TomInReston | June 30, 2009
I don’t consider myself part of the far left. My views tend to be a little conservative on some issues and a little liberal on others.
I also am definitely NOT a single issue kind of Democrat. I don’t agree with Creigh Deeds on guns, but then I’ve fired one only once, when I was about [...]
TomInReston | June 30, 2009
While I had my secret preferences, I stayed neutral in the statewide races in the Virginia primary, mostly because I thought we had a half -dozen excellent candidates — three for governor, two for LG and one for AG. You could have shuffled them a number of ways and felt good about the outcome. That [...]
TomInReston | June 30, 2009
I’ve been away from this blog for too long.
May was a wierd month, culminating in the death of my father over Memorial Day weekend. His passing was not as traumatic for me as it might be for most people — he and my mother split when I was nine and we had an intermittent relationship [...]
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
