My sources tell me that there’s a high likelihood Fairfax County Republican Committee chair Anthony Bedell will follow Glen Caroline’s lead and not run for reelection. Given the behind the scenes criticism and constant second guessing from naysayers over the last years, I can’t say that I blame him. I [...]
SWAC "StrictlyVa" bloggers paused in the middle of animated conversation during dinner Thursday night at the Depot Grille as our waiter, Bill, snapped this photo.
Creigh Deeds is winning by a landslide. Click here. [...] 
There Goes the NeighborhoodAll that’s missing are the white sheets and pitch forks. I can’t think of anything more un-American than storming the court house steps with fire. Had they been even the slightest bit enthusiastic about this gathering I would be afraid that violence would break out. I guess they were [...]
Here are some photos from last Saturday at Richmond's Maymont Park. Daylight tours of the Maymont House decorated for a Victorian Christmas are still available. Tickets for Maymont by Moonlight have apparently sold out, though a waiting list is available.It’s always been amusing to hear professional bodybuilders who look like former Mr. Olympia Ronnie Coleman here say they are all-natural weightlifters who don’t use steroids or growth hormones.
(The drug-free guys look more like this.)
Now, it turns [...]
Today, Shelley Row, Director ITS Joint Program Office (ITS JPO), made an announcement via the ITS JPO Website declaring that the ITS Management Council has approved the Department’s next five-year ITS Strategic Research Plan.Reports continue to say 1998 was the warmest year on record:
If 2009 ends as the fifth-warmest year, it would replace 2003. According to NASA, the other warmest years since 1850 have been 2005, 1998, 2007 and 2006.
The folks behind WalkScore have launched a new service, City-Go-Round, which lists mobile and Web applications using open data sources to help people get around cities.
Metro will upgrade and expand its security and surveillance and early detection systems under a new contract with Smiths Detection.
This is hilarious.
While budget-strapped governments are hunting down any expendable "fat" in their budgets, some car-safety experts worry that one local government's cutback could trigger a trend that leaves cars with faulty brakes and worn-out wipers on the road.Another interesting post over at GreaterGreaterWashington – an explanation of Arlington’s street naming methodology.
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To think, I was never a big fan of ol' Dubya, but I'd be one of the 44% that would prefer him to Obama right now. [...] I certainly don’t think so. But dyed-in-the-wool radicals apparently do. Read, then fight among yourselves.
[...]Last weekend, I attended the Organizing 2.0 conference in New York, put together by Charles Lenchner of the Working Families Party. This conference brought people together to hear from some of the greatest minds in the online organizing world. I [...]
AGAIN!!!This excellent piece cuts through the backroom-deliberation fog to explain why the debate over a public option and abortion coverage are sideshows: The real killers in health-care reform are guaranteed issue, the individual mandate, and the government-overseen exchange—all of which will make insurance more expensive while [...]
Does anyone consider this rhetoric attractive? (The Free Lance–Star):
Members of the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party and questions about health care greeted Rep. Robert J. Wittman (R-Montross) at a gathering Tuesday night in his hometown.
“Where in the Constitution is government charged with protecting people’s health?” asked Catherine [...]
This is truly astounding.The Elder of Ziyon and his team of blogging ninjas have put together a list of 349 Palestinian terrorists which were "accidentally" included on a list of civilians killed by Israel.
How I missed it the first time, I don't really know--t'was a rough time of year for Ye [...]
A micro-apartment in New York City that closely resembles an episode of Futurama?
All for the low-low price of $150,000? And they call us Southerners ignorant...
But seriously, folks: The only surprise I can see here is that nobody named "Moonbeam" is involved. (h/t Insty)
-->In response to Tuesday’s column, a reader offers some good backstory and additonal thoughts:
As a former CIA analyst/manager, I have given in the past a course on “Intelligence Failures: From Pearl Harbor to Iraq
WMD,“ and will give it again at the Shepherd’s Center this winter. [...]
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 [...]
Tiger Woods’ personal life ought to be his own business, IMHO. The appetite people have for staring at car wrecks, literal or metaphorical, is a little disturbing in its own right. Now we have the Daily Mail putting this online:
DO YOU KNOW ANY WOMEN LINKED TO TIGER [...]
I'm never going to get caught up if I don't get these outta my browser:
* Yoni Tidi notices that Hamas has been given plenty of time to prepare for its next act of organized insurrection against Israel. "Offensive" tunnels doesn't sound like a really good idea, but imagine my' [...]
Andrew Breitbart talked about his plans for new websites, joining Big Government and Big Hollywood.This morning, just before 6 am our time, President Barack Obama received and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Many people, probably including the president himself, were caught off-guard over when this award was announced last summer. President Obama had not been in office all that long.
How can this award be anything but [...]
Legislation doesn’t create jobs, mein Fuehrer. Well, other than the kind of useless make-work you’ve been doing your whole life, I mean.
