A fortnightly rant, FL-S style:
BALLSTON, Va. – Greetings from John McCain’s brother Joe’s favorite place – The People’s Republic of Arlington – where capitalism is alive and well.  And, after the pounding that the financial markets have taken, well, thank goodness for that.
The old-style A-Frame IHOP just 2 blocks from here is packed with hungry customers.  Business there is brisk.
We just finished […]

You know the mood at the Gilmore for Senate campaign is depressed.  And certainly what follows doesn’t make Gilmore staffers feel any better:
Mike Allen at Politico is reporting today that retiring U.S. Senator John Warner might cross party lines to vote for his 1996 election opponent, Former Gov. Mark Warner.
Read the story, here.
Could Mark not John […]

A fortnightly rant, FL-S style HALFTIME SHOW. A shoutout to a good friend from my junior high school days in Mo.Co., Maryland.
Back in the day, my friend Kathy Kearns told me and a bunch of other kids that her dad had invented something very important: the intermittent windshield wiper. And I am sure that my […]

From HuffPo:
Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.
I wonder […]

As awful a notion as it is, that the U.S. taxpayer has to bail out this collosal mess made by Wall Street, Congress has no choice but to pass an Economic Recovery Bill.  And do so NOW.
The estimated $700 billion price tag is nothing to sneeze at.  But when the House of Representatives rejected passage of […]

A fortnightly rant, FL-S style with a bowed head for the fine folks in Coleytown:
Yesterday, the world lost a rightous human being.
Silver screen-legend, activist, part-time race car driver, and philanthropist Paul Newman has died following a long bout with cancer. He was 83 years old.
Talk about a life lived well.
Newman was an Academy Award-winning actor […]

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A forthnightly rant, FL-S style.
Let’s say local Republicans stage an event and the featured guests are Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, AG Bob McDonnell, Congressman Rob Wittman, and Speaker of the House Wild Bill Howell.  Then let’s say a local committee chair calls the FL-S and its political reporter Emily Battle to see if they would be able […]

ABC World News Anchor Charlie Gibson has gotten the “get” – he’s been promised the first interview with Sarah Palin at home in Alaska this Friday.
And now the future credibility of all MSM (and for that matter – THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET) rests on the ABC News anchor’s shoulders.  We can only hope Gibson will make the most […]