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• Wafer Wars and Bare-Knuckled Politics

  The Roman Catholic Church has recently inserted itself into a couple of public policy/political debates with a ferocity not seen in many years. Today, in a Washington Post op ed, Joseph Califano takes aim at the Church for its aggressive pursuit of its policy agenda and more specifically at [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 6:23pm EST
  

• I'm Still Here

  Still in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and here is the palm tree I promised to send. It's a view from my father's catwalk
  
  
  I will be back to cold, late fall reality by tomorrow afternoon. But for now, I'm enjoying one more 80 degree day visiting with' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:53pm EST
  

• All That Glitters

  All that glitters not only isn't necessarily gold, it could be as bold and cheap as brass. Here is a perfect example
  
  By now most people know who the Salahis are. But just in case you spent this past holiday weekend as a castaway on a desert island,' [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 3:31pm EST
  

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  Yes, this is the iconic Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving poster.  I grew up with it because it was used as an ad in my local supermarket in New York.  Every fall, as November's holiday season approached, this was the poster that graced our local grocery store's front window - the [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:13pm EST
  

• Advice President Obama Should Heed

  Lowell Feld has an amazing post up on Blue Virginia, where he offers heart felt advice to President Obama.  Like a lot of us, Lowell is getting a disquieting feeling that the change we believed in is being replaced by the same old Washington dysfunctional politics we all worked so hard [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:59pm EST
  

• Connolly Wins Sally Ornsby Environmental Award. Also Announces Workshop for Open Season FEHB

  I have a couple of announcements regarding Congressman Gerry Connolly.
  
  The first is to congratulate him for winning the Sally Ormsby Environmental Award last Friday in Fairfax County.  For those of us who knew Sally Ormsby for years, this award is especially meaningful as she [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:18pm EST
  

• Further Testing

  This is an old picture of Dan.
  
  
  - I am testing to see if this works better for posting pics than Blog It or Blogger's mobile posting via email, neither of which worked very well.
  
  If this little experiment works, it will be [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:26pm EST
  

• Stupid Blog Tricks

  In my continuing effort to find new and annoying apps for my iPhone, I just bought a new blogging app and now I want to test it.
  
  Now the thing about these little experiments - my adventures in mobile blogging series - is that they have the distinction [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:15pm EST
  

• Thank You Congressman Perriello - New Ad

  Americans United for Change has just released this ad thanking Tom Perriello for his courageous vote in favor of health care reform. As many Virginians know, Perriello won an upset victory in the conservative 5th District. Throughout August there were countless teabagger protests at his district offices and protesters [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:13pm EST
  

• Thank You Connolly, Periello, Moran, and Scott

  I spent most of last night watching the C-SPAN debate and the votes for the historic health care bill, which passed with the public option. Lowell, has up an excellent "Cheers and Jeers" post and I agree with his assessments.
  
  Last night, some on Twitter expressed anger at [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:43am EST
  

• Election Results and the Art of Local Spin

  There are many good sites where you can find all the Wednesday morning quarterbacking and lots of bloggers all too happy to tell you what went wrong yesterday in Virginia. Most of what they say is true.
  
  The campaign from the top down was not well managed. The lack [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:29pm EST
  

• Brian Moran Rallies GOTV at NoVa CLC

  Attempt 116 to post this update via the truly dreadful iPhone. There will be no editing and no proofreading because frankly Ive given up on this as a viable texting device amnd am only waiting for my contract with ATT toven and I'm so otta there
  
  Anyway pictured in' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 11:48am EDT
  

• Brian Moran Rallies Troops at CLC GOTV Rally

  

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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:44am EDT
  

• Ignore WaPo: Kaye Kory is Superior Candidate in 38th District

  I will be honest with you. Overall, I am pleased with the Washington Post's editorial endorsements in the Northern Virginia House of Delegates races and with their statewide picks. The only exception is in the 38th District, where they picked Danny Smith over Kaye' [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 12:38pm EDT
  

• Dan Duncan Honored By Tenants and Workers United

  

  Tonight my husband was honored by this group as Labor Partner of the
  Year at their 23rd Annual Celebration, at Cecilias in Arlington. Great
  party with wonderful food, poetry, dance, and music.http://anonymousisawoman.blogspot.com [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 8:34pm EDT
  

• Steve Shannon: No One is Above the Law!

