The king of July 4th announces his public schedule.
[...]edited by: Vivian Paige,
Virginia Editor
Saturday, July 4 will be another day of Tea Parties held all across the United States. Many of us are still trying to figure out what the Tea Parties are all about. Originally, I thought that they were about taxes. TEA did stand for ‘Taxed Enough Already.” That seems reasonable. [...]
She either got real bad advice, her heart’s not in it, or she’s an idiot. None of those possibilities strike me as especially positive to her future electoral possibilities.
[...]A couple of weeks ago I donated $100 to a presumably puzzled Republican Party of Virginia.
Why?
Last November I offered to make a $100 bet that Jeff Frederick would seek reelection to the House of Delegates after Frederick promised that he wouldn’t do so if he became the chair of [...]
In a move that is bizarre both in it’s content and in its timing, Sarah Palin announced today that she would be stepping down as Alaska’s Governor by the end of this month:
WASILLA, Alaska - Sarah Palin announced Friday she plans to resign as governor of Alaska in a [...]
With Gov. Sarah Palin stepping down, it would be tempting to draw some conclusions. After all, no officeholder at the level of governor quits mid-term without a scandal or a nomination for a higher seat. But that’s thinking like a rational, experienced political operative. Palin, on the other hand, [...]
Sarah Palin does things differently.Sarah Palin announced she was stepping down as Alaska Governor at the end of this month. The assumption is she is planning to run for President in 2012.
[...]State of the Union: Powell ‘concerned’ about Obama’s agenda
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – In a wide-ranging interview set to air Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, one of President Barack Obama’s most prominent Republican supporters says he is ‘concerned’ about the new president’s ambitious agenda and the high [...]
SHE’S QUITTING????
Per CBS: At a press conference this morning Palin said she will resign the governorship within a few weeks. (July 26)
WHAT?????
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin held a press conference in Wasilla, Alaska at 10:00 a.m. local time, 3:00 p.m. Eastern time today. Palin announced that she [...]
This is utterly pathetic, but sadly so typical of the "Don't-Tread-on-Me" waving (note the photo from this "UNABASHEDLY PRO-LIBERTY" blog) "teabagger" crazies.
Needless to say, this is not good (nor something we see very frequently in Arlington):An unidentified man fired at least one shot at the Apple Store Clarendon in Arlington, Virginia shortly after the store opened Friday morning, wounding at least one...For more, see DCist and the [...] It’s been an underlying theme that there are more contested Delegate elections this cycle than in previous years: VPAP counts 71 contested elections in 2009, up from 41 in 2007 and 49 in 2005. More impressively, there are 56 races with both a Republican and Democrat (in other words, [...]
Last week we had an unbelievably tight, down-to-the-wire fight in the U.S. House of Representatives over the massive Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy tax bill, the largest tax hike in American history and an unprecedented intrusion of the federal government into our economy and our lives.
Thank you so much for everything [...]
American flags against a cloudy Shenandoah Valley sky.A bunch of angry, unhinged teabaggers protested at Rep. Tom Perriello’s office yesterday, calling him a “traitor,” “coward,” “prostitute,” and accusing him of “treason.” They believe that global climate change doesn’t exist. (Not that it’s not man-made, but that it doesn’t exist.) Politically, this is an awfully foolish approach—one [...]
The buzz I’m hearing is that the turnout at the Independence Day Tea Party at the McCoart Center in Prince William County is going to be tremendous. The importance of that cannot be overstated, since this is not an election year for Congress and the only thing that will [...]
Unemployment numbers released yesterday showed the unemployment rate at a 26-year high of 9.5%. This translates to 467,000 jobs lost in the month of June alone.
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Dear Mr. President:
I’d like to request a refund on the Stimulus package you [...]
Happy 4th of July! In preparation for several hours ruminating with the Dulles Regional Craft Brew Appraisers here in DC's beer country, it's time to get out and get some triathlon training in - for the upcoming South Riding Triathlon, September 6th.Mickey Powell writes for the Martinsville Bulletin:
Former congressman Virgil Goode Jr. said Thursday he plans to decide soon whether to run again for the 5th District U.S. House of Representatives seat.
The veteran lawmaker, a Republican from Rocky Mount, said his decision is “not too far off,” but “I haven’t [...]
Orly Taitz has made a name for herself over the past several months as what one writer called the “Queen Bee” of the people obsessed with Barack Obama’s citizenship.
Now, she’s dispensing medical advice and telling her readers not to get the flu vaccine because it’s part of some [...]
A dramatic reading of the United States Constitution by Capt. James Tiberius Kirk as he tries to explain it to liberal Democrat members of Congress. [...] 
Even worse than the usual adjectives - "socialist," "liberal," "tax and spend liberal," "commie," "Democrat" (without the "ic" at the end), "terrorist," etc. - Republicans use to "insult" Democrats, there's one that is particularly even by their own standards. Here it is, in reference to Tom Perriello's courageous, [...] 
$2.8 billion in the red. That’s the Post Office, and it’s expected to double this year, according to the Postmaster General.
Rep. Tom Perriello chose to equate this model of inefficiency and red ink to Cap and Trade legislation.
“The reality is that the most people [...]
