Gov-elect Bob McDonnell will have the “Opportunity Virginia” political action committee as his personal political treasury while in office.
The Virginia Public Access Project spotted the filing with the Virginia State Board of Elections. Money raised through the PAC will allow McDonnell to support all of his political activities and [...]
Remember when climate porn was just a metaphor? Not anymore!
[...]Folks who reprogram their scientific calculators to do all kinds of cool stuff.
' [...]Today’s column provides the denoument to the story of Jay and Stephanie Burkholder, whose property Roanoke has been trying to seize so it can give it to the valley bigfoot, Carilion.
[...]A common assumption among advocates of nationalizing health care seems to be that reform is necessary because insurance companies, being evil, deny coverage to people who need it. Of course they deny coverage. But it’s fallacious to think that a public option, single payer, or any other system won’t. [...]
Sen. Jim Webb has called for greater transparency in the health care debate and today he posted the Senate bill on his Web site—all 2,074 pages for your reading pleasure.
In mid-October, Webb asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to post the legislation and complete budget scores of the health [...]
He’s made it official: Del. David W. Marsden, D-Fairfax, is running for Sen. Ken Cuccinelli’s seat representing the 37th district.
Cuccinelli was elected Attorney General on Nov. 3 and will vacate his seat before he’s sworn in on Jan. 16.
Marsden has lived in Fairfax County since 1952 and has [...]
The email rumor mill once again is circulating claims that Michele Obama has more personal attendants than Buckingham Palace, and lots more than nice First Ladies like Laura Bush. This supposedly proves something about her, which supposedly proves something about him.
A new report provides data showing that the structure of Virginia’s tax system hasn’t changed much: the poor still pay more as a percentage of income.
[...]Glenn Greenwald points out, quite reasonably, that when the Bush administration releases someone from Guantanamo for lack of evidence that he’s a terrorist, calling him a terrorist because he was held at Guantanamo is, well, kinda stupid.
[...]There’s new evidence that it exists after all! Check out all these phantom congressional districts in which jobs were “created” by the stimulus. . . .
[...]Anyone who still doubts that campaign-finance regulations stifle free speech should watch this video about Colorado resident Karen Sampson and her neighbors—who were sued for putting up yard signs.
[...]Anyone who still doubts that campaign-finance regulations stifle free speech should watch this video about Colorado resident Karen Sampson and her neighbors—who were sued for putting up yard signs.
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In what has become a time-honored tradition at the Charlottesville, Virginia office of Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello, police were dispatched (this time in advance) to disband a scheduled citizen demonstration there.
The Charlottesville Police Department, after consultation with Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney and “machine” Democrat [...]
A simple, but snazzy (and jazzy!) time-waster.
[...]Some on the right seem bent out of shape that Pres. Obama bent at the waist before the Japanese emperor. C’mon. The next thing you know, they’ll be griping that he takes off his hat when he steps inside a church. No American president should [...]
From the Ayn Rand Institute:
More government controls, we are told, are necessary to solve problems such as skyrocketing health-insurance prices, lack of competition among insurance companies, the inability of workers to keep their insurance policy when switching jobs, etc.
Really?
Then why do giants of the computer industry [...]
Today’s column says abortion-rights activists should consider health-care reform through the lens of their professed principles.
[...]General contractor, James K. McKelvey, has joined a crowded field of GOP contenders trying to unseat one-term Democrat Congressman, Tom Perriello, in Virginia’s 5th district.
McKelvey’s campaign will focus on term limits, energy independence, and tax reform.
James McKelvey will announce his intentions and discuss his campaign for Congress on the [...]
Danville Tea Party leaders are wisely reconsidering plans to burn Va. Rep. Tom Perriello and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in effigy.
Good call. The effigy-burning would not exactly shower the group in glory. Why join in the moonbattery?
The idea is so gawdawful, it’s almost tempting to [...]
The Virginia House of Delegates’ Democratic and Republican caucuses each elected their leadership for the 2010 General Assembly session over the weekend.
The Republican caucus, strengthened after picking up at least five seats in the House this month, re-elected Speaker of the House William J. Howell, R-Stafford.
They also voted [...]
Do you recall the AP assigning almost a dozen reporters to fact-check Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father? Me neither. . .
[...]By Bob Gibson
Now is the time for an injection of a little civility into the body politic.
