Check out Rick Sincere’s liveblogging of today’s RPV convo as well as Crystal Clear Conservative, SWAC Girl and Bearing Drift. Virtucon contributors are on site as well and will be reporting as able.
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Dr. George Tiller was murdered at his church this morning. According to the New York Times:
Dr. Tiller, who had performed abortions since the 1970s, had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion, particularly in Kansas, where abortion opponents regularly protested outside his clinic and sometimes his home and church. In 1993, he was shot in both arms by an abortion opponent but recovered.
He had also been the subject of many efforts at prosecution, including a citizen-initiated grand jury investigation. (more…)
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Chairman Mao looks a little waxy these days.
It isn’t for lack of trying. The Chinese government has gone to great pains to keep him looking fresh—at least as fresh as a guy who’s been dead since 1976 can look.
Just as the Russians have Lenin on display in Moscow, the Chinese have Mao on display in Beijing. Those Communists, it seems, love their embalmed leaders. (I wonder if Castro is making similar plans.)
Mao Zedong—or, as Americans learn it, Mao Tse-Tung—served as leader of the Communist army during the Chinese civil war of the 1930s, and then became leader of the entire country when the Communists eventually won in 1949. He served as chairman until his death in 1976.
And that’s when the legend of Mao took off. (more…)
Gov. – Bob McDonnell
LG – Bill Bolling
AG – Ken Cuccinelli
Pat Mullins was elected RPV Chairman.
No official vote totals were released as all nominations that were contested were ultimately done by acclamation.
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My students, colleagues, and I have been forming an impression of the Chinese during our trip to China these past ten-plus days. But what do the Chinese think of Americans?
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I need to admit this up front. I have a condition. My great aunt Doreen called it Brain Fag and said it ran deep in all the Hargrove men, but I don’t think there’s an official name for it, and certainly no effective treatment. It’s sort of hard for me to talk about, but the best way I can put it is that I suffer from occasional moments of high stupidity. Oh, what the hell. I have Brain Fag, and it isn’t getting any better.
How do I know? Let’s look at the facts. When I was a kid, I dressed up as a matador and went to school actually thinking I looked cool. I bought a book titled “How to Hypnotize Bees.“ And tried it. Twice. I believed my friends when they said emu tipping was possible. I still have that scar. Just last year, I was “It” in a game of tag with 22 middle school students. I still have that scar, too. I bought Lehman Brothers stock because Jim Cramer said it was a good idea. (more…)
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If Shanghai was New York City, then Beijing is Los Angeles. The city sprawls over some nineteen thousand square kilometers—all of which is clouded in smog.
The heavy traffic, smog, and city sprawl make Beijing feel like L.A.
Beijing lacks the glistening skyscrapers of glass and steel that proudly advertise Shanghai’s modernity. Instead of building up, Beijing has built out. The city radiates outward in a series of rings with beltways, called ring roads, circling around.
Smack dab in the middle, where a typical city center might rise skyward, sits the Forbidden City, the former palace of the emperor back in the days when China still had one.
In that regard, Beijing might be more like Washington, D.C. than L.A. (more…)
After battling for a long time to get a law passed in Maryland to end the issuance of driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, it turns out the legislation passed has loopholes. It’s not a surprise when you have delegates in…
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Well, this is my first foray as a VV blogger. I can’t tell you how delighted and grateful I am. Greetings from the “border region” of northern Virginia (otherwise known as the northeastern part of Spotsylvania County)!
Oddly enough, although the spotlight will be on the Republicans this weekend (I myself will be in Richmond for the convention tomorrow morn), I wonder how many people have noticed the trap the Democrats have set for themselves over the last few weeks.
The original front-runner, Brian Moran (hard to remember, but he was the front-runner waaaaaay back when) had enough trouble with Terry McAuliffe poaching on his regional base. When brother Jim decided to make himself a lightning rod on enemy combatant prisoners, things went downhill pretty fast. Now Moran is (if he’s lucky) a distant second in polling, and the only people enthusiastic about his candidacy are gun owners out to smite Creigh Deeds (more on him later). Given how badly Operation Chaos flopped in Virginia last year, Moran can’t be happy to be the beneficiary of the 2009 version – and neither will large chunks of the Democrats’ base. The best person to solve that problem (Big Brother Jim) is also the one person more likely to ”redden” Virginia voters than a blazing July sun.
It seemed for a while that Virginia Democrats had avoided that fate thanks to T-Mac. Despite the obvious problems that come with a parachuted candidacy, T-Mac had a number of advantages: no connection to the various Richmond battles, no record of supporting tax increases (partially blunted with his vocal support of the Warner tax hike), and the oceans of money he could bring to the table. Unfortunately, Virginia Democrats are beginning to figure out what their fellows in the other 49 states learned in the early part of the decade: Terry McAuliffe’s money comes with one drawback – Terry McAuliffe. The left wing of the party is growing increasingly up in arms at the notion of a McAuliffe nomination, while Democrats in Virginia are beginning to feel the usual my-guy’s-in-the-White-House-so-is-Richmond-really-that-important complacency (see the Democrats in 1997, 1993, and 1977, or the GOP in 2005, 2001, 1989, 1985, and 1981).
Oddly enough, the fellow who seemed the also-ran for most of the primary campaign is slowly coming into the role of white-knight (or is it blue knight?): Creigh Deeds. On the surface, Deeds is the guy to whom the Dems should have looked in the first place – from the western part of the state (which, unless John Brownlee pulls the upset, would have no other presence on either ticket this fall), with a reputation as a social moderate, and with the experience of coming within a whisker of beating McDonnell in 2005. He seems the perfect choice, and will be touted as such if he can actually catch T-Mac by June 9.
Alas, for the Dems, the 2009 version of Creigh Deeds is a pale imitation of the 2005 near-winner. Back then, Deeds was just one of a slew of Warner Democrats with one popular (and misunderstood) tax increase on their records. Since then, Deeds has established himself as one of the most tax-hike-friendly politicians in Richmond. Even Moran -well-earned lefty reputation notwithstanding – has voted for fewer tax increases than Deeds has.
Moreover, Deeds in 2005 was considered the most gun-friendly AG candidate in either party (which was why the National Rifle Association endorsed him over McDonnell that year). This time, he is not even the favorite of gun owners in his own primary.
So . . . all three Democrats running for Governor will face a general election with large chunks of the Warner or Kaine coalitions (they’re not the same, but that’s for another post) wanting nothing to do with them.
Meanwhile, McDonnell has managed to go under the radar for months. The only move against him has been the “stimulus” adds by the Common Nonsense folks. To give an idea of how “effective” they are, when Mrs. Liberal saw the ads, her first reaction was to vent about the slew of conditions that came with the rejected stimulus money in the first place.
Given all of that, Bob McDonnell is certainly in the running for the luckiest Virginian alive.
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OUCH! When the Russian newspaper Pravda starts saying you’re entering Marxist territory, that means something…
American capitalism gone with a whimper
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The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
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Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
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