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So many things are set to happen legislatively in 2010. It’s going to be an exciting year for the Crew of 42.

THE VIRGINIA DELEGATION- I enjoy paying close attention to the 13 guys that make up the Virginia delegation particularly since one of the members is in the Crew. Here is a statistical look at what they’ve been doing during 2009 (111th Congress/1st Session). A few fun stats...

New stamps for 2010 were announced today. Including a series on Negro League Baseball.

Read the bill? I give you John Conyers.

Not much to post this week… so far. From time to time I need to relive foolish moments just for pure purposes of entertainment.

Jim Clyburn: “We want a public option to do basically three things:1. Create more choice for insurers,2. create more competition for insurance companies and to3. contain costs.” “So if we can come up with a process by which these three things can be done, then I’m all for it....

Percy Sutton: Pioneering civil rights attorney Percy Sutton … Tuskegee Airman in World War II … mentor to Rev. Jesse Jackson … owner of Inner City Broadcasting and WBLS and WLIB-AM, the first black-owned radio station in New York City … his father, Samuel,...

“… We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on the beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills....

BULLETIN: VA-Pilot Finally Writes on Youth PROMISE Act. Typically this paper, along with the Richmond Times Dispatch, ignore everything Rep. Bobby Scott does. They love writing about Jim Webb and give all the ink to him. Even though his often written about bill on prisons, S....

Newspaper round table with Maxine Waters. Time flies.

CRIME POLICY. Let’s go back to 1994. Keep in mind that the U.S. currently spends $60Billion a year on corrections and has more people locked up than any country on earth. Yeah, that’s right, we have a higher percentage of people behind bars than China. Take it in. You...

Penalize soldiers for getting pregnant? Last week, Army Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo issued a policy allowing soldiers who become pregnant and their sexual partners to be formally punished. Maj. Gen. Cucolo is probably a good guy. However he is no PR/marketing genius. His decision to...