MSNBC: Algore “Awakened” Discovery Channel Enviro Nutjob
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From MSNBC: Lee said at the time that he experienced an ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.” So, what other than bomb-making, murderous intent and hostage-taking did Algore awaken in this nutcase? From Lee’s rambling manifesto: The Discovery Channel and it’s affiliate channels MUST have daily television

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“One Crazy Summer” Indeed! Lane Meyer Says Republicans Are “Better Off Dead”
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I guess he really will “Say Anything.” John Cusack has truly gone off the deep-end now. Get a load of a recent tweet from his Twitter account: I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS Um, yeah… I

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Ethics Probe of Krystal Ball Hitting Papers Across 1st Cong. Dist.
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Cross-posted to The Real Krystal Ball The ethics complaint filed yesterday by 1st. Cong. Dist. GOP Chairman Tom Foley against Krystal Ball has made several papers across the district including the Times Dispatch, Virginia Gazette and Free Lance-Star. The FLS does give credit where credit is due.

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Ethanol-Free Gasoline
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Hat tip: Autoblog Green Are you concerned about damage that ethanol may be doing to your car’s engine or to your gas-powered equipment? Want to make a political statement against this rent-seeking practice? Here is a useful site. It lists and maps stations that sell ethanol-free gasoline. Unfortunately, there are no ethanol-free gas stations in

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Well at least the Teleprompter didn’t fail him
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The President took to the Rose Garden in a hastily arranged address to talk about his failure to take action on the faltering economy. However during the address the microphone got bored and turned itself off. That made the teleprompter mad and it continued with the scrolling words, well actually the teleprompter just started making

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PW Schools Superintendent Set To Defy BOCS?
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Last week, we heralded Occoquan Supervisor Mike May as the taxpayers’ new hero for standing up to Prince William County school superintendent Steven Walts who was trying to spend money the county did not have yet. Seems that Walts was counting chickens that hadn’t hatched yet in terms of federal funding that Virginia hasn’t even

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PW Schools Superintendent Set To Defy BOCS?
Posted at Virginia Virtucon - Virginia politics, policy and entertainment from the Greater Richmond-Washington Metro Area perspective.
Last week, we heralded Occoquan Supervisor Mike May as the taxpayers’ new hero for standing up to Prince William County school superintendent Steven Walts who was trying to spend money the county did not have yet. Seems that Walts was counting chickens that hadn’t hatched yet in terms of federal funding that Virginia hasn’t even

The Right Direction?
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“The Geography of the Recession” using data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. And Obama and Biden say we’re moving in the right direction? I don’t think so…

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Krystal Ball’s Latest Financial Disclosure Form Raises More Questions Than It Answers
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Cross-posted to The Real Krystal Ball Well, here it is. Krystal Ball’s latest personal financial disclosure form. Compare it to her previous one. Let’s see how many more questions this raises, shall we? While last year she was still pulling down six-figures in “software design consulting fees” from K12, Inc.

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The Next Bubble…
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Over the past decade, we’ve experienced the bursting of the dotcom bubble and the housing bubble. Now it appears that the next bubble to burst will be the government bubble.

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Mike May – Taxpayers New Hero
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Last night, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors were confronted with the situation that the School Superintendent planned to hire 180 new teachers for this school year using federal stimulus money that has not even been accepted by Virginia yet nor allocated to the counties. The BOCS held an emergency meeting to “table the

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More Proof That Quinnipiac Is The Worst Polling Organization Out There
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I have long held the Quinnipiac poll in low regard dating back to their poll the day before Election Day 1994 when they gave Mario Cuomo a high single-digit lead in his reelection campaign against George Pataki. They were so wrong, just one day before the election, that it accounted for a double-digit swing from

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Details on PWC Board of Supervisors Emergency Meeting Emerge
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Prince William County Vice Chairman Mike May issued the following statement via email earlier today in response to news that the BOCS would be holding an emergency meeting tonight. (County Chairman Corey Stewart is currently out of the country.) Dear Friends- I am in receipt of an email that many of you received concerning the

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Who would have thought?
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Somebody should clue Krystal Ball in – politics is a game of addition not subtraction. However if she wants to spend her valuable time throughout the campaign talking to people who are not going to vote for her and telling them why they are not going to vote for her – keep it up!

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Dave Marsden Vacates The 37th Dist. Senate Seat
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Actually, although seated by the Virginia Senate in January, apparently Dave Marsden has never actually been legally entitled to the seat in the first place. Common Sense has detailed that Marsden has yet to actually move into the district and is still “renting a room” from some campaign supporters of his who live in the

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Krystal Ball: One Year Later
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Cross-posted to The Real Krystal Ball. August 2009: “If I can show that a 27 year old woman from a family with a sub $100,000 net worth, who is not a millionaire, not a scion of a political family, not a self-funder, can run for Federal office and win, I think we will see a tidal

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Don’t Blog From Philly
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They’ll charge you a $300 business license fee!

