The MSM and the blogosphere are surfeited with comments on President Obama's (shown in official White House photo) Afghanistan policy described in his Tuesday night address at the U.S. Military academy. I have taken the liberty of including some marginal comments (in italics) to the full [...] 
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The final candidate debate in the 93rd House District was scheduled for Wednesday evening at Christopher Newport University. As we noted in our previous post it was expected the Robin Abbott, the Democrat candidate would be a no show and that expectation was fulfilled. Her empty chair [...] 
In his attack ad, which his campaign labels Ken Cuccinelli's Crony Politics, Democrat Attorney General nominee Steve Shannon claims "Cuccinelli said Hamilton should stay in Office" and cites the Washington Post 8/24/09 and the Daily Press 9/18/09 as sources for his allegation. In fact, Shannon's claim [...] 
Newport News Mayor Joe Frank announced Tuesday night that he would not seek reelection as Mayor in May 2010. The Mayor's announcement is provided in full below.
Blogs United was my coming out to the world of blogging. Soon after I joined my esteemed colleagues at the Virginian Federalist. The candidates who attended that initial conference at Christopher Newport University were aware of the potential influence of the blogosphere and the value of [...] 
Tamara Dietrich, a local columnist for the Newport News Daily Press, is among the latest uninformed and uninforming media types to consider the current proposals in Congress to reform health care. In a column appearing Monday, Ms. Dietrich manages to display a stunning degree [...] 
In an editorial Thursday in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the paper apologizes for the role played, with the papers complicity, by its former afternoon counterpart, the The News-Leader in Massive Resistance to desegregation of Virginia's public schools.
In the beginning there was the very public utterances that the June 22 DC Metro crash was the result of underspending on urban mass transit, failure to fund new rail cars, and the lack of a 'dedicated' funding stream for DC Metro. Less publicly uttered was the [...] In a rush to demand more tax dollars for transit systems, federal officials and lobbyists were quick to blame the supposed aging rail cars for the June 22, 2009 crash that killed 9 and injured over 100. On closer examination though it appears the track sensor system [...] 
The House of Representatives voted late this afternoon to return per capita energy consumption to the same level as 1875 by 2050. This pre-industrial level of carbon consumption is expected to reduce all industrial output and eliminate the capacity to export agricultural products supporting populations around [...] 
Much as it may surprise my friends and readers, today I can honestly stand with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. I join them in uninviting all Iranian diplomats from my Independence Day party. In fact I raise the diplomatic stakes one giant step further. [...] 
In a test of loyalty to Nancy Pelosi vs their Constituents, The House of Representatives voted (Roll Call Votes 360 and 361) today on two amendments to the Justice Department appropriations bill which would have stripped funding to bring terrorists now held at Guantanamo to the Virginia [...] 
President Obama, unsurprisingly, would like Virginians to support Creigh Deeds in his race for Governor of Virginia. One may, of course, take President Obama's words in this instance the same way we take his words in other circumstances, i.e understanding that: fiscal responsibility=profligate spending, security=weakness, lower [...] 
Stratfor, the commercial global intelligence outfit has a remarkable article today analyzing the Obama administration's change in policy and relationship with Israel especially with regard to Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Stratfor's analysis is that Obama is determined to create a two-state solution. [...] 
President Obama's radio/youtube address Saturday was the initiation of a public relations campaign to promote a health system overhaul the New York Times reported in its Saturday edition. The address came in parallel with a nationwide series of home meetings coordinated through Organizing for America.' [...] 
I purchased an AT&T LG Incite (Windows Mobile 6.1)primarily to use Twitter. I follow about 675 twitter accounts. I tried the Windows Mobile SMS application. Keeping up with the my share of the public timeline overwhelmed the phone. Battery life went to less than 4 hours [...] 
Americans for Prosperity held a forum in Colonial Williamsburg this afternoon to consider the possible outcomes if President Obama's healthcare is adopted and implicated. AFP is taking their Educate Yourself Now, Patients United Now tour across Virginia and the U.S. AFP develops grass roots support' [...] 
I communed with heroes today. The ones I visited with were, as typical heroes, reticent to reveal the details of their actions. The details were available, but only by diligent searching and discernment. These hero friends of mine were a rather quiet bunch, but Memorial Day is [...] 
Representative John Murtha (D-PA12) (shown in accompanying msnbc photo), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee panel that oversees the CIA budget, admitted today that he does not comprehend proceedings of his committee. In defending the credibility of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA8), Murtha said it’s [...] 
