Share Lynn Mitchell has just about the best one-post resource in Virginia for filing your Notice of Intent forms for home schoolers.
Share Gee, ya think?! Of course, this doesn’t remove some of the questions of McDonald’s lobbying activities in Richmond, but by and large… ’tis the law. The time for Newport News City Council to fix this problem is during the budget cycle.
Share Third party (and so-called Tea Party challenger) Jeff Clark’s position on abortion is slightly to the left of Tom Perriello: Clark, the independent candidate who said he has received flack from some Republican supporters over his decision to enter the race, has expressed his belief that women should have access to an abortion if [...]
Share Want a quick insight as to how bad the VRS really is? Multiply this experience by however many six-figure public servants you have in Virginia — local and state — and it’s a good picture of what’s to come. The severance includes 12 months of salary, equating a gross payment of $128,750; and full [...]
Share Now wouldn’t it be cool to have a group of American — or even Virginian — politicians and public figures sign something similar? During the 10th Meeting of Colombian Governors, 30 governors, Mayor Samuel Moreno of Bogota and other top administration officials, singed a public agreement to, among other things, defend the right to [...]
Share Yet is there a single reason in the world why George Allen should not respond to this? “We vehemently disagree with your analysis and wonder if serving in the elite, rich, United States Senate has skewed your vision of the world in which we live,” wrote executive director King Salim Khalfani. “Your opponent then [...]
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 Delegate Ward Armstrong (D-Henry) is entertaining statewide ambitions. Speaker Bill Howell is… well, just entertaining. For those not familiar with the antics of Virginia’s House of Commons Delegates, this is wholly appropriate. Whether or not Ward Armstrong will ever be able to sell himself as something other than a socialist remains to be seen. [...]
Share February 19th, 2009 — the day Rick Santelli kicked off the movement: This moment really took off when Santelli turned away from the camera and towards the traders (get to 1:00 for the real McCoy). Give props to the traders on the floor of NASDAQ… if Santelli was the tap, those traders were the [...]