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Nah nah nah nah nah nah — BLAGO!!!
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Quick! To the Blagomobile!!! Blago, old chum! How long until Blago has his own version of the Batusi?

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Barack Obama Elementary School Opens Today in Maryland
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Upper Marlboro, MD is home to the brand new Barack Obama Elementary School. I understand that their sports teams will be called “The Fighting Teleprompters.” One more reason why nothing should be named after anyone until they are either a.) out of office or b.) have passed away. West Virginia, which only exists because it

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Press Picks Up Virtucon Story On Krystal Ball’s Finances
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The first (and we’re told this will not be the last) article on Krystal Ball’s finances has hit the press. Definitely an interesting read!

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Gerry Connolly Is A Slug
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The WashPo is reporting that U.S. Rep. Gerry “Hit and Run” Connolly is a slug. In this undated photo from a long time ago, Connolly attempts to eat the Millennium Falcon. Well, we already KNEW that… But wait! Apparently, he’s going to be taking up valuable commuter space in people’s cars, on the Metro and

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Roger Clemens Indicted
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Roger Clemens has been indicted on five counts — 3 counts of making false statements and 2 counts of perjury before Congress. According to the United States Attorney’s office, Clemens faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine, but under the current sentencing guidelines, a conviction would likely bring

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Why Police Had A Hard Time Finding The Serial Stabber
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Here is Elias Abuelazam, the man arrested as the serial stabber who killed five and wounded dozens of other African American men in Michigan, Ohio and Virginia before being arrested in Atlanta as he attempted to flee the country. Here is the artist’s sketch that police had released of the suspect in the attacks: Apparently,

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Parents of Young Daughters Near Northern Virginia — Prepare Yourselves…
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If you are the mom or dad of a young daughter, as I am, and live in or near Northern Virginia, as I do — prepare yourself. Summer 2011 will see Tysons Corner debut a new store — a 23,000 square foot “American Girl” store. Last month we took our daughter to their store in

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Deadline For Krystal Ball’s Latest Financial Disclosure Form Was Yesterday
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Cross-posted to The Real Krystal Ball We are anxiously awaiting word on whether Krystal Ball filed her latest personal financial disclosure form with the Clerk of the House of Representatives yesterday. Ball was supposed to have filed the form back in May, but requested an extension until Aug. 16. Unfortunately, we have been informed that

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Wanna Feel Real Old?
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Most students entering college for the first time this fall—the Class of 2014—were born in 1992. For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead. 1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive. 2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever

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Contrasts
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Unhappy Birthday, Social Security!!!
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When Social Security was established 75 years ago, the retirement age was set at 65 years old. What was the average life expectancy for Americans at that time? 63 years. So, under FDR’s plan as originally conceived and implemented, the average American was expected to work until he or she died. Most Americans would never

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Unhappy Birthday, Social Security!!!
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When Social Security was established 75 years ago, the retirement age was set at 65 years old. What was the average life expectancy for Americans at that time? 63 years. So, under FDR’s plan as originally conceived and implemented, the average American was expected to work until he or she died. Most Americans would never

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1983 Called…
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1983 called. It said it was “missing persons” and a song.

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SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: Krystal Ball’s (Fire)Fishy Finances Exposed
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Cross-posted at The Real Krystal Ball As of June 30, 1st Cong. Dist. candidate Krystal Ball had loaned her campaign over $227,000 with $150,000 coming on that date alone. We previously raised the question of where she got the money to do this and began looking at her financial disclosure report filed with the Clerk

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BREAKING SOON! A Look Into Krystal Ball’s Future…
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Is the Democratic candidate for Congress in Virginia’s First District really a “Bernadette Madoff”? Coming soon to Virginia Virtucon…

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Nevermind…
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You’ve got to love this Dem spin: Sen. Michael Bennet’s win in Tuesday night’s Democratic Colorado primary is proof that supporters of President Obama will show up for the midterms, according to [senior Obama political strategist] David Axelrod. Only problem is, Bennet in winning the Dem nod in a VERY competitive primary (he had Obama’s backing while

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R.I.P. Ted Stevens
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Former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has been killed in a plane crash. Stevens previously survived a plane crash in 1978 that killed his wife. In 2008, Stevens narrowly lost his reelection bid following his criminal conviction that was later vacated due to prosecutorial misconduct and he was cleared. Stevens may forever be known as

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Airplane! 3: The Reality Show?
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JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater is an overnight sensation after an unruly passenger swore at him, hit him with a bag from the overhead baggage compartment and then Slater called out the passenger over the PA system, said he’d had enough, deployed the inflatable emergency exit slide, grabbed a couple of beers from the service

