Senator Ben Nelson held out a bit on ObamaCare and got hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government to cover the increased costs that will be forced on to states like Virginia as a result of this bill. Senator Mary Landrieu got 300 million dollars for Louisiana [...]
If you were on Interstates 66, 95 or 495 during this morning’s rush hour and happened to look up, you might have seen this. Thanks to the Danville TEA Party for putting together the funding for a great effort to highlight our discontent with the policies of the current [...]
Note: vulgarity alert (below the fold)
I can understand a blogger supporting a preferred candidate or elected official. What I can’t grasp is what would drive one to personally attack an elderly lady expressing her opinion as a “pathetic old woman” when she happens not to like that candidate. Has [...]
The Manassas Park Governing Board appointed Bill Treuting to fill the vacant seat created by the forced resignation of Peter Farrell tonight, dealing another blow to the political aspirations of Jeanette Rishell. Rishell not only lobbied hard for this position but managed to dredge up four people to speak on [...]
The bar for someone to challenge Keith Fimian for the nomination to take on Gerry Connolly got a little higher today as Delegates-Elect Rich Anderson and Jim LeMunyon add their endorsements to Keith’s list. These two freshman delegates join Congressman Eric Cantor, PWC Chairman Corey Stewart, Supervisor Mike May and [...]
Not much advance notice, but if you want to tell your elected officials what you’re hoping they’ll accomplish this legislative session, here’s one of the few local chances you’ll get before the session starts.
Manassas, VA- The Prince William County Delegation will host a town hall meeting at the Manassas [...]
UPDATE: NLS says Herrity is in. My sources say Ben is full of crap.
Chris over at Mason Conservative is saying he’s hearing the rumblings of a possible entry by Supervisor Pat Herrity in the 11th Congressional District race. We’ve seen these rumors floated before about this by [...]
According to sitemeter, we crossed the one million visits mark at BVBL this week.
[...]Earlier this year citizens pushed to get the Prince William Board of County Supervisors to enact new restrictions aimed at addressing residential overcrowding, and they seem to be paying off. Although not as contentious or as headline-grabbing as the Rule of Law Resolution of 2007, the new zoning regulations [...]
This has got to be the front-running nominee for the most obtuse and incomprehensible sentence ever published in a newspaper:
The amendment would do away with a requirement that adding trailers on existing school property to bypass a “public facility review” by the Planning Commission.
Some of us might actually want [...]
There are lots of things I haven’t had the chance to write about this week that are obvious targets of intense discussion, and this is your chance to start the ball rolling. From the nutcase who failed to shoot his teacher at NVCC with a Marlin 30.06 and had it [...]
Here’s what the “brown pride” movement brings us, quite literally. Gangs, and their graffiti. As racial supremacists such as the Mexica Movement spew their filth about how “indigenous” people are superior to everyone else and are the sole legitimate inhabitants of the North American continent, young and idle [...]
Since the story broke about the Kaine Administration’s under-the-radar attempt to provide health insurance benefits to the “domestic partners” of state employees, not only has the Kaine Administration stuck with the crazy idea, but the homosexual lobby has gone to battle in support of it and think they can [...]
So which candidates for the House of Delegates in Prince William County got the most “bang” for their campaign “buck”? Once again we see that Delegate Bob Marshall once again is far more effective with his campaign finances than just about anyone else. And the least effective candidate this cycle? [...]
NOVATownHall has a great article today on Loudoun County Supervisor Andrea McGimsey, a hyper-liberal enviro-maniac who is trying to push through a county energy policy based on the discredited global warming hysteria. The proposed policy would require every home and business in the county be audited for energy usage, [...]
Some of our newer residents don’t benefit from growing up as part of American society and miss out on some important cultural lessons, to their detriment. Take for example the case of Artemio Rojas Sanchez, who decided that of all the places he could choose to remove his clothing [...]
The Kaine Administration’s attempt to sneak taxpayer-funded health benefits for the same-sex partners has broken from the blogosphere to the mainstream media today with a pair of articles in the Hampton Roads Pilot and the Northern Virginia Daily today, and no doubt it’s going to spread from there. [...]
This HOA couldn’t have inflicted a more serious self-inflicted head wound had it decided to hold a puppy barbequeue in the community commons. Unbelievable.
[...]In order to deal with some family issues that often take her out of the area, Neabsco School Board member Julie Lucas announced she will resign her seat, according to the News & Messenger. This is a huge blow to the board and the citizens of Prince William County, [...]
Stay tuned for some pretty cool announcements regarding the RPV Huffman Advance this weekend, of particular interest to all of you who for some reason can’t make it but would like to stay in touch with everything that’s going on. While posting on BVBL has languished a bit this week, [...]
UPDATE: Steve Hunt pulls out a big win with 51% of the vote!
A pretty respectable turnout tonight in the 37th District as between 1,700 and 1,900 voters showed up for the Republican primary. Surprisingly the race seems to between Will Nance, who mounted a pretty aggressive turnout effort, and Steve Hunt. [...]
Yeah, we’ve got an enormous budget shortfall that the General Assembly is going to grapple with, rest stops are closed and localities are challenged with dramatically less support from Richmond in their upcoming budgets. That’s not stopping DNC Chairman/Virginia Governor Tim Kaine from adding health coverage for adult non-dependents [...]
