by MCDC | Aug 27, 2013 | Ethics, Health Care, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
A tip-of-the-hat to Progressive In A Red State We talked last week about one of the right’s favorite arguments: the United States doesn’t need a system in which Americans have health insurance because if the uninsured get sick, they can just go to the...
by MCDC | Aug 27, 2013 | Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
“The ongoing federal investigation of Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen — the scandal dubbed by political wags as “Giftgate” — entered a critical phase last week, both for the governor and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Yet more revelations last weekend in...
by MCDC | Aug 23, 2013 | Energy, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Speaking directly to the camera, Paul Osborne of Raven says “My family’s been in Southwest Virginia since the mid 1800s. My grandfather would roll over in his grave if he saw what was going on today with the energy companies.” “Ken Cuccinelli is helping the energy...
by MCDC | Aug 23, 2013 | Economy, Education, Environment, Ethics, Health Care, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
From This Week In Richmond, Senator Ralph Northam offers an in-depth perspective on the issues and challenges facing Virginia....
by MCDC | Aug 22, 2013 | Economy, Ethics, Health Care, Virginia
In what has to be the least convincing pitch in modern political memory, House Republican leaders are suggesting to their members that they should forego a government shutdown over Obamacare and instead breach the debt ceiling over Obamacare. Reuters reports that “the...
by MCDC | Aug 19, 2013 | Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Conservative Virginia radio host John Fredericks urged Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell to resign as federal prosecutors look into whether McDonnell aided a company whose CEO gave his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and money. Fredericks has been a...
