Awesome.
The site is located at Ferry Farm, just across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg, Va., about 50 miles south of Washington.
Philip Levy, associate professor of history at the University of South Florida, found evidence that the house was a one-and-a-half-story residence perched on a bluff overlooking the river.
“If George Washington did indeed chop down a […]

Fox News should be taken off the air. No, I’m not saying disregard the 1st amendment….Fox News should not be allowed to call themselves “News,” that’s all. It’s entertainment for angry, joyless losers who get their rocks off demeaning and slandering people they disagree with.
This is what they do to people they don’t like:

Notice they gave […]

For now at least.
N.Y. Times:
…a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name. The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly […]

Here’s a great first-hand account of local Democrats in the Culpeper & Rappahannock area uniting for change:
And then, one by one, several people in the audience raised their hands and told their stories.
There was the woman with a daughter who worried about the composition of the Supreme Court. Applause. There was the 10-year-old redheaded boy […]

Great job, as usual, by Shawn O’Donnell:

A few weeks ago I pointed out that it was a Washington lobbyist who had started the ‘Eric Cantor for VP’ website. Today, in an article on Politico, Lisa Lerer brings up Rep. Cantor when touting longshot VP prospects. She had this to say:
The House’s chief deputy whip is well respected in the party for his conservative record on fiscal and military issues, according to […]

The McCain campaign is all over this story:

A reminder to area Democrats that this Saturday from 4-6pm is the Coordinated Campaign Office Kick-Off Party in Fredericksburg. In addition, there’s also a Coordinated Canvas as well:
Saturday: 10am-1pm Morning Canvas; 2pm-4pm Afternoon Canvas
Sunday: 12pm-3pm
The first canvass will launch from the office at 9:30am and the second will begin at 1:30pm. Meet at the office, […]

There’s a must read interview on the Netroots Rising blog between Lowell Feld, netroots coordinator for Jim Webb in 2006, and Jon Henke, netroots coordinator for George Allen in 2006.
Here’s a taste:
Feld: Do you believe that senior Allen strategists like Dick Wadhams were surprised at the intensity of the Virginia blogosphere? Did anyone ever say […]

In this country, 86% of House districts aren’t competitive. Think about that. Despite the fact that Congress has approval ratings that make Bush look like Abraham friggin’ Lincoln, the overwhelming majority of these folks will cruise to re-election this November.
The Democratic Leadership Council recently completed a study called, Gerrymandering the Vote. It concludes that Virginia is the […]