Athens is burning
As the Greek parliament debates the latest terms and conditions of the bailout (or “resuce package” if you prefer), outside,…
Personhood clears a House hurdle
Del. Bob Marshall’s Personhood bill passed one of its first legislative tests on Friday, wining approval in the Courts of…
School choice bills advance, but in the Senate, the bloody shirt is waiting
An education tax credit bill patroned by Del. Jimmie Massie is beginning its march through the House, having cleared both…
Senate Republicans for tax increases
With the Virginia Senate under Republican control, one might have assumed that tax increases of any sort would be off…
Cuccinelli makes sure Virginia gets its cut of the mortgage settlement
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced yesterday that he had signed on to the national mortgage settlement. According to the press…
Kaine’s still anti-gun, and tips his hand on Personhood
Tim Kaine was, for a time, snared in the Obama administration’s decision to require Catholic and other church-sponsored hospitals and…
Another debt downgrade in the works?
Standard & Poor’s, the folks who downgraded U.S. debt from AAA to AA+ last summer, are warning that a further…
Behind the unemployment numbers: an historic drop in the number of people in the labor force
The unemployment rate falls to 8.3 percent, the stock market futures roar and the commentators practically batter themselves in this…
Obenshain worried about an end run on property rights amendment
Just when it looked like the property rights constitutional amendment was heading for a clean up or down vote on…
House committee approves renewed offshore leasing
The House Natural Resources committee voted 25-19 in favor of an energy-related portion of the “American Energy and jobs infrastructure…