It’s the party of ridiculous rhetoric.

I don’t know what’s worse about Virginia Republican Party Chair Kate Obenshain Griffin’s “Two opposing views of America” column — that she might believe the things that she writes, or that she knows full well that she’s lying. President Bush believes that when American lives are at stake, we must act immediately. John Kerry recently …

Keep your blue dog. Please.

A year ago this time, Democrat Steve Sisson was running against Republican incumbent Sen. Emmett Hanger in the 24th District of Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. I didn’t think much of Sisson’s campaign at the time — it was nasty, full of distortions, and based on the Bizarro-World premise that Hanger would be willing to …

137,000 votes. Or perhaps 95,000. Or maybe 104,349. Or maybe…

In yesterday’s Danville Register-Bee, reporter Ann Anderson wrote about a recent Democratic rally held in Danville to promote John Kerry and congressional candidate Al Weed, in a piece entitled “Local Dems rally voters to the polls.” At one point, Anderson wrote: After several forums with his opponent, Congressman Virgil Goode, Weed said the voters should …

I judge that this column’s not so hot.

A week ago, I explained why Roanoke Times columnist Ed Lynch’s slap-dash dismissal of Sen. Creigh Deeds was wrong on its face. Today, Lynch has yet another column, nearly as foolish as last week’s. It’s worth going into a few of the weaker points. In “It’s time to elect judges in Virginia,” Lynch argues that …

Waldo: 1. UVa Republicans: 0.

Last week, Ali Ahmad, chair of the UVa College Republicans, wrote a wrong-in-so-many-ways column for the UVa newspaper, the Cavalier Daily. I e-mailed him, he replied, I replied, he replied. The exchange went as follows. Ali, In your article in today’s Cavalier Daily, “Swinging to the right,” you provide Al Weed with the nickname “Instant …

Virginia, not Constantinople.

It’s been a tense past month in Turkey. Islamic fundamentalists proposed the establishment of adultery laws, which would have actually made it criminally illegal for a spouse to cheat. While the Turkish parliament was recessed for the past few weeks, the media continued to cover the story and the public got quite whipped up about …