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  • Rumors are swirling about the FCRC…

    Too Conservative

    Number of comments: 2

    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 [...]

    Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:45pm EST
    by Brian S
  • MATH INVESTIGATIONS: HOW IS IT DOING?

    Citizen Tom

    Some time back I took an interest in Math Investigations, another new way to teach math to children.  As near as I could tell, this newfangled technique did not have much to recommend it.  Unfortunately, Prince William County Schools had adopted this technique.  So when a group of parents objected with much more [...]
    Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:39pm EST
    by Citizen Tom
  • Hiding Behind the Flag

    Where's Eric Cantor?

    Col. Van Barfoot, a Henrico resident and Medal of Honor winner who served in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, got into a clash with his homeowners’ association, which forbade him from flying a flag outside of his property.  Senators Warner and Webb both intervened on his behalf, White House [...]
    Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:42pm EST
    by Brad
  • Noxious Chemical Spill at Virtucon!

    Virginia Virtucon

    There Goes the Neighborhood   Thanks to the good people here for their kind welcome.  I am excited to bring my own “solvent” approach to the Virtucon team, even if my posting opportunities are limited.  Briefly, about me: I’ve been living in Fairfax County for about eight years, but grew up in Maryland.  I’m [...]
    Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:40pm EST
    by isophorone
  • THE LOGIC OF WORDS

    Citizen Tom

    Lawyers are wordsmiths.  Lawyers may know little about science, art, or theology, but the legal profession requires that lawyers understand the logic of words. That perhaps explains the latest piece of chicanery now working its way through Congress. Earlier this week came news of the decision by the power-hungry Environmental Protection Agency that carbon dioxide, [...]
    Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:28pm EST
    by Citizen Tom
  • HELP!

    X Curmudgeon


    We loved this photo, which a friend sent us. Her sister's friend hung a dummy from the roof. She had to take it down after two days for fear of causing a traffic accident and because a few people tried to effect "rescues" (and weren't' [...]
    Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:41pm EST
  • Oh, Here We Go...

    Now At The Podium

    I was waiting for something like this to come out...that Tiger's "shunning" of being black is why he doesn't have the black community lining up to defend him like they did with O.J., Barry Bonds, etc..., and that he wouldn't be in this position if he just said "I'm'" [...]
    Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:35pm EST
  • RAC December 10, 2009

    Avenging Archangel

    Virginia Beach's Resort Advisory Commission (RAC) met this afternoon. The meeting lasted about an hour.

    The RAC elected new Officers for 2010. Preston Midgett will become Chairman, with Ken Taylor now term limited out. Preston has served as Chairman of the RAC's Transportation, Parking, and Pedestrian Committee (TPPC) for [...]
    Posted: December 10, 2009, 4:49pm EST
  • Through the Fog

    Barticles


    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 [...]

    Posted: December 10, 2009, 4:40pm EST
  • WMDs and Climate

    Barticles


    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.  [...]

    Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:49pm EST
  • Huh?

    BLACK VELVET BRUCE LI

    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 [...]

    Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:23pm EST
    by Greg L
  • This Is Getting Ridiculous

    Barticles


    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 [...]

    Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  • Climategate in Plain Language

    Tidewater Liberty

    It has been nearly a month since we learned of a number of Emails between important contributors to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which reveal a conspiracy to defraud governments and the people on the nature, certainty and importance of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW,) that is human influence [...]
    Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:10pm EST
    by Don Tabor

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