LOL comment from maggiebeth at Blue Commonwealth:
I know there wasn’t much doubt, but it’s official now. Or rather, it’s official that it will be official come January 7.
      

I’ve written often about how Fred2Blue Land may become a Virginia leader in the development of green business.  And, I have suggested that the Northern Neck lead the way in clean energy production, even converting less-productive farm crops to switchgrass and other bio-fuel sources.
Clean energy will grab a lot of attention – and news headlines […]

A fortnightly rant, FL-S style pre-ball drop edition with a h/t to my 7th and 8th grade Marine-D.I.-turned-public-school-phys-ed-instructors:
Barack Obama has inspired me.
Our next president – who is two months younger and in much better physical condition – motivated me to haul that dust-covered treadmill-doubling-as-a-clothes-hanger out of my spare-bedroom-doubling-as-a-P.O.D.S. storage locker and into my master bedroom.
The danged thing is heavy […]

When the CIA discovered that spiffing Afghan warlords with thousands in cash exposes (them) to unwanted public attention or worse, the agency channelled Austin Powers to win (the warlords’) hearts and minds. 
The CIA’s prescription?  VIVA VIAGRA!
From the story in today’s WaPo:
In their efforts to win over notoriously fickle warlords and chieftains, (CIA) officials say, the agency’s operatives […]

From Thomas Friedman’s excellent op/ed in today’s New York Times:
…we don’t just need a bailout. We need a reboot. We need a build out. We need a buildup. We need a national makeover. That is why the next few months are among the most important in U.S. history. Because of the financial crisis, Barack Obama […]

Well it’s that time of the year, when the staff over at the FL-S  is busy compiling its list of the top news stories of 2008. 
Will the list include the rejection of the At-Large Chairman post for the Stafford Board of Supervisors?  Or the local price of a gallon of gas reaching $4.20 a gallon in July before plunging to $1.50 […]

A fortnightly rant, FL-S style.
Back in the day – like 18 months ago – infinitesimal movements of the Federal Reserve’s short term interest rate could effectively cool inflation or stimulate spending or job growth.  With the ratcheting up or down of as little as 25 basis points (one-quarter of a percent interest) the Fed moved the economic […]

TIME has chosen President-elect Barack Obama its 2008 Person of the Year.
Was there ever any doubt?
From TIME’s story intro:
In one of the craziest elections in American history, he overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who are political institutions and the racial divide to become the 44th President of the United States.
TIME also […]

And it’s clean!

What follows is not a Fred2Blue endorsement, but rather that of the author and Immediate Past Chair of the Stafford Virginia Democratic Committee.
I’ve been waiting a very long time to write this endorsement of my friend Brian Moran and his campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Brian and I have known […]