Some legislation for the 2009 General Assembly has already been pre-filed. Del. Albert Pollard wants to give his constituents a look at several of these items, with his comments on each one in italics:
HB 1602 requires that by 2013, local school divisions must employ one teacher who has current board certification as a behavior analyst for every 25 students […]

“One of the Best Loved, North and South”The Appropriation of National Reconciliation by LaSalle Corbell Pickettby Caroline E. JanneyVirginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 116, No. 4, 2008,pages 370-406Continuing with the theme of the use of l…

We hosted our annual Epiphany party this weekend. Good friends gathered, along with good food and good beer, for an evening of cheer. Colleen prepared a wonderful selection of both savory and sweet delights and I selected a variety of beers to offer. T…

This week [Democrat] Al Franken’s lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman “swelled” from 49 to 225 votes (out of nearly 3 million cast) for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, after the state Canvassing Board finished counting 933 absentee ballots that had been improperly rejected.  The Board will certify Franken as the winner on Monday.
Coleman has […]

Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil WarBy Victoria E. OttSouthern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 2008ISBN 9780809328284The role of literature in shaping first the image of the Confederacy and then later preserving that image i…

June 30 2008 Shelf Cloud, Fauquier county VAGood question. Will this be a repeat of the very active 2008 Mid-Atlantic season which provided a number of eye-catching storms, or will this year resemble the drought years of 2005 & 2007 during which w…

There seems to be a new frontrunner in the race for RNC Chairman.
Politico:
Two dozen conservative luminaries will announce today their support for former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell for Republican National Committee chairman.
The group, which mixes leading economic conservatives, including Steve Forbes and Pat Toomey, and leading social conservatives, including James Dobson and Tony […]

Mike Shear at WaPo just broke the story.
What a great selection!  Congratulations, Governor!
UPDATE (by Chris):
Perhaps the most stunning political achievement was Obama’s victory in Virginia — the first time a Democratic presidential candidate has won the commonwealth since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
That was in part the result of forces that Kaine had nothing to […]

I have been an owner of the iPhone for quite some time, and have enjoyed the ipod feature of the phone to a degree.  I won’t drive with the earbuds in, so have felt somewhat limited with the music capability while on the go. 
Recently, my daughter asked me to get a device that would allow […]

Brandon Friedman on the RedState “Army’s” new Strike Force:
Erick Erickson, the editor of RedState, has just given us fodder to use for the rest of the year. In an attempt at being politically savvy–and by telling himself that what they do is somehow akin to being a “soldier” in a “war”–Erickson has decided that conservatives […]