http://crfvblog.com The Official Blog of the CRFV Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:27:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While holding court before a small crowd of admirers, who also happened to be reporters, Barack Obama had this to say "The objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be ... http://crfvblog.com/2008/07/21/obama-plans-to-hold-office-for-8-10-years/ I am sure most of you out there remember the comments Phil Gramm made a few days ago. His comment on a "mental recession" made headline news and immediately afterwards, condemnation from McCain and Obama were expressed. But were his comments completely off base? First of all, I think we need ... http://crfvblog.com/2008/07/15/a-reccession-of-the-mind/ For Barack Obama, a funny thing happened on the way to the White House; John McCain caught up in the polls.  The question is why.  With his campaign seeming to lose traction yet again and without a clear line of attack or coherent message, even the most die-hard of Republican strategists ... http://crfvblog.com/2008/07/14/mccains-pollnumber-paradox/ For the first time in history, Congress has the approval of less than 10% of the American people.  Proving once again why nobody should vote for them, the Democrats have managed to steer Congress into historically horrible territory.  Maybe this has something to do with promising the American people things ... http://crfvblog.com/2008/07/08/dems-hit-single-digits/ The recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down D.C.'s handgun ban has revealed that, in addition to economics, liberals are genetically incapable of understanding Constitutional issues.   I say genetically incapable because, now matter how many ways the argument is phrased, no matter how simply and carefully the logic is presented, ... http://crfvblog.com/2008/07/02/liberals-just-dont-understand/ "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mahatma Gandhi - Today in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court's ruling that the Washington D.C. handgun ban was unconstitutional. Hot ... http://crfvblog.com/2008/06/26/bullets-bitterness-and-bad-guys/ If you've been paying attention to the latest developments in the transportation fiasco, you might be interested and pleased to learn that a performance audit of VDOT passed out of the House Transportation Committee and out of the House Appropriations Committee. We need to keep the pressure on and demand ... http://crfvblog.com/2008/06/25/virginia-transportation-activity/ That's right, ladies and gentlemen! In an attempt to aid his message on pork-barrel spending, John McCain has added a game to his website. The game, called "Pork Invaders" is a http://crfvblog.com/2008/06/22/apparently-john-mccain-has-a-sense-of-humor/ Now that Obama's ascendance is officially official (read Mrs. Clinton is willing to admit it) our attention should be turned to a troubling trend among some self-styled conservatives, namely their paradoxical support for the O-boy himself.  The narrative generally goes something like this: typical Reagan conservative, fed up after 8 years ... http://crfvblog.com/2008/06/03/the-myth-of-the-obamacons/ Hello Virginia CRs! Its that time of year again, when colleges and universities have "one last stand" to finish brainwashing young adults into good little liberals like they are supposed to be. Below is a small list of the liberals that got to partake in the brainwashing: http://crfvblog.com/2008/05/29/the-university-a-safe-haven-for-liberals/