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You Don’t Need a Law Degree to Know Right from Wrong
In case you missed the news this summer, the Supreme Court set a date to hear McCutcheon v. FEC, a case that challenges aggregate campaign contribution limits. On October 8, 2013, the folks who opened the floodgates for outside spending in Citizens United v. FEC may...
GOP Considering Intentional Debt-Ceiling Breach
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...
Virginia Republican Kills Immigration Reform. For Everyone.
Virginia Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said that he would not allow an immigration reform bill that includes a path to citizenship to pass his committee (thereby preventing it from coming up for a vote on the floor),...
You Won’t Believe This
GOP attorney general candidate Mark Obenshain thinks: People who sexually abuse children should be allowed to own a gun People with emergency protection orders issued against them should be allowed to carry a firearm into the home of their alleged victim It should be...
McAuliffe Takes 6-Point Lead in Quinnipiac Poll
August 21, 2013 Democrat Terry McAuliffe has a 48 - 42 percent lead over Republican State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in the race to become Virginia's next governor, according to today's Quinnipiac University poll, the first survey in this race among voters likely...
Conservative Virginia Radio Host Calls for Governor to Resign
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...
Sequestration Cuts 57,000 Kids From Head Start
Head Start programs across the country eliminated services for 57,000 children in the coming school year to balance budgets diminished by the federal sequester, cutting 1.3 million days from Head Start center calendars and laying off or reducing pay for more than...
Va. First Lady Used Loan to Buy $30,000 in Star Scientific Stock
Attorneys for Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, will spend Monday locked in separate hours-long meetings trying to convince federal prosecutors that the first couple should not be charged in the gifts scandal that has dominated state politics....
Gov. Mcdonnell’s Unsavory Company
Published August 18 in The Washington Post Regarding the Aug. 14 Metro article “McDonnell: All ‘tangible’ gifts returned to supporter”: Rich Galen, a spokesman for Gov. Robert F. McDonnell’s legal team, contrasted the Republican governor’s unblemished record of public...
The Cash Committee
The House Financial Services Committee has grown so large that a highly unusual fourth row of seats had to be installed in the committee room. Every term, scores of members, particularly freshmen, demand a seat on the panel — not because they have a burning interest...
