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Month: January, 2008

McCain's "secure-the-border" promise suddenly doesn't look very convincing

25 January, 2008 (14:40) | 2008 Presidential Race, Immigration, Politics | By: ricjames

Joe over at Novatownhall blog has a quick post up there regarding the revelation that one of John McCain’s top advisors on immigration and border control is Dr. Juan Hernandez, a noted open-borders activist. Joe points to this post over at Hot Air that gives us a few more details as well as a confirmation [...]

Still the best and now he's being missed

25 January, 2008 (08:25) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames

I had to literally comment aloud this morning when I read this post over at Power Line, “I Miss Fred.” My comment: “NOW you see the light?” I’m guessing more people are going to be doing more of this as time goes on. Yeah, I do still think he’s the best. What’s it to ya?!? [...]

"Rambo vs. Walker"?

24 January, 2008 (17:38) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames

I’m sorry, folks, but “Rambo vs. Walker” sounds more like a sub-B-flick movie than a serious discussion of politics. Completely absent from this silly little “my action movie hero can beat up your action movie hero” diorama is any coherent rationale as to why I should give a tinker’s damn about what a couple of [...]

DC Govt fires 41 for surfing porn at work – monitoring thousands of systems now

24 January, 2008 (17:08) | Internet, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames

So, 41 people working for the District of Columbia were fired this week because they were using the city’s computer systems to surf for porn on the internet. In the wake of that little development, DC is beefing up their monitoring systems to watch what people are accessing while they work. “We have a system [...]

Yes, I did it…

24 January, 2008 (16:54) | 2008 Presidential Race, Blogging, Politics | By: ricjames

I took down the link to Fred’s campaign site. No, I am not taking down the other one, yet, so there.

Update: Soros-funded Journalism groups re-discover "Bush Lied!™" meme

23 January, 2008 (00:02) | Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

Wow. Stop the presses for this one: A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign [...]

Thompson's departure proves my earlier point, by the way

22 January, 2008 (16:21) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames

There’s 1 thing particularly about Fred Thompson’s departure from the race that has me quite a bit angry over the whole thing. Back on January 3rd I was writing about the upcoming Iowa and New Hampshire primaries (yeah, I know – 1 was a caucus. Whoop-de-do) and I said at the time that having those [...]

Confirmed:Fox News is reporting Fred Thompson is dropping out of the race

22 January, 2008 (14:29) | 2008 Presidential Race | By: ricjames

Story here. Supposedly he’s going to make an announcement tonight, so I’ll hold off making any decisions of my own until then. Update: Wow, everyone and his brother must be trying to hit his site. However, I’m working my usual network stuff and I’m getting a read that the FredFile (blog) part of the site [...]

Primaries: open or closed? That's the question…

22 January, 2008 (09:48) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames

Over the Christmas season I had the opportunity to talk quite a bit with my father-in-law, a fairly solid Democrat on most issues. (Well, if not a Democrat, then certainly a non-Republican.) One of the reasons I get along so well with my in-laws is their ability to actually discuss something with someone who doesn’t [...]

Loudoun Government Center proposals narrowed to 3 sites

21 January, 2008 (08:30) | Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

A bit over a month ago I wrote about the proposals regarding the new Loudoun Government center. At the time there were 5 locations out of the original 13 and I weighed in on which of the remaining 5 seemed acceptable, from the perspective of a Loudoun citizen in the density-packed east. Well, they’ve narrowed [...]