I've found out about two darn good Virginia blogs over the last couple of days, and I'm proud to add them to my blogroll and encourage you to read them, especially if you're a fellow Virginian:

Thornblog

Allen Thornburgh at Thornblog describes his slice of the web this way: Discussing politics, theology, policy, humanity, society, and culture - without vitriol - in the pursuit of wisdom, knowledge and action. And probably quite a bit of silliness as well. An accurate and inticing description, and it's well worth a look.

A sample from Thornblog:

Given the progress to date in Iraq - which we ought to see as an overwhelming success, it seems to me - the only reason to avoid a withdrawal date would be the "fish in a barrel" scenario. I.e., the American action in Iraq draws foreign terrorists to our forces, so that we can kill them en masse, before they can carry out devastating attacks against civilians overseas or on our own soil.

And, perhaps, that one opportunity is the secret primary reason that we invaded all along.

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Insane Hippie

This guy's blog won me over pretty quick with his Jerry Kilgore banner and his photos of the D-Day Memorial in Bedford. I love that memorial, I get all choked up about D-Day, and Insane Hippie has a great set of pics from the memorial that you should check out.

A sample from the blog:

The Koran in Gitmo is treated like it truly is a piece of God himself. No non-muslims can touch it without wearing gloves. The PRISONERS foods are cooked and maintained with the same Islamic rules as if they were in their own countries...

We don't treat school children in America this good, yet for some reason we treat these prisoners like the second coming of Jesus. It drives me flat out crazy. We treat these pieces of trash so good and what will they do if we let them out tomorrow? They'll STILL want to chop off our heads.

Check out Thornblog and The Insane Hippie. Tell 'em the Southern Conservative sent ya.