We normally reserve the Quote of the Day as a feature of our General Assembly coverage, but after reading Anita Kumar’s Washington Post Virginia Politics Blog report on Democrat Jack Dobbyn’s challenge to Delegate Dave Albo (R-42, Fairfax), we … Read more>

Former three-term delegate and Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Jeff Frederick Tuesday announced his candidacy for the Northern Virginia area 36th district Senate seat. In a detailed e-mail with a simple headline (“I’m In!”) he promised a “commonsense, pro-people — not … Read more>

It makes you wonder . . . what exactly is in a $78 billion budget? How much waste and unwanted and unneeded programs are embedded in it?

While it is pardonable that the average Joe and Jane Virginian does not … Read more>

As we speculated previously (here and here), Jamie Radtke, the organizer of the successful Virginia Tea Party convention in October, will run for office. Specifically, for the U.S. Senate in the 2012 Republican primary, eschewing a 2011 primary opportunity in … Read more>

Is Jamie Radtke making moves that would confirm our pre-recent-election speculation that she is interested in running for office? It all started after her very successful Virginia TEA Party Convention (see Lynn Mitchell in the Washington Examiner) in October that prompted … Read more>

Will the one of the driving forces of the TEA Party movement in Virginia run for office? Dr. Bob Holsworth over the weekend raised the specter on his Virginia Tomorrow blog that Jamie Radtke would be a formidable candidate, writing that … Read more>

Governor Bob McDonnell has applied for abstinence-only education grants made available by the Obama administration — oddly enough — the same type of grants rejected by his predecessor Tim Kaine, which ended years of funding abstinence education in Virginia  under governors of … Read more>

One might say Tim Kaine wasn’t exactly original as governor. Much of his agenda was a typically liberal one — new spending programs, increased overall spending, kow-towing to the special interests (the VEA and homosexual lobby come to mind… Read more>

According to Anita Kumar of the Washington Post’s Virginia Politics Blog, Delegates Tim Hugo (R-40, Fairfax) and John O’Bannon (R-73, Henrico), are running to fill the House Republican Caucus chairmanship, vacated by the soon-t0-resign Delegate Sam Nixon… Read more>

Governor Tim Kaine, who doubles as the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, got a dressing down from a senior Congressional Dem the other day. U.S. Rep. James Oberstar (D – Minn.), a chairman himself — of the House … Read more>