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Movement To Dump Biden As VP In 2012 Grows
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Democrats are already in full panic mode over Obama’s 2012 reelection prospects and have quickly grabbed onto the idea that former VA Gov. Doug Wilder floated that they should dump Joe “Dunkin’ Donuts” Biden from the ticket and replace him with Hillary! While probably a good idea in some respects, I doubt that it will

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No, Gov. McDonnell Does NOT Support A State Health Care Mandate
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It would be helpful if people who started to spout off on things actually watched the video, read the transcripts and understood everything in context first before they did so. It would save billions of otherwise wasted electrons. Yesterday, on the CNN show “State of the Nation,” Gov. Bob McDonnell was asked whether it would

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Thought of the Day
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From a Babar comic we have framed, and hanging on the wall in the Gilmore household. “What is going on here?” inquires Babar, who has found the other elephants at last. “Alas!” replies Cornelius, “the rhinoceroses have declared war on us. They came led by Rataxes who wanted to catch Arthur and make mincemeat of

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Tom Perriello faces voter frustration
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Even the Washington Post admits Perriello is in big trouble, along with the 47 other democrat Congressman from districts that McCain carried. Post article here. Only 84 days left before we take back our country!

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The Disaster That Never Was
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David Jones of the UK Daily Mail wrote an article that shows how the combination of Mother Nature’s resiliency and BP’s strong clean-up efforts have almost completely mitigated what the White House, the mainstream media, and the environmental lobby would have you believe to be a horrible, generations-lasting disaster of epic, near-biblical proportions. For the first time, someone

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Someone DOES Have To Get Killed Before Showboat Paul Ebert Pays Criminals Any Real Attention
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Well, now we have our answer. Somone DOES have to get killed in Prince William County before it gets any real attention from Paul Ebert and his Commonwealth’s Attorney office. Ebert was quoted the other day as being shocked — shocked I tell you — that there was gambling going on at Rick’s Place, I

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Logic 101 Lessons Needed for the Social Justice / Open Borders Crowd
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Both the social justice crowd and the open borders advocates (many are one in the same) are trying to say the case of Carlos Martinelly Montano killing Sister Denise Mosier, a Catholic nun of the Benedictine order, isn’t about illegal immigration, it is about drunk driving. Well, if this illegal immigrant had either been speedily deported

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Logic 101 Lessons Needed for the Social Justice / Open Borders Crowd
WashPo Sells Newsweak For $1
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WashPo has sold Newsweak for $1. Not a single copy of an issue of the magazine for $1 (those go for over $5 each now.) The entire magazine itself for $1. So, for the price of one issue (and assuming the company’s debt) you could have owned the magazine and still had enough left over

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Gerry Connolly Can’t Get Far Enough Away From His Constituents This Summer
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You are Cordially Invited to a Baseball Game With Congressman Gerry Connolly (VA-11) Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Foreign Affairs Committee on the Budget With Invited Special Guest Congressman John Tierney (MA-06) Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Education and Labor For the Red Sox – White Sox Game! Friday,

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Cuccinelli Issues Opinion That VA Police Can Check Immigration Status
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Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli is on a roll. Not only has his lawsuit against the new federal healthcare law cleared its first hurdle, but he has also issued an opinion (in response to a request from Del. Bob Marshall) stating that Virginia state law enforcement officers can check the immigration status of anyone “stopped or

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Feds Let Illegal Alien Go Who Then Killed A Nun
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The drunk driver who killed a Catholic nun in Prince William County over the weekend is an illegal alien who PWC police had previously reported to federal authorities. The man suspected of drunken driving and killing a Catholic nun in Prince William County this weekend is an illegal immigrant who was awaiting deportation and who

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Does the GOP really need to win 10 seats to take back the Senate?
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I’ve got a feeling that if the GOP somehow manages to pick up 9 Senate seats in November to get them into a 50-50 tie (under which scenario Democrats would be in the majority due to VP Joe Biden’s tie-breaking vote), then Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is going to jump and this is the first

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Illegal immigrant with 4 DWIs
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Am I the only one who is bothered by this: “”A 30-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador will spend four years in prison for crashing his pickup truck into a police cruiser while under the influence of alcohol. Jose Joe Velasco, of Herndon, was sentenced in Loudoun County Circuit Court July 23 with DWI, assault

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WashPo Tries To Be Hip; Fails Miserably
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The WashPo ran this article today: After initial obscurity, ‘The DMV’ nickname for Washington area picks up speed New York is “the Big Apple” and Chicago “the Windy City,” but unless the earnest and obvious “Nation’s Capital” is your idea of a cool handle, Washington and its environs have never gotten very far in the

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And Gov. Timmy! Thinks This Is Going To HURT Republicans?
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Gov. Timmy! and his all-girl orchestra (props to Hawkeye Pierce on that last part) at the DNC have announced the big, scary “Republican Tea Party Contract On America.” (Never mind that back in 1994 when Democrats derided the “Contract With America” as the “Contract On America” they lost the House and Senate.) So, what are

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