“Virginia” on The Daily Caller

Rep. Michele Bachmann is set to endorse her former presidential opponent, Mitt Romney, at a Virginia campaign event on Thursday, a Romney aide confirmed to The Daily Caller. (more)

White House crasher and former Real House-Husband of D.C. Tareq Salahi wants to be the governor of Virginia. (more)

The Easter Bunny — ok, an Easter Bunny — was arrested at a Virginia mall last week after he was found having more pills than Peeps in his pouch. (more)

It takes a sense of optimism and courage to take the risk to start, expand or operate a business — whether it is a local store, a restaurant, a professional services office or a Fortune 500 company. That optimism and courage is an integral part of the American Dream — where we look at the future with a sense of confidence and belief that we are only limited by our imagination, ingenuity and hard work. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — A small Virginia-based cellphone company said Wednesday that it will start selling the iPhone, at prices that undercut the big carriers. (more)

A Virginia middle school teacher recently forced his students to support President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign by conducting opposition research in class against the Republican presidential candidates. (more)

It’s Super Tuesday, which means today is the busiest day yet of the 2012 Republican race for president with 419 delegates up for grabs in 10 states across the country. (more)

Over 400 delegates are up for grabs in primaries and caucuses across 10 states Tuesday. (more)

Fairfax, Va. – Governor Bob McDonnell has signed House Bill 940 into law. This legislation repeals Virginia’s prohibition of purchasing more than one handgun per month. (more)

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is considering challenges this week to the Environmental Protection Agency’s determination that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are pollutants and subject to federal regulation. (more)

The recent Virginia legislative debate over a bill requiring women to have an unfortunately named “transvaginal ultrasound” before getting an abortion reached its comic plateau Friday, with one state delegate telling his colleagues that his wife denied him sex because his name was on the legislation. (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell — facing outrage from women, national ridicule from television comedians and appeals from GOP moderates — came out Wednesday against a bill that would require transvaginal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions. (more)

A Christopher Newport University poll of likely Virginia Republican primary voters finds that Mitt Romney is leading Ron Paul by a wide margin, presenting the possibility that Romney could win all of the 46 delegates up for grabs. (more)

During an interview at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference, Virginia Republican Senate candidate Jamie Radtke told The Daily Caller that she thinks Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over the growing Operation Fast and Furious scandal. (more)

Virginia’s March 6 Republican primary will be a two-man race. (more)

Legislation (HB940, SB323) that would overturn Virginia’s One Gun A Month law has already passed the Virginia House of Delegates and is slated to be voted on in the State Senate as early as today. Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has said he will sign it into law should it pass. (more)

Richmond, VA – The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry – is applauding the passage of legislation (SB 464) to end the ban on Sunday hunting in the Old Dominion.  Yesterday, the Virginia State Senate overwhelming voted (29-11) to allow Sunday hunting on private lands.  Companion legislation will now move to the House of Delegates for a vote. (more)

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell endorsed Mitt Romney on Thursday and will be campaigning with the GOP presidential candidate in South Carolina just a day before the state’s primary. (more)

Nothing says “Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day” quite like raffling off a .50-caliber rifle in front of the Virginia state legislature. (more)

Promoting the merits of “small government” may be all the rage for national Republican figures, but in Virginia a GOP politician collecting signatures for a U.S. Senate campaign is proposing something slightly different. (more)