26 May, 2009 (10:22) | Politics | By: ricjames
According to Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air Obama is reportedly set to announce his nomination for Justice David Souter’s SCOTUS seat today. Sometimes, the heavy favorites win the horse race. According to the AP, Barack Obama will announce that he has chosen Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. That allows [...]
26 May, 2009 (08:30) | Economy, Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames
Professor Glenn Reynolds at the indispensable Instapundit: So we’re out of money because we don’t have national health care? Bogus. I think, instead, that it has something to do with the fact that Obama has been pouring money down a crony-statist rathole at absolutely astronomical and unprecedented rates. Yep, here’s that graphic again. Note that [...]
25 May, 2009 (00:01) | Human Interest, Military | By: ricjames
To the men and women who answered our Nation’s call, put on a uniform in our military service, and quite literally gave their all, we offer of honor, our thanks, and our remembrance on this day especially. May God bid you welcome in His Kingdom. (Image from arlingtoncemetary.net.)
24 May, 2009 (08:02) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
I got a campaign ad in the mail a few days ago (shocking, I know!) from the Cuccinelli campaign that made me chuckle. Not really because of anything it said about the candidates but because it had this on the address side of the slick: Courting that all-important HoodaThunk? demographic? Hmmmm… who knew? Or, rather, [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
22 May, 2009 (16:09) | Blogging, Human Interest, The Media | By: ricjames
When I saw the Twitter note the other day that LoudounExtra’s Erica Garman was going to hold a meet & greet in Leesburg at lunchtime today I decided to make a point to get out there. When I arrived, lo’ and behold, I was graced with the presence of not 1 lovely and talented writer [...]
22 May, 2009 (11:41) | Military, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
Paul Galanti’s take on John Brownlee for Virginia AG: Retired Navy Commander Paul Galanti is a former Vietnam POW whose activism in a variety of fields both linked to veterans’ groups and not. Read more about him here, here, and here.