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Date: May 23rd, 2009

The whole story to the Foster voter guide

23 May, 2009 (17:29) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

Yes, I know. I’m doing 2 Brownlee posts in 1 day. At the risk of sounding like I’m being paid or something by a particular campaign – and I’m not, in case anyone’s wondering – I feel it critical to address something that landed in my mailbox this afternoon. This was a 4-page slick from [...]

Virginia GOP AG race: what is the pertinent experience?

23 May, 2009 (12:17) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

I’ve mentioned here before that I’m extremely grateful and proud that the GOP is having to choose between 3 extremely qualified candidates this year for the nomination for Virginia Attorney General. I am on the record, and will say so again right here, that I will gladly support whichever of the 3 candidates wins the [...]

Air Force says GPS system in no danger of collapse

23 May, 2009 (09:50) | Military, Science, Technology, The Media | By: ricjames

A report I mentioned a few days ago raised the possibility of the Global Positioning System (GPS) starting to fail as early as 2010. Yesterday, the Air Force put out information clarifying the situation and it’s not as dire as we were led to believe. Gizmodo gets to the crux of the story: Dropping below [...]

The Obama-Cheney speech match you probably didn’t hear about

23 May, 2009 (09:40) | GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames

…unless you check out news from the UK, of course. The spectacle of two duelling speeches with a mile of each other in downtown Washington was extraordinary. I was at the Cheney event and watched Obama’s address on a big screen beside the empty lectern that the former veep stepped behind barely two minutes after [...]