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Archives for January 2008
Kaine Starts With Rhetoric, Is Action Forthcoming?
11 January 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics | 32 Comments
After exhibiting a dedicated intransigence towards addressing the illegal alien issue in Virginia is Governor Kaine finally ready to do something? By the looks of today’s Washington Times, perhaps he is:
“We are a nation of laws,” said Mr. Kaine, a Democrat. “It is our obligation to enforce those laws, and we should continually assess […]
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House Committee Assignments
11 January 2008 | Virginia House | 5 Comments
The House of Delegates posted it’s committee assignments on the 9th, and for those who follow such things, there are some interesting promotions in the list. Not reflected here is Delegate Marshall’s resignation of a chairmanship in protest of an incomprehensibly dumb rule that would limit each member to a maximum of ten bills […]
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Former Dumfries Mayor Gets Suspended Sentence
9 January 2008 | Prince William County | 41 Comments
Former Dumfries Mayor Melvin Bray plead “no contest” to misdemeanor charges of keeping a “bawdy house”, and received a suspended sentence yesterday. Lest anyone out there think that the Commonwealth Attorneys are suddenly uninterested in giving the most lenient treatment possible to convicted criminals, it’s important to point out the important qualifications that must be […]
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Political Free Speech Facing Another Minor Blow
9 January 2008 | Manassas Park | 23 Comments
Manassas Park is poised to change from a locality with the most liberal regulations regarding the placement of political signage in public rights of way into one of the most restrictive, should a staff recommendation be adopted by the Governing Board. This proposal would essentially outlaw all political signs in the right of way […]
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Weekly Open Thread
8 January 2008 | Uncategorized | 301 Comments
Readers asked for it, and I’ll deliver. Here’s your open thread for the week!
Stirrup Selected As Vice-Chairman
8 January 2008 | Prince William County | 17 Comments
Supervisor Stirrup was selected to be the Vice-Chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors at today’s meeting of the board. Congratulations to John Stirrup, and thanks to the Board of Supervisors for making a great pick!
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Kaine’s Number One Issue: Smoking???
8 January 2008 | Virginia Politics | 43 Comments
At the same time hundreds of bills have been introduced in the General Assembly that attempt to address the real priorities in Virginia such as transportation, immigration, and taxes, our latest recipient of the “Porchsitter Award” Governor Kaine has announced his top legislative initiative: banning smoking. While Kaine initially told voters he would buck […]
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BOCS Meeting Is An Afternoon Session Only
8 January 2008 | Prince William County | 18 Comments
A note about today’s meeting of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors: there is no evening session because the board will have a dinner meeting with the members of the Convention and Visitors Bureau. If you’re planning on speaking at citizens time, you need to be there for the afternoon session. Citizens time is […]
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Bob Marshall Makes It Official
7 January 2008 | Virginia Politics, US Senate | 43 Comments
Bob Marshall has officially announced his candidacy for the United States Senate. His statement today should make any Virginia conservative proud, in that there’s actually someone out there who is willing to go to bat for our principles, and demonstrably doesn’t care who that manages to upset. This is about as pure a policy platform […]
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Day Laborers Assault Woman In Woodbridge
7 January 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Crime, Prince William County | 256 Comments
I’m not the only one who was interested in documenting the extent of the day laborer problem this morning. Here’s a report from a woman in Woodbridge who attempted to do the same thing at a 7-11 there, but ended up getting assaulted by day laborers.
My picture taking was cut short when the men […]
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Human Rights Commission Honors A Terrorism Supporter
7 January 2008 | Zapatistas, Prince William County | 36 Comments
How to win a Human Rights Award - wave the Mexican Flag in Manassas City Hall
The Prince William County Human Rights is giving awards to folks to celebrate “Universal Human Rights Day”, and look who shows up on the list of awardees:
This year’s winners of the Human Rights Awards are: Beverly Coffie, Waja […]
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Let’s Check Out The Day Laborers!
7 January 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Prince William County | 117 Comments
image: day laborers loitering near a 7-11 on Coverstone Drive in Manassas (Prince William County) during the morning on January 7th, 2008
After hearing some reports that day laborer sites were recently booming, I decided to go out and see for myself what was going on at a local 7-11 that has been notorious for this […]
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Tim Craig Returns
7 January 2008 | Virginia Politics, Humor & Satire | 9 Comments
By the looks of the “Virginia Politics” blog at The Washington Post, it would appear that Tim “The Fist” Craig is still employed. After an unexplained hiatus from the blog since late December, Craig’s first article is somewhat incongruously about Bob Marshall.
I guess that makes it official: inserting rubber objects into the orifices of others […]
Immigration Issue Prominent In Hampton Roads
7 January 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics | 9 Comments
Brian Kirwin, a contributor to Bearing Drift and a member of Save The Old Dominion, gets some love on the front page of today’s edition of the Virginian-Pilot:
With the 2008 General Assembly session opening Wednesday, some advocates seeking a crackdown on illegal immigrants say enough with the studying. It’s time, they say, to pass meaningful […]
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A Democrat Proposes Immigration Reform
7 January 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics | 3 Comments
This weekend the MJM published as a letter to the editor an opinion piece by former Democratic member of the House of Delegates George Grayson which had appeared earlier this week in several other papers in Virginia. It demonstrates pretty well that the immigration issue is not the exclusive domain of the Republican Party, and […]
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Comments Now Working
6 January 2008 | Blogs | 8 Comments
It’s always difficult to make code changes on this site while children are running amok.
Users may have noticed that since about 4:00PM until now, users posting comments were receiving an error. That appears to have been fixed, now that I’ve had a chance to actually test (and debug) the code change I installed this afternoon.
Sorry […]
Bob Marshall Will Announce On Monday
5 January 2008 | Virginia Politics, US Senate | 30 Comments
Delegate Bob Marshall told guests at tonight’s social event hosted by Jay O’Brien that he would officially announce his candidacy for United States Senate on Monday. Bob joins former Governor Jim Gilmore as the only announced candidates for the Republican nomination, which will be decided by a convention.
This is very welcome news.
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NLS Dissects The 51st District
5 January 2008 | 51st HOD District | 24 Comments
NLS has a very interesting post looking at the election results in the 51st District that political junkies in Prince William will find rather informative.
With that it seems clear to me that despite all his weaknesses as a candidate, Faisal Gill still could have won this election if he had won the convention in a […]
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Colgan Introduces E-Verify Bill
4 January 2008 | Illegal Aliens, 29th VA Senate | 114 Comments
Apparently, not all Democrats are following the lead of those such as Democrats on the Loudoun Board of County Supervisors and Arlington Chairman Walter Tejada in trying to align their party with illegal alien lobbyists. After hearing from constituents in his district about their concerns about illegal immigration during the elections and seeing the […]
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Loudoun County Democrats Reach Out To Illegal Aliens
4 January 2008 | Loudoun County, Illegal Aliens | 34 Comments
Unless Democrats want to be viewed as the party that supports the continued unlawful presence of illegal aliens in our communities, they’re going to have to stop pulling dumb stunts like this:
LEESBURG, Va. (AP) - The new Democratic majority on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors is backing off on the previous board’s crackdown […]
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