The next Attorney General of Virginia will be in Fredericksburg this Saturday at 10am at The Caroline Street Cafe for the monthly gathering of Regional Democrats. In addition to representing the 35th district in the House of Delegates, Steve Shannon, along with his wife Abby, co-founded the Metropolitan Washington AMBER Plan in 2001. As a result, more […]

Why would anyone vote for a Democrat? Let the Department of Labor draw you a picture. (And keep in mind, this doesn’t even include Hoover and FDR)

h/t DailyKos

Elected officials who start their own blog is not a new thing. Dels. Kris Amundson and Bob Brink have 7 West, Sen. Chap Petersen has Ox Road South, and former Congresswoman Leslie Byrne has Byrne-ing Up the Internet. That’s just off the top of my head.
But now we’ve got the opposite happening. A few months […]

The good people of Utah, the reddest of the red states, love their pornography. Eight of the top ten consumers of porn voted for McCain last year (Alaska was no. 2). Six of the botton ten voted for Obama.
The study from the Journal of Economic Perspectives also finds that:
Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning […]

On Friday night, local and national bloggers (Lowell Feld, Josh Chernilla, teacherken, code, Not Larry Sabato, and some DailyKos contributors to name a few) descended upon the McAuliffe campaign headquarters in McLean, VA for a meet n’ greet. One person in attendance pointed out that a lot of candidates for office make a big deal […]

Stafford Co. Supervisor Bob Woodson and Spotsylvania Co. Chairman Hap Connors are among 55 local elected officials in Virginia who want to know how Bob McDonnell would balance the budget as Governor without funds from the economic stimulus package. Will he align himself with grandstanding GOP Governors like Mark Sanford, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, and Bobby Jindal? Or will he join […]

“Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!”
– Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN)
Since being elected RNC Chairman, Michael Steele has been doing an outstanding job of acting like an out-of-touch white person’s stereotypical view of an African-American with phrases like “bling-bling” and “off the hook.“ It looks like that courtship is already starting to pay dividends! Today Michelle […]

This ad is directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, the brothers who won Oscars for Fargo (aka, The Sarah Palin Story) and No Country for Old Men (aka, The John McCain Story). One of their earlier films, Raising Arizona (aka, When John Met Cindy), is one of my all-time favorite movies.

Compared to reviews I’m reading from conservative commentators, this is actually pretty tame on the part of Paul Krugman:
And leaving aside the chutzpah of casting the failure of his own party’s governance as proof that government can’t work, does he really think that the response to natural disasters like Katrina is best undertaken by uncoordinated […]