I’m not in the 33rd House of Delegates district in Virginia but part of me wishes I were this year. 20-year incumbent Joe May is being primaried and, to my neighbors next door in the 33rd, I have to say it’s time for new representation. I don’t really want to tear down Joe May. By [...]
Next door in VA’s House of Delegates 32nd District an “Independent” candidate has just filed to run against Republican Tag Greason. Does this person think they’re better for the job? Do they have a different vision to articulate, something to differentiate themselves from Delegate Greason? Some kind of experience or skill to bring to the [...]
In Virginia, the GOP is heading into their 2013 Convention for the purpose of deciding their nominees for State offices, specifically the Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General. I managed to make it to the last one in 2009 but will not be going to this year’s. That prospect is a bit disappointing to me [...]
A trial is underway in South Bend, IN, regarding charges filed against 2 Democrat operatives from St. Joseph County alleging that these 2 were involved in forging dozens of signatures on the ballot petitions supporting Barak Obama in the 2008 Presidential primaries. The petitions were required to allow Obama to be included on the ballots. [...]
(This is the third in a multipost series on the ongoing debate over civilian gun ownership. This topic was introduced here and further parts to this series will be linked at that introduction post.) While our mainstream media and the gun-banning side of this debate have done everything they can to avoid it, you cannot [...]
After all the run-up in the media about how Obama was going to just come out swinging and propose bold, new, sweeping actions that would directly address so-called “gun violence” today’s actual list is an anti-climactic, weak, and scattered demonstration of someone flailing ineffectually in order to be seen as “doing something.” And those that [...]
(This is the third in a multipost series on the ongoing debate over civilian gun ownership. This topic was introduced here and further parts to this series will be linked at that introduction post.) Forefront in the push for so-called “reasonable restrictions” are outright, total bans on the possession of this or that widget that [...]
(This is the second in a multipost series on the ongoing debate over civilian gun ownership. This topic was introduced here and further parts to this series will be linked at that introduction post.) One of the pillars of the arguments advanced by the gun-banning side of the overall debate on civilian gun ownership is [...]
(This is the first in a multipost series on the ongoing debate over civilian gun ownership. This topic was introduced here and further parts to this series will be linked at that introduction post.) In the moments following the Sandy Hook/Newtown mass shooting the rising and increasingly strident calls for – let’s be honest, here [...]
Welcome to the new year. So this is what life after the end of the world looks like. Who knew? 2012 was certainly a year of ups and downs, and plenty of the latter. It’s no secret that the elections didn’t turn out the way I wanted to see them go and I do believe [...]
