The following statement is from Mark Warner regarding the health care reform bill that won an important cloture vote last night in the U.S. Senate. Thanks to both of our U.S. Senators, Warner and Webb (I haven't seen a statement from him yet), for supporting this critically important' [...] Once again politics shows us what it has in common with the world’s oldest profession:
Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase.
On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of [...]
The state that helped light the fire that sent Barack Obama to the White House isn’t so pleased with him right now:
Fewer than half of Iowans approve of President Barack Obama’s performance in office a year after he carried the state in the 2008 election, according to The Des [...]
Senator John McCain, (R-AZ) might be in for the fight of his life to preserve his senate seat. According to the Huffington Post:
PHOENIX, AZ — Rasmussen announced a new poll on Friday showing Senator John McCain may be in trouble at home where a polarized electorate has him facing [...]
Its that dreadful anniversary date again. 46 years ago John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. To this day, conspiracy theories are still abound, with some folks believing that government forces assassinated the President, rather than Lee Harvey Oswald.
Oswald, in turn, was [...]
A recent episode of Glenn Beck featured as his guests conservative Americans of African heritage. One of Beck’s guests, a young woman made a very interesting statement about civil rights and liberal politics, stating that “If we had been liberals during the Civil Rights Era, there would have been no [...]
As if the anti-smart-growth "aerial option" for Tysons Corner and the disgraceful no-bid, multi-billion-dollar, sweetheart deal to "Big Dig" Bechtel weren't bad enough, now comes this story (note: Scott Monett of TysonsTunnel.org told me all about this a long time ago, so obviously people have known about it' [...] On a party-line vote:
WASHINGTON – Invoking the name of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
The [...]
Senator Blanche Lincoln announced this afternoon that she will vote to open debate on the Senate health care package:
Sen. Blanche Lincoln is a yes for debating health reform, but a no for the public option, and she and fellow centrists are making clear they expect Senate Majority Leader Harry [...]
The game wasn’t nearly as close as the score makes it seem:
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Ohio State intercepted four passes by Michigan freshman Tate Forcier, and the OSU offense did just enough today to offer some breathing room as the Rose Bowl-bound Buckeyes gained their sixth straight victory in [...]
We just heard from a group of candidates, most of them Republican, for several congressional seats next year. A few were pretty impressive, but that is a story that won’t be typed via blackberry.
When Rick Sincere gets the videos posted, I’ll link to some.
For now, this is GOP candidate [...]
The following tweets are courtesy of Kyle Blankenship, who attended Glenn Nye's "community forum" a bit earlier today. Overall, this looks like it was a huge #fail.
Alan Moore of the DC Examiner recently did a profile of each of the three Republicans in the race to succeed AG-elect Ken Cuccinelli; Chairman Tim Kaine recently set the date of the general election to Tuesday, January 12th. Here are some excerpts from Moore’s articles:
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Marianne Horinko
“I [...]
I just received the following email and was asked if I could post it. I think this is a worthwhile endeavor, so here you go!Key takeaway from the legal session:
If a commenter says something bad on your blog, you are not legally responsible for it. However if you receive a court order demanding the IP information about that commenter, you have to provide that info to the authorities.
Seems reasonable to me, so note to [...]
Rep. Rob Wittman discussing a variety of Internet related issues.
Topics include:
- increasing access to broadband
-new USF fees proposed for voice over IP (Boucher telecom bill)
-Republican new media caucus – this is pretty cool, not so much in the “GOP is now cutting-edge” sense but at least they have [...]
Media panel, discussing opinion vs reporting, and “news judgments,” including what goes on their news outlets and what goes on their blogs.
Left to right: Ryan Nobles of NBC 12, Julian Walker of Virginian-Pilot, Anita Kumar of Washington Post, Kimball Payne of Daily Press and Shad Plank. [...]
How cool. Vivian Paige just showed me the way to posting to wordpress from my blackberry. Hope it works. If it does next step is a photo.
First discussion of the day is “blogging ethics” so needless to say I’m basically on recess time. But overall it seems like it [...]
Oh wait, this is Washington, they don’t call it bribery, they call it “leverage”:
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Friday night that she’s “leaning towards” voting to start debate on the health care bill – which would leave Democrats just a single vote shy of clearing a critical test for [...]
Ferrum student Jessica Goode grabbed her 2 friends and headed to the outdoors for some quiet time and to clear her head. They were looking for turtles for a biology assignment. She never came back. Another young person killed while away at college!
Local resident Jason D. Cloutier [...]
Mike Huckabee has always seemed like a decent sort. His politics are too conservative for someone like me but I have always respected his sincerity and his decency. He also plays a mean guitar.
While promoting his book, ‘A Simple Christmas,’ he took the time to speak out against his fellow [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, November 20.So what if Sarah Palin didn’t write this book? Even God used earthly scribes to write the Bible
No, I’m not kidding:
I couldn't agree more with this.This does not bode well for the prospects of H.R. 1207 in the Senate:
A growing effort in the House to require periodic audits of the Federal Reserve is little more than “great PR,” one Republican senator stressed Friday.
Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Alan Grayson’s (D-Fla.) effort to subject much [...]
Interesting piece from the Huffington Post on what they call the next economic calamity:
While the overall U.S. financial system is showing signs of stability, [...]
For some time, those from the Universal Church Of Global Warming, led by their prophet Al Gore, have been lecturing us on the imminent dangers from man-made global warming. It would appear that their house of cards is tumbling down yet again.
Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent British [...]
The national debt belongs to both parties. But at least the Democrats don’t go on Fox News day after day proclaiming how fiscally conservative they are, and organize tea parties to rant about deficits, without ever putting forward any plan for reducing them. Nor do they pretend that they have [...]
Let me start out by saying that I cannot stand Hillary Clinton. But the Dems would have been much better off strategically if they had picked Hillary to be their nominee. There was no way any GOP candidate was going to win that election with GWB hanging around their necks. [...]
Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, spoke to Reason.tv recently about her new book:
My review of Burns’ biography can be found here.
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