Portsmouth Mayor should step down for racist comment

I’m sick and tired of two sets of rules when it comes to racism.
The city needs a hotel that targets blacks, he said. “It’s got my black picture in the lobby, but it’s a white hotel,” (Mayor James) Holley said of the Renaissance.(Virginian-Pilot)
If a white mayor said his city needed a white hotel, he’d […]

Audits couldn’t possibly find government waste, could they?

One of the more humorous highlights of Brian Kirwin’s and my most recent trip to Richmond was seeing all the flyers up in government buildings ordering government employees to attend in person mandatory recycling training. Certainly that training was not wasteful.
Moments later, we were sitting in the attorney general’s office listening to […]

Mark Warner’s donors are idiots

That’s what the Virginian-Pilot said in their latest “too much money in politics” editorial. After citing Warner’s 5.1 million in the bank, the Pilot said:

“It’s July, so most folks have no idea who is running when or for what. They just pull out their checkbooks and stroke a donation to the first guy who […]

Saxman to unveil school choice group today

Later this afternoon in Richmond, Del. Chris Saxman is set to announce the formation of “School Choice Virginia”, a non-profit organization that will advocate for legislative reforms in education, both at the state and local level, and increase awareness about the importance of school choice initiatives across the state.

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Obama in open disagreement with military commanders?

First, there’s this report from ABC News:

Then, NBC News aired this before Obama arrived in Afghanistan:

Should Obama listen to his military commanders wishes of a phased withdrawal, not on timetables, or is it appropriate in his role as a potential commander-in-chief to be in open disagreement with military commanders?

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What is “hope”?

A lot this presidential campaign season has been made about “hope”. If you happened to attend church today, and you’re in Series “A” of the Three-Year Lectionary, you heard Paul’s Letter to the Romans, Chapter 8.
There is a section, on “hope.”
“Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what […]

AP does a fact-check in advance of the Gilmore-Warner debate today

Out at the Homestead today, there are likely to be lots of statements about Jim Gilmore leaving Virginia with a $1.4 billion deficit and Mark Warner’s course-correction causing the budget to grow by 36%.
So, which statements are true and which are out-right fabrications?
Bob Lewis of the AP does a “fact-check” on how the […]

Terrorism? Energy? Economy? Nope: Fat Kids.

So the Senate sees as an epidemic and national issue.

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Virginian-Pilot features Bearing Drift going to RNC convention

So, it’s not quite a full-blown feature (in fact, it barely qualifies as a good blog-post), but, darn it, the Virginian-Pilot ran a city brief today about us being credentialed for the GOP national convention. And, as you have grown to love about Bearing Drift, it’s always about us.
A couple things that […]

Key To A Happy Marriage? Baseball.

Here are a couple interesting tidbits from a recent ABC News article about the importance of “shared time” to keeping marriages together:
[University of Denver researcher Howard] Markman took a less scientific approach in a solo study he began in the early 1990s of cities with major league baseball teams; he found those cities had a […]

New Jib-Jab Video: Time for Some Campaignin’

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h/t: Scott

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Bob McDonnell Shows Financial Muscles

While the money race is not always the deciding factor in a political campaign, it is indicative of the relative strength of a candidate against the potential field — particularly well more than a year before the election. In this regard, Attorney General Bob McDonnell is showing impressive fund raising abilities for the 2009 […]

AP and its tales of economic “woe”

I’m not saying the economy does not have its issues, but I find these two headlines from the AP ironicially similar:

Fed chief details woes in markets, housing, jobs
Bush to talk today about housing, financial woes
Is “woe” the new “slog” or “gravitas”?

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McCain to call for more troops in Afghanistan

So reports Hot Air.

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RWL: Let Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Fail?

I was preparing to write a post on this, but DJ McGuire of RWL got to it first. It’s fairly provocative. DJ’s thesis?….
The transportation special session had barely ended when the troubles of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac began to dominate MSM reporting (oddly enough, bloggers have been largely quiet about it). […]

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