Share “Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln” – Carl von Clausewitz, On War (1832) The handicapped are the model citizens of tomorrow. That sounds like the very worst of what many Americans would consider to be a conservative viewpoint. Cold, meritless, individualistic, and unfeeling — it is the perfect caricature [...]
Share I watched this last night and was surprised by two things: (1) how objectively fair Anderson Cooper was to this gentleman from the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and (2) how… well… how some folks will believe anything to whitewash the Confederacy. Longtime readers of this blog know that I squarely oppose the idea of [...]
Share So after the Bearing Drift presented some Technorati numbers, followed by the leftosphere’s howls and Virginia Virtucon’s touche on the matter, I did myself the benefit of actually looking at my Google Analytics numbers… …and discovered that they were disabled after the recent WordPress upgrade. Great. SK.com has come a long way from its heyday in [...]
Share Kenton Ngo over at NDP is throwing in the towel, one of the many blogs that spun off of the old Raising Kaine blog: I’ve been at this for a few years now, which makes me a veteran in the ever-changing world of new media. I’ve seen the Virginia political blog world grow from [...]
Share 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 [...]
Share First, I want to give folks a heads up on a three-week project I”m working on. It’ll be an insight as to what I’m learning as a newly-minted supervisor in Fluvanna County, Virginia and what the process entails, how the major players interact, and what problems localities face from both a general perspective and [...]
Share For those of you who do not know already, last Tuesday, November 03rd I won in a general election for county supervisor here in Fluvanna County by a 3.5% margin. It was a tremendous win, backed by some of the most wonderful human beings and supporters a candidate could ask for. The difference now [...]
Share First off, a little background on the Democratic PR machine in Washington, courtesy of former NBC journalist and current Fox News contributor Chris Wallace: “Working the umpire” is an old phrase from when the traditional media writ large was seen as a professional media — objective, tough, investigative, and impartial. This media was all [...]
Share I’ve had plenty of time to reflect on Waldo Jaquith’s call to arms on the problems of a part time legislature as it relates to Delegate Phil Hamilton. For those who are still cloudy on the issue, Hamilton is a House Budget Conferee and a fairly high-ranking member of the House GOP who folded [...]
Share …and he’s serving up some premium, awesome, genuine, vintage Bacon: These three inter-related crises will define the politics and economy of Virginia and America for the next generation. Yet both candidates have framed their campaign issues in utterly conventional terms, as if there were nothing at all urgent about the times in which we [...]