Thursday, August 28, 2008

Warner Refuses and Redpath Steps Up

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Former Governor Mark Warner, basking in the limelight of having delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Denve...
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Obama, McCain Fail to Make Texas Ballot

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The two major party candidates for president, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, will not appear on the election ballot in Te...
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August 28, 1963

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Whatever Barack Obama might say in his convention speech tonight in front of a mere 75,000 people at Invesco Field in Denver, it will hardly...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

100 Years of LBJ

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The Dallas Morning News notes that today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the Unit...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

'Dr. Cook's Garden' Opening TACT's Season

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True to its mission, the American Century Theater in Arlington opens its 2008-09 season with a rarely-produced American play of the 20th ce...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Governor Notes Need for Election Officials

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No matter which political party or presidential candidate one supports, it is impossible to ignore the likelihood that this November's e...

Democratic Delegates: A Look Back

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Democrats from across the country (and from overseas U.S. territories, as well) are gathering in Denver this weekend for their party's n...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Bob Barr in the Washington Post

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As much as I hate to admit it, I had a pile of newspapers accumulate over the weekend while I was entertaining out-of-town guests, so I am j...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Charlottesville First Amendment Wall - 08/17/08

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Wandering through Charlottesville's downtown mall this past Sunday, I happened to come across the First Amendment monument sponsored an...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

Free Speech Affirmed ... for Now

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The outgoing members of the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) have affirmed the rights of bloggers to comment upon and participate in p...
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Yiddish Cocktail

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At the end of a long, informative, and amusing discussion of Yiddish words and phrases used in relation to alcoholic beverages, Daily Forwar...

Just Too Good to Pass Up

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Leave it to the Washington Post 's Al Kamen, who presides over the "In the Loop" column, to dig up an old item that, with the ...

Fold the Tents Now

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A definitive survey has predicted who will be the winner of the U.S. presidential election this year, so we might as well pack it up and go ...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Bob Barr Comes to Richmond

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Circumstances prevented me from attending the Tuesday Morning Group Coalition meeting in Richmond this morning. The Tuesday Morning Group i...

Schilling Profiled in 'Daily Progress'

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Columnist Bryan McKenzie profiles former Charlottesville City Councilor Rob Schilling in this morning's edition of the Daily Progress . ...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Sad News: George Furth Dead at 75

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Earlier today, I received an email from a correspondent who told me he had heard that George Furth had died yesterday. I was unable to conf...
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What Tourists Ask in England

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On my other blog (" Where Are the Copy Editors? "), I have a new post on embarrassing misspellings in an article in Britain's...

Godwin's Law and Georgia

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This tidbit comes from the FOCUS News Agency: Moscow . A top Russian politician on Monday compared Georgian actions in South Ossetia with N...
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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Revisiting 'The Fix'

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Leslie Carbone brings our attention to this quotation-cum-apologia from failed Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who explain...