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Richmond, Virginia--Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has issued a statement urging the State Transportation Department to hurry up with pothole repairs across the Commonwealth of Virginia.Former Federal Judge Michael McConnell takes a look at the Constitutionality of the so-called Slaughter Solution:
To become law—hence eligible for amendment via reconciliation—the Senate health-care bill must actually be signed into law. The Constitution speaks directly to how that is done. According to Article I, Section 7, in order [...]
But it could be mistaken for one in a room with poor lighting. Britain’s ironically named NICE panel decides life-saving cancer drugs are too expensive.
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As I wrote on Saturday, Krystal Ball swept 1st CD caucuses this weekend in Stafford County and Fredericksburg, demolishing Scott Robinson and making his candidacy for the Democratic nomination a longshot at best. Now, Scott Robinson is reacting with class, restraint, and poise. Whoops, wrong Scott [...] 
Back in the early ‘80’s, I remember my Intermediate Macroeconomics professor wasting half of a semester extolling the virtues of Marxist economic theory. One day, I simply had to ask – Does anyone, even YOU, actually believe this nonsense? His response? “Well, it’s a valid economic theory”. [...]
Boy, that’s a name I had not hear in a while. Like a bad scene from Weekend at Bernie’s, the Liberals drudge up Gerald “The Tax Governor” Baliles to respond to Ken Cuccinelli? Are you kidding me?
After pledging not to raise taxes on Virginian’s, Baliles, or Ba-liar as he was [...]
Walter Williams explains why, unlike the rights protected by the Constitution, health care is not a right:
True rights, such as those in our Constitution, or those considered to be natural or human rights, exist simultaneously among people. That means exercise of a right by one person does not diminish [...]
“Virginia Politics On Demand” takes over the WRVA 1140AM airwaves from 3-4PM this afternoon as both Shaun Kenney (3:30 PM) and I (3 PM) are guests of former BD contributor, and current Tertium Quids rock star, Norm Leahy. Norm is guest hosting [...]
By: Heather Higgins and Kellyanne Conway
Sobering poll news for 35 key House members
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she plans to bring health-care reform to a vote this week. Democratic leaders cite national polls that show support for individual provisions of the bill as a reason to [...]
But it could be mistaken for one in a room with poor lighting. Britain’s ironically named NICE panel decides life-saving cancer drugs are too expensive.
[...]We are in the infirmary of the Society of St Paul, the order of Father Gabriele Amorth, in the shadow of St Paul’s Basilica, Rome. The Vatican’s chief exorcist was' [...]
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Delegate Brenda Pogge has endorsed Feda Morton in the 5th district GOP primary.
This follows the announcement by the Morton campaign that several major conservative leaders as well as the Virginia Eagle Forum have endorsed her campaign.
Mike Thomas and Kurt Michael talk at February's SWAC Conservative Breakfast where 55 people turned out. Mike led the Pledge of Allegiance. A number of regulars were in Washington, DC, at the CPAC Conference.Justice John Paul Stevens, who will turn 90 next month and has been on the Supreme Court since 1975, discussed his retirement plans, sort of, in the latest issue of The New Yorker:
How long will Stevens remain on the Court? Good genes (one of his older brothers practiced [...]
This is absolutely perfect! I know it takes a few minutes but I felt like you would really enjoy it- I did!
Wow-I miss Reagan!
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The possibility of raising taxes is one that politicians generally try to avoid discussing because they don't want what they say about the topic to be taken out of context and used against them in the next election. The Virginia Organizing Project (VOP), however, held a' [...] 
Baltimore County councilman Kevin Kamenetz (D) is leaving the council to run for county executive. If he is successful, and serves two terms as county executive, he will leave office with a pension of at least $108,000! Perhaps that is why he is pleading with Baltimore [...]
Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Times printed a story about Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and the fact that she is now heading a political advocacy organization related to the tea party movement:
As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story [...]
Anyone watch 60 Minutes last night? Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, was the main guest, talking about the gross incompetence and blind greed that led to the financial collapse. And how nothing has really changed. Free market my ass – free takings for the crooks on Wall [...]
Not Larry Sabato is out with an audio clip of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s response to a question from a birther that was apparently made during the campaign:
Q What can we do about Obama and the birth certificate thing?
Cooch: It will get tested in my view when someone… [...]
Not quite sure why right wing nutjob and birther apologist J.D. Hayworth is obsessed with equine nuptials, but here it is:
cross-posted from NotLarrySabato.com
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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been in the news a lot recently for his lawsuit against the EPA, his letter to colleges telling them to change their non-discrimination policies and his efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. But he’s not done making news [...]
Else this might be seen as ludicrous. Who does this? Who sees this as a good thing? Especially during our current financial crisis?
Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department is spending $5.4 million to buy fine crystal stemware for American embassies -- but it won't give the US economy much of' [...]
Muslims want Islamic cemeteries in every canton
An umbrella group for Swiss Muslims says they should be able to be buried “with dignity” and is therefore calling for Islamic cemeteries in every Swiss canton.
Farhad Afshar, president of the Coordination of Islamic Organisations in Switzerland, told the Sunday [...]
As we've watched people, from both sides of the aisle, participate in the bashing and accusations that have been hurled at Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli because of his involvement in "discrimination", most of us have been appalled. But let me make something clear - Ken isn't [...] 
