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Date: September 9th, 2006

Candidate for the House, 10th District Virginia? Neeraj Nigam falls short.

9 September, 2006 (14:41) | GWOT, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

I just got done reading a letter to the editor in the Loudoun Easterner, a regional newspaper out here. To be completely honest, I thought I was reading the first-time efforts of a middle-school student to address the adult issues of national security. When I got to the end of the letter, however, I discovered [...]

Apologies owed: will the Left now admit it’s mistakes?

9 September, 2006 (10:05) | Politics | By: ricjames

So, this week it has finally been revealed who dropped Valerie Plame’s name to reporter Robert Novak. In spite of 3 years of howling accusation, unsupported inuendo, and outright lies it turns out that all the angst being directed from the harbingers of the Left toward Presdential advisor Karl Rove was completely misplaced and their [...]

Live Long and Prosper: Star Trek launched 40 years ago

9 September, 2006 (09:51) | Human Interest | By: ricjames

They’ve had bumps along the way but the Star Trek phenomenon is, indisputably, incorporated into the culture of the world. It was 40 years ago this week (yesterday, as I write this) that Gene Roddenberry’s “wagon train to the stars” launched on its mission to strange, new worlds. Born in a vision of a brighter [...]

Verizon’s about-face

9 September, 2006 (09:24) | Blogging, Internet | By: ricjames

What a week! I’m back from some intensive customer engineering engagements and there’s been a ton of stuff going on that I’ve wanted to write about. Might as well dive right in with something that hits close to home. Back on August 26, I posted about my DSL provider, Verizon, slipping in a new surcharge [...]