart of the U.S. Capitol. Or: Shelley Moore Capito did the right thing in the final pinch and voted to impeach such a man.

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    EDITORIAL: Shelley Moore Capito Remains Missing-In-Action

    December 4, 2020 /

    It is Dec. 4—28 days after the 2020 U.S. presidential election was called for Biden/Harris. Yet WV Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has yet to formally recognize Biden as President-Elect or repudiated Donald Trump's dangerous lies about election fraud lies.

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    EDITORIAL: Counting Down the Days of “No Show” Capito’s Snub of Biden-Harris

    November 23, 2020 /

    You'd think by now WV Sen. Capito might look over her shoulder and recall what it feels like to have a backbone now that Trump is slowly evaporating into a disgruntled mist. Yet 15 days after the election was called for Biden-Harris, she has yet to formally congratulate them.

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    EDITORIAL | John Mandt Jr., Uncensored

    October 15, 2020 /

    In the debut of our multimedia editorial feature, The Justice Project, we take a musical walk-through of the chatroom comments that led WV delegate John Mandt Jr., to resign. He has since said he'd serve if elected on Nov. 3.

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    GUEST POST: The Not-So-Natural Gas Boom

    August 10, 2020 /

    Natural gas and the fracking boom have changed the landscape, politics and economics of West Virginia. Sean O'Leary of the Ohio River Valley Institute addresses the claims of "a veritable rock star proponent of 'the natural gas economy.' And finds all nine of his "irrefutable energy truths,” in fact, quite refutable.

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    DEAR DOUG REYNOLDS: An Open Letter On Your Pro-Pipeline Column

    July 13, 2020 /

    "One would think you might have had serious second thoughts about not revealing some key information in your pro-pipeline column. After all, you were standing in the bully pulpit of a newspaper that prided itself on shedding light into dark corners of conflicts of interest and spotlighting partial truths that mask self-interest."

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