Bob McDonnell led the Republican Party of Virginia out of the wilderness tonight:
Virginians elected Republican Robert F. McDonnell the commonwealth’s 71st governor Tuesday, sweeping the GOP to power and emphatically halting a decade of Democratic advances in the critical swing state.
The former state attorney general handily defeated Democratic state [...]
The exit polls coming out of today’s elections seem to have messages for Democrats and Republicans alike.
First, for Republicans there’s the warning not to assume that the prospect of imminent victory is a referendum on the Obama Presidency:
[M]ajorities of voters in both states (55 percent in Virginia and [...]
And, it looks like landslides for all three:
More later, including a lookg at what happened in Northern Virginia and the House of Delegates.
In part two of Reason.tv’s week-long series on Ayn Rand, Reason Magazine co-founder Robert Poole discusses the role that Ayn Rand played in giving birth to the modern American libertarian movement:
The libertarian legal firm Institute for Justice has filed suit in Arizona on behalf of a group of cancer patients seeking to overturn a Federal law making it crime to compensate a bone marrow donor:
Arlington, Va.—Every year, 1,000 Americans die because they cannot find a matching bone marrow [...]
It would appear that President Obama’s idea of a dialogue with Iran is not well-received:
TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader, spurning what he described as several personal overtures from President Obama, warned Tuesday that negotiating with United States was “naive and perverted” and said Iranian politicians should not be “deceived” [...]
Well, this pretty much says it all:
Gibbs was asked by a reporter on Monday: “Have White House lawyers looked at this issue? Has this been examined in any way?”
Gibbs responded: “Not that I know of. I don’t think it has gotten to the point where anybody questions the legitimacy [...]
It’s unclear whether this will have an impact on today’s election, but it doesn’t seem that Sarah Palin has many fans in New York’s 23rd Congressional District:
Sarah Palin’s not getting elected President in 2012.
We had plenty of data points to tell us that already but I find it fascinating [...]
Both Gateway Pundit and Big Hollywood are in an uproar over a two-year-old, 36-second clip from Sesame Street:
Add one more soldier to the Left’s war on Fox News: Oscar the Grouch.
Last week, in a re-broadcast of an episode that originally aired two years ago, Oscar starts his own [...]
Step one, don’t hire the former head of Geocities to design your campaign website.
It would appear that the mess in NY-23 is only the beginning of the conservative activist’s attack on the Republican establishment:
In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and [...]
The health care reform bill that the House will vote on this week has quite a hefty price tag:
WASHINGTON – The health care bill headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 trillion or more over a decade, according to numerous Democratic officials and figures contained [...]
Honestly, I’m not sure what to think of this:
Washington (AP) - A Republican congresswoman says people have more to fear from Democratic health care legislation than from terrorists.
Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina made the comments in a speech on the House floor Monday.
She said that the greatest threat [...]
As it turns out, the Obama Administration has a very flexible definition of what a “saved” job is:
The Obama administration announced Friday that federal stimulus money had created or saved about 7,200 education jobs in Ohio as of Sept. 30.
Although a couple of hundred of those jobs were in [...]
Apparently, our representatives in Washington are embracing pseudo-science:
Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses.
The provision was inserted by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) with [...]
So, here we go, my predictions for tonight.
First, Virginia:
This one has been over for weeks. McDonnell, Bolling, and Cuccinelli, will win by double digits. And I’m making a slightly wild-assed guess that Republicans will pick up a net 7 seats in the House of Delegates, which sounds small but [...]
After reading this, I am very glad that this Constitutional Amendment exists:
Former president Bill Clinton said Monday that, without term limits, he would have stayed in the job “until I was carried away in a coffin, or defeated in an election.”
Yea Bill, some of us were hoping it [...]
If Republicans sweep all three of the high-profile elections today, Virginia Governor, New Jersey Governor, and NY-23, we’ll no doubt hear much speculation on what that means for the Obama Administration. However, I don’t think that you can look at all three races as if they were one referendum on [...]
Back in January 2008, Barack Obama’s victory in the Iowa Caucuses set him on a course that landed him in the White House. Just under two years later, Iowans aren’t so thrilled with what they ended up with:
WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa — Pauline McAreavy voted for President Obama. From the moment [...]
The Phillies managed to pull out a victory last night to keep their hopes alive:
PHILADELPHIA — The championship was in the Yankees’ grasp on Monday night, and a reminder loomed over their heads at Citizens Bank Park before Game 5 of the World Series. As they lounged in their [...]
Polls opened in Virginia at 6am and Kellie and I were there as usual.
It was different from last year, and even from last year’s primary, in one big respect; there wasn’t nearly as much early turnout today. Kellie and I were voters 12 and 13 in our [...]
Well, this certainly makes the case more serious:
(CNN) — A 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become “too Westernized.”
Noor Faleh Almaleki died Monday of injuries suffered when she [...]
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