You know, back in Soviet Russia, it was also of the utmost importance for the news media--which, incidentally, just happened to be a set of wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Government--to please the national leadership of the Soviet Party and the Duma which it controlled. Under the Soviet system, media figures that [...]
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 [...]
Less than two weeks after being narrowly elected to an open seat, Mark Keam is already showing his true partisan stripes. Consider this twitter exchange:
Keam: After Freshman orientation this morning, Gov. Kaine spoke to Caucus. We’re going to miss him and his leadership. Thanks for 4 great years!
William Teach (who needs your support, stat!) has an interesting story about our Commander in Chief, who is having something of a problem coming to a decision over Afghanistan.
A decision which has been pending since August, I might add.
It's good to get a good laugh at the levels' [...]
Fed up with the lack of leadership in Washington D.C., Virginia shook off the Blues and put on her Red dress and painted the town last night. The message was clear and unmistakable. Democrats are leading us down the wrong path. Virginia will no longer follow.
Creigh Deeds lack of a [...]
COL Gian Gentile gets an op-ed in the NY Times to suggest that our leadership isn't very good at observing historical lessons.
The ongoing ability and wiliness of insurgent groups in Iraq to carry out suicide attacks undermines the notion that the surge worked and, through military force, put an [...]
Based upon your votes, here are the winners of the 2009 Bearing Drift Web 2.0 Awards - The Berrys.
Best Video
Rich Anderson for his video, “Leadership”; the runner-up was “Young Lady” by RPV.
Best Blog
Roanoke Valley Republicans for their blog.
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