Dems Rethinking Pro-Choice Stance

Here is a link to an excellent article in the Los Angeles Times from 24 December about the Democratic Party's rethinking of their pro-choice stance on abortion. If you haven't read it, check it out. Former Indiana Rep. Tim Roemer is pro-life and one of the primary contenders for the Democratic Party chairmanship. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are both pushing for his election in the vote on 10 February. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

#25 UVA versus #4 Wake - Sunday 5:30 p.m.

On Sunday, UVA has a chance to show that UVA basketball truly is back. They have come out of nowhere this year as the seventh ACC team ranked in the top twenty five by shocking then #11 Arizona 78-60 in Charlottesville in UVA's second game of the season. Freshman point guard Sean Singletary has done a good impression of John Gilchrist and Chris Paul to transform an average team that managed to beat three top fifteen opponents in a row in the spring to make a run at the tourney into a team that has a great shot at making the tourney this year if everybody stays healthy. If they can stay competitive on Sunday, it will show us that this team is legit.

UVA Season in Review

Now that I have finally come to grips with UVA losing its first bowl under the watch of Al Groh, I can finally talk about it without intense pain. Honestly, this season was an awful season for UVA football, perhaps most of all because of the great expectations and the team's complete inability to live up to any of them. I was in Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee when we brought our #6 ranking to the game and got spanked 36-3. I ran out of material to trash talk with the swarm of FSU students around me after one quarter of playing. It was simply embarassing. It wasn't even competitive. I was at Scott Stadium when Miami threw a 25 year touchdown strike on 4th down witn a minute remaining to seal the game. I refused to make the trip to Blacksburg to be disappointed yet again. Then we managed to go to a horrible bowl, much lower than our seeding in the conference, and then blew a huge lead in the bowl as well. UVA lived up to none of its expectations, did not beat a single ranked team, did not a win a single game I truly cared about. All in all, it was one of the most miserable seasons that I have watched. Where did all the offensive ingenuity and creativity go? Where did the ability to come from behind disappear to? Why are we now having other teams come from behind to beat us? I don't have an explanation, but I was definitely reminded of the late George Welsh years. Al Groh lost his nerve. I still can't believe he didn't got for it on fourth down and one on the Virginia Tech 25 yard line in the 2nd quarter. Perhaps the worst call he has ever made. The playcalling at Florida State was also disgusting. Groh definitely has changes he needs to make and some questions he needs to answer.

Colin Farrell's Interpretation of John Smith? Uh Oh

Before watching the Aviator last night, Old Zach berated me for not carrying my weight on this blog for the last week, and I humbly begin to make reparations with this brief blurb. We also noticed previews for a movie called The New World, which will be released sometime in 2005 apparently, essentially portraying the landing at Jamestown and the interaction with Powhatan, Pocahontas, and the 30 or so tribes in the confederation that Powhatan led. Colin Farrell will be playing John Smith. After his performance with his foppish mop of blonde hair in Alexander, I believe I can speak for everyone when I say that we are all relieved that he will not have blonde hair in his portrayal of John Smith. It's more of a scruffy dark brown, I believe. Perhaps Christian Bale as John Rolfe can salvage the day.

Kaine is Trying to Ride Warner's Coattails.....John Warner, that is

Kaine and the Democratic Party are trying to create the impression that they are a party of moderates aligned with the so-called Republicans who broke ranks with the party regulars and RPV to vote for the highest tax increase in Virginia history along with the Democratic Party. The Democrats are trying to sell themselves as the new majority in Virginia, while simultaneously trying to break apart the Republican majority by taking advantage of gossip, dissension, and inter-party rivalry. It's pretty remarkable how successful they have been thus far.

Here is yet another example of their manipulation. In an email letter sent out by the Kaine campaign, Kaine states that "Virginia is a state known for its steadfast and strong leadership. We are the state of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Warner, and Mark Warner." This subtle yet effective attempt to link himself to the senior senator from Virginia, a lifelong Republican, is but another example of how the Democratic Party is trying to tear apart the Republican Party at its foundation while simultaneously thrusting itself into the proverbial center through sheer deception. As Mark Warner begins his run for the Senate to replace John Warner in 2008 without even allowing apathetic Virginians to realize that a different Warner has been elected and sets himself up for his run for the White House in 2012, we will begin to see more of this from the Democrats as they try to blur the lines of distinction between themselves and the Republican Party in a state where Republicans have won almost all the major battles in the last decade and will continue to do so provided we work together.

Sic Semper Expose

For the future reference of our readers, Addison and Old Zach are Hokies, and I, Lighthorse Harry, am a diehard Wahoo. We are all VERY zealous about our respective teams, and the rivalry and dissension will be reflected on this blog when football season comes around again.

For now, let's note that UVA is ranked #25 in basketball, and Virginia Tech just lost to UNC by what....30 points? Thank goodness it's baskeball season.

And the Hokies can take their Sugar Bowl and their fraudulent ACC championship and go to hell. I am NOT going to root for them. I don't care what George Allen and Jerry Kilgore and all the rest do. True Wahoos do not ever support Virginia Tech, even if it does supposedly help the Commonwealth as a whole. I wish we had left them out in the cold when we stole Miami from the Big East. Instead, we have chosen to make them a member of an elite athletics conference, a conference where we actually do care about academics, and Virginia Tech is a disappointing addition. Too bad we have to prop up their other sports teams.

Bolling Kicks Off with a Big Crowd

Bolling kicked of his campaign officially with a breakfast in Richmond at the Downtown Marriot on Thursday. Sources have it that 300 people attend the 7:30 a.m. breakfast, despite the 20 degree weather. A very nice showing indeed.

In other related news, the endorsement of Bolling by Congressman Forbes was announced today.

Not What Jefferson Had in Mind

This story is not directly Virginia related, but all Christians and all freedom loving people everywhere should be concerned about the growing repression of free speech, particularly directed against Christians right here in the United States. This is not what Jefferson had in mind when he penned the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, stating that "Almighty God hath created the mind free."

This particular instance, one of the worst that has come to my attention, occurred in Philadelphia in October, where 4 protestors at a gay pride event are being charged with ethnic intimidation, criminal conspiracy, and riot for essentially reading the Bible in public. Charges against seven others arrested with them were dropped simply for the reason that the other seven could not be seen reading Scripture in a videotape of the incident. A link to the video can be found here at the bottom of the press release.

Interestingly enough, we see here the actual reading of the Scripture targeted, not even necessarily anti-homosexual opinion. It demonstrates the real goal of the homosexual agenda, which is complete suppression of Christian dissidence against their movement and eventually the affirmation of their lifestyle. They will not be satisfied with an open marketplace of ideas in which they can still be criticized. They will only feel secure when every voice that rises up against them has been quieted.

Jefferson's companion in the quest for religious freedom in Virginia, James Madison, wrote that the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom "extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind." I fear that our nation has lost sight of their vision, and the costs may be more than we can bear.

Chilling

Watch this advertising spot from the Iraqi Resistance. Where did Islamic Jihad get their PR guy? This will blow you away!

Katzen on Kaine

Tim Kaine is the first gubernatorial candidate in Virginia out of the blocks with a website. I wonder how much money this guy is going to waste in his losing bid for the governor's mansion. I still can't get out of my head Jay Katzen's voice from the 2001 campaign calling Tim Kaine's values "Vermont values." Katzen was right then, and what he said is still true.