TomInReston | January 25, 2009
OK. Put aside your pro-life/pro-choice arguments for a minute. Just a minute.
Virginia Senator Mark Obenshein (R-Harrisonburg) has introduced a bill that would require women to report a miscarriage to law enforcement authorities. Violations would be a Class I misdemeanor (punishable by up to a year in jail). Seriously:
Requires that when a fetal death occurs without [...]
TomInReston | November 10, 2007
I’ve been away from Polimania for awhile.
Elections. (More on that later.)
The ground has moved a little, here in Virginia. Many others have covered the details.
With the governor’s mansion and the Senate in Democratic hands (and a smaller GOP majority in the House), a Democrat in the U.S. Senate and the likelihood of another next [...]
TomInReston | October 18, 2007
Dear Senator Webb
Please don’t do this again. Look at the FISA bill you’re going to be asked to vote for. Find the best expert on Constitutional law you can find, and ask for a thorough briefing. Don’t take anyone’s word for what’s in the bill or how badly it’s needed. On this topic, the people [...]
TomInReston | September 13, 2007
I don’t know what kind of Senator Mark Warner will be. When Jim Webb was elected, I expected he would do things and say things I wouldn’t like much — from time to time anyway. That certainly turned out to be true.
And I suspect I’ll feel the same way about Warner. I’m not one who [...]
TomInReston | August 6, 2007
I came across a Virginia-based website that expressed an opinion I’ve heard before with regard to warrantless wiretaps and wasn’t able to clearly refute.
In essence, the argument goes…
I don’t care if the government listens to my phone calls or reads where I go on the internet. I personally don’t have anything to hide. And [...]
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.
