Friday, February 29th, 2008 – 01:30:19 PM
Earlier in the General Assembly session, Delegate Brian Moran (D-Alexandria) sponsored a bill, Alicia’s Law (HB1189), that would have appropriated $32 million towards catching the worst child pornography offenders. Alicia’s Law, named for Alicia Kozkeiwicz, who at the age of 13 was abducted from her home and transported to Herndon, VA, where she was found [...]
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 – 05:52:39 PM
After narrowly winning re-election by 101 votes over challenger Janet Oleszek (D), Sen. Ken “Landslide” Cuccinelli (R-Centreville) has thrown out a not-so-subtle indication that he is seriously considering running for Attorney General in 2009. Cuccinelli intends to gather with conservative friends and supporters on Monday in Richmond (as he is in session right now, he [...]
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 – 12:32:38 PM
SCENE: A biology lab, exam in progress.
1. Stare at fetal pig.
2. Determine where pin, numbered 18, is pointing.
3. Using provided poker, poke area of pig to get better look.
4. Accidentally brush back end of pen to pig while pusing parts around.
5. Chew back end of pen while pondering whether it looks like a pancreas.
Blech.
Monday, February 25th, 2008 – 12:49:48 PM
My friend Johnny Camacho sticks his neck out for Ralph Nader:
How it is even remotely in step with the Democratic Party platform to tell 2,882,995 people that they wasted their vote, when the fact is that they overwhelmingly voted for him because they believed he was the best candidate? How is it Democratic to say [...]
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 – 06:08:56 PM
A new Virginia poll out today shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by 6 in Virginia, as Clinton trails by 3.
SurveyUSA Virginia 2/15-2/17, 554 LV (1/15-1/17, 535 LV)
McCain 48 (52)
Clinton 45 (43)
Obama 51 (40)
McCain 45 (52)
Why is Obama doing better than Clinton? Two explanations could be had: overall, Clinton and Obama pull the same margins [...]
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 – 03:38:22 PM
66 years ago today, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, forcing 120,000 Japanese Americans out of their homes all along the West Coast into internment camps, enclosed by barbed wire. Even those who had been born on American soil were sent away in a fit of wartime hysteria, a state of exception brought [...]
Monday, February 18th, 2008 – 10:15:09 PM
It’s a different world offshore.
The Telegraph reports that British ministers are considering a plan that would cause anyone under the age of 18 caught with some potent potables to have a conviction placed on their record. Officials are further considering plans to ban those under 18 from drinking altogether.
Of course, from this American’s view, such [...]
Saturday, February 16th, 2008 – 01:25:16 PM
If you haven’t heard already, neither candidate on the Democratic side will win enough pledged delegates to win the nomination outright, tossing the nomination to an elite group of 795, many of whom are not elected or are otherwise barely accountable to Democrats at home. There are 3,253 pledged delegates, plus the 795 superdelegates, giving [...]
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 – 12:15:31 PM
Let’s imagine for a moment that all of the primaries and caucuses so far on the Democratic side had apportioned delegates by winner-take-all instead of proportionally. The results thus far (not including Florida or Michigan, pledged only):
Barack Obama 1106
Hillary Clinton 1072
Naturally, neither of them have enough to sew up the nomination, and it’s still extremely [...]
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 – 10:58:28 PM
If there is anything I wish the Bush Administration immediately after 9/11 will be remembered for, it is not the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. It is not President Bush with a bullhorn, it is not heroic sacrifice or leadership under fire. History will look back and see that immediately after September 11th, President Bush [...]
