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Posted at 11:51am on May 6, 2008 Amit Singh for Virginia 8

By lesliecarbone

Congressional candidate Amit Singh on Saturday picked up the endorsement of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Virginia. Mr. Singh is running in Virginia's June 10 congressional primary for the Republican nomination to replace 8th-District embarrassment Jim Moran.

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Posted at 3:23pm on May 3, 2008 A Court of Tar and Feathers

By lesliecarbone

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Posted at 9:24am on May 3, 2008 Wright on BoT at Virginia Union University

By lesliecarbone

Jeremiah Wright is a member of the Board of Trustees at Richmond's Virginia Union University. Mr. Wright attended VUU for three and one-half years before enlisting in the United States Marine Corps, according to the Trinity United Church of Christ Web site, which still names him as Pastor.

Founded in 1865, VUU describes itself as "a premier historically black institution of higher education, transforming the world one student at a time".

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Posted at 12:36pm on Apr. 30, 2008 Reports of Recession Greatly Exaggerated

By lesliecarbone

The U.S. economy grew by .6 percent last quarter, as it did in the previous quarter, without the benefit of those silly stimulus checks. This means that the country is not sufferring a recession, which occurs when the economy shrinks for two consecutive quarters.

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Posted at 2:38pm on Apr. 29, 2008 Obama Can "Disown" Wright After All

By lesliecarbone

Moments ago, Sen. Barack Obama finally acknowledged what the rest of the country has known for months. Jeremiah Wright's statements are "a bunch of rants that aren't grounded in truth".

Sounding absolutely whiney, Sen. Obama complained that Rev. Wright questioned his beliefs before the National Press Club, showing "disrespect to me". He insisted that he was shocked by Rev. Wright's "performance" yesterday and said that he might not know Rev. Wright "as well as I thought". He also claimed that Rev. Wright was "never my spiritual mentor. ... He was my pastor."

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Posted at 8:10am on Apr. 29, 2008 Jeremiah Wright, Superstar

By lesliecarbone

Barack Obama's former pastor is making the most of his fifteen minutes of fame. Yesterday, the National Press Club gave Jeremiah Wright the opportunity to spew his particular brand of hate-filled hogwash.

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Posted at 8:34am on Apr. 28, 2008 Blogger Protection Act of 2008

By lesliecarbone

Two years after liberal Republican John McCain teamed up with liberal Democrat Russ Feingold to eviserate the First Amendment, a federal court ordered the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to begin regulating expression on the Internet. Two years after that, the FEC passed a rule exempting blogs and their authors from this exercise of federal overreach. But a regulatory agency's rule is only as strong as the commitment to its principles of the presidential administration in power. And with the impending disaster of a McCain, Obama, or Clinton Administration, the Constitution faces at least four more years in the wilderness.

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Posted at 10:10am on Apr. 19, 2008 Looking for Art in the Academy

By lesliecarbone

A couple of news stories this week have illustrated an impoverished understanding of art on college campuses. First is the University of Maine at Farmington project wherein a student placed American flags on the floor.

The second, later revealed to be a hoax, featured a Yale student who claimed to have artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" and then taken abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages over a nine-month period. Her exhibition was to include video recordings of these forced abortions and, believe it or not, samples of the student's blood collected during this process.

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Posted at 9:15am on Apr. 17, 2008 Flag Desecration as Art

By lesliecarbone

The University of Maine at Farmington is apparently teaching a rather impoverished view of art.

Some students there did an "art project" that consisted of laying American flags on the floor for people to walk on.

Did the University nix the project because it required no creative vision and confused political protest with art?

Of course not. Not only did the project go on, but it was protected by guards.

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Posted at 9:53am on Apr. 16, 2008 Virginia Tech: One Year Later

By lesliecarbone

As a boy in World War II Romania, he lived in a Jewish ghetto, while his father was imprisoned in a forced labor camp. After the war, and his country was abandoned to Soviet hegemony, he became an engineer. To have his papers published anywhere but the Academy of Science in Romania, he had to work in secrecy and smuggle them out. He and his wife wanted to leave the misery of communist Romania, but the process of obtaining permission took years. Finally, in 1978, he and his family emigrated to Israel. After teaching for seven years at Tel-Aviv University, he accepted a one-year visiting professorship at Virginia Tech. One year turned to 22, as he and his family decided to resettle in Blacksburg.

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Posted at 10:36am on Apr. 14, 2008 The Real Elitism of Barack SnObama

By lesliecarbone

Barack SnObama continues to point fingers at those who object to his recent remarks offending small-town Americans, people of faith, free-traders, Second-Amendment believers, and citizens who support enforcing immigation laws. Asked at an exclusive fund-raiser in San Francisco why he wasn't more popular in Pennsylvania, Sen. SnObama suggested that Americans living in "small towns ... get bitter [and] cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations". Certainly, this bitterness theory explains Sen. SnObama's church of choice.

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Posted at 2:12pm on Apr. 8, 2008 Obama Boots Delegate for Likening Tree-Climbing Children to Monkeys

By lesliecarbone

The Obama campaign has persuaded a delegate to step down after she was fined $75 for telling her neighbor's tree-climbing black children "to quit playing in the tree like monkeys".

Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, who says she also calls her own grandchildren monkeys, insists that she didn't mean anything racially derogatory and that she was merely concerned that the children might fall from the tree and get hurt.

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Posted at 11:56am on Apr. 7, 2008 Charlton Heston, A Personal Note

By lesliecarbone

The world lost a class actor this weekend with the passing of Charlton Heston.

Charlton Heston was a great actor, a gracious man, and a citizen committed making his country a better place.

His commitment to justice led him to switch to the Republican Party in 1964. Echoing Ronald Reagan, another of Hollywood's rare gracious and conservative men, Mr. Heston explained: "My politics haven't changed -- it was the Democratic Party that changed." Over the years, he became a strong defender of the Second-Amendment right of the people to keep and bear arms.

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Posted at 4:22pm on Apr. 5, 2008 Barr Forms Exploratory Committee

By lesliecarbone

Former Rep. Bob Barr announced this afternoon that he is launching an exploratory committee as he considers a run for the Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States. Mr. Barr made the announcement at the Heartland Libertarian Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Barr has a

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Posted at 8:08am on Apr. 5, 2008 Legi-Staff Blustering over LegiStorm

By lesliecarbone

Congressional staffers are outraged that a private company has publicized public information.

Capitol Hill staffers are required to file financial disclosure forms, which contain sensitive information, including home addresses and signatures.

According to LegiStorm, the company involved in the dispute, some staffers included information that is not required, such as children's names and investment account numbers.

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