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First lady Michelle Obama is replacing her chief of staff with a longtime friend and adviser from Chicago. Jackie Norris will become a senior adviser to the Corporation for National and Community Service. Replacing Norris as chief of staff will be Mrs. Obama's longtime friend Susan Sher. Sher joined the administration as an associate counsel to the president. Sher and Mrs. Obama worked together at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Norris worked on the president's campaign in Iowa. Norris will continue to work with the first lady's office and the administration as it implements a new law to expand...

I need Freeper help in a personal injury suit for my daughter v. the City of Richmond, VA. The City is claiming sovereign immunity and our p.i. lawyer seems stumped. I can find no other lawsuits like ours.

Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and Clinton family confidant, plans to run for Virginia governor

Just heard on Fox News break something about Court ruling NYT has to give up phone records re: tipping off Islamic charity case. Nothing on web site yet

Report: Israel Underestimated Hezbollah’s Strength Will Lebanon Become Israel's Iraq? (CBS News)Israel has made so little progress in destroying Hezbollah that some U.S. intelligence analysts now say the attempt to create a buffer zone in southern Lebanon has bogged down, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.

Robert Marcus, owner of Bob's Gun & Tackle in Norfolk, filed suit in U.S. District Court over a request by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for records of the store's used gun sales. Mark Mitchell / The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK -- Robert Marcus has never turned down a request by federal agents to help trace a weapon through his store, Bob's Gun & Tackle Shop on Granby Street downtown. Marcus, who owns the store and has worked there 32 years, understands that firearms sometimes fall into the hands of criminals. He said he wants to do his part ...

This will be my first year of homeschooling. I have done extensive research and have read the Va. statutes over and over again. I filed my Notice of Intent to Homeschool, in letter form. Under the statute I fall into Option 1, Paragraph 3, Option iv: I'm not a teacher, without a degree, have not enrolled child in a correspondence course, so therefore I am teaching him myself. I stated everything necessary by law (I thought!) in the letter, and said I would be using ABEKA materials, primarily, etc., etc. I have been turned down by the city until "I ...

It's Friday right?

CNN just showed a "Ballot Express" truck with gore/liebermann signs all over the back taking possession of boxes of ballots. The boxes were marked "UNCOUNTED BALLOTS"