Top Republican fundraiser Tom Nohe has been sentenced to eighteen years in prison for stealing $13.7M from the federal government. That’s on top of the two years he’s already gotten for illegally funneling $45k to President Bush.
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Kissinger: We can’t win Iraq.
Henry Kissinger says that a military victory in Iraq is not possible.
CBS: Republican House leadership “a group of weirdos.”
CBSNews.com editor: “The men who ran the Republican Party in the House of Representatives for the past 12 years were a group of weirdos. Together, they comprised one of the oddest legislative power cliques in our history. And for 12 years, the media didn’t call a duck a duck, because that’s not something we’re supposed …
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Interview with Bob Gibson.
The Hook interviews Bob Gibson who, to my surprise, believes that I would be the person most fit portray to him in the movies. I’d be happy to take the part. Anyhow, it’s a good read for those who aren’t familiar with Bob.
Conaway gone away.
Conaway’s taking a little blogging break.
On the decline of Virginia political blogging.
I must call attention to Norm Leahy’s brief look at Jim Webb’s economic outlook and what to make of those thoughts. A year and a half ago this would have been standard fare for the Virginia political blogosphere — a brief, thoughtful attempt by a member of one party to persuade members of the other …
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Take action now to crack down on payday lenders.
Vivian Paige asks for citizens to write their delegates to support repealing the Payday Loan Act of 2002, which exempted payday lenders from usury laws. The House Commerce and Labor Committee will be taking a vote on this on December 5. I’ll be curious to see what AG Bob McDonnell tries to do with this …
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Beck asks Congressman to prove he’s not allied with al-Qaeda.
CNN’s Glenn Beck to a Muslim U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison: “Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.” What an insufferable ass. It should be to our collective humiliation that this man is given a prime-time show on CNN.
VPAP adds new features.
The state’s best online political resource just got better. The Virginia Public Access Project has three great new features making it possible to see what stocks are owned by candidates and examine their entire economic interest statements. Wonderful.
“I demand that this holy day be trivialized!”
Bill O’Reilly is yet again upset that Christmas is not sufficiently commercialized for his tastes.