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RPV favorite Chris Stolle who can't raise money on his own, but is happy for handouts, is the PAC rehab project; then there is the infamous Delegate Hamilton , a jobs program for one; and the city councilman who would set a legislative absence record; plus the napping Delegate Purkey . Each of these races highlights some different aspect of politics in Virginia. The other Hampton Roads contests look...
When I started blogging back in 2006, I was amazed at the vibrancy and activism on the left. I was not aware of how much work had been done to counter the takeover of the web by a shallow libertarianism and scary extremism (both are still there, of course, but hardly a huge presence). As summer turned to fall, as it became clear (to me, at any rate) that the Republican Party was headed for a disastrous...
Bob McDonnell, the GOP'S guy for Va. guv. is still standing in his own macaca. The guy has a talk and walk problem. He can't talk his heart to us, he'd be laughed out of all the urban areas in the state. He can't walk like it was 1902, he would get arrested. The laws have changed. He has to pretend he's not a hard core reactionary GOP trog. And how does he do that? Why, by bragging about how he stuck...
A few more highlights from WaPo’s article on Bob McDonnell – apparently McDonnell is too much of a theocon for racist former Governor and Senator George “Macaca” Allen: Republican friends who support McDonnell’s campaign for governor acknowledge parting ways with some of his more conservative views. Former governor and U.S. senator George Allen said he doesn’t [...]...
Pamela Geller nails it when she states that any opposition to President Obama or any of his policies is often labeled as racist. What a load of crap! We conservatives do not care what color his skin is; it’s his pinko-commie policies we despise. Remember this nonsense from Janeane Garofalo: Read from Newsmax : ‘Racism’ Cries a Tired Obama Double Standard By Pamela Geller “ A...
George Allen, the Republican senator from Virginia who thought he could be president before hurling French racial epithets at dark-skinned people and attempting to hide his shameful Jewish ancestry,...
It occurs to me that it’s very strange to link to an R. S. McCain post on “Ransom Note Racism,“ the technique of maligning conservatives by quoting snippets of their speeches and writings out of context…and quote a snippet of text. If Media Matters were doing this, they’d say something like “R. S. McCain [...]
Dallas County officials said Friday that most of the staffing and maintenance problems noted in the latest failed jail inspection can be fixed relatively quickly. FILE /Staff photoInspectors Jackie Semmler (second from left) and Jimmy Barton (right) from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards checked toilets and showers during a surprise visit in January 2008 to the county's George Allen jail in downtown...
I was thinking (and writing) last week that Jim Tedisco has fallen into the trap, only partially through any real fault of his own, of the Challenger Surge. The Challenger Surge is what I lazily call those races where, for whatever reason, a challenger that by any rights would have no reason to surge, does so, [...]
Dallas County’s troubled jail system has failed state inspection for the seventh time in a row, driven once again by inadequate fire safety systems and procedures. Inspectors with the Texas Commission on Jail Standards briefed county commissioners this morning about the results of their four-day evaluation of the four jails currently operating. This time around, the state inspectors said, shortcomings...
Republican Sen. John McCain is headlining a Bob McDonnell fundraiser in Northern Virginia tonight that is expected to rake in about $250,000 for the GOP hopeful's campaign coffers. McCain is the big ticket at the home of R. Cater Pate - a McLean businessman who was the state finance director for McCain's unsuccessful presidential bid. Pate has already given McDonnell $5,000 for his gubernatorial campaign....
Bob Maistros of the North Star Writer’s Group sees a double standard in the treatment of Obama’s “Special Olympics” comment vs. George Allen’s “macaca” moment. I can’t help but contrast the kid-glove treatment accorded Obama’s “misspeak” with the brutalization of former Virginia Sen. George Allen for his equally light-hearted and brain-dead...
The U.S. is extraditing an American citizen back to France for allegedly abducting his children and taking them away from their French mother. An international manhunt for 40-year-old oil industry consultant Timothy Sharp ended when he was traced to Carrollton, where he was living with his two daughters and son after fleeing his wife's homeland in June.Sharp was living in a sparsely furnished Carrollton...
The U.S. is extraditing an American citizen back to France for allegedly abducting his children and taking them away from their French mother. An international manhunt for 40-year-old oil industry consultant Timothy Sharp ended when he was traced to Carrollton, where he was living with his two daughters and son after fleeing his wife's homeland in June. Sharp was living in a sparsely furnished Carrollton...
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