Thursday, November 20th, 2008 – 07:16:39 PM
Delegate David Poisson (D-Sterling) is carrying HB1603 in the upcoming General Assembly session, a bill that would actually codify, into state law, a grading scale for Virginia public schools. It would be decreed that 90% and up is an A, 80% a B, and so forth, presumably to relieve students tired of the brutal 94%-and-up [...]
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 – 09:34:15 PM
Democratic Congressional candidate Judy Feder at a Joe Biden Rally in Loudoun County, Virginia
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
This is the story of a Republican district gone wrong. This is the story of Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, which may very well flip to Obama next week, and could carry a Democrat to Congress.
Virginia’s [...]
Sunday, October 19th, 2008 – 07:14:58 PM
Earlier today, John McCain sent senior adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer on MSNBC, where she was asked about Virginia. In fit of pique, Pfotenhauer assailed Northern Virginia where John McCain’s campaign headquarters are located, and spoke of “the rest of the state, ‘real Virginia.” Given a chance to dig herself out of the hole she had [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 – 09:40:10 AM
Because I did so well last time I issued predictions…
John McCain will select Willard Mitt Romney. Romney and McCain may hate each others guts, but like Kennedy and Johnson, who also did not get along, this will be a marriage of political necessity. He might be a Mormon, but McCain should be willing to lose [...]
Friday, July 25th, 2008 – 01:43:33 PM
Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim announced that he plans to repeal the anti-swearing ordinance put down by the City of Norfolk because it, alas, violates the constitution. Hallelujah!
I’m looking at you, Virginia Beach, which bans swearing along Atlantic Areas and beachfront areas. You’ve been warned. You’ve been &$!#(!* warned.