It’s not easy keeping up with maintenance and increasing capacity on a blog aggregator, and these days it appears to be even more challenging than usual. Two aggregators I find particularly useful in keeping up with what others are saying in Virginia have been failing this week, a frustrating return to [...]
On Tuesday evening Republicans will select their nominee for the special election in the 37th District and all indications are that Steve Hunt is heavily favored to win. Hunt has an impressive list of local endorsements, has maintained an enormous lead in our online poll, and as the only candidate with a record [...]
Before Congress and the Obama Administration continue to push forward with their jobs-destroying plan to address “global warming,” they better come up with some answers quickly about the growing evidence that the scientific process was subverted in order to push a political agenda. Over the past week a steady stream [...]
It’s getting time to bring the heat on, again. Perhaps not locally, as the Board of Supervisors has overall done a good job in implementing the Rule of Law Resolution and the impacts of illegal immigration are dramatically lower in the Prince William County area than they were several years [...]
Another election season that’s starting to get underway is in Manassas City, where Council members Steve Randolph, Andy Harrover and Marc Aveni are seeking re-election. So far the Dems haven’t made any noise about running candidates, while Republicans Harrover and Aveni have announced they’re going to run a joint [...]
This time Obama bows down to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, following his previous bowing before the Japanese Emperor. Reportedly, North Korean dictator Kim Jung-Il is anxious to have Obama come visit so he can render similar honors.
H/T: Hope Is Not A Foreign Policy
[...]As a preview of the campaign he intends to run, Dave Marsden has pulled what Riley is describing as “A Steve Chapman” by renting a room in the 37th Senate District so he could qualify as a candidate. Some Democrats are aghast, as Marsden manages to establish for [...]
Once again, Austin Haynes is raising money for a good cause in his quest to be sort of a one-man United Way for the City of Manassas. He’s raised money for a number of charitable causes over the years with 24 hour swims and other tests of endurance and perseverance [...]
Can you believe this? Democrats even conducted a poll to try to figure out who to run in the 37th District, and all they could ultimately come up with was Dave Marsden!!! Apparently mounting a write-in campaign for a week-old dead carp was seen as too much [...]
Voters in the 37th District are being bombarded with robocalls and mailers — as many as five a day this past Saturday – from the Marianne Horinko campaign as she tries to win the Republican nomination to run for Ken Cuccinelli’s Senate seat. Before her run for the Senate I’d never heard of [...]
The “stimulus” passed by Congress and the Obama Administration has truly done a wonderful thing. It has expanded the number of congressional districts in Virginia beyond the eleven we currently have, and managed to create new jobs in them! I never thought something like this would be possible, but I [...]
Manassas Park City Councilman Peter Farrell resigned his position on the Governing Board last Friday according to the News & Messenger, just before his trial on charges of election fraud was scheduled to begin today. The comment from his press release stating that he was giving up simply because he was [...]
With the mainstream media so openly promoting homosexuality and hostile to traditional values, I guess the continued existence of “gay newspapers” was pretty much superfluous. Oh well, gone will be the days when conservative candidates could hold up stories from the Washington Blade as a means of inflaming their [...]
One of the big concerns for both parties going into this election year was the effect the election would have on redistricting, an inescapably partisan process where the House, Senate and Governor re-draw the electoral districts to reflect population changes and ensure roughly equal representation. The concern of both parties [...]
“Organizing For America”, the collective behind President Obama’s perpetual campaign, decided to lend some assistance to the beleagured Congressman Gerry Connolly this afternoon by holding a “thank you rally” in front of his office in Annandale. Four days ago, an email started rallying the Obama troops to come to the defense [...]
Once again, President Obama demonstrates his deep love and profound respect for the United States of America in this photo taken yesterday. He actually stood up for the National Anthem, and didn’t fidget once.
Meanwhile, Dictator Hugo Chavez of Venzuela behaves a bit differently in similar circumstances. Maybe Obama [...]
Guest post by Howard Roark
I was astounded to read in the November 11 “News & Observer” that Manassas Councilman Mark Wolfe is again reaching for the wallets of taxpayers in Manassas and Prince William County. We know already that he padded his request for arts funding to get $55,000 [...]
Guest Post by Sanford D. Horn
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling [...]
With 24 hour’s notice and on a weekday to boot, about 200 people showed up in front of Gerry Connolly’s district office in Prince William County to protest his support of Pelosi-ObamaCare, which is a pretty amazing turnout. Of particular note at this event, one of Connolly’s staffers was taking [...]
Lots of questions swirl around the blogosphere regarding when a special election in the 37th District will be held. Governor/DNC Chair Kaine was expected to delay calling the election until Democrats could actually find a qualified candidate who lived in the district, but today bwana notes that the timing might [...]
Here are some highlights from the Steve Hunt kickoff. Voters in the 37th Senate District would be hard-pressed to find a better candidate to represent them in the Senate of Virginia.
Who do you support to replace Cooch in the Senate?
Steve Hunt Someone else Marianne Horinko Will Nance
