Chris Saxman: Cold Fusion – The Avengers Sequel Edition
The price of Hollywood movies gives me great pause when it comes to deciding to go to a theatre and take in a flick. With fellow attendees of the tax exemption variety and their stomachs, some back of the envelope math can push the total expense to about $75. So, for me to see the SAME movie TWICE in the SAME weekend, it’s probably the best movie ever.
The Avengers is that good – yes, it is worth the price of admission not just once, but twice. Heck, I might take in a matinee this afternoon while the little exemptions are snug in their school desks. If you have not seen it yet – go now. No, I mean RIGHT NOW. Read more
Chris Saxman: Cold Fusion – Talladega Nights Edition
There is a race on in the District of Columbia quasi-intelligentsia to win the “It’s Not My Fault Award.” Leading the pack is, obviously, the President of These Here States United followed closely by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein. Mann and Ornstein recently convinced editors at the Washington Post to publish two lengthy op-eds in the Sunday Outlook section.
The first op-ed ran at the end of April and declared that ALL of the problems in DC are the result of the rightward shift of Republican Party. Ok, that’s their opinion and they go to great length to support that idea. More power to them. Oh, Mann and Ornstein have great street cred in DC because they are “non partisan.” And “centrist”, can’t forget that. Read more
Whitfield speaks at White House forum
Blue Ridge Legal Services Executive Director John Whitfield was a panelist Tuesday at a White House forum examining the state of civil legal assistance for low-income Americans. The forum was co-hosted by the Legal Services Corporation.
Whitfield said that the “double whammy” of severe cuts in both federal and IOLTA funding has forced the program to reduce its attorney staff by over one-third in the past year, while at the same time, the poverty population in the area served by BRLS grew by 42 percent. Private attorneys who take cases pro bono “are doing some heavy lifting for us,” he said, “But the sobering fact is, our office is still turning away two or three times as many people as we can help.” Read more
Blue Ridge Legal Services director to participate in White House forum on legal aid
Blue Ridge Legal Services Executive Director John Whitfield is one of six legal services program directors selected to participate in a White House forum examining the state of civil legal assistance for low-income Americans.
The forum, co-hosted by the Legal Services Corporation, will take place on Tuesday, April 17. Read more
Warner: Time to run for White House may have passed
Fourth in a four-part series
A popular governor, an even more popular United States senator, Mark Warner is on everybody’s short list as a top contender for president in 2016.
Warner himself, though, thinks that his time to make a run for the White House may have passed.
“I didn’t know when I didn’t run in 2006 that on a statistical basis that was probably going to be my best shot. You’re still going to be a long shot, but it was probably the best chance,” said Warner, who made an exploratory run at the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination before deciding to bow out of that race, citing among other things his desire to be able to have more time for his family, including his three then-teenage daughters. Read more
Warner: ‘All-of-the-above’ on energy policy
Third in a four-part series
What can Washington do about the near-record gas prices that a lot of us fear will cripple the economic recovery that has been slow in arriving anyway?
In the short term, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., concedes, not much.
“It’s not like America is paying a signficantly higher price for gas than anybody else in the world. This is a worldwide commodity. People in India, people in China, people in Europe are still paying that same hundred and five, hundred and six dollar barrel price that we’re paying in America,” said Warner, who nonetheless thinks that a balanced “all-of-the-above” approach to energy policy could have some impact in the near term. Read more
Chris Saxman: Cold Fusion – Band of Brothers Edition
Posted by afp on May 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother;…”
Gotta give ol Billy Shakespeare his due – that brother could write.
On November 11th of 2009, one of my brothers, a Washington and Lee fraternity brother, Army Corporal Chris Coffland, emailed his various bands of domestic brothers from Afghanistan describing his view of the war. Read more
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