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Virginia Statewide Ballot Issues, 2004

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Virginia Constitutional Amendment #1: Apportionment

There is a bizarre loophole in the Virginia Constitution regarding the reapportionment of U.S. House of Representatives, Virginia Senate, and Virginia House of Delegates districts (which occurs every 10 years following the Census). If a member of any of those legislative bodies leaves office (due to death, resignation, etc.) before his/her term is up but after reapportionment, their replacement can be (and in some cases has been) selected by special election from the newly redrawn district.

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Republican National Convention Speeches Now Available FREE in iTunes

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Many speeches from the Republican National Convention are now available from C-SPAN and Audible.com through the iTunes Music Store, and the rest are coming soon.

Unfortunately, I am unable to give you a direct link to the RNC speeches (and the link I provided earlier to the DNC speeches is now broken). So, instead, I’ll just link you directly to iTunes Audiobooks (link requires Apple iTunes software, a free download).

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Mysterious Signals From 1000 Light Years Away

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The information about this finding is very preliminary, and it’s possible that this is a bizarre problem with the Arecibo radio telescope (all three readings were taken from Arecibo), but it is fascinating. It will be interesting to see what we find (if anything) when we start pointing other radio telescopes at these coordinates.

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Puerto Rico has an Olympic Team?

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Okay, hopefully I won’t offend any of my readers with this (I assume that some people take this kind of thing very seriously), but Puerto Rico is not a country. It is a territory of the United States. Its citizens are U.S. citizens. Its money is U.S. money. It is protected by the U.S. military. You can read about all of this from The World Factbook.

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Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.