Will and Bill: Guy Love

Anybody who has lived in Virginia Beach for awhile will remember the zany antics of Will and Bill (Sessoms and Harrison) on the 31st Street Hotel development. You know, the deal where the last remaining publicly owned undeveloped oceanfront property, worth millions, was leased to two convicted criminals for a song to build [...]

The Well-Traveled Low Road

It’s only a flier.
I don’t know where it came from.
It happens all the time.
What’s the harm?
White people won’t vote for him.  He’s black.
Black people won’t vote for him.  He’s not black enough.
He can’t win.
He did win?  It doesn’t count.  Jesse Jackson won South Carolina.
He’s a secret Muslim. A black radical.  Not a Christian.
He is a [...]

It’s the Health Care, Stupid

As the bailouts pile up, and talking heads debate the best way to kick-start the economy, there are several key points to remember about the causes of the financial meltdown. Consumers are hurting, due to home foreclosures, job losses, and the credit crunch.  But solving health care would significantly reduce two causes of the [...]

Our Thanksgiving Top 10

We’re thankful for many more than 10 things this Thanksgiving season, but here’s our political top 10.  
Number 10:  It looks like Hillary Clinton will be our next Secretary of State.  Emotions run the gamut from joy and giddy anticipation to fear and loathing–and those are just Bill’s emotions.  Just think, this time last year, [...]

Glenn Nye’s Decisive Win

The Virginian-Pilot reports that our new Second District Congressman, Glenn Nye, won decisively over Republican Thelma Drake.
Glenn Nye received 141,857 votes. Thelma Drake received 128,486 votes, a difference of 13,371 votes. Overall, Nye earned 52.4% of the vote, while Drake, a two-term Republican incumbent and former member of the General Assembly, garnered [...]

Cal Thomas: Conservative Gasbag

For those who have never had a strong enough stomach to make it all the way through a Cal Thomas column, here’s a little secret. The former mouthpiece for Jerry Falwell’s oxymoronic Moral Majority follows a set formula. First, take a current (real or imaginary) right-wing talking point about a problem besetting America. [...]

Welcome Home, Man

Lost in the news of the downward spiral of our economy is any discussion of the obligation we owe to those coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.  With “Alone,” a new public service announcement, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), has eloquently tried to raise awareness of the troubles facing this group.
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Barack Obama’s Weekly Address

President-Elect Barack Obama describes his economic plans in his weekly address.  January 20, 2009 cannot come soon enough.

Just Not Worth It

Did he?  Didn’t he?  Will she?  Won’t she?  Was it offered?  Are they negotiating?  What will Bill do?  Will Obama help pay her debt?  Who’s leaking what about whom?  
If Hillary Clinton appeared at Obama’s Chicago transition office with a signed Middle East Peace Treaty, a sworn affidavit from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promising to dismantle Iran’s [...]

Virginia Beach City Officials: Egad! Voters!! Ewww!!!

The Virginian-Pilot reported today that, much as they would like to, Virginia Beach’s elected officials may not be able to move local elections back to May from November.  Seems there’s this touchy thing called the Voting Rights Act.  The Justice Department would have to approve the move, and the city would have to prove why [...]