Yesteday at noon, Loudoun’s own Delegate Tag Greason and Senator Mark Herring held a town hall meeting at the Ashburn Library. Given the weather yesterday, I was impressed that the event drew a couple of dozen people. I was a little late to the start owing to that weather and came in during the beginning [...]
The meeting of the LCRC this past Tuesday should have been a very uplifting affair. It was the 1st real meeting we’d had since the crushing victory of Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling, and Ken Cuccinelli at the statewide level and of the awesome performance of our candidates for the House of Delegates. Loudoun County was [...]
It’s the House’s turn down in Richmond to start considering legislation in committee. I wanted to pass along some Delegate e-mail addresses and encourage you to write them letting them know your position on these. I’ve just re-ported an earlier write up of the bills dealing with firearms matters this evening, so look here if [...]
Update: The House Militia, Police, and Public Safety subcommittee #1 is to meet tomorrow, 28 Jan 2010, to consider several of the following bills. Since there’s starting to be a lot of action on these matters, I wanted to refresh this post so everyone could be reminded of what legislation on firearms matters is pending. [...]
I’ve been a long-time fan of the Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, rather slowly rolling across the Martian landscape. Originally slated for a mission of just 90 days, both rovers have recently passed the 6-year mark, providing scientific insights and opportunities (if you’ll pardon the pun) that no one dreamed possible when their missions began. [...]
Ah, yes, it was the good old days all over again at the LCRC meeting tonight. Good old days, that is, if you consider the good old days to be circa 2005-2007 where the committee was split into a bickering mess and getting their asses kicked in one election after another. The incredibly self-centered, obstructionist, [...]
Earlier today I wrote about SB268 in the Virginia Senate and how it was going to a committee hearing this afternoon. After writing to the Senators myself, I wrote to suggest that anyone concerned about 2nd Amendment issues in the Commonwealth do the same to tell the Senators not to support this bill. Well, I’m [...]
Thanks to the tweets of Jenny Erikson I found this hilarious post over at – drum roll! – Huffington Post that describes their proposed drinking game for tonight’s State of the Union Address. Because I’d hate like hell to have someone get a burr up their rear and HuffPo pull the post, I’m reproducing it [...]
Thanks to my brother, Steve, who sent this to me in e-mail. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find [...]
In tomorrow’s business the VA Senate Local Government Committee will hear debate on the matter of SB268, a bill that would destroy Virginia’s preemption laws with regard to firearms. Preemption laws are those passed at a statewide level that preclude local governments – counties, cities, towns, and anything smaller – from passing laws restricting firearms [...]