Brian Moran appeared at a Washington Post online forum Wednesday morning. His responses to the questions posed by his online interrogators give us some insight into his conception of political ideas. Although his opponent Terry McAuliffe appears to be leading in advance of the Democrat Primary, [...] 
In an editorial for Wednesday's print edition the Virginian-Pilot again takes Bob McDonnell to task for opposing the forced extension of unemployment benefits in Virginia by the Obama administration. The editorial begins: "Every time Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell is criticized for his position on'" [...] 
President Obama, speaking at the White House, said today that he would seek to block the release of dozens of photographs depicting alleged abuse of detainees by U.S. soldiers, arguing that the disclosures would "further inflame anti-American opinion" and "put our troops in greater danger."
Addressing the 'Diversity Advisory Committee' of the Federal Communications Commission, acting FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps urged the panel to quickly “make a real and lasting difference” in boosting minority and female ownership of the media. “The window of reform has been pried open, but [...] 
Virginia's lame duck Governor and chair of the Democratic National Committee, Tim Kaine, announced the establishment of a poverty reduction task force at a gathering in Richmond today entitled "Rethinking Poverty: Exploring Economic Opportunity for All Virginians," according to a story in the Richmond Times Dispatch.
Fox News is reporting that a data hijacker is demanding a $10 million ransom for 8.3 million patient records and 35 million prescription records claimed stolen from the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program website. According to the report, Sandra Whitley Ryals, director of the Virginia Department [...] 
The Associated Press reports this evening that three Bush administration attorney's may be referred for professional sanction for their role in rendering opinions about terror suspect interrogation techniques. The AP story cites as its source " a person familiar with the inquiry (possibly Attorney-General Holder'" [...] 
Standing with admitted tax cheat Tim Geithner, (photo from Voice of America) President Obama announced proposals to increase U.S. tax revenues from the foreign operations of multilateral corporations Forbes reports.
Harry Pelosi, House Majority Leader remarked during the last election campaign: "Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win and have substantial majorities, Congress of the United States will be" [...] 
Abortion promoter and self-admitted tax cheat Kathleen Sebelius was confirmed by the Senate to be Secretary of Health and Human Services late Tuesday afternoon on a 65 to 31 vote mostly along party lines. No Democrats voted against Sebelius (shown in AP/Susan Walsh file photo). The [...] 
Former Congressman Virgil Goode, who previously represented Virginia's fifth district, spoke Monday evening at the GMU-Fairfax student center. His address was billed: "The Creeping Influence of Islam in America." Before the event University security was fairly tight, with special instructions to prevent introduction of any signs' [...] 
Family obligation caused me to depart my usual coastal haunt and travel nearly the breadth of the Virginia Commonwealth today. From Newport News to Roanoke, through the Capital and across the majestic Blue Ridge, Virginia was in grandeur. The roadside along Interstate 64 and 81 was [...] 
Brian Moran, former delegate, Obama office opener, and Democrat gubernatorial nomination hopeful, was interviewed Friday morning on Norfolk radio station WNIS 790. During the interview Moran was asked about his leading legislative role he played in pushing through then Governor Mark Warner's massive tax increase. Moran's response [...] 
During testimony about the current situation in Pakistan to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the country's fragile government is facing an "existential threat" from militants who are now operating within a few hours' travel of the capital according [...] 
An AP story Tuesday evening is headlined Science taking backseat to cost in climate change. The article reveals that Congress may consider the cost of proposed legislation to reduce greenhouse gases through massive tax increases on energy production. Nothing about science is mentioned in the article [...] 
Representative Virgil Goode will be speaking April 27th at 7:30 p.m. on the George Mason University - Fairfax Campus. His address on "The Creeping Influence of Islam in America" should prove very interesting. There is likely to be some opposition to his presence and topic. Your [...] 
The Roanoke Times at its online site is reporting that the families of Julia Kathleen Pryde and Erin Nicole Peterson have filed suit in Fairfax County Circuit Court against the Commonwealth, Virginia Tech, and involved officials over the deaths of the students at [...] 
Visitor 50,000 to the Virginian Federalist arrived at 8:51 a.m. this Friday morning, on a Google search for Richmond Tea Party through ISP Comcast from Conyers Georgia. To visitor 50,000 and all others before who have found something of value at the Virginian Federalist, we express our [...] 
One segment of Bill O'Reilly's show Monday evening was a discussion on sending U.S. military forces to strengthen the U.S. southern border. Juan Williams suggested this would be a bad idea, setting up this strawman. If U.S. troops were guarding the border, people south of the border' [...] 
