These are Representative Rob Wittman’s comments — as quoted by the Richmond Times-Dispatch — regarding Israel’s response to Hamas’s rocket attacks:
Rep. Robert J. Wittman, R-1st, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said the attacks give Obama a new opportunity to talk directly with Israel.
“We need to be in a position to have candid [...]
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She never saw herself as a trailblazer. Yet the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, which struck down interracial marriage bans, was Loving’s doing. Years after she and her white husband were thrown out of Virginia for having the gall to wed, Loving wrote Robert F. Kennedy, who was moved to action. Sometimes a [...]
Here’s a copy of their filing in PDF (1.43 MB).
Once I have a chance to give it a thorough read through I’ll write-up a post with my thoughts.
Nice to see they were paying attention:
Mildred Loving, 68 In 1958, Virginia police arrested the Lovings in their bedroom for violating state miscegenation laws. Inspired by Martin Luther King and encouraged by Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, Loving took her case to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 struck down the last segregation law. She always [...]
Plaintiffs include Carl Helfin, Kathy Bullock, Gilbert and Judy Shelton, Joe and Patricia Parker, and John and Lois Garrett. There are 12 plaintiffs in total. Not all are listed on the online Circuit Court records so I can’t tell you all the people involved.
Defendants are the Caroline County Board of Supervisors, the County of Caroline, [...]
From the Wall Street Journal:
With a record amount of commercial real-estate debt coming due, some of the country’s biggest property developers have become the latest to go hat-in-hand to the government for assistance.
They’re warning policymakers that thousands of office complexes, hotels, shopping centers and other commercial buildings are headed into defaults, foreclosures and bankruptcies. The [...]
Love the headline: With economy in shambles, Congress gets a raise:
A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.
Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 [...]
The swamp goes by the name of “Crow’s Nest” (get your own link):
Congressman Rob Wittman announced the award of a conservation grant of $855,465 for the phase two acquisition of Crow’s Nest in Stafford, Virginia. The grant money, to be awarded in 2009, will cover the purchase of 1100 additional acres.
Meanwhile, Caroline County doesn’t have [...]
From the greatest satire website ever, Iowahawk:
Flanked by officials from the United Elf Toytinkerers union, SantaCorp CEO Kris Kringle today told the House Ways and Means Committee that without immediate government financial help, his firm would be forced to declare bankruptcy, lay off thousands of elves and reindeer, and potentially cancel its annual worldwide Christmas [...]
Mika Brzezinski (some reporterette for MSNBC) was robbed for $6 outside a hotel in Washington, D.C. today.
Yeah, I have no idea who she is either.
Pompous blow-hard Joe Scarborough decided to make a big point of it during his interview with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty this morning.
Since then, the story has made the Washington Times and [...]
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