While you’re on hold, try your hand at this.
[...]edited by: Vivian Paige,
Virginia Editor
A nice point about [reciprocity and religious tolerance]:
When Our Lady of the Rosary, Qatar’s first-ever church, opened last year, it did so minus cross, bell, dome, steeple, or signboard. Rosary’s priest, Father Tom Veneracion, explained their absence: “The idea is to be discreet because we don’t [...]
Today’s column asks whether the Climategate e-mails are the new Downing Street Memo:
Both the Downing Street Memo and the Climategate e-mails suggest political pressure led some people in high places to massage the intelligence to fit a predetermined conclusion. . . .
On the other hand, the Downing [...]
As a follow-up to Friday’s column, take a gander at this Sunday story in the Roanoke Times:
“We really need to know now ... that the Surfaces property will be available when we need to start road construction,“ Mills wrote in an [...]
Hot on the heels of protesters being declared “persona non grata” at Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville office, “Pandering Tom” Perriello has sent a blatantly debasing mailer to Virginia’s 5th District constituents—one that is dripping with irony in light of recent events surrounding police-enforced [...]
A game to make you think.
[...]Wayne Turnage, chief of staff to Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, is a finalist to take on that same role in the Office of the President at Virginia Commonwealth University.
According to a notice sent out by the school, “one finalist has been invited back to VCU for further interviews,“ and [...]
As Today’s column explains, Roanoke has just won the right to condemn a property on behalf of a company that says it doesn’t even want it.
Postscript: Atty. Gen-elect Ken Cuccinelli and other lawmakers are not pleased:
“It points out the need that we have more [...]
Boudreauxism of the Day:
3 December 2009
Editor, New York Daily News
Dear Editor:
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) is upset that Adidas will shift its manufacturing of National Basketball Association jerseys from New York to Thailand, and he menacingly calls upon the N.B.A. to terminate its contract with Adidas (“Sen. Schumer rips Adidas for [...]
From Shikha Dalmia of Forbes:
It is worth recalling that Bush too was relying on an international consensus—especially reports by U.N. arms inspectors—that Saddam Hussein was sitting atop stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction as a justification for war.
(Just for snorts and giggles, here’s a compendium of [...]
Here’s a readable and seemingly sincere effort to put the East Anglia CRU e-mails in a broader context, from an actual scientist, who comes down on the alarmist rather than the skeptical side of the discussion. Nut grafs:
But do the potentially unethical acts implied by [...]
Sabato’s latest Crystal Ball looks at the upcoming Senate races, in which Democrats will have to defend twice as many seats as Republicans.
[...]Michael Paul Williams absolutely nails Henrico County Public Schools on the system’s bizarre, two-faced policy on who can speak to students. If the speaker is President of the United States Barack Obama, there is deep concern about indoctrination and parents are given lots of opportunity to opt [...]
A lot of the coverage of the infamous Climategate scandal has failed to make clear exactly what the CRU e-mails about hiding the decline referred to. John Tierney thoughtfully provides a comparison of the graphs and an explanation of them. For an even more detailed look, see [...]
It’s hard to know if Tim Kaine is telling the truth in this story about his proposed cigarette tax hike and the smoking ban.
After all, if he’s telling the truth now, that means he was dissimulating [...]
Today’s column looks at the state’s licensure requirements for yoga schools that teach yoga teachers.
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Buying votes with taxpayer money is nothing new in machine politics, but in Charlottesville, central party Democrats have raised political bribery to an art form.
Here, for your listening pleasure, is an exclusive, special production of The Schilling Show: The Ballad of Norrishood and Szakos.
The song chronicles [...]
If you tried to call Sen. Jim Webb’s office on the weekend the U.S. Senate voted to debate health-care legislation on the floor, and you got bumped to another senator’s voicemail, don’t take it personally.
Apparently, the Senate phone system was inundated with calls and lines were crossed.
One reader told [...]
Sheldon Richman points out how conservatives and liberals borrow each other’s arguments, depending on the subject:
[M]ost conservatives enthusiastically support “the drug war” and “energy independence,” although virtually every argument they use against the health-care grab and other economic intervention applies to those government objectives.
The progressives are [...]
The Muppets, doing “Bohemian Rhapsody.“
(For my money, the mashup of Bert and Ernie doing a scene from “Casino” is even funnier, but it’s also got more F-words in it than, um, something with a whole bunch of other F-words in it. So you’ll have to seek [...]
The Nation’s Katha Pollitt is sick and tired of commentary about Sarah Palin, and she can’t stop writing it, either. The result is a very funny riff on the maddening frustration of trying to analyze Alaska’s giant bundle of internal contradictions.
' [...]Today’s column about developments in climate science, or lack thereof, says none of us really knows the truth for certain, one way or the other.
[...]Plymouth was an early economic object lesson:
In 1620 Plymouth Plantation was founded with a system of communal property rights. Food and supplies were held in common and then distributed based on equality and need as determined by Plantation officials. People received the same rations whether or not [...]
By Paige Winfield on November 25, 2009
(Published Nov. 25, 2009, by Old Dominion Watchdog, see: [virginia.watchdog.org]... )
Resignations like the one given by Del. Phil Hamilton last week are rare.
The Newport News Republican is one of only three Virginia legislators over the last three decades to leave the General Assembly [...]
By Paige Winfield on November 25, 2009
(Published Nov. 25, 2009, by Old Dominion Watchdog, see: [virginia.watchdog.org]... )
Resignations like the one given by Del. Phil Hamilton last week are rare.
The Newport News Republican is one of only three Virginia legislators over the last three decades to leave the General Assembly [...]
The Roanoke Times agrees that the eminent-domain case involving Carilion, Virginia Tech, and the city teaming up to seize a couple’s land by force is riddled with problems:
The facts as presented in Broadhurst’s ruling call into question the legitimacy of the process that led to this [...]
