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You’ve no doubt heard the breaking news: Phil Robertson is back on A&E’s Duck Dynasty. If you’ve been reading my columns on the Duck Dynasty story, you knew this was coming, because you knew that this was a manufactured controversy.
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We keep hearing that Duck Dynasty is a ratings juggernaut for cable network A&E because it’s the #1-rated cable TV series and draws 14 million viewers a week. How much of all of this is true?
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What seemed to be a routine tonsillectomy to try to cure a sleep apnea disorder has an Oakland, Calif., teen on life support, a hospital fighting in court to be able to pull the plug, and her family fighting back trying to keep her alive.
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Republicans are falling all over themselves to protect the free speech rights of “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson. But if a Senate Democrat dares to say anything that a Republican considers to be out of line, well, no free speech for Democrats. “I’m not targeting anybody. I’m targeting behavior,” said State Sen. Tom Garrett, R-Louisa.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell has released recommendations stemming from Health and Human Resource Secretary Bill Hazel’s review of last month’s tragedy in Bath County involving State Sen. Creigh Deeds and his son, Gus. The governor asked the secretary to conduct the review.
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“There is a star in the east,” said Jerry, a magi. Whatever that is. A wise man. I think. “So?” asked his good friend, Earl, who was also a magi. Earl was not easily impressed by much. Especially Jerry’s penchant for picking out new stars and telling everybody about what they supposedly stood for. “Star or no star, it’s cold. Let’s go home,” a third magi, their friend Larry, said. Some way to start the first Christmas, huh?
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So you ask, Virginia, is there a Santa Claus? I don’t pretend to know anything, much less everything, but I do believe that there is something intrinsically redeeming in all of us, and that this Santa character that we’ve created to personify what we want to see in ourselves is something that we very much want to be real.
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When holiday shoppers make a bad choice, the worst result may be an ugly sweater. But Congress recently made a bad choice that will ruin the holidays for over a million families—and will spoil the coming new year for millions more.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hailed final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2014 – the annual defense bill that includes important provisions Kaine advocated for Virginia during committee markup of the legislation in June 2013. The measure was passed, 84-15.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced last week that VDOT is moving forward with technology upgrades designed to improve safety and traffic flow on Interstate 64 over Afton Mountain. The Commonwealth Transportation Board recently awarded a $4.6 million contract to G4S Technology of Springfield to design and build an Active Traffic and Safety Management System.
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