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Vote Suppression Expert Spakovsky About To Be Confirmed in Volunteer Civil Rights Post

Jul 11th, 2009 | By Mark Brooks | Category: Civil rights, News

TPM Reports on Spakovsky’s Return by Zachary Roth
Hans von Spakovsky is likely to be confirmed to a volunteer post on a commission that advises the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), along with a attorney who is a member of the Republican National Lawyer’s Association, to serve on the State Advisory Committee for Virginia.
Spakovsky has [...]



Desperate Republicans Lie About Perriello, Energy Bill

Jul 2nd, 2009 | By Mark Brooks | Category: Featured articles

Interesting to see the NRCC continue its negative false advertisements. Slow down guys! There’s a long time until January 2010, you don’t want to use all your lies all at once this year.

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How does your garden grow?

Jun 29th, 2009 | By Mark Brooks | Category: Fun stuff

Sometimes I think gardening is the only thing that keeps me going. It is great therapy to go out and work in the outdoors, breathing deeply. We get a lot of joy from our garden, and since it is a family project, it helps with family togetherness. We might even learn a few things along [...]



Increments of Health Care Change So Small, You Can Barely See Them

Jun 19th, 2009 | By Mark Brooks | Category: National Politics, News

James Ridgeway of unsilentgeneration has a very good article out tonight about the state of the health care reform we were promised. It is an eye-opening look at how centrist Democrats are undermining the public option and other good parts of the original plan. The latest? Health Co-ops.
True to this spirit of bipartisanship, the co-op [...]



Cumberland Supervisor Chair Bill Osl Batting .000

Jun 17th, 2009 | By Mark Brooks | Category: Local Politics

A recent newspaper article in this area remarked that Bill Osl had done everything but kneel down and beg Farmville to rejoin the Commonwealth Regional Council (CRC), an organization purportedly involved in helping localities with planning and economic development issues.
Farmville had declined to renew their membership in the organization in April of this year, after [...]