Annotations & Elucidations

Close Of Business Summer 2009

It’s the close of business for the summer, politically speaking anyway, as this week the statewide campaigns hit full gear, shifting from organizational mode and pin pricking for ideas and issues that will… Read more>

Recently, someone mentioned to me that while they were eating dinner with some friends, all highly educated, reasonable people, the conversation started to sound like a scene out of “Conspiracy Theory.”  But as we learn more about the “change” a… Read more>

Sure, it’s funny to hear such lunacy, only until you find out it’s a member of Congress saying it! It makes you wonder if nuttiness like this isn’t designed to make the rest of think these guys are harmless incompetents.… Read more>

This audio of the Great One has re-emerged recently, but if you haven’t heard it, take a listen. It’s Ronald Reagan in 1961, warning of the evils of socialized medicine. Rhetorically, he’s excellent, as usual; as well as intellectually… Read more>

Wonder why Virginia’s senior U.S. senator, Jim Webb, hasn’t scheduled any town hall meetings across the commonwealth for constituents? He doesn’t think we, the people — the voters — can add much to the health care “reform” debate. Nevermind that most people who attend… Read more>

Yesterday, Mark Holmberg, perhaps the best chronicler of urban life in Virginia — first, for several years as an astute and award-winning columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and now for WTVR-TV/CBS6 — dialed up The Family Foundation’s very own Victoria Cobb, for… Read more>

Obama and Planned Parenthood, sittin’ in a tree . . .

Obama and Planned Parenthood, two peas in a pod . . .

Make up your own headline and/or caption:

In the ongoing category of You Never Know Where You’re Going To Find Blog Material, I found the following story from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. As an aviation fan. I get its daily e-mail news digest and… Read more>

Annotations & Elucidations

To Heir Is Human; Liberal Education In A Nutshell

We lead off today with the Roanoke Times following up on the Washington Post’s theory from earlier in the week (also, see 8/24 News Stand) — namely, that Governor Tim… Read more>

Our friends at the VEA must know in their hearts that the end is near. For ages they’ve been sticking to their deceptive yet effective message that school choice will “drain money from public schools,” but as choice proponents… Read more>