Leslie Carbone has the scoop .
It’s the callousness of the Planned Parenthood staffer that shocks me… just as long as the checks clear, is that it?
Amazingly, the House Republicans stuck to their guns and kept taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood out of the budget caved on this. Unbelievable, but not terribly surprising.
Snapped Shot is back, and with a new look.
Definitely worth adding to your RSS aggregator. The AP trembles.
…or white and blue.
So after my wild journey from Blogger to WordPress and back to Blogger, I have returned temporarily to my old site design… which oddly enough was based off of my very first blog design which operated in frames.
My oh my, how things have changed.
No worries though… I started this design change with the best of intentions. I just have to be more serious about it than the previous attempt, which of course means time.
I’ll hack it. Many apologies to former and current readers… but commentary shall be forthcoming on all things pithy and political.
The realization that it’s been the same news we’ve been reading for, oh… I’d say about the last 18 months.
Beyond the minor news stories and such, does anyone really consider what has changed over the last week? Two weeks? If you were to unplug yourself from every news outlet, every TV, every news-driven website for a week or two, would you come back and tell yourself, “Gee — that’s the same crap we’ve been talking about for a month!”
I just hopped on to Google Reader (and an excellent resource it is) with a compilation of all of my RSS feeds and whatnot. Of course, having done the communications game I should have known better, but the thought dawns on me every once in awhile: our news is catastrophically boring.
What’s worse, Virginia political bloggers seem just fine to allow it to continue. Let’s be dead serious — how many original, thought provoking commentaries have you, the gentle reader, seen over the last week on our blogs? Two weeks? Month?
Granted, I’m not part of the solution. But the further we drift from our roots as citizen journalists or private journals, the less unique (and less relevant) we become.
No matter. I’m going back into my garden to start plotting out where I’m going to plant a massive number of boxwoods for my garden. That’s a post for a later time, and boy is it much more interesting than what’s going on in the news nowadays!
Lest anyone forget, Gilmore and the GOP needed that record. Outside of Virginia, 1999 was not a Republican year. In fact, the elections of ‘99 were so bad that the good news in the Old Dominion was noticed from as far away as the editorial offices of the New York Post.
What are the lessons from this trip down memory lane? I can think of two. First of all, every legislative accomplishment Gilmore achieved in the first two years of his term – and arguably in the final two as well – he owes to Bob Marshall. Voters should remember that the next time Gilmore reads off his laundry list of accomplishments as Governor.
D.J. continues to make the worthwhile point that neither Gilmore nor Warner actually hold legislative experience.
Considering the 1998 session, one can’t help but recall the pivotal role Marshall played back then… leadership and experience we could certainly use to stiffen the spines of lackluster Republicans in Washington.
Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain gives some straight talk smack to the Dems pandering to Big Labor:
‘I do not believe in isolationism and protectionism,’ McCain said. ‘We’ve got to stop this protectionist NAFTA-bashing.’
Ouch.
McCain’s camp seems to be doing more and more to create a Churchill-esque mystique around their candidate, and to a strong degree of success.
The great thing about this race is that the Democrats — whomever emerges with the nomination — will have to practically re-invent themselves around McCain’s character.
That’s no small task. While Hillary Clinton may be more of a “centrist” than Barack Obama, the more heavily she attacks her erstwhile Democratic rival, the more she hurts her brand amongst the moderates President Bill Clinton worked so hard to court. Obama faces less of a problem, but the question of experience becomes even more acute when Hillary’s nagging questions of doubt are replaced with war-hero John McCain’s record and reputation.
Judgment may work against Hillary, but you don’t call out a Vietnam POW on judgment.
In the meantime, McCain quietly builds strength while Obama and Hillary duke it out. A beautiful thing.
There are so many jokes to make about this I don’t know where to start.
What a scandal. Perhaps you’d like to start listing the jokes in the comments section?
Typically I don’t use such strong language to define a CMS… but alas, WordPress has pissed me off for perceivably the last time.
…well, mostly because it (a) won’t import my old Blogger files… and I’d hate to lose all that archived information, and (b) certain plugins that I know worked on previous builds of WP simply don’t work on the current build.
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Hence, I’d rather work with a blogging platform where I know what I have works, rather than rely on an open-source community that doesn’t seem to understand how to make sure it’s old stuff works with the new CMS builds.
Hence, either it’s Blogger or Drupal for me. Because WordPress is too plug-and-play (yes, I’m comparing it to the Evil Empire) for me.
Dwelling on the John Birch Society and Buckley’s role in torpedoing the nascent anti-Communist organization.
Via the New York Observer, this isn’t as crazy as it sounds. It makes total sense.
Odd thing is, after Hillary presumably dropped the oppo book on Warner to get him out of the Presidential contest, wouldn’t it be the complete definition of irony for Warner to get the one-up on Clinton by snapping up the VP nod.
On the flip side, does Obama need a southern Democrat? Probably so, but he has plenty of choices that the Republican VP nod doesn’t have. Obama can literally take his pick of candidates without losing any of his luster, while McCain has to contend with shoring up the conservative base… and possibly bringing the question of which spirit truly governs the Republican ticket.
Whether Mark Warner takes the VP nod is anyone’s guess. A betting man would wager no, but given the current state of the Democratic nomination, would it surprise a soul?