  Here is a new, hard hitting ad from Attorney General Candidate, Steve Shannon, criticizing his opponent, Ken Cuccinelli, for his crony politics. Shannon reminds us that "nobody is above the law." A contrast to Cuccinelli who has stated plainly that he won't uphold laws he doesn't agree with. The question [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 10:00am EDT
  

• Vote for Creigh Deeds on November 3!

  On Sunday, the Washington Post gave Creigh Deeds their endorsement. In and of itself that was not surprising. Indeed, it's exactly what both sides have been expecting. But The Post came out swinging with these words:
  
  A LEGACY of sound policies, coupled with' [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 8:11pm EDT
  

• Fimian Raises Money From Same Old Rightwing Sources

  Well, the good news for Republicans is that their candidate for 2010 congressional race in the 11th district, Keith Fimian, has raised $2,333,832. In fact, as VA Social Conservative, reports, Fimian has outraised incumbent Gerry Connolly. The bad new, though, for Fimian is that most of the money [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 12:42pm EDT
  

• Steve Shannon on Why He is Right for Virginia Attorney General's Office

  Here is Steve Shannon in his own words on why he wants to be Virginia's attorney general and why he thinks he is going to win. What it comes down to is that he does not see the attorney general's job as a stepping stone to promotion of any [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 11:59am EDT
  

• Gerry Connolly Defends Health Care Reform

  There's a reason that Gerry Connolly was voted president of the freshman class in Congress. He faced the lions in the den at Fox New and ably disputed both their anchorwoman and Kansas Representative Lynn Jenkins, who was spinning misconceptions and outright falsehoods. Connolly stood his ground and defended healthcare' [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 8:47pm EDT
  

• 2009 is About Living to Fight Another Day

  Lowell paints a pretty grim picture for us Democrats in this analysis, but I think he's spot on.
  
  He predicts that Deeds will lose by 7 to 8 points and it will bring down some of the close races. Overall, if Lowell's analysis holds, we will still keep [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 3:32pm EDT
  

• What Is Right For Virginia Meets AIAW

  My goodness, I've been remiss. I just added a new blog, one that I've read for ages and meant to put on my blogroll. I have added What Is Right For Virginia to my sidebar both in the blogroll and as one of the blogs that I follow. You [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 2:40pm EDT
  

• Test Post

  This is just what it says. It is to test a blogging app and will be deleted pretty quickly. Specifically I am testing post links and a block quote feature. Here is a link.
  
  Here is some words in blockquote. Testing. Testing. Testingback to regular paragraph now
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 11:36am EDT
  

• Time to Ditch Both Insurance Companies and Baucus Bill

  As this diary from Huffington Post shows, the insurance industry's greed knows no bounds. Not content to cherry pick customers, deny claims for the flimsiest of reasons, and boot people off their coverage when they get sick and need it the most, now they have taken to turning on their' [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 10:08am EDT
  

• When Democrats Act Like Democrats, They Pass Good Bills and Deserve to Win

  Yes, I actually do remember how to blog. Sort of.
  
