Monthly Archives: August 2009

Absolutely fascinating, and 100% right: What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.  What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who would want to read one. … Continue reading →

Jim Hoeft probably just scored the interview of the month with UVA Professor Larry Sabato on Virginia Politics on Demand. Sabato pulls no punches: “I certainly know some senior Democrats who are connected to the Deeds’ campaign who are unhappy, … Continue reading →

Now this is an interesting comment: It appears the @joe_abbey rumors today was RIchmond based Creightards trying to CA– USE a coup- and their planned coup has miserably failed. That would be interesting given that Prof. Sabato had mentioned earlier: … Continue reading →

If true, I’m sorry to see this happen, not because I think Abbey was doing a terrible job and needed to stay there (the cynical reason).   Far from it, I have a heck of a lot of respect for … Continue reading →

Ben Tribbett over at NLS isn’t backing off of his story. In fact, he’s putting the helmet on and digging the trenches: It’s clear the confederate flag is on a flagpole.  Sitting on a table. Now, look which booth that … Continue reading →

Despondency from Northern Virginia Dems… and tough to say, but I couldn’t agree with them more about the climate: There are many things going on right now and many important issues like national health care reform, restoring voting rights, reasonable gun control … Continue reading →

So why was the picture taken at an angle? Well, it has a lot to do with a simple photographic and scientific phenomenon called parallax: Parallax is an apparent displacement or difference of orientation of an object viewed along two … Continue reading →

Bob McDonnell wants to fix the economy; Creigh Deeds wants to kill future taxpayers. Meanwhile, someone is leaking photos of Confederate flags that just ain’t so.  Jim Hoeft over at Bearing Drift joins Anita Kumar over at the Washington Post … Continue reading →

If it hasn’t become obvious at this point, I’m performing one of those stylish “staycations” back home. One of the virtues of being able to do this is to talk about practically whatever I want during the day and not … Continue reading →

Your really can’t make this stuff up: “I think it’s obvious that Creigh knows that he is in trouble, so he’s thrown up this Hail Mary pass to rile up his liberal base,” said state GOP Chairman Pat Mullins. But … Continue reading →