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Although it was a frosty night, on the way to the computer center I recognized three birds that were probably migrating north: a Cedar Waxwi...

Nobody complains that a preacher is "too preachy"...but for novelists the rules are different. http://jerry-jenkins.com/2013/02...

This web site can't be everywhere and cover everything...sometimes we can only steer you to people who are following the other stories. ...

From Catherine Turner:   Washington County Supervisor Bill Gibson, Russell County Supervisor Bob Gibson, Smyth County Supervisor Ron ...

All new posts by Charlotte Kuchinsky are good news. This one distracted me from a stated policy of not reading Yahoo, Junkscience, etc., dur...

Delegate Rob Bell breaks bad news from the legislature: As the General Assembly session ended last week, two major bills passed that I...

Chris Muir's cartoon was the smile I needed to get back to work on Monday morning: http://noisyroom.net/blog/2013/02/24/bus-stop/ Pl...

Virginia House Bill 1642 and Senate Bill 908 are almost identical...we discussed the difference a few weeks ago. Both affirm parents' ri...

Regular readers remember three young friends this web site has given the screen names of Blair, Chris, and Tina. Blair is a high-functioning...

Virginia Senate Bill 1222, which secured majority votes in both houses of our legislature, makes texting while driving a primary offense. ...

Thanks to the Politichicks for the link to James Simpson's report on vote fraud in North Carolina: http://www.examiner.com/article/bre...

Virginia Senate Bill 1350 merges two previously existing offices to form a state Department of Small Business & Employer Diversity. ht...

Virginia House Bill 2005 funds yet another appointed, not elected, board without which we could probably survive, and which will cost us mon...

The blogger known as Kaberett wittily describes the difference between being a wheelchair user and being wheelchair- bound : http://kaber...

Virginia Senate Bill 1256...what can I say? http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB1256ES1 This bill barely squeaked thro...

For the handcrafters out there, here's a spinning/knitting photo essay: http://lizcommotion.dreamwidth.org/ Thanks to Elizabeth Barr...

Elizabeth Barrette , a Democrat, shared this Daily Kos link with the note that the Republican Party's "branding problem" (form...

Virginia House Bill 1461, which has been "approved" to become the new version of our state law, changes the requirements for estab...

It's a cliche: The next of kin of people killed or injured in accidents, etc., are supposed to get the news from a police officer, hat i...

Virginia House Bill 1649 looks unlikely to present any serious problems to honest pawnbrokers: http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe...

Virginia House Bill 1586, which allows localities to designate "arts and cultural districts," was unpopular with some readers of t...

Virginia House Bill 1582 allows schools to employ armed guards. Students and teachers may want to read the full text to know how severe the ...

Virginia House Bill 1577 incorporates a few similar bills whose purpose is to discourage recipients of "Temporary Assistance to Needy F...

Virginia House Bill 1481, voted into law by ninety-eight Delegates and all forty State Senators, seems to be just a slightly overenthusiast...

Virginia House Bill 1480 authorizes the state to fund yet another appointed "Board" to "regulate" private business, in t...

Virginia House Bill 1477 is titled "Deadman's Statute." http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1477ER If yo...

Virginia House Bill 1419 spells out that every Virginia resident has a right to build onto or beside his or her home a smaller house into wh...

Survivor of violent crime: "Banning guns didn't stop and/or wouldn't have stopped this guy from injuring/killing them/me. If so...

Here's a "writer's block" question from Michelle Singletary: "In a recent Amy Ask column, advice columnist Amy Dick...

How do you screen out those who are mentally unfit to handle firearms? This website recommends checking for one of three factors: 1. The p...

No longer news, but still good...here's Billy Hallowell's write-up of the Texas teenager who's reached a settlement with her par...

Virginia House Bill 1852, providing that farmers may legally sell produce in ready-to-eat condition if the label clearly warns that this foo...

Calling all local lurkers! Do you have children who are likely to need winter gear in a larger size next year? Is your winter gear showing w...

Virginia House Bill 1406, proposed by Delegate Richard Bell, will require students in grades five through twelve to be taught about eating d...

Ben Shapiro shares a classic Biden Moment: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/19/Biden-shotguns-Facebook For the record, I ...

Virginia House Bill 1401 changes existing law, which allows property owners two years after the due date for property taxes, by stipulating ...

Where do you draw the line between campaign and personal expenses, anyway? Jesse Jackson Jr. spent campaign money on a Rolex watch...but if ...

Erica Ritz shares a surprising trick that's reportedly helping elementary school children focus on their lessons. Apparently it works by...

According to "girlfriend" Elaine Arseneault, seventeen months ago Donald Perry, a law-abiding parolee and soup kitchen manager, sh...

Yesterday, this web site posted this campaign-minded e-mail from State Senator Steve Martin. (Unfortunately, due to another computer interac...

Lots of e-mail, mostly discouraging...I had to open and share this one, partly because it proves an e-friend in New York is back online. War...

Gentle Readers, please take Senator Sanders' four-question poll. It's open to the entire United States and seems to have been taken ...

Below is U.S. Senator Tim Kaine's response to an electronic petition I signed, objecting to encroachments on the Second Amendment: ...

From Delegate Rob Bell: " Dear Friend, There are three crucial pieces of news regarding voter fraud legislation. First: Two ...

Susan Stimpson is contemplating resigning the Chair of the Stafford County Board of Supervisors to run for lieutenant governor of Virginia. ...

As discussed earlier, Virginia House Bill 1642 and Senate Bill 908 are "companion" bills that uphold the rights of parents to make...

For nerds, he says. What kind of nerds? Not the math kind...these numbers have been simplified down far enough for math-challenged me. Anywa...