Virginia Right!

Yes, it sounds like an American election (Virginia has a Isle of Wight County!) but it is the BBC’s report:  UKIP is a factor in Hampshire and Isle of Wight. The most startling factor while looking at the candidates standing in Hampshire is finding the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). When the last [...]

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The Eastleigh riding by-election for local parliament is getting very interesting.  Very interesting indeed.  UKIP could win after all!  Certainly very good possibility of their best turnout ever.  I reported the Lord Ashcroft poll this AM but the Guardian is reporting by one of its bloggers that two (the third poll is the Ashcroft one) [...]

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Every week on Monday morning , the Council and invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question:Whom would your choice be for Person of the Year? The Independent Sentinel: This is an easy one for me. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was [...]

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This report from UKIP shows that UKIP policies are gaining popular support. There is a poll in the Independent that states that over 1/3 of Tory voters are considering switching to the anti-EU libertarian party! Almost one in three people who voted Conservative at the last election are ready to back the UK Independence Party, [...]

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“ Look, up in the sky!” “It’s a Bird!” “It’s a Plane!” “It’s Virginia Senator Janet Howell the Punitive Proctologist!” The venomous vixen of  villainy. The viper of vindictiveness. The Rectal Avenger rides again! Virginia Senator Janet Howell, Madam of  misogyny has taken the Virginia Senate to new depths of digital rectal depravity! No longer [...]

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The news is certainly better than it has ever been about Ron Paul.  But our answer has to be to keep working to convince the doubters and skeptics. I am concerned that there is a definite smear campaign against RP.  This article with high billing on RedState (which once banned any comment favoring RP in [...]

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In what I would consider an astounding development – about 30 Labour MPs want a vote in Parliament on an EU referendum!  That’s right – 30 LABOUR MPs.  The Daily Mail reports this: A group of some 30 MPs from all wings of the Labour Party – including a handful of ex-ministers – outlined their [...]

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Without Tea Party Republicans, Congress wouldn’t be cutting any federal spending, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said.   “What I would say to our friends in the Tea Party movement — without them we wouldn’t be having this discussion. We wouldn’t be cutting anything,” McConnell said Monday to Neil Cavuto on Fox News. “But [...]

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Some encouraging news on UKIP!  As my readers know (I see you waving in London!), I was concerned about the UKIP turnout in the May 5 local elections.   Turned out the party exceeded expectations – elected its first Mayor in Ramsey (this means they won control of the local counsel!) Lisa Duffy is a [...]

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It looks like the True Finns surged to just over 19 percent of the vote, just over a percent behind the two leading parties, the conservative Kokoomus party (20.4%) and the Social Democrat Party (19.1%).  This Finnish blogger suggests that the True Finns may be asked to join the ruling coalition: The big news of [...]

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In more news of the “UKIP rising” variety, a local official in Chester (We have a fine community named Chester in Virginia and another one named Chesterfield!) switched from the Conservative to the UKIP party and will run in a local election. He said in his blog entry: “I’m not joining UKIP just because I’m [...]

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This article shows the efforts to make the early Nevada caucuses relevant to the process.  They could have been relevant last election had the Nevada GOP not in effect stole the election away from the real winner – Cong. Ron Paul! You recall the caucuses in Nevada in 2008 where Mitt Romney won the tally [...]

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Estonia is a small nation in eastern Europe on the Baltic Sea.  It was independent from 1918 through 1940 and then in a cynical deal between Hitler and Stalin, it was forcibly occupied by the USSR for over fifty years.  Thankfully, the USA never recognized the occupation of Estonia (or Latvia or Lithuania); finally in [...]

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There is another by-election for the British Parliament coming up on Thursday, March 3.  It’s in the coal-mining district and has been a safe district for Labour.  The Labour MP, Eric Illsley was convicted of expenses fraud and resigned his seat.  The Tories are almost a minor party here and the BNP received 8% of [...]

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With the uncertainty at every turn caused by the confused Obama Administration’s policies and attitude towards businesses evaporated by the Republican gains in November, employment numbers showed a sharp improvement in numbers released today. The Democrats, led by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi failed to act on the expiration of the “Bush” tax cuts until [...]

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The Washington Post published a rather disturbing article yesterday on Senator Creigh Deeds, the Democratic Candidate for Governor last year.

While this blog supported Bob McDonnell in that race, during the process, I came away from the race with a lot of respect for Senator Deeds.

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“I’m gonna tweet this” – there’s a line we’re hearing more and more frequently. Everyone is talking about Twitter. Cable news producers have decided to devote entire segments to it, corporate PR teams are all atwitter (couldn’t resist) to use it for ad campaigns, and athletes are being fined for using it to tell us how much their training camp food sucks. Even politicians (who are generally behind on this sort of thing) have caught on. Twitter has become the “it” tool for this election cycle. You may not be Chad Ochocinco or Congressman John Culberson, but you can tweet your way to fame in your own district.

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