Update on recount in VA Attorney General Race
just issued by the Herring (Dem) campaign: STATEMENT OF HERRING LEGAL TEAM ON RECOUNT STATUS Marc Elias, the lead counsel for Attorney General-elect Mark Herring, released the following statement tonight: “As of 6:30 p.m., Attorney General-elect Mark Herring is now up 866 votes overall, with 73% of the votes recounted statewide. “Today, as recounting began statewide, and continued in Alexandria, C
It’s simple: Either we demand our privacy — loudly — or we kiss it goodbye.
That is the concluding line of Demand your privacy, Eugene Robinson's Tuesday Washington Post column, written in response to the ruling yesterday by Judge Richard J. Leon that the NSA's gathering of metadata data on our phone calls is likely unconstitutional. There is a great deal crammed into this column, the heart of which is these three paragraphs: The theory is supposed to be that only by asse
12-16-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: Family values hypocrisyis the title of this terrific Washington Post op ed by E. J. Dionne. He begins : Politicians talk about family values but do almost nothing to help families. They talk about parental responsibility but do almost nothing to help parents. They talk about self-sufficiency but do precious little to make self-sufficiency a reality for those who must strug