The health care debate may be leading to greater mental health care for Senate Democrats who are falling apart over their health care takeover.
Democrat leader Sen. Harry Reid accused Republicans of acting like the Democrats did over slavery and civil rights.
“When this country belatedly recognized [...]
Scott Taylor, former Navy SEAL, led a protest today against the administration and the potential court martial of three Navy SEALs who brought in the mastermind behind the Fallujah massacre:
Awww….the poor terrorist got a boo-boo lip. I wonder how our warriors from Pearl Harbor would feel [...]
A Facebook friend from the 1962-63 in Fontenet, France sent me this. Can you read what I wrote? I remember writing it and the feedback I got when it was published. [...] 
More and more, the best blog in Virginia Beach to go to for local VB City government goings on is Henry Ryto's blog, Avenging Archangel.
One of the leading environmentalists in this City told me that I need not be concerned for what was in the City's updated [...]
Jeanine is, at least….
Ben Tribbett called it “pathetic” and the governor-elect a “wimp” for “hiding behind his daughter.”
But that is if you accept the premise laid out in the Politico article:
In the Web ad, Jeanine McDonnell calls Rigell “a longtime friend of her family” [...]
VB School Board chairman Dan Lowe plans to resign soon. He is the Bayside district rep. While all VB voters can vote for the Bayside district rep, that rep must reside in Bayside.
At-large school board rep (at-large meaning open to applicants citywide) Carolyn Weems likes [...]
“Virginia families are struggling financially with 10-plus percent unemployment and fallen home values. When Virginians are concerned about whether they will get another paycheck, government should not be spending time figuring out ways to make the people’s checkbooks that much harder to balance.” Doug Wilder, in [...]
General Assembly members should change this.
Yesterday’s election between Jeff McWaters and Rosemary Wilson included tons of advertising and spending. Rumors of how much was spent, and where it come from, abound.
The last time a campaign finance report was filed by either campaign was July 15th! [...]
Today’s 8th Senate nomination results do not bode well for Ben Loyola and his bid for the Congressional nomination.
Rosemary Wilson attempted to make Jeff McWaters’ alleged belief in mandated health care the central focus in her campaign; McWaters focused on the economy. The results? [...]
In the special election to fill the seat of Republican State Senator Ken Stolle, Virginia Beach Republicans overwhelming voted in favor of successful businessman, Jeff McWaters. By a vote of 4,776 to 2,815, Jeff McWaters defeated City Councilwoman, Rosemary Wilson.
"I" [...]
A healthy margin of victory sends Republican Jeff McWaters as the nominee to replace Ken Stolle in the Virginia Senate. An expensive and nasty race full of negative mailpieces and radio ads, plus some despicable blogging by some jerk whose name I can’t remember, ended with [...]
There is a live video feed of the RPV Advance on the website. Check it out. I’ll have more online once I am back to the underground bunker in snowy Northern Virginia.
[...]If all that is involved is filing a form, then I'll do it. Methinks, however, [...]
I'm still busy with settling in and trying to unpack so here's an artist I heard in this area a few months ago. I'm planning on going to keep an eye out for future concerts of hers. She is definitely worth supporting.Another question... the guy is a long-haired hippie with' [...]
In 2008, one can vividly remember how most voters in the 18-30 age group supported Presidential candidate, Barack Obama’s election. Many believed that Obama’s plans offered the best solution for the nation’s economic woes, while there were some who believed that there needed to be change [...]
Today is the last day before the firehouse primary tomorrow in Virginia Beach. If you have not yet listened to the podcasts with Rosemary Wilson and Jeff McWaters, candidates for the 8th Senate District, this might be your last shot to do so before the vote.
I’ve been spending a lot of time in my hometown of Philadelphia this year. The city has long since been lost to Democrats, and most of the elected Republicans there have been in office so long, it’s name and not philosophy that keep them there.
But it [...]
Apparently felons don’t rank very high on Tim Kaine’s end of administration check-list (extending voting rights). It would appear gays get the nod first:
[...]Laurence Verga, candidate for the GOP nomination in the Fifth Congressional District, has penned editorials for Red State and Virginia Tomorrow recently lamenting that the NRCC appears to be going four-square behind State Sen. Robert Hurt for the nomination. Verga wastes no time in [...]
By Brenda Haegley
The final few weeks of Virginia’s 8th senatorial district race for the Republican nominee have been like watching a continual hit and run. The Wilson campaign has mastered this tactic. While a real hit-and-run situation is disturbing and reflects a lack of responsibility or [...]
By a vote to 11-0, the congressional district chairs of the Republican Party of Virginia have Second Congressional District Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia decided that the nominee in the second congressional of the district shall be decided by canvass on May 8, 2010. [...]
A friend from Virginia Beach writes me today about potential changes in the Virginia Beach grading scale. Here’s his email:
Parents of school kids are being asked by Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) to take a survey to measure opinion about a proposal to adapt a [...]
Two more endorsements rolled in today for Jeff McWaters in the Virginia 8th District State Senate GOP nomination fight between him and Virginia Beach City Councilwoman Rosemary Wilson.
The south Hampton Roads paper, the Virginian-Pilot, endorsed McWaters today.
“McWaters can’t be expected to immediately fill the void [...]
Obama’s health care takeover was almost derailed in the House of Representatives by a group of pro-life Democrats who supported the Stupak amendment, which made abortions clearly not a covered service in the plan. They gave the margin of victory.
The Senate doesn’t seem so thrilled with [...]
