Deeds, McDonnell, Anderson, Nichols, Marshall, Bell, Torian, Lopez . . . ENOUGH!

Catherine Howard was 29 and an independent, documentary filmmaker in San Francisco when she found a health insurance policy she thought perfect for a healthy, young person.

Elections are interesting monsters. 

Like many other people, I am a part of an e-mail group and receive regular messages. Because I am about as sharp as, say, an eight-year-old on the computer, I’m careful to reply only to the sender.

A few decades ago, newsman Chet Huntley of the pioneering “Huntley-Brinkley Report” told Johnny Carson and a national TV audience that he found it perfectly acceptable to quite consciously withhold one’s vote at the ballot box as a way of making a political statement. In other words, not voting, in effect, was a protest “vote” of sorts against all the available options.

There are plenty of reasons why not to like the idea of High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes.

Many political analysts see the races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey as a referendum on President Obama and his

This election season I have been keeping an eye out for marching elephants, trapeze artists and cotton candy.

Time is passing by much too quickly these days.

Paul Nichols is up for reelection in the 51st District. It is my hope he doesn’t get another term.

I saw a report on a news show recently about a grocery store located somewhere in the Midwest, which was touted for the extreme politeness of its employees.

I suppose the good news for Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Creigh Deeds Monday night in his televised debate with GOP candidate Bob McDonnell is that the latter rarely responded directly to Deeds’ latest charges of McDonnell’s being held captive (as it were) by the religious right and still holding outdated views on women in the workplace.

It’s disconcerting when you find yourself in agreement with Venezuela’s rosy-cheeked dictator Hugo Chavez twice during the same day. I’m going to let others cover Hugo’s dismay at the Nobel Public Relations Prize being awarded to President Obama, leaving me free to focus on the Maximum Leader’s thoughts on golf.

If the Virginia governor’s race were a football game, all Bob McDonnell would have to do is run out the clock.

By now you’ve heard about Hosam Maher Husein Smadi. He’s the 19-year-old who was arrested on charges of attempting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper. The plan was uncovered when the F.B.I. became suspicious of Mr. Smadi.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how some political ads can be technically correct but misleading.

Very seldom do I write about the same issue over a short period of time, but this week I feel the need.

The further away from yourself you get, the crazier you become.

There’s reality TV and there’s reality.

A funny thing happened on the way home this week. I was tired and just anxious to get home, so instead of waiting in an outside turn lane to make a quick right turn, I switched to the inside lane.

Rodney Dangerfield’s proclamation from the all-time greatest golf film is especially true if this prime real estate causes our local park authority to lose more than $1 million a year.

There’s a George Booth cartoon from a while back that shows a man, ostensibly a writer, sitting at a table on which there is a typewriter (this shows how old school the cartoon is).

Prince William County needs to stop competing with private enterprise. It is time that golf courses, as well as other forms of entertainment, are taken out of the government arena.

It will be interesting to see how all we potential flu-bug carriers in Northern Virginia will react to the ebb and flow of the coming flu season.

As the Democrat’s gubernatorial primary was drawing to a close, the Washington Post surprised many political observers by endorsing the unpolished Creigh Deeds over happenin’ guy Terry McAuliffe and liberal heart-throb Brian Moran.

The Virginia Railway Express has voted to follow Virginia law, “allowing” law-abiding gun owners to carry their weapons on the VRE trains.

OK, I admit I am guilty of this.  On occasion, while driving, I get that buzzing vibration on the side of my hip. The one meaning my phone is on silence mode and I just received a text message.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell is much better at staying on message than I am.

The tenor of today’s so-called political debate brings to mind Oscar Wilde’s observation, “Nothing succeeds like excess.”

Several months ago, the School Board directed our Superintendent to investigate the possibility of merit pay for teachers.