19 May 2013
I left the Virginia GOP convention because I had voted (for Bishop Jackson for the fourth time!) and I had neglected my family enough and did not choose to see the acceptance speech. But I missed the excitement with the allegations that the Snyder campaign had made up endorsements of key people to try to [...]
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18 May 2013
12:54PM: I am in the media section with great seats in the back of the ground floor. I have seen and been greeted by too many to mention but I will mention one or two as I listen to the Lieutenant Governor candidates. I shout out to Del. Peace who provided the Hanover delegation with [...]
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16 May 2013
Godfather Politics posted the 40 things you must believe in to be a Democrat. These are pretty good! 1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand. 2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. 3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens [...]
16 May 2013
More good news from the New York Times! Here is an article on German politics. Chancellor Merkel was trying to decide if she should attend a soccer game as a guest of its owner, under investigation for tax evasion (maybe he used Uebertax!) and it is hardly salad days for her governing coalition: But for [...]
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16 May 2013
It is all here in the video.
16 May 2013
WHO: Doc Thompson visits MTP (Mechanicsville TEA Party) WHEN: Thurday night May 16th at 7pm WHERE: