Homeless and Jobless Americans urge Obama to be patient
Homeless and jobless Americans have a new reason to worry tonight: it is beginning to look like President Barack Obama might be slightly defensive over the results of his stimulus package. On behalf...
View ArticleMust Read: "Our Jobless Recovery" (with poll)
There was a must read article in the July 13, 2009 issue of The Nation magazine. "Our Jobless Recovery" by Leo Hindery Jr. and Leo W. Gerard is a skillful and principled critique of the Obama...
View ArticleWhy Virginia Democrats are likely to lose in 2009 (poll)
I am a Virginian. Virginia is unusual in that in three out of every four years we have a statewide election. In the fourth year we have General Assembly elections, and the outcomes of those elections...
View ArticleThe Problem of Terror by Proxy
This diary was prompted by a couple of different things I've seen online in the past couple of days. The first is the really very poor and amateurish forgery of Barack Obama's alleged Kenyan birth...
View ArticleRemember the Greensboro Massacre
By now we are all aware of the threats made by right wing activist Scott Oskay.The template for a violent encounter between armed right wingers and other demonstrators already exists. On November 3,...
View ArticleThere's no way I will ever admit that Donald Trump was born in America (poll)
Donald Trump has been traveling around for the last week trumpeting the Birthers talking points and trying to cast doubt on whether President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and whether he is an...
View ArticleSend a message: No more Trump! Boycott NBC
I just saw a clip of Donald Trump on the Today show--I was staggered by the lies Trump was peddling. I can no longer tolerate NBC giving this Glenn Beck-wannabe a platform. I'm boycotting NBC. I'll...
View ArticleMedicare, and why Democrats fail (Poll)
Like most of you, I was very pleased and excited by the results of the special election in New York's 26th Congressional District. I think we can all agree that Democrat Kathy Hochul's victory in this...
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Eric Cantor has a challenger: Meet E. Wayne Powell
Meet E. Wayne Powell, a Democrat running for the Democratic nomination to challenge Eric Cantor for Virginia's 7th Congressional DIstrict House seat. I am convinced that Powell is the kind of serious...
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Help Wayne Powell challenge Eric Cantor
Meet E. Wayne Powell, a Democrat running for the Democratic nomination to challenge Eric Cantor for Virginia's 7th Congressional DIstrict House seat. Wayne Powell is the kind of serious candidate we...
View ArticleMe, Myself, and (Hurricane) Irene
Okay, downtown Richmond, Virginia lost power at about 5:13PM EST. It was far too early to go to bed, so I went out to find an establishment that served refreshing beverages and had wi-fi access. I'm at...
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Join us for "An American Intervention: Jon Huntsman, Jr."
On September 30, 2011 the people of the United States will gather online and in small gatherings around the United States to carry out an intervention: help us tell our friend Jon Huntsman, Jr. that...
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"Eric Cantor's War on American Jobs" by E. Wayne Powell
Meet E. Wayne Powell, a Democrat running for the Democratic nomination to challenge Eric Cantor for Virginia's 7th Congressional DIstrict House seat. Wayne Powell is the kind of serious candidate we...
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Eric Cantor's Staggering Hypocrisy
Historian and novelist Shelby Foote liked to relate a story about Confederate General Braxton Bragg to illustrate how stubborn and perverse that general could be. The story went that in the pre-war...
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Convicted criminal spotted in OWS crowd
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor claims to be afraid of the crowds at Occupy Wall Street, and maybe he has a point. After all, several witnesses at the event spotted a convicted criminal moving...
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E. Wayne Powell has a great week!
E. Wayne Powell, a candidate for the Democratic nomination to take on Eric Cantor in Virginia's 7th Congressional District, has had a really amazing week. It all started last Thursday when Powell...
View ArticleThe lies Republicans tell
The Republican Party isn't so much an association of like minded people devoted to promoting a certain political ideological point of view so much as a complex and surprisingly elaborate spider web of...
View Article"HB9: A Threat to Virginia's Voters"
I visited the Virginia General Assembly yesterday and attended the meeting of the Elections Subcommittee of the Privileges and Elections Committee of the House of Delegates. The room where the...
View ArticleVideo of the Candlelight Vigil Bob McDonnell deployed a SWAT team against
There have only been a handful of times since I started blogging six years ago that I've covered a story that made me really, deeply, viscerally angry. Monday, February 27, 2012 was one of those...
View ArticleVideo: Peaceful protesters arrested on steps of Virginia's Capitol
The Virginia Capitol Police and Virginia State Police deployed massive forces against peaceful demonstrators protesting against the Republican War on Women today. Basically the entire Capitol Police...
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