As I mentioned earlier I’m in a week-long class for an industry certification that has my attention fully utilized. That hasn’t completely cut me off from the outside world, however, and yesterday’s news from Hollywood appeared to cap off a very sad week. First, late-night heavyweight Ed McMahon died earlier this week. I recall him [...]
A new message from Bob McDonnell:
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has proposed an alternative to the Obama administration’s socialized healthcare approach and it’s worth looking at. The quick summary points from his announcement are these: The Health Care Freedom Plan: Protects the right of Americans to keep their employer-based plan without having to pay additional taxes on those benefits. Provides Americans [...]
Excuse me? But now some Latino leaders want illegal immigrants to boycott the national survey, claiming that being counted — but not represented — isn’t fair. “It doesn’t make any sense, in some way it is immoral that we are counting 12 million undocumented immigrants who have no benefit at all financially speaking,” said Rev. [...]
In what’s being called the worst accident in the history of DC’s Metro, 2 trains on the Red Line have collided killing 6 and injuring at least 50. Metro train smashed into the back of another at the height of the Monday evening rush hour, killing at least six people and injuring scores of others [...]
This week I’m entering a class – a bootcamp, really – in preparation for the most challenging certification in the information technology field, the CCIE. I’ll be in the class from 8:00 in the morning to past 5:30 in the evening which means the time available for blogging is going to be a lot tighter. [...]
I’d like to wish a happy father’s day to all my fellow fathers. To those of us locally, I distinctly recall the local weather forecast for today was to have been sunny and less humid! Obviously, that hasn’t happened but let us not allow this to dampen our spirits (brewed or distilled at your discretion) [...]
Once again the DC government has released “emergency regulations” designed to get their handgun laws to actually comply with the Supreme Court decision on Heller v. DC from back in January of 2008. With lawsuits pending from their continued attempt to throttle DC residents’ exercise of their 2nd Amendment rights, DC has expanded the list [...]
Is Gov. Kaine our “former” governor already?
VA Blogger over at Too Conservative has an interesting update of the latest political polls regarding the VA governor’s race.
