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Month: February, 2008

Virginia’s Supreme Court rules regional authority NVTA unconstitutional

29 February, 2008 (13:50) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

Taking a moment during lunch to check in over at Too Conservative I saw that the lead post was regarding the VA Supreme Court ruling that the NVTA is unconstitutional. Poster Loudoun Insider didn’t have details and was on his way out when he heard, so I went and checked over at WTOP News and [...]

Pew research shows majority of Americans believe US effort in Iraq will succeed.

28 February, 2008 (22:37) | Uncategorized | By: ricjames

Via Hot Air, it would appear that the only suspension of disbelief Americans have needed lately is that of thinking Democrats have any real clue as to what’s going on.

Virtual Fence has such “technology problems” that further development will be delayed up to 3 years. Updated

28 February, 2008 (07:21) | Immigration, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames

Wow. This is gonna hurt. Well, it’s gonna hurt someone’s career, anyway. May I recommend we get back to building the real fence while my fellow wire-heads work out the issues? Update: I’m getting some messages from folks with more access to the real skinny than I that people working with the project are absolutely, [...]

The “pope of hope”?

27 February, 2008 (14:12) | 2008 Presidential Race, Blogging | By: ricjames

Someone sent this one to me. Seems strangely accurate.

Inova’s curious public plea – an attempt to sway a judge regarding hospitals in Loudoun?

27 February, 2008 (12:33) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

At the tail end of last week I got the weekly crop of local newspapers and something in one of them caught my attention. It was a full-page ad sponsored by Inova Loudoun Hospital that purported to do a side-by-side comparison of HCA’s proposed Broadlands hospital project and Loudoun County’s Health Plan – which just [...]

Global cooling evidence just got a lot more solid

27 February, 2008 (07:59) | Environment, Politics, Science | By: ricjames

Uh-oh: Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. … No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past [...]

And I thought Oregon was as liberal as Berkeley

26 February, 2008 (22:15) | Politics | By: ricjames

Berkeley city officials pass a resolution calling the US Marines “uninvited and unwelcome intruders,” liberals get out there protesting straight-laced, uptight conservative values at the drop of a hat, and yet a woman who posted a picture of herself posing in underwear that I’m sure was no worse than the bikinis on the beaches these [...]

LCPS Survey questions questions answered, a bit

26 February, 2008 (15:34) | Academia, Human Interest, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

A few days ago I blogged on the matter of the cyclical LCPS census survey and, specifically, the questions they were asking. A follow-up is called for given some commentary on the blog and a response I received from the LCPS. First things first, you should know that I did, in fact, respond to the [...]

World to end at 5:30 this evening

26 February, 2008 (07:10) | Human Interest | By: ricjames

Well, it’ll seem like the world’s ending to some of us, anyway. Starbucks is going to close its doors on all 7100 stores nationwide today for a 3-hour employee re-training session. For those 3 hours the baristas are going to share info on firing up the perfect (and heavily modified) cup of joe. The closure [...]

Speaking of ending eras, Captain’s Quarters is sailing into mothballs

25 February, 2008 (23:54) | Blogging, Politics | By: ricjames

All good things must come to an end, so the saying goes. As an amateur genealogist, I’m well familiar with the concept as regards people’s lives and it’s axiomatic that such things are true about the events within people’s lives. So it goes for this section of the blogosphere. Ed Morrissey of Captain’s Quarters – [...]