Rich Savage, the random guy who was running for LG, is no longer running for LG, Vivian Paige writes. Can’t we just move to a unified governor/LG ticket, and stop this business of electing them separately? The LG spends 45-60 days presiding over the senate, and the rest of the year consists of...

There’s lots of great news on the topic of my subpoena. The first is that three legal groups have all swooped in to save me (and cvillenews.com) from myself: Public Citizen, the ACLU of Virginia, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. Paul Levy, Rebecca Garrett,...

Given all of the concern about Gov. Kaine’s ability to serve two masters—to be both governor and chair of the DNC—I think it’s noteworthy how well things have gone so far. RNC chairman Michael Steele continues to embarrass himself and the Republican Party, particularly in his recent ...

Two data points: 1. Del. Clarke Hogan unloaded on Del. Bob Marshall earlier this week, calling him “a piece of shit” after Marshall confronted Hogan for his refusal to support his commendation honoring a man who died while saving his son from drowning. Obviously the bill was just a chitâ...

I’m a proponent of overhauling the lobbyist disclosure statements used in Virginia. Lobbyists—and, more important, legislators—get away with having to provide vanishingly little information about who is seeking to influence legislation, who they’re trying to influence, and how they&#...

The awesomely, hilariously far-right serial loser Barbara Comstock intends to run against Del. Margie Vanderhye up in Fairfax, Zachary Roth writes for TPM Muckraker. Comstock’s a one-woman worst-hits list of the Republican Party in the past decade. She made it her mission to take out Hillary C...

Sen. Mark Obenshain is trying to criminalize miscarriages. Old-timers in the Virginia political blogosphere may remember when Del. John Cosgrove tried this in 2005. That was hoot. Maura Keaney had him on Nightline within days. Cosgrove had some cock-and-bull story about how the bill didn’t do ...

Lloyd Snook is closing up shop at Democratic Central. Democrats are on top of the world. For those of us who function best when we’re down four runs at the bottom of the ninth, it’s a bit hard to get fired up....

We’ve just wrapped up the most awful eight years in at least a generation—probably more, but I’m not old enough to know for sure. Everything that could go wrong, did. Everything that President Bush could mangle, he did. It was planned incompetence, a looting of government by corrupt co...

This, the final day of the Bush presidency, seems like the day to revisit The Onion’s often-revisited January 17, 2001 article about Bush, “Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’”: “My fellow Americans,” Bush said, “...