  After being absent for far too long, due to family, work, and training commitments, it's time to pick up pen - or at least pixels, or something - again. I am going to start with this YouTube video, which' [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 12:15pm EDT
  

• Important Endorsements for Steve Shannon in AG's Race

  Congratulations to Steve Shannon on winning two important endorsements. First, the Democratic candidate for Attorney General of Virginia won the nod from 40 police and first responder groups including the Virginia Police Benevolent Association, the Fairfax Coalition of Police, the Fairfax Deputy Sheriffs Coalition, and [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 8:43pm EDT
  

• Doug Wilder's Non Endorsement of Deeds Says More About Wilder, Less About Deeds

  I have to admit that I have been both puzzled and irritated by Doug Wilder's non-endorsement of Creigh Deeds. For a long time, Wilder has played the spoiler in Virginia politics, but Terry Rea sums it up well here. This quote says it all:
  In his statement, the former' [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 9:33pm EDT
  

• Experiment Number 2

  Ok in my continuing quest to try new things, I found an app that let's me blog directly from my iPhone. I'll write more about it when I am home. For now it is enough to know that this is possible!http://anonymousisawoman.blogspot.com [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 11:11am EDT
  

• Test Post

  This is basically just a test to see how posting from a mobile device
  would work. The truth is I couln't imagine trying to actually compose
  a real substantial blog diary on an important topic from an iPhone.

  But for short blurbs this could work. Of course that is' [...]

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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 11:34am EDT
  

• L'Shanah Tovah!

  
  As I usually do at this time of year, I will be heading to Fort Lauderdale to visit with my father for the High Holidays. Dan and I will be enjoying sunny Florida, where it's 90 degrees, sticky and humid. It's actually a terrible time [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 9:37pm EDT
  

• Searching for the Real Bob McDonnell

  Interesting discussion among reporters about Bob McDonnell and his credibility problems. This is not from McDonnell's political opponents but from working press, including a reporter from the usually conservative Washington Times.
  
  
  
  And apparently the doubts about who is the real Bob McDonnell are starting to take their' [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 10:55am EDT
  

• Those People Who Died, Died! RIP, Jim Carroll

  
  
  It was an anthem for a generation caught between the hippies of the sixties and the punks of the seventies. Jim Carroll spanned both. But he always belonged more to the punk sensibility – a blue collar New Yorker originally from lower Manhattan, the son of a bartender.
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 8:35pm EDT
  

• Market-Based Reality and Economic Theory 101

  Everybody likes to tout the "free market" as the solution to every problem from health care reform to protecting the environment. Let's be clear, there is a lot that a market-based economy gets right. But not everything. Yet, it would be foolish to throw the baby out with the bath' [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 12:07pm EDT
  

• H/t to Vivian Paige.

  H/t to Vivian Paige.
  
  
  
  This is a concise, simple explanation of the public option, a plan which has been made unecessarily complex by pundits and politicians with a vested interest in killing it.
  
  Thanks to Robert Reich for boiling it down to the simple, non-scary [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2009, 11:02am EDT
  

• Bob McDonnell Taking Virginia Backwards.

  http://anonymousisawoman.blogspot.com [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 10:13pm EDT
  

• Jackson Miller Ducking Debates in Prince William County

  In the continuing "he said/she said" soap opera over whether Delegate Jackson Miller, from the 50th District, turned down the NAACP debate with his challenger Jeanette Rishell in Prince William County, Norma Fields, the NAACP member who attempted to schedule the debate has chimed in with her version of [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 5:57pm EDT
  

• Benefits Bearing the Union Label - Happy Labor Day!

  H/t to Lowell for this:
  
  
  
  
  Excerpt from speech: So let us never forget: much of what we take for granted-the 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, health insurance, paid leave, pensions, Social Security, Medicare-they all bear the union label. It was the American worker-union men [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 4:39pm EDT
  

• Irony Alert - the RPV Needs Business 101

  Actually, they may simply need one of those "Basic Business for Dummies" books that are ubiquitous in Borders and Barnes and Noble. I'll explain in a minute.
  
