Re-posted from GeorgeAllen.com Coal Jobs Vital for Virginia, America www.georgeallen.com/2010/02/28/coal-jobs-vital-for-virginia-america By George Allen It is wise to diversify job opportunities in the Coalfields of Southwest Virginia and elsewhere in Appalachia. But these writers, who are against or unfriendly to coal, are concocting misleading facts to diminish the positive attributes of American coal.

The House of Delegates and state Senate have selected their members to create a budget that both houses can agree on.  The Republican controlled House of Delegates and Democrat controlled Senate passed very different budgets.  Virginia is currently facing a $2.2 billion revenue shortfall. Read more from Anita Kumar at The Washington Post

It seems that Dutch politicians don’t really understand how social media works.  In the final push before their elections, candidates are focusing heavily on social media to get-out-the-vote.  The problem is they haven’t been building and interacting with their followings, meaning their last ditch efforts are useless.  Being successful in social media is a long [...]

Great article from Steven Davy at MediaShift about how mobile app development is changing the shape of politics.  Davy highlights two Congressional smartphone apps that give users up-to-date information on House and Senate floor debates, real-time notices from Republican and Democrat whips, access to several Government Offices (Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service, etc.) and [...]

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

Governor Bob McDonnell (R)  joined a long list of politicos who have publicly endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in his re-election bid.  McCain campaigned several times for McDonnell during his bid to become Virginia’s Governor.  McCain has come under heavy criticism from within his own party for being too moderate, specifically his support of the [...]

Re-posted from Washington Times By: Ford O’Connell and Steve Pearson It’s unusual for Virginians to look to the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., for inspiration. But lawmakers in Richmond can’t be blamed if they’ve begun to wonder whether the Garden State’s newly elected governor might be charting a more effective way out of his state’s budget [...]

Disgruntled Brits are taking a page out of America’s book and will host the first British Tea Party on Saturday.  The apparent leader of the Tea Party, Daniel Hannan, explains: “Labour has raised more than a trillion pounds in additional taxation since 1997. Yet, unbelievably, Gordon Brown has still managed to run up a deficit [...]

From ATR.org “Hiding Spending Does Not Reduce Spending”

TechRepublican’s first Digitial Bootcamp at CPAC was a collection of online experts discussing the right’s enormous efforts online.  TechRepublican and many Republican strategists believe that the GOP has surpassed Democrats online.  However, I wonder how you determine who is ahead of who.  Republicans may or may not be ahead online but at the very least [...]