J’s Notes

The understated emphasis of the greatness of Jay.

McCain Wins Virginia

By a margin of 50% to 40%, John McCain carried Virginia over Mike Huckabee.  McCain also won Maryland and DC.
On the other side of the debate, Barack Obama ran the table against Hillary Clinton and took the front runner status, one he held before if you didn’t count super delegates, one he holds for sure [...]

Ollie North On John McCain

Ollie North calls it “Decision Time For Conservatives“:
Neither John McCain nor anyone in his campaign asked me to write this column. But I cannot sit silently while my fellow conservatives do to John McCain what GOP “moderates” did to me. Today the stakes for our country are far higher, and the implications for the future [...]

NYT: Given Reprieve, N.F.L. Star’s Dogs Find Kindness

NYT on the rehabilitation of Michael Vick’s dogs:
Pit bulls seized from illegal fighting operations are usually euthanized after becoming property of the government. The Humane Society of the United States and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recommended that Mr. Vick’s dogs be euthanized, but many animal rescue organizations urged the prosecutors to [...]

Appealing To The Base

Source: NYT
It’s interesting to see the county by county breakdown of this. Hillary Clinton and Mike Huckabee seem to appeal to the same areas of lower growth and population density while Barack Obama and John McCain benefit most in areas that attract more “new” Virginians. That’s not to say that Eastern Virginians [...]

Blogger Gets A Job

Maybe it’s to keep him on a short leash (joking… or am I?), but Jon Baliles of River City Rapids has gone and gotten himself a job with City Hall.  Or City Hall went and got itself a blogger.  Either way, good move, especially since Jon’s already been doing a lot of shilling for the city.