(note from Raine: See Updates below)


This is an address:
45 North Hills Drive, Suite 100
Warrenton, VA 20186
It's the constituent address of Virginia State Senator Jill Holtzman Vogel of the 27th District of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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6 comments (Latest Comment: 10/19/2012 02:18:07 by Raine)

You decide. I'm just asking the question like any good "journalist" would.

Obama claims that he was born in America in some city called Hawaii (sometimes spelled Hawai'i which sounds awfully muslim-ie dontcha think)? He has repeatedly tried to prove to important people like Donald Trump, Mitt Romney and Jeff Foxworthy that he is indeed an American and that this Hawaii city is for real, but most remain skeptical.
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6 comments (Latest Comment: 10/14/2012 23:58:01 by livingonli)

There was a lot of pressure on both candidates heading into last night's vice-presidential debate. Ryan need to appear presidential. Biden needed to purge the ghosts of the previous presidential debate. Knowing Joe, it promised to be a lively debate, and it certainly did not disappoint.

It was apparent into Ryan's first answer that Joe wasn't holding anything back. Where Ryan was attempting to maintain a steeley facade, Biden was the definition of animated. From smiles and laughs to exasperated gapes, he was rarely still. He also occassionally interrupted Ryan when Ryan told a particularly aggregious whopper.
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110 comments (Latest Comment: 10/13/2012 04:59:28 by BobR)

I've made the joke that Romney changes his policy positions more often than he changes his underwear. I can understand a person slowly evolving in their viewpoints as they absorb more data, but the whiplash is getting tiresome and disturbing. How can anyone truly understand what he stands for?

This was a problem for President Obama during the debates, in that Romney was arguing positions that did not match up with his previous stances. How do you prepare for that? This graphic here (currently making the rounds) shows one example:
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82 comments (Latest Comment: 10/11/2012 00:56:53 by BobR)

Good Morning.

Today is our 4,020th day in Afghanistan. That is correct; we have entered our twelfth year at war.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,134
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,065

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1, 380,964,400,000 .00
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72 comments (Latest Comment: 10/09/2012 22:31:15 by Raine)