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RTD: The State Budget Cutting Game!
Can’t eliminate departments, only lets you cut up to 20%, doesn’t allow you to cut taxes, and grossly oversimplifies the process? Thank the Richmond Times-Dispatch for the worst example of a budget cutting scenario I’ve ever seen! Actually it’s not that bad. Feel free to goof around yourself. But don’t get your hopes [...]
Oh. My. Goodness. (but it works!)
I’m a big fan of campaign ads that hit hard and are memorable.  Who isn’t? This one was forwarded to me by a friend, and frankly… I like it: Now you could be someone who thinks this goes WAY over the line. Is that so?
5.3% GDP in 4Q?
…but something’s not sizing up here: That won’t be enough to significantly reduce the unemployment rate, now 10 percent. In fact, most analysts expect the rate to keep rising for months and to remain close to 10 percent through year's end. To drive down the jobless rate by just 1 percentage point this year, the economy would [...]
The Ruby Chronicles: My warning to the VA-05 Tea Parties
Dana over at The Ruby Chronicles offers some cogent advice to those sympathetic to the tea party movement: (L)et’s not forget that the tea parties started in revolt of BOTH parties and their excessive tax and spend policies, specifically TARP, which was put into action during a Republican administration. It was followed up by the first stimulus [...]
Once again, DailyKos steps over the line…
No class And the teabagging, bipartisan response in front of an all GOP audience is over. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell had a “black woman”, “asian guy”, and “military guy” behind him. The seating chart for this thing must have been six months in the making. Of course, the ironic thing is Kos may have gotten it right: [...]