John Conyers allied with Tom Delay against Pelosi?
I would hope that Rep. Conyers would take the time to respond to this press report in the Washington Post. The latest Tom DeLay trick is to undermine Supreme Court decisions by denying funding to...
View Article"Devil" banned from Virginia school by wingnut
This may sound like a halloween diary but it is not. The Hylton high school marching band has been banned from playing the 1979 Charlie Daniels Band hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" because of a...
View Article(Almost) Final VA results in - Dem loses AG by 947 votes
Update: Changed the title - while 100% of the vote is counted including absentees, the official official totals won't be officially made official for another couple weeks. After that point, Deeds has...
View ArticleUS to Monitor All Travel, Detain at Will (WaPo)
this story in tomorrow's wapo gives me the shivers. If you recall, in the name of "national security" we got the patriot act, something that gave the government unprecedented powers to spy on and...
View ArticleVideo: Sparks in Miller vs. Webb debate - VA Sen Primary
WVEC TV in Virginia Beach taped a 20 minute debate between Jim Webb and Harris Miller today. It will likely be the only televised debate between the two candidates. Video link here Much of the debate...
View ArticleJim Webb almost lost my wife's vote today
The Virginia Democratic primary is June 13th, and the other day I realized that my family and I would be on vacation that day and unable to vote. Fairfax County has in-person absentee voting up until...
View ArticleVA-Sen Webb Supporters: Not too late to GOTV
I spend most of my "news gathering" time here on dKos, reading external sources linked from here. I got tired of the Right-Wing Corporate Media ages ago, although sometimes I'll go to news.google.com...
View ArticleGreetings to all our Jewish guests
Jews tend to vote overwhelming for Democratic candidates. In fact, 77% of Jews voted for John Kerry in 2004. Since this is a website dedicated to electing Democrats, and Jews tend to work to elect...
View ArticleThe power of incumbency - Keep donating
Several diaries have been written here and elsewhere on how well our fundraising is doing. Friday there was a front page diary on the 50 most competitive House races and how 40 are Republican-held....
View ArticleWhat's wrong with Ethanol - it's more expensive than gasoline!
The August 7, 2006 issue of Barron's has an article on page 17 entitled "The Corn Conundrum." The article is an analysis of the ethanol market from the perspective of stock market investors. It looks...
View ArticleEthical Dilemmas of Israel
I posted this on an open thread last night because I didn't have the energy to diary it then, but I ran across this Jerusalem Post article yesterday evening. It is a 3-page op-ed piece entitled "The...
View ArticleAnyone else get this Robo "Poll" I just received in Northern Virginia
This isn't technically a push poll but I am wondering if anyone else in Virginia has received it. Caller ID said this came from "S2006" at 703-961-9120. First the robo voice identified itself as...
View ArticleShould we google bomb our friends as well as our enemies?
I think just about everyone is familiar with mydd's google bomb project (latest status update is here). If you're not, then the general gist is that we are using our knowledge about how Google ranks...
View ArticleBloomberg: Leaked Obama internal predictions?
Bloomberg storyBy the time the last primary is held June 7, Obama's advisers project he will have 1,806 delegates to 1,789 for New York Senator Hillary Clinton, according to a document outlining the...
View ArticleClinton in Arlington, VA (with prediction poll)
I did not make it to the Clinton rally last night at Washington-Lee high school here in Northern Virginia but I did hear some of it on the radio. Washington-Lee's gym seats 2200 - the gym was full and...
View Article[Debunked] Help me debunk this Michelle Obama rumor
UPDATE: The rumors below were started by Larry Johnson a.k.a. LC Johnson who has been banned from dKos. One of the many posts about Mr. Johnson goes into some detail here.Rest of diary left intact to...
View ArticleI'm scared we're about to be sucker punched
Guys - Virginia is a toss-up state that leans McCain. I know it, Larry Sabato knows it,and anyone who actually follows Virginia knows it (even if we don't want it to be true). Sabato said in...
View ArticleAP/WaPo: Government to insure market losses of rich; we get nothing.
I went out for a quick morning walk this morning and looked down at my neighbor's Washington Post. While the story is a bit buried now at washingtonpost.com, the headline above the fold on page A1:...
View ArticleJust donated again to Obama...
Well, that's not true. I maxed out. (Wish the Obama campaign could figure that out and stop asking me to donate more). However my wife hadn't, so she kicked in some more coin today. Why? The...
View ArticlePeriello (D-VA5) wavering on HCR - let's help him out
Am in Charlottesville today, having watched the UVA women's soccer team upset #4 FSU last night to keep their post-season hopes alive. Walked down to the hotel lobby for the free continental breakfast...
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