Monthly Archives: February 2006

By way of One Man’s Trash: At a recent legislative briefing in Richmond, Speaker Howell was asked about education spending and school choice. Specifically, a person in attendance asked the Speaker to explain why home school and private school parents … Continue reading →

Jim Riley over at Too Conservative lays it in to the moderate Republicans in the Senate: Virginia currently ranks 31st in the nation in rate of taxation while Maryland is 15th. We better get Chichester et al. packing before they … Continue reading →

Nickfinity has renamed his website The Jefferson Mammoth: From what I remember mammoths are the only elephant like creature to have roamed the US, but now, like Republicans with Jeffersonian principles, they are extinct. Hence, the name. Ok, not all … Continue reading →

From our friends over at Not Larry Sabato, we see the latest rumor: While it would seem best to leave failed candidates in their originial districts the GOP Caucus feels otherwise and has been chatting with failed VCAP Republican candidates … Continue reading →

Disgusting, but if you’ve ever participated in a pro-life march or demonstration, it’s entirely typical.

You knew this was coming eventually. Blurb is a program that can take your blog and turn it into a book. I can see the “Best of the Virginia Blogosphere” rolling off the printing presses right now…

Yes yes, I know there is a fallacy that whenever a “scientist” proclaims an event, it must be true. Still, given that most of the scientific community seems rather split regarding the causes and effects of global warming, it’s interesting … Continue reading →

Spanish Archbishop Francisco Gil calls out those who reject the war to liberate Iraq while tolerating self-imposed evils at home: Archbishop Gil said the national and international media were rightly “outraged” by the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Grab but … Continue reading →

Just in case you missed any of them.

Fr. Kolvenbach is expected to resign as Superior General in two years, when he turns 80. Here’s a great story attributed to Fr. Kolvenbach: Speaking to the National Catholic Reporter’s John L. Allen, Australian Jesuit Fr Dan Madigan said that … Continue reading →