The Supreme Court has agreed to decide on a case which will determine whether the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution is one that is “incorporated” against infringement by state and local governments. From SCOTUSblog: The Court had three cases from which to choose on the Second Amendment issue — two cases involving a Chicago [...]
A Survey USA poll just released tonight shows GOP candidate Bob McDonnell ahead of Creigh Deeds by 14%. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling is also ahead in his race by 13% over the Democrat candidate and Ken Cuccinelli leads in the A.G. race by 11%. This shows a solid lead across the ticket. Earlier polling by [...]
That the defenders of Roman Polanski are dismissing the fact that the man raped and sodomized a 13-year-old girl – after drugging her, I might add – says a lot about them. What it says isn’t good. The staggering double-standard was described perfectly today by Father Tom Reese, Society of Jesus. A “Father Polanski”, guilty [...]
Sheer asshattery: The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a “poll” posted on Facebook that asked users the most unsocial, unspeakable question: Should President Obama be assassinated? Edwin Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said the agency will take “appropriate investigative steps” in connection to the survey, which was posted on Saturday and was quickly [...]
An interesting comment appeared on my initial post regarding the Loudoun Independent story basically re-spreading some unsupported gossip. Someone claiming to be the husband of the woman who filed the initial complaint against then-Lt. Tag Greason decided to weigh in on my post. He says his name is David DesRosier, Major, US Army, Retired and [...]
If you’re a resident of Loudoun County then you’ve received this week’s print edition of the Loudoun Independent and the story I first wrote about on Monday (and then revisted on Wednesday) is in your hands. Our neighbors who don’t follow blogs and on-line news sources are reading this story just tonight for the first [...]
I heard a radio spot for the Deeds campaign on my way home last evening and was amazed at the level of sheer deception being used. I’d write it up for you but the McDonnell campaign has done way better. Have a look at this:
Good news, if the results are confirmed: For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible. The vaccine cut the risk of becoming infected with [...]
I wrote on Monday of a story in the Loudoun Independent regarding local candidate Tag Greason. The story is, simply put, a smear job. I went into all of that in that original post so feel free to read that one first if you want to get caught up. In answering some e-mail about it [...]
This exclusive from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: Now, however, the CBO has determined that Social Security will run cash deficits next year and in 2010, and by 2017 will be more or less in permanent deficit mode. Hot Air has exclusively obtained the summer 2009 CBO report sent to legislators on Capitol Hill but [...]