Many politicians have succumbed to a political swine flu of sorts.
They behave a bit like pigs as they slop through campaigns and sessions of Congress trying to slime opponents with objectionable labels and [...]
When a patient —- let’s call him Trab —- goes to the doctor and shells out fifty bucks for a copayment,** because that’s what his insurance agreement requires, just like it says on the little card he hands over every time he sees the doc, maybe —- just maybe —- [...]
VDOT has spent more than $60,000 to avoid paying a property owner $30,000. Today’s column has the details.
[...]Mason Rayner, son of my esteemed colleague Bob Rayner, asks a good question: Why, exactly, are young people so supportive of Barack Obama when his policies—an insurance mandate aimed at dragooning the young into supporting the old, massive deficits the young will be paying off [...]
It’s “drubbing,“ not drumming:
Historically, the president’s political party takes a drumming in mid-term elections. . . .
Remember, spell-check programs are written by computer programmers, not English majors.
P.S.—Memo to Self: This post will invoke the Glass Houses Rule, a/k/a the Iron Law of Public Corrections—which states that any writer [...]
It’s astonishing how hard people are working to pretend the hippo in the living room is really a coffee table. This morning on NPR, Daniel Zwerdling reported that Nidal Hasan’s colleagues were alarmed about him—not because of his religious extremism, Zwerdling hastened to add, but because of his “unprofessional” behavior. [...]
It’s astonishing how hard people are working to pretend the hippo in the living room is really a coffee table. This morning on NPR, Daniel Zwerdling reported that Nidal Hasan’s colleagues were alarmed about him—not because of his religious extremism, Zwerdling hastened to add, but because of his “unprofessional” behavior. [...]
It’s astonishing how hard people are working to pretend the hippo in the living room is really a coffee table. This morning on NPR, Daniel Zwerdling reported that Nidal Hasan’s colleagues were alarmed about him—not because of his religious extremism, Zwerdling hastened to add, but because of his “unprofessional” behavior. [...]
Better late than never: Just noticed this fine contribution to the drunken-narrator parody genre by Tobacco Avenue.
[...]In Dallas, shopkeepers can decorate their windows with signs of any size and message they want—so long as the messages aren’t commercial in nature:
For example, a business could paint a giant Dallas Cowboys helmet on its window—but not advertise that' [...]
In this interview, President Obama suggests anyone without health insurance is a free rider getting subsidized by everybody else. Really? What about young people who don’t buy insurance because they’re in good health? Or rich folks who pay cash? Many people have paid insurance premiums for decades [...]
While Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th, defends his vote for the $1.2 trillion health-care overhaul, one group is coming to his aid with a new TV ad.
Americans United for Change, a group founded in 2005 to help defeat then-President George W. Bush’s effort to privatize Social Security, today released a 30-second [...]
Today’s column suggests advocates of health-care reform have forgotten the first rule of holes.
[...]The Americans for Prosperity (AFP) “Hands Off My Health Care” tour stopped at soon-to-be-former Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville office this morning to lead a protest against socialized medicine.
In the aftermath of Perriello’s YES vote on nationalized health care, outraged citizens and voters of Virginia’s [...]
The Jefferson Area Tea Party will be holding a “Purge Perriello” protest rally at the Charlottesville office of Congressman Tom Perriello, 313 2nd Street SE (see map below). To find the office, follow the “green” line from the Water Street Parking garage, around the corner [...]
You have to read all the way to the end of this Elizabeth Kolbert piece in The New Yorker to enjoy it, but the piece is pretty good, so no harm done.
[...]Virginia Gov-elect Bob McDonnell said this morning that he hasn’t read the entire health care bill narrowly passed out of the House of Representatives last night but that the “public option does not seem to be something that’s gonna help us in Virginia.”
“I think there [are] legitimate issues of [...]
Congressman Tom Perriello, a highly skilled and silver-tongued snake-oil salesman is stuck in a healthcare moment, and he can’t get out of it.
After nearly a year of attempting to bamboozle all of the people, all of the time, the clock is running out on Tom’s [...]
Unless I’m missing something—always a possibility, since I’m not a techhead—Motorola has positioned its Droid as the upstart challenger to the iPhone, which (by implication) casts Apple as the Establishment Product. Apple = the new IBM? Wow.
[...]Some more postgame analysis (like you haven’t had enough!) from RCP.
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