Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Chapman (a Democrat) issued a memo this afternoon recommending that no charges be brought in the Stark/Allen assault (PDF) that happened at The Omni last month. The nut graf: “While several individuals could be charged with one or more misdemeanor offenses such as assault and battery or disorderly conduct it is …
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How campaigns should work with bloggers.
Jon Henke provides a succinct description of how campaigns should work with bloggers. He makes a great point about the need to give blogger both sides of the story: if you don’t tell us in advance, we’re going to get called on it publicly, and that’s embarrassing.
Gingrich waves the white flag at al-Qaeda.
Newt Gingrich: In order to stop the terrorists who hate our freedoms we must eliminate those freedoms, thus making ourselves less of a target. (Via Slashdot)
A thought exercise.
If the state held a referendum on barring intermarriage between Muslims and non-Muslims, would it pass? If it did pass, and a judge overturned it, would that judge be “activist”?
Terry simplifies the narrative of Sen. Allen’s loss.
F.T. Rea: Allen lost because he couldn’t stop saying stupid shit, plain and simple.
State minimum wage map.
The US Department of Labor provides this great map of state minimum wage rates around the nation. Eighteen states comprising a majority of the nation’s population have minimum wage rates that are above the paltry $5.15, which is worth less and less every year.
Progress on anti-phone-spam legislation.
Bob Gibson on Del. Bob Brink’s proposed anti-robo-call legislation.
Google district map.
Check out Del. Tom Rust’s Google map of his district. What a great little feature. Every representative should have this on their website.
Republicans hit Congress’ ejection-seat button.
Republicans in Congress are unwilling to fix the financial mess they just reconvened to fix, so they’re leaving it for Democrats. How’s that for leadership? Presumably these yahoos won’t be drawing a full salary for this period. Right?
House of Delegates district size deviations.
The 2000 deviation from the ideal, in size, of each House of Delegates district, ordered from most to least ideal. In 2000, 30% of House of Delegates districts were within 5% of their ideal size of 70,785. Forty five percent were 10% or more away from their ideal size. Fifty nine percent were too small, …
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