Virginian-Pilot misses the transportation story
It would be funny if it wasn’t so frequent, but a big backhand to Tom Holden of the Pilot.
Somehow, key facts were missing in his story about the recent CNU Poll on transportation.
The things not reported are right in the first paragraph of CNU’s press release about the poll. So, either they were purposefully […]
VPOD w/McDonnell after he and Bolling receive, effectively, the Republican nomination
This morning, a letter was released from every Republican member of Congress from Virginia, every Republican District Chair in Virginia, the entire General Assembly GOP leadership team, the leadership of the State Central Committee, and a host of other prominent and involved Republican leaders voicing their strong support of Bob McDonnell for Governor, and Bill […]
Jindal on Leno
Bobby Jindal takes the Leno stage by storm (and in the process, makes Helen Hunt more uncomfortable than she’s been since her last close-up with Paul Reiser).
Jindal ought to be the template for any GOP gubernatorial candidate. Or any GOP candidate, period. To find out why, take a look:
Tone-Deaf Spending or Hearing Other Music?
From The Hill, “Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received by a single senator this year.” In contrast, Congressman Eric Cantor (Va-7) is one of a few House Republicans seriously asking his fellow legislators to give up earmarks.
Who’s listening to […]
Parsing Kaine
The NV Daily’s Garren Shipley recounts an amusing exchange between himself and Gov. Kaine’s press secretary over the small matter of raising the gas tax. Much weaving and bobbing ensues:
I asked Hickey twice whether the governor would sign a bill that came out of June’s likely special session that included a gas tax hike. I […]
Sex, Schools and Girls Gone Wild
Is something societally wrong?
An Arkansas special education teacher Donna Lou Sanders faces rape and abuse charges for having sex parties with students in a motel.
Tampa middle school teacher Stephanie Ragusa was arrested three times in six weeks for having sex with students.
If these were Catholic priests,…well, you get the idea.
Meanwhile, the callgirl of […]
Storm Blogging
Big storms came through Virginia today. WTVR’s website has a running blog about it. I hope our readers are all okay.
Eric Cantor’s Advisory Council meeting was this evening. Former Del. Jack Reid was there, and said that he was in a restaurant in the south side of Richmond today (Colonial Heights, I think?) when the […]
Gilmore Wins Straw Poll Among Conservatives
At Saturday’s Virginia Conservative Leadership Conference on Saturday, a straw poll was taken during the banquet. The room was full of conservative activists, pro-life folks, home-schoolers, etc. For Senate, here are the results (roughly 200 people voting):
Jim Gilmore: 57%
Bob Marshall: 40%
Marshall was there that day and he should have owned the room. If he couldn’t […]
SCANDAL: RPV’s John Hager Is Taking Down DNC’s Howard Dean!
Meet the Press talked it up over the weekend, as did several Virginia news outlets. After meeting with representatives from the Obama and Clinton camps weeks ago (and talking heavily about it in the press to show “unity”), the DNC launched a fierce attack ad against Republican nominee Senator John McCain.
The problem? Co-ordinated […]
Drake launches new Web site; endorsed by U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Pretty good day for U.S. Rep. Thelma Drake (R-VA02). She launched her new web site and, in unrelated news, was endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
McDonnell: merit-based judicial selection is the best course
It should come as no surprise to any of us who have followed politics for a number of years that Attorney General Bob McDonnell from the time he was a delegate has been a strong proponent of merit-based judicial selection.
Bolling reacts to judicial appointment ethics questions
After learning this weekend that Sen. Yvonne Miller has hijacked the judicial appointment process in Norfolk and Virginia Beach and Sen. Creigh Deeds accepted campaign money from an appointee’s law firm (where she is one of two partners) before he strongly advocated for her selection, we asked Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, the presiding officer of […]
School Sex and Cheerleaders
Thanks to Brian Kirwin, Bearing Drift gets nearly 60% of its search hits from the term “school sex” based on his last few posts on problems in the Virginia Beach Public School System and at Norfolk Academy; Kirwin also posted on Reagan’s GOP about the connection between being a cheerleader and becoming president…we also might […]
See, Democrats can get it right on occasion
Keep the American people in the dark about military operations — especially if the Israeli’s ask us. Bomb Syrian nuclear facilities — especially if it is the Israeli’s who do so, after all, it is “their neighborhood.” And, “as to WMD in Iraq, everyone knows Saddam had them and used them, the only […]
Mis-Deeds: Questionable ethics in Dascher appointment
Laura Dascher of Bath County is a partner in the Covington law firm of Pasco and Dascher PLC. The firm gave $2500 to the Future Deeds Campaign in Dec. 2007.
That, in and of itself, is fine. But it’s not the whole story.
