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I’ll fess up.  I aired this concern to Jim Bowden:

A political buddy of mine let me know that my lynching and mobs in hoods metaphors for the hang-Jeff-Frederick-on-a-sour-apple-tree crowd offended him.   That’s important to me.  I hold this man in deep respect.  But, I told him I would use his complaint as a teaching moment.

The comment came via a personal e-mail I sent to Jim Bowden regarding his comparison of Frederick opponents to a lynch mob, their supposed anonymity being comparable to white hoods…

Indeed, what would we do without anonymous commentators? A small cabal shopping charges? Secret meetings? Leaked innuendo? A political campaign for what should be administrative justice?

The super honest folks in the lynch party should take off their hoods and come on out in the open.

The sunshine is fine. Disinfects everything. Brings out the truth – which will out. Diogenes didn’t need to look for truth, it will come out – always does – sooner or later. (emphasis mine)

The comparison shocked many commentators on and off Bearing Drift.  And it shocked me… hence the reason I wrote Jim privately to air my concern.

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Excellent article over at Doug Mataconis’ blog .  Money quote is here:

I do not think a Swiss-cheese tax code that rigs the market to send investment dollars here rather than there

thousands of times over is a tax code worth defending.

If Americans for Tax Reform believes otherwise — and I don’t know that they do — then it amounts to a conservative embrace of state-directed social and economic engineering.

I am swiftly discovering myself to become more and more of a “fair taxer” or flat taxer as time develops… I haven’t quite sorted out this regressive tax problem in the back of my mind, but the idea that “every American should be invested in their government” (or something to that effect) struck a nerve. 

Now I just have to mentally sort out how you don’t regressively impact low income families with a flat tax… if that’s even desirable.  When taxes are too high, the solution should be to lower them, not to steal from others to balance the books in a progressive schematic.  Low income wage earners feeling the burn of a 25% tax rate ought to scream bloody murder… and demand lower taxes, which in turn puts more money into the economy, creates better jobs, and pulls people out of poverty.

I dunno.  Any defenders of a progressive tax scheme here to correct my malinformed opinions?  Or have I just turned the corner on the flat tax?

Yet another video that has been making the rounds… but this one is well worth your time to watch.

If you’ve ever had the chance to watch Prime Minister’s Questions on C-SPAN, you will immediately grasp how well spoken and knowledgeable the British House of Commons is compared to our state and federal legislatures.

Some — very few — of the traditions of the Mother Country should have been kept.  Prime Minister’s Questions is one of them, as is this fine sport.

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Yeah — this precisely

sums up my opinion of Twitter in about four minutes:

Quote: “Okay, it seems like Twittering is just randomly bragging about your unexceptional life.”

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Since it’s up everywhere else:

You can view this 15 min cinematic masterpiece at the following venues:

Rappahannock Red: What happens when jeffery “m” frederick gets in a room with the va gop grassroots april 4?
Contemporary Conservative

: BREAKING…New Frederick Video….Authentic Sequel to the Hitler Parody
Too Conservative: Great Video Spoof of Mr. “Grassroots”!
The Write Side of My Brain: Just when you thought RPV could have any more drama…

Tertium Quids: “M” Meets Jeff Frederick
Bearing Drift

: New Jeff Frederick “trial” video emerges

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7:00pm at Germanna Community College’s Daniel Technology Center, yours truly will be liveblogging and crossposting at Bearing Drift the Virginia Attorney General debate!

6:46pm:  With the helpful assistance of the GCC A/V guy (much thanks), I am now successfully online and well-lodged at the debate.  The hall here is very nice — three widescreen projectors, a stage, and seating for about 250 if not more.  Your tax dollars well served.

6:50pm:  Foster signs are here out in force.  Cuccinelli comes in second, Brownlee in a distant third.

6:56pm:  Brownlee and Cuccinelli working the floor.

7:00pm:  Brownlee stopped by.  Heard that I was getting a new job (thank you RedState, thank you very much) and advised me to be good.  I promise.

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Looks as if my high school alma mater

hancock dvd download brutal online Courtland H.S. brought home a state championship in basketball last night:

“It’s just like every high school player’s dream,” Courtland senior guard Luke Sellers said. “Everyone wants to compete at the highest level you can, and that’s what we did tonight.”

Congratulations, fellas.

The editors of the Richmond Times-Dispatch take RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick to school.  

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Jeff Frederick seems eminently qualified to serve as chairman of the Republican Club at Sean Hannity Middle School. The delegate from Prince William serves as chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia instead. There’s the rub.

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In seeking to install an adult as chairman of the RPV, McDonnell is displaying not only spine but his appealing temperament. He repudiates the excesses attributed to factionalists. If the central committee ousts Frederick, as it should, then McDonnell will have polished his image. If the committee fails to do its duty, then McDonnell still will have displayed his reasonable persona to the general public. It is possible that the controversy will lead ideological adolescents to take their Nerf balls and go home, but McDonnell’s stand helps him with the voters who decide Virginia elections. Political considerations are not the real reason McDonnell earns admiration, however. He earns it because he is doing the right thing.

Sounds like a win-win situation.  

As an aside, the Richmond Times-Dispatch is only a few blocks away from RPV HQ.  One would think we would have a better relationship with the local newspaper.

UPDATE:  The conversation at RedState continues to intensify.