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Mosquito Blog: Ditto Jon Stewart

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:44:00 -0500

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Rich Radford: At the half

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:01:34 -0500

I thought it somewhat weird when Eddie McClam came out of the locker room for warmups hollering "Whacka, whacka, whacka!" Maybe he knew something, because the first half of this game was like watching the video game Pac-Man. Whacka, whacka, whacka. There were a lot of yards being gobbled [...]

Journal: RICHMOND

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:41:33 -0500

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Common Ground: Greetings from Ocean View - Wake of the flood

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:20:39 -0500

Around 8 o'clock in the morning on Thursday, Sonja Hobin was busy trying to block the wind coming in through her air conditioner when she heard yelling outside. She woke up her husband, grabbed her cat Maggie and boarded the inflatable boat that the fire department had unloaded on 5th' [...]

VB Dems: A VB Dems Legislative Agenda

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:49:52 -0500

Let's do it! I'll develop our environmental agenda. Dominic, can you do education? I'll ask Vivian about hers. What else?

Then let's draft it in the form of a petition and get every VB Democrat out there to sign it. We'll then deliver it to our Republican delegation and when they' [...]

SmartRegion.org: Norfolk Southern’s “green” green locomotive

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:43:09 -0500

The NS 999 is an all-electric, plug-in locomotive that reaches 1,500-horsepower and can recharge its batteries while braking. (Courtesy Norfolk Southern)

Norfolk Southern Corp. recently unveiled a prototype of a 1,500-horsepower switching locomotive that relies exclusively on rechargeable batteries for power.

Dubbed the NS 999, the all-electric, [...]

Brutally Honest: Scientific consensus collusion on global warming

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:51:18 -0500

You won't be seeing this much in the MSM:

It’s a story that broke first in Europe, but is making its way here. (I heard about it on NewsFifty, which is constantly adding links.) Here’s the story, briefly: Hadley GRU is one of the major climate change advocacy organizations. ' [...]

Brutally Honest: The American Express of Racism. Don't leave home without it.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:36:39 -0500

Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.

Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'. “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself' [...]

INSIDE SUFFOLK VIRGINIA: THREE TIMES AS MANY DOLLARS ??

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:55:00 -0500

In a column that appeared in Thursday’s News-Herald, the Retail Alliance reported, “For every $100 spent at an independent business, $45 is returned directly to the area economy — more than three times the return gained from dollars spent at a national chain.” It is the local economy that supports [...]

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:19:11 -0500

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Deo Vindice: 59 and Counting

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:16:34 -0500

This week my 59th birthday passed with the speed of going through a yield sign when you can see the way clearly. So, now I am 59 years old and counting – to infinity. I’m only a year away from the age of my father, James Albert Bowden, when he died. [...]

Mom to the Screaming Masses: Defensive Driving at it's Finest

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:39:00 -0500

Some days, you'd never know that my kid has an "issue". Something that places her on the autistic spectrum. Often, people express surprise when I tell them - and I am not a person who imparts this information all that early in a relationship. "She's so quiet - she must [...]

Rich Radford: This is too, too funny

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:06:47 -0500

Lexington, Va., is expecting a traffic jam Saturday. Blame the Monarchs. [...]

Avenging Archangel: Start Planning Now

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:01:00 -0500

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65% agreed that Hampton Roads should begin designing a series of dikes and levees with the sea's level expected to rise., with 35% opposed.

The new poll question: who will win the Republican nomination for the 8th Senate District special election? [...]

Pen and Sword: “It really boils down to ...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:39:00 -0500

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“It really boils down to one of two decisions, getting out or getting in.”

--President Lyndon Johnson, speaking about Vietnam.

“Soldiers came to school today,” announced the Kindergarten kid. "They only kill bad people. They don't kill good people." This is story comes' [...]