28 November, 2007 (11:04) | Military | By: ricjames
While cleaning up my blogroll I happened upon this link to a post over at United Conservatives of Virginia. It itself is an embed of a YouTube of a music video called Citizen Soldier and, let me tell you, it rocks. I’ll say that it’s about our National Guardsmen and tell you that you just [...]
28 November, 2007 (10:16) | Blogging, Internet | By: ricjames
My blog traffic has increased considerably over the past week or two, and thank you to all of those bloggers and interested parties for linking here. I appreciate the interest. It’s been fascinating to watch, however, as the increased traffic has drawn the spammers here like mosquitoes to a cookout! I guess you know you’re [...]
28 November, 2007 (08:38) | Blogging, Internet, Law, Technology, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
Susan Sally Mann is back in the news again as General District Court Judge Dean Worcester has ruled that public officials have no communications that can be considered private, even if they originate from a personally owned device located within their home using access paid for by the official personally. Modern technology, Worcester wrote, has [...]
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27 November, 2007 (22:41) | Immigration, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames
Speaking of ID’s I note there’s an interesting commentary over at the Washington Times regarding the REAL ID. If you’ve not heard of this, you could start in worse places than reading this article. Afterwards, do some research into it if you can. An informed citizenry is democracy’s greatest asset.
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27 November, 2007 (22:26) | Politics | By: ricjames
One of the recommendations given to the government by the Commission for Federal Election Reform was for a voter ID card to be issued to all eligible voters. While that hasn’t come to pass there have been plenty of states that have passed voter ID laws requiring a photo ID to cast a ballot. The [...]
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27 November, 2007 (20:35) | Politics | By: ricjames
The next time a Democrat tries to tell you that charges of being advocates for nanny-state laws are just more Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy™ lies, ask them about this: Kids out of line? Spanking might not be an option in Massachusetts if a proposal takes hold in the state legislature. The proposal, submitted by a nurse, [...]
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27 November, 2007 (09:03) | Politics, The Media | By: ricjames
Here comes the AP with a chance to talk about the year 2000 Presidential elections and, true to form, they choose to push a lie rather than tell the facts. The event was the meeting of Al Gore and George Bush in the Oval office as part of the White House tradition of meeting with [...]
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26 November, 2007 (22:13) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
As promised, I attended the meeting of the LCRC tonight in Leesburg and found it very enlightening for a whole host of reasons. Right off the bat, however, I want to highlight that Chairman Paul Protic has said that he will not toss his hat in the ring for another term as Chairman. He said [...]
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26 November, 2007 (14:20) | Politics | By: ricjames
Yeah, I wanna see Ron Paul’s campaign manager put this on the next brochure: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, an underdog Texas congressman with a libertarian streak, has picked up an endorsement from a Nevada brothel owner. Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch near Carson City, says he was so impressed after hearing Paul [...]
26 November, 2007 (08:47) | Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
Noted over at Too Conservative and at the LCRC site, the Loudoun County Republican Committee will be having their 1st post-election (post-apocalypse?) meeting. It’s at 7:30 pm tonight at Loudoun County High School. (Follow the link to the LCRC site and look for the meeting notice over on the right margin to get directions.) Loudoun [...]
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