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Barnie Day column archive

Barnie Day column archive

It's spring, the campaign season!

The cow at the stoplight

Russ Potts: in a game he understands

Visualize a boat when thinking of this year's General Assembly

Extraordinary, ordinary: Remembering Iwo Jima

General Assembly binges on amendments

It's what political columnists do

Brother, can you spare a dime?

'Gilmore's Ghost' revived for a new model year

House, Senate should pass HB 2742: this one will save lives

Odd juxtapositions

What Sam Rayburn was talking about, or why Bryant walks the plank alone

The show

Kilgore's politics of killing

What's Warner gonna do?

Those schizoid Republicans are loving themselves to death

Put university charter proposal to referendum -- in 2026

Weighing the pig (of transportation)

'Gawwwn' but not forgotten

The book on Faith and Values

Center of Virginia's political universe

Zell Nation

In this game resides immortality

A cheap lesson, as lessons go

Moore at GMU ... and more ... and more

Ham-handed in Lynchburg

Huntah

A letter to Jim

Red reading for a presidential campaign -- finally

Limiting out on Opening Day with me and Ol' Dawg

Tuesday morning coming down

What would Jesus do to a 'conservative' lawyer?

Memo to Kaine and Kilgore -- Re: Transportation in Virginia

A second letter to Kilgore

What we’re really up against

Paging Paul Harris, and a word on stem cell research

Mr. President, read this column

This marriage thing

Medicaid realities, tort absurdities affect all of us; remedies can't wait

You margrave! You padishah, you!

Finding the sweet spot

Howell, Griffith biting hands that feed them

Hope against hope! The man is on fire!

You want an explanation?

Virginia Democrats looking for 'dream team' ticket

Plain heathen mischief

Barnie Day

We were liberated

Transportation backsliding

Common sense

You want an explanation?

Tsunami coming!

Courage is facing cancer

Remember this name: Will Inman

Continuing resolution, continuing failure

Can it be all that hard?

Legislative meltdown

Thus does your state slouch into the 21st century

The case against referendum

Three Blind Mice

A few notes to the budget folks on resolving the issue

Speak, Chemo-sobby!

Republican descent

Unfit

Insidious

Warner holding, Howell folding

Place your bets

Mr. Speaker, about that 'Mandatory Assessments' thing ...

Guns in restaurants? Guns in bars?

What to do? What to do?

Lay down the pots and pans

Advice to the attorney general

Come clean, Jerry

Ban the t-word, Mr. Speaker

Ol' B.S. Kilgore (as in Borrow and Spend)

Committee on Committees?

The gauntlet is down; Warner wins either way: what the tea leaves say

At least Hampton has Talia Buford going for it

After November

You can go home again

'Thank you, Warry'

Where's ol' Bullet?

Beyond our means

The public debt

A letter to the GOP chairman

Politics for a lifetime

The 'legacy' thing

Great expectations

A message to Congress

Gourmet politics

Rubbish

Tax reform: Can she sing? Can she dance?

Disturbing pattern emerging

Ready! Aim at your foot! Fire!

Make room, ostriches!

The 'tar-baby' strategy

Enough with the gamesmanship

Hold on, Mr. Speaker!

Watch these three

Virginia FREE! At last! At last!

My money's on Bob

Zen Republicans

Thanks for going

The Jim and Shirley Show

Not a bad day

Blame it on Tom and Ed

Word games

Memo to the candidates

Democrats take the Senate -- in 30 words

Veto the budget

The swindle

Partisan ambush derails two terms

The Marcy maxim

Curiouser and curiouser!

Justice's dirty little secret

Poster boys

A lesson from Luke

That Allen two-step

A Lott to think about

'Tis the season of Republican discontent

Democrats must embrace education

Democrats must dissent

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick

Why Democrats lose. Why Republicans win.

Toward a new agenda

Nancy Jane

Get the crow ready

This game of political chicken

Worthy of a legacy

Take down 'Cooter's' flag, if naught but for courtesy

Republicans waiting in the weeds

A letter to the presidents of Virginia's public colleges and universities

If today is Wednesday, we must be in Rio

The shot fired back

Cool Head Luke redux

Cool Head Luke: a continuing play

Requiem

North of a billion

Ignatius, phone home

Kilgore out front, except when it matters

A letter from Cornbread

The shakedown game

A circle closes

A nail is loose in Fairfax!

Bay-beee!!!!!

Bon jour

Don't weaken speakership

What's that smell, Alice?

Money masher

Democrats will pick the next speaker

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