  First, though, it seems the Virginia Republicans want you to know they have a sophisticated sense of humor and they appreciate irony.' [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 11:50am EDT
  

• Pull the Trigger for a Public Option

  My friend, Ben Tribbett, sent out an email asking for those of us who support a public option to help by "pulling the trigger" for a public option. In order to help the campaign to keep that in any health care reform, go here to contribute to Firedoglake's' [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2009, 6:50pm EDT
  

• Bob McDonnell's Shell Game With Virginia Voters

  The media, both old and new, has been lit up like a busy switchboard by Amy Gardner's startling expose of Bob McDonnell in last Sunday's Washington Post. Ever since then, Democrats have been going viral and Republicans have been trying to back pedal, ignore it, distract the public with [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 10:24pm EDT
  

• Don't Let the Democrats' Failure Be the Right Wing's Opportunity

  AN UPDATE ALREADY: This post by Michael in Norfolk also sums up the growing disillusion and why something needs to be done quickly by Democrats to stanch it.
  
  The zeitgeist, at least for today, seems to be the growing disillusionment with Democrats in Congress and even with Barack [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 8:36pm EDT
  

• Happy 40th Anniversary, Woodstock Nation!

  
  It’s hard to believe forty years have past since I was there. Yep, I’m one of those aging hippies who attended. Actually, I was fifteen years old, and my eighteen-year-old cousin offered to let me tag along with her [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 12:54pm EDT
  

• Jeff Schapiro Says Creigh Has Only Begun to Fight

  Jeff Schapiro, from the Richmond Times Dispatch, has come up with a video that takes on Bob McDonnell's attempt to rebrand himself as the centrist candidate.
  
  
  First of all, Schapiro hits the nail on the head that Democrats right now have run out of steam. As he [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2009, 8:27pm EDT
  

• Agreeing to Disagree, Without Being Disagreeable.

  There are really two parts to this post.
  
  The first is to announce two emergency meetings in the Danville area, to be held by a group called The Virginia Change That Works Campaign. They are holding these meetings to discuss the best ways to fight the disinformation and [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 8:36pm EDT
  

• The Inconvenient Abortion Issue That Keeps Dogging Bob McDonnell

  Today's Washington Post reports an interesting difference of opinion on Creigh Deeds' strategy of highlighting Bob McDonnell's opposition to abortion. The Deeds campaign is attempting to call voters' attention to McDonnell's staunch social conservativism. McDonnell, a Pat Robertson ally, has been trying to downplay his positions on abortion and [...]
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  Posted: August 09, 2009, 2:55pm EDT
  

• Mark Warner's Perilous Fork in the Road

  One of my favorite poems has always been Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Traveled.” In that poem, the narrator describes coming to a fork in the road. Although both paths appear equally pleasant and leafy, the narrator must choose which path to take. Knowing [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 3:59pm EDT
  

• Rich Trumka's Statement on Mob Violence at Town Halls

  The following is a statement that I received from Rich Trumka, currently Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO. He will be the AFL-CIO president within a few weeks.
  
  
  STATEMENT BY AFL-CIO SECRETARY TREASURER RICHARD TRUMKA
  ON CORPORATE FUNDED *MOB RULE* AT [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 7:47pm EDT
  

• None Dare Call It By Its True Name

  I do not throw around the term fascism lightly. In fact, I've never on my site or on anybody else's site come out and accused anybody of being a fascist.
  
  But Jane Hamsher, in a powerfully written diary on Huffington Post, describes a' [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2009, 9:22pm EDT
  

• The Chamber of Commerce War Against Working People

  According to the AFL CIO Now blog, the local Findlay Chamber of Commerce, in an outburst of incredible mean spiritedness, pressured the mayor of a small Ohio town, Findlay, into canceling a parade whose sole purpose had been to celebrate the spirit of American commerce and manufacturing and to [...]
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  Posted: July 28, 2009, 5:12pm EDT
  

• Creigh Deeds Wins NARAL Endorsement

  I just received this press release with very good news, though hardly unexpected. Creigh Deeds, long a defender of a woman's right to choose, just received the NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia PAC endorsement. (Emphasis in third paragraph is mine.) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  July 25, 2009
  
  NARAL PRO-CHOICE VIRGINIA PAC ANNOUNCES
  [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2009, 2:35pm EDT