Sunday, September 28th, 2008 – 08:17:49 PM
With barely days to go until the voter registration deadline for what promises to be a record-breaking year, thousands of voter registration and absentee ballot form pile up on registrar desks. However, the spike in voter registration has not been equally distributed statewide. Unsurprisingly, fast-growing localities are bursting at the seams with voter gains, and [...]
Friday, September 26th, 2008 – 06:20:15 PM
Back in July, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, not known for secular humanism, ruled that public prayers at a Fredericksburg City Council meeting was government speech, and were required to be non-denominational. After consulting with the office of Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell, also not known for secular humanism, State Police Superintendent Col. Steve [...]
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 – 08:16:14 PM
The first qualification of anyone who wishes to be a member of Congress is to know where their district begins and ends. Physically.
I snickered as I was driving through a subdivision of White Oaks precinct in Burke, which is in the heart of Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, as I had spotted an orange Mark [...]
Friday, September 19th, 2008 – 08:17:11 PM
Joined by a pair of students from West Springfield ditching class for the day (I fully support skipping AP Government to see Live Government), I trekked up to Sterling’s Claude Moore Park this morning to hear Joe Biden at a “Women for Obama Rally.” Granted, I’m not a woman, but since it was an sufficient [...]
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 – 11:23:22 PM
I haven’t turned off C-SPAN yet, and the normally news-free convention roll call came to Tennessee.
The Tennessee delegation casts its 43 votes for “George S. McCain.”
Oops.
Monday, September 1st, 2008 – 09:34:59 PM
The confetti has settled. The protesters are gone. Denver has emptied out and all is back to normal–but my view of politics has changed.
After four days on the floor at the Democratic National Convention, I was simultaneously awestruck and exhausted. As a delegation page, I helped pass out signs and bring them up at the [...]
