Virginia

Last week, I wrote a piece that appeared about a harrowing experience that happened on a bus in a sleepy little town thirty miles outside of San Francisco.

Well, a glutton for punishment, I decided to take the same bus again, to see if I would see my friend...

This morning in the FDL discussion of yesterday's victory in Mississippi, people were wondering about the progressive commitment not just to "more Democrats" but to "more and better Democrats." One might ask, better than what, of course, but one thing liberals is essential, are more Democrats like Donna Edwards...

And we wouldn't have our military there if there wasn't.

Everyone knows the war in Iraq is about oil, but if a Democrat were to say it the Republicans would challenge his or her patriotism. But what if a Republican said it? What if John McCain, the Republican candidate...

Were Hillary Clinton the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have had this thing wrapped up in, say, Iowa, or a couple of weeks after that. Her inability to dispatch a presidential neophyte such as Barack Obama in a Democratic primary is precisely because, after...

I had so many thoughts after Obama's speech yesterday, but none of them were organized enough to write. Today maybe a few are.

1. I don't think it's going to change anyone's mind. If you supported Obama before, you probably still do, if you didn't you still don't.

On the surface, it is easy to dismiss the Democratic Party's current nomination struggles as a mix of incompetence and bureaucratic procedure gone mad. There is some of that, of course, but it is mostly there to hide the fact that Democrats, like Republicans, have designed a system that will...

Of the many strange spins the Clinton campaign has sold the media, few are as troubling as the idea that she is the stronger general election candidate: pretty much all polling, sound judgment and anecdotal evidence point to the contrary, but we are led to believe that New York...

Within moments of Barack Obama's victory speech in Iowa, the conventional wisdom dramatically changed. Much like John Kerry, Obama was expected to take an enormous bounce with him to New Hampshire, defeating Clinton there before truly running the table. The pundits expected it; the polls predicted it; but the win...

The Beltway's borders are turning blue.

Both Virginia and Maryland booted Republican incumbents in the last elections, tapping new school Democrats Jim Webb for senator in the Old Dominion and Martin O'Malley as governor of the Old Line state.

This month, Maryland primary voters deemed Rep. Al Wynn...

Virginia's Democratic governor Tim Kaine, often mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee, seems to be flushing his ambitions for national office down the toilet by actively working to build yet another coal-fired power plant for one of his biggest campaign donors.

Kaine has tried to present himself as a...

The primary system is messy and awkward and favors some small homogeneous states more than others, allowing an active minority to make decisions for an increasingly frustrated majority. But not this year. This year, Florida, you would've mattered even (and only) without jumping the gun. Now that states other than...

Mulligan -- (noun)  A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee.

This is about fairness. Because with the delegate count in the Democratic presidential nomination race so very close, every state is going to matter this year. Which should...

Almost everyone agrees that we should make it harder for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons.

As I said in my last blog, we should be willing to put up with a little "red tape" if it helps us avoid more "yellow tape" at crime scenes.

Most Americans believe this,...

Even the most rabid Michael Vick loathers can't argue with the toss the book sentence that Federal Judge Henry E. Hudson hurled at the tumbled former football great. The 23 month sentence he got exceeded the recommendation by federal prosecutors, the sentences his co-defendants got, and the average sentence for...