Friday, October 31, 2008

Virginia Film Festival 2008 - Day One

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As noted here yesterday , the Virginia Film Festival opened its four-day run on Thursday evening with the regional premiere of Lake City , a...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Redpath Launches Radio Ads

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The Libertarian Party's candidate for the U.S. Senate in Virginia, William Redpath , has launched a series of radio ads around the state...

Virginia Film Festival Opens Tonight

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Oscar-winning actresses Sissy Spacek and Jane Fonda will be among the guests tonight as the 21st annual Virginia Film Festival opens in Char...

Local Election Officials Discuss Preparations for November 4

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On Wednesday afternoon, I joined Lee Catlin, the spokesperson for the Albemarle County government, and Will Harvey, secretary of the county...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

Somebody Needs an Economics Lesson

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The graduated income tax, which has been imposed on American citizens since the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, has advantages and...

NYT Recommends Charlottesville

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Joshua Kurlantzick, whose byline is usually attached to articles about foreign policy in The New Republic and other opinion journals, has w...

'I Am Not a Vegetarian,' Says Candidate

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In most parts of the country, politicians have sex scandals. Look at Florida Congressman Tim Mahoney , whose trouser-snake escapades have t...
Saturday, October 25, 2008

The Gremlin in the DCCC

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A few days ago , I reported that I had received a weird call from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, urging me to vote for Gle...

When a Libertarian Debates

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Say what you will about the Libertarian Party, its candidates enliven the political process. This past Wednesday, in debate sponsored by the...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Charlottesville Election Official Training

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With more than 28,000 registered voters this year (up from just over 21,000 four years ago), Charlottesville is gearing up for record turnou...

'Sending a Message'

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In a pre-election roundup by Will O'Bryan (" Outing the vote: Gay locals talk politics in the final stretch to Nov. 4 "), Metr...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Unusual Search Terms

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It has been a while since I checked into the odd search terms that bring people to this blog. (Those compendiums have themselves proved to ...

Unusual Campaign Call

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As most of my readers should know, I live in the Fifth Congressional District of Virginia, where incumbent Republican Virgil Goode is being...

Kiwi TV Focuses on Charlottesville

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International interest in the U.S. presidential election is piqued, as anyone who has traveled abroad recently or who has read the foreign p...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Politics at 'The New Yorker'

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That staid journal that is read more often for its cartoons than its articles (take that, Playboy !), the venerable New Yorker , has three g...

Redpath Endorsed by Veteran Democratic Legislator

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A news release from the Redpath for Senate campaign notes that Theodore V. Morrison, Jr., a former member of the Virginia House of Delegat...