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Month: April, 2009

Links, anyone?

23 April, 2009 (20:51) | Blogging | By: ricjames

Well, I’m slowly but surely rebuilding my blogroll. If there’s anyone out there I don’t have listed and you’ve been a reader here at HoodaThunk?, drop me a note and I’ll get you on there.

Weapons programs to come?

23 April, 2009 (17:35) | Politics | By: ricjames

In case you’re wondering about the acceptable weapons programs under the Obama Administration….

Dulles rail completion date delayed

23 April, 2009 (09:32) | Economy, Human Interest, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

It appears they’re extending the expected completion date on phase 2 of the Dulles rail project already. They’re now saying we likely won’t have rail to Dulles Airport until 2016. I’ve mentioned my previous career in the airline industry here before but I’m not sure I ever put a date on it. I started working [...]

Sen. Sessions and Gov. Keating endorse John Brownlee for VA AG

22 April, 2009 (22:56) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

I note over on The Bulletproof Monk that Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Governor Frank Keating (R-OK) have endorsed John Brownlee for the Virginia Attorney General race. Brownlee is one of 3 very qualified candidates the GOP has to decide upon for our AG candidate. Read up over there for the details of an upcoming [...]

Fred Thompson’s FredPAC issues endorsement of Ken Cuccinelli for VA AG

22 April, 2009 (22:33) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

Readers of this blog over the past year know very well the high regard in which I hold former Senator Fred Thompson. That’s why the note I got from the Cuccinelli campaign this afternoon drew my eye. I’m still trying to find a copy of this on-line but here’s the text of it from my [...]

GM announces they will not be paying up on time

22 April, 2009 (17:03) | Economy, Politics | By: ricjames

At the end of March Obama’s selected CEO of GM, Fritz Henderson, made a statement indicating that even after all the taxpayer cash GM had absorbed they were still likely looking at bankruptcy. According to the Wall Street Journal today, GM’s CFO is confirming that assessment. It looks like they’re going to default on their [...]

Google Ads are a new addition

22 April, 2009 (12:08) | Blogging | By: ricjames

As part of my new location additions, I’ve signed up for Google AdSense which you’ll see over there on the right. This is new territory for me and I’ve not quite gotten the whole filtering process down so you might see some ads that 1) have nothing to do with anything I write about and/or [...]

Napolitano apparently unaware of the laws she’s sworn to uphold

22 April, 2009 (10:26) | GWOT, Immigration, Religion | By: ricjames

Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air has a post that’s just mind-boggling. In an interview this past weekend on CNN, Janet Napiolitano – the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security – explicitly stated to CNN’s Larry King that for a foreigner to cross the border of the United States outside the processes of our [...]

Tea Parties drawing leftish ire; people are starting to notice

22 April, 2009 (09:49) | Politics | By: ricjames

The Tea Party phenomenon is a wonderful thing to behold. Truly grassroots and basically non-partisan, it’s drawing people into the political process who have never engaged before. The message is quite simple and it’s aimed at government, not a particular party: government is spending too much, getting too big, and it’s being perceived as the [...]

Welcome to the new digs

22 April, 2009 (09:02) | Blogging | By: ricjames

Welcome, one and all, to the new home of HoodaThunk? After several years of blogging over at WordPress.com, I decided it would be a good thing to step out onto a hosted server and take the reins of the blog a little more firmly in hand. You’ll note that the look of the place – [...]