Motley Moose – Archive

This is the last part of a series of posts analyzing the swing state Virginia, which aims to offer some concluding thoughts. The previous parts can be found starting here.

Conclusions

As a state, Virginia’s population has always been located in three metropolitan areas: the Northern Virginia suburbs south of Washington D.C., Richmond and its suburbs, and the communities surrounding Hampton Roads. Together these three places compose more than half of Virginia’s electorate:

In all three metropolitan areas, Democrats have been improving their margins.

More below.

The Debt Commission Report, formally The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, has been subject to a lot of derision on the left.  It has been seen as a waste of time at best, or an attack on Democratic core principles at the worst.

This is the fourth installment looking section by section of the report.

Here’s the link to the first installment:

http://www.motleymoose.com/sho…

Here’s the link to the 2nd installment:

http://www.motleymoose.com/sho…

Here’s the link to the 3rd installment:

http://www.motleymoose.com/sho…

Also, here is the link to the actual report:

http://www.fiscalcommission.go…

Things are certainly heating up in the race for Mayor of Chicago.  Since I am not from Chicago (though my dad and other family members are) I am watching avidly as an outsider, since the mayoral race for Chicago, the third largest city in the US, behind New York and LA with a population of over over 2.8 million residents is not small peanuts.

Vyckie Garrison runs a website called No Longer Quivering, which assists women in transitioning from abusive, oppressive and servile roles as breeding servants of husbands and an interpretation of the Bible called The Quiverful movement.  The site features the stories of women and families, told in their own words – about the harsh price paid by women and children in oppressive, strict religion.  Most of the stories are painful to read, but I encourage you to read them.  The knowledge of what these women go through in order to provide healthy lives for themselves and their children – is breathtaking.  Vyckie also operates a site called The Take Heart Project, to support women in all religions who seek to free themselves of oppression, brutality & dehumanization in the name of a god. 

(Posted at SexGenderBody

The Debt Commission Report, formally The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, has been subject to a lot of derision on the left.  It has been seen as a waste of time at best, or an attack on Democratic core principles at the worst.

This is the third installment looking section by section of the report.

Here’s the link to the first installment:

http://www.motleymoose.com/sho…

Here’s the link to the 2nd installment:

http://www.motleymoose.com/sho…

Also, here is the link to the actual report:

http://www.fiscalcommission.go…