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Month: November, 2007

3 Doors Down – Citizen Soldier

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 [...]

Nothing like a spirited debate to bring out the spammers

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 [...]

Judge to public officials – you have no private life and no expectation of privacy

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 [...]

Speaking of ID's

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.

Photo ID laws not keeping people away from the polls

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 [...]

More nanny-stating courtesy of the Dems

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, [...]

Seven years later, documented evidence to the contrary and the AP still pushes the myth

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 [...]

LCRC meeting after-action report

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 [...]

Let's see this one on the campaign literature

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 [...]

LCRC meeting tonight at Loudoun County HS

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 [...]