According to AG Mark Herring, Virginia's gay marriage ban has been struck down!

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Thursday February 13, 2014 · 7:14 PM PST

2014/02/13 · 19:14

As a Valentine's Day present for all Virginians, Attorney General Mark Herring announced that the Eastern District of Virginia had declared that Virginia's ban on gay marriage has been declared unconstitutional, stayed pending further action by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

ALERT Equality marches forward in VA: Federal judge declares state's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. Issues stay pending appeal.
— Mark Herring (@AGMarkHerring) February 14, 2014

Virginia becomes the first state in the South to strike down a ban on gay marriage and proves that the equal marriage is on the march throughout the country. On a personal note, it makes me happy as a citizen of Virginia to know that we struck down our gay marriage ban before the Supreme Court rules that all such bans across the country are unconstitutional.

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Monday January 21, 2013 · 2:31 PM PST

2013/01/21 · 14:31

While the Inauguration of Barack Obama was in full swing, the Republicans of the Virginia State Senate were pulling a fast one on the citizens of the entire Commonwealth. They took this occasion, and with the absence of Democratic senator Henry Marsh, to eliminate the district held by Democratic senator Creigh Deeds and weaken the districts of John Edwards, George Barker, Chuck Colgan and John Miller. The absence of Marsh, who was attending the Inauguration, was particularly key, as the State Senate is currently split 20-20. If these changes do pass the House of Delegates, which is almost guaranteed, they will take effect for the 2015 elections.

More information can be found on Not Larry Sabato, who broke the story, and on Blue Virginia.

Education, the American South, and Strangers with Cameras

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Friday August 07, 2009 · 9:34 AM PDT

2009/08/07 · 09:34

Recently, there has been a lot of talk of how the Republicans have become a southern, regional party, and a lot of polling done on all sorts of topics, such as where are the Birthers primarily located, who believes that North America and Africa were once part of the same continent, and so on. And the tone underlying some of these posts, whether or not it was intentionally, is one of condescension. When presented with the polling data that shows that white Republicans are the majority of the Birthers, shock and dismissal are the reactions.

Throughout all of this, there hasn't been any mention of education. Why do you think some many people in the South don't know that Africa and North America were once part of the same continent, or that Barack Obama was really born in the United States? 7 out of the bottom 10 states for high school graduation rates are in the South. Standing here and gawking at their problems isn't going to fix any of them; in fact, its probably only going to make them resent us more.

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Monday April 13, 2009 · 6:16 AM PDT

2009/04/13 · 06:16

This is a video that I came across in my time as a library science grad student. It is basically a video that predicts what might happen to newspapers and "regular media" as social networking, Google, and Amazon become more and more popular. When I first saw it, which was just last semester, I thought that there was no way that this could happen. Now, on the other hand, its looking more and more likely.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/...

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 5:02 PM PDT

2008/11/01 · 17:02

I feel that this blog posting might be similar to the experiences that others have had; however, this experience is mine, and so I'm going to share it.

Being a student for most of my 23 years, I am and have only been around one kind of Democrat: the highly educated type. And until I went to the Obama rally in Roanoke, and then went canvassing afterwards, I didn't really know how big our tent actually is. I "knew" intellectually, from my history classes, and blogs that there were plenty more than that, but had never experienced it for myself.

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According to AG Mark Herring, Virginia's gay marriage ban has been struck down!

While the Inauguration is in progress, Virginia Republicans eliminate a Democratic Senator

Education, the American South, and Strangers with Cameras

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Obama rally and my first canvassing in Virginia