U.S. Border (In)security — Problems up north, too!

This just highlights that U.S. border security needs serious attention and it isn’t just the U.S.-Mexican border.  We are probably more at risk for national security breaches coming through the U.S.-Canadian border than our southern flank.  If this individual with a drug resistant strain of tuberculosis could pass through this easily from Canada despite the warning [...]

Ham Sandwich Wows ‘Em With Live Blog

Ham Sandwich, Republican write-in candidate for Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney, appears to have wowed the crowd on The Daily WhackJob with his live blog there today.  Just check out this comment by TDW contributor Mad Hatter.  And Whackjob himself has said he’s going to invite incumbent Paul Ebert to live blog as well.  Should [...]

Extremism in the defense of moderates is no virtue

Yesterday we saw just how ugly supporters of Sen. Emmet Hanger were getting as they try to fend off a strong, issues-based challenge from conservative Scott Sayre.  Today, Deo Vindice shows us what supporters of Sen. Marty Williams are doing to conservative Tricia Stall.  This is sad and pathetic.  At this rate, 2007 will go down as the [...]

Ben Tribbett’s Red Herring

Ben Tribbett, better known as Not Larry Sabato, has finally gone too far with yet another red herring.  After peddling a story to reporters that most were too smart touch, he finally has found an audience with Charlie Jackson from Leesburg Today (while reading the story, try not to get a headache from the poor grammar and sentence construction.) 
Ben is getting all [...]

Chaz for Rockingham County Clerk of the Court

While Rockingham County is somewhat west of the Greater Richmond-Washington Metro Area I-95 corridor that we usually cover here at Virtucon, some blog friends from that area have brought a great candidate to our attention — Chaz Evans-Heywood who is running for Rockingham County Clerk of the Court.  Chaz worked in the district offices of [...]

Fred Thompson Leaving “L&O”

Fred Thompson is officially leaving “Law & Order” on NBC.
“I’ve spoken to Fred today, and although he told me he has not made a firm decision about his political future, he felt that given the creative and scheduling constraints of the upcoming season, he asked to be released from his responsibilities to the show,” “Law [...]

Ham Sandwich Live Blogging TODAY!!!

Head on over to The Daily WhackJob for Ham Sandwich’s live blog today.  Ham has already posted some great responses to questions and he’ll be back again later.  His campaign manager, Dillon Pikkle, will also be answering your questions.

Hanger Supporters Sink To A New Low – UPDATED!

Supporters of incumbent Sen. Emmet Hanger have set up a blog called “Bloggers4Hanger” where they attack challenger Scott Sayre’s wife, claim that she is a habitual drunk driver and have every link to every supposed article or comment go to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving website.  They do not address Sayre on the issues and [...]

Don’t Forget — Ham Sandwich Live Blog TOMORROW!!!

Don’t forget that Ham Sandwich will be live blogging tomorrow, May 31st over at the Daily Whackjob.  Be sure to leave your questions over there for Ham!
UPDATE:  Raising Ham tells us that a demo of the Ham Sandwich campaign theme song, “That Ol’ Ham Sandwich,” has been cut.  Rumor is that this is an accoustic [...]

New Blog Covering 27th Senate Dist.

Virtucon has received a heads up regarding a new blog in the Virginia political blogosphere — Fly’s Wall.
“Fly on the Wall” will be covering the 27th Senate Dist. race to succeed Russ Potts.  While his blog is relatively new and only has a few posts, it definitely bears watching.  Looks like Fly has latched onto something [...]

Cleveland in Alexandria

Andrew MacDonald, one of the Democrat incumbent members of the Alexandria City Council has resigned and there will be a special election on July 17 for the open seat.Last night, May 29, The Republicans had their nominating canvas. The results are:
Bill Cleveland – 363
Pat Troy – 114
Lisa Miller – 21
Alexandria is normally [...]

WashTimes Exposes Terror Plot Gov’t Cover-Up

This is unacceptible.
Homeland Security officials initially denied the complaints and blamed passengers who reported the incident to the press as behaving hysterically. However, the inspector general report shows that air marshals had the group of men under surveillance before they boarded the plane.
. . .
The inspector general’s two-year investigation was originally released in April 2006 [...]

Microsoft Announces Next Generation of Computers

Wow.
Be sure to check out the NBC news video and the website for Surface.

Fred Thompson is IN

According to The Politico, Fred Thompson will form an exploratory cmte. on June 4th and announce a month later — on or about Independence Day.  Judging from the article, it sounds as if he will be running a very unconventional campaign.
. . .Thompson dropped all pretenses on Tuesday afternoon during a conference call with more [...]

Lingamfelter’s Opponent Goes Live With Website

Check out William Day’s website for his campaign for the 31st House Dist. here.  (Just don’t stare at the swirling thingies for too long, though!)
(H/T BVBL)