This is pretty cool - five Virginia governors sitting around talking about politics, raising money (and how much they hate it), blogs and other new media, qualifications for governor, etc. Check it out. [...]

By Sean Tubbs Charlottesville Tomorrow Monday, November 30, 2009 At their meeting on November 24, 2009, the MPO Policy Board heard details about a proposed bike-sharing program at the University of Virginia, a $7 million cut in funds from the... [...]

From The Washington Times: "the clash of civilizations as Barbie dons the burqa. Burkha Barbie, by Italian
designer Eliana Lorena, will be among the dolls auctioned by Sotheby's in a
benefit for the nongovernment charity Save the Children. The message to little
girls worldwide: Abandon all hope. Barbie has long" [...]

Ghassan Tarazi, Executive Director and Melinda Borne, Director of Programs of United Palestinian Appeal (UPA) will discuss what they learned from their travels to Palestine (Melinda's trip to Gaza immediately after the end of Israel 's invasion and Ghassan's trip to the West Bank last month). They will share [...]

Watch the video. Cindy sticks the megaphone in his face. The other woman pushed the older man. And they want him arrested.

H/T Sweetness [...]

From Reuters: "The United States should be able to begin scaling back its troop presence in Afghanistan from a post-surge peak by 2013, according to an assessment by the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan.
U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal gave his assessment to a delegation of U.S. lawmakers" [...]

Well if this is the case, I announce the end of Mike Huckabee’s political career. The suspect of the ambush and murder of the four Lakewood Police officer’s is Maurice Clemmons. Clemmons is 37 years old, now and was granted clemency in 2000, by then Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Huckabee [...]

Because news stories can proceed rather strangely from dubious “facts,” it is often better to set back and watch awhile before offering an opinion.  Since the emails related to ClimateGate were stolen, I reserved judgement – waiting for confirmation.   However, at this point I have also begun wondering how long I will have to wait.  For example, [...]

Before Congress and the Obama Administration continue to push forward with their jobs-destroying plan to address “global warming,” they better come up with some answers quickly about the growing evidence that the scientific process was subverted in order to push a political agenda.  Over the past week a steady stream [...]

Clarence Page, writing in "Page's Page" for the Chicago Tribune asks "Are storm clouds brewing on the horizon for Democrats," referring to the elections coming in 2010, based on some startling figures from the latest weekly tracking poll by Daily Kos  (http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/pagespage/2009/11/new-dangers-for-dems-in2010.html
The first figure is certain/likely to vote; the [...]

It’s getting time to bring the heat on, again.  Perhaps not locally, as the Board of Supervisors has overall done a good job in implementing the Rule of Law Resolution and the impacts of illegal immigration are dramatically lower in the Prince William County area than they were several years [...]

If having your email system hacked and the contents spewed across the internet for all to see wasn't embarrassing enough, now it appears that much of the raw data used to indicate a rise in temperatures over the last century and a half have been erased:Scientists at the University of' [...]

This is an issue several of us brought before the House Committee on Education, and the State Board of Education, repeatedly from 1999 through the legislative session in 2003.  In the zeal for standardized testing via SOL, and NCBL, algebra and geometry became the "minimum" acceptable math skills to achieve [...]

This sounds a little creepy!  Real NatureNazi’s?…with power and guns? The thick Amazon rain-forest canopy suddenly opens to a clearing where massive Jatobas and other hardwood trees have been reduced to 40 waist-high trunks lying on the ground. Fires set to help clear the underbrush still smolder nearby, sending sinewy gray [...]

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Politics Trumps Science
Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker, in his UK Telegraph article.

What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who [...]

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I would like to thank Delegate Edward “Ed” Scott for taking the time to answer some answer a few questions about himself, his reelection victory, and the upcoming Virginia General Assembly session. Delegate Scott represents the 30th District of Virginia, his district encompasses Madison, Culpeper and a part of Orange [...]

The Richmond Times Dispatch posted a reasonably accurate article describing the way the disciplined and highly effective McDonnell campaign was able to run the table against the feckless and largely clueless Deeds campaign.

But the Richmond Times Dispatch also accidentally revealed the political bias that so often creeps [...]

cross-posted from Daily Kos where it has received a lot of traffic

If Joe Lieberman or other senators came across John Brodniak writhing in pain on the sidewalk, they presumably would jump to help him and rush him to a hospital.

Unfortunately, an emergency room won't help - indeed, the closest' [...]

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Follow a day in the life of a Richmond area home school high schooler, Josiah Robertson, who directed this 3-minute video for Project New School. Watch it and consider voting for him to win. He has 139 votes so far ... let's push him over the top! Good job, [...]

"Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic blogger. Bob Miller will be that man. We can make him better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster."



Welcome back, Bob. We are all very happy to [...]

Louisiana's Sen. Mary Landrieu was presented with the facts surrounding offshore drilling at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last week. First, she accused those testifying against drilling of lying. Then standing in front of a large poster of the flaming Australian oil platform, she exclaimed "The fact" [...]

Remember back in 2006 when Dubai wanted to take over management of six American ports?

Boy, isn't hindsight just awesome?!?

The United Arab Emirates' central bank said Sunday it would offer additional liquidity to banks, signaling a push by the federal government to reassure investors worried about the country's banking sector [...]

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Supporting the Youth vote?
Examining the "deep divides" of politics?
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Yes, I have 2 links over there.
Go take a peek
Tiger's"other woman"? provided by political byline

Hop on over and see some Rule 5 entries here
Congrats to 3 beers for a groundbreaking expose

The Berman post gives' [...]