Somehow, loony bastard Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall (R – Manassas) wormed his way onto NBC Nightly News this evening, where he was apparently the only person that NBC could get to speak out against the newly-announced FDA proposal to offer contraceptive Levonorgestrel (brand name “Plan B“) without a prescription. He once again lamented the “sexual …
Category Archives: Politics
White House: Iraq can attack east coast.
From Florida Today: “U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday the Bush administration last year told him and other senators that Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities. […] “Nelson said the senators were told Iraq had both biological and chemical weapons, notably …
Meadowcreek FAQ.
Charlottesville City Councillor Kevin Lynch has written up what amounts to a Meadowcreek Parkway FAQ for cvillenews.com that’s really interesting. We’ve been having debates about the Parkway on the site for years. I will be interested to see what sort of rejoinders are offered up by the site’s users.
Ah, the rich, rich irony.
From the Post: “A 78-year-old retired Los Angeles schoolteacher said she is breaking a lifetime of silence to announce that she is the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of former U.S. senator James Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), once the nation’s leading segregationist. In an interview, the woman said that Thurmond privately acknowledged her as his daughter and provided …
The Plame Game.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is investigating himself, but he’s just not coming up with anything. Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore’s investigation has failed to turn himself up as a suspect. I wonder. That Bush White House investigation of who leaked Valerie Plame’s identity. How’s that going?
Jerry Kilgore, eavesdropper?
For a guy who claims to have had nothing to do with the Virginia Republican-eavesdropping case, Republican Attorney General Jerry Kilgore is awfully defensive, if you could call his bickering a defense. Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine: Unless these [press] reports are completely wrong, your office did something that was wrong. […] When you are the …
How about for, say, women?
“I don’t see that taxpayers have any business or obligation to fund personal sexual behavior of coeds or fraternity house playboys.” –Crazy Sonofabitch Bob Marshall, 12/09/03 WDBJ Interview
Schwarzenegger’s changing truth.
October 5 NBC Nightly News interview Tom Brokaw: You’re not going to be any more specific about these charges, in terms of your denials? Arnold Schwarzenegger: As soon as the campaign is over I will. October 9 U.S. News “[A] reporter asked Schwarzenegger when he would make good on his promise to provide more specifics …
You pay for what you get.
In the November election, the White Hall district of Albemarle County elected Republican David Wyant over Democrat Eric Strucko. The outcome was surprising, since Strucko had been campaigning hard for almost two years, while Wyant just stepped in a couple of months before the election. Wyant is a local guy, and so he managed to …
Lowering voting age to 16 in England.
The UK is considering lowering the voting age to 16, The Observer reports. Says Lord Falconer: “We expect more and more of people in relation to personal participation, we expect more and more in terms of social responsibility, in my view rightly, from people, particularly young people. If we want to both engage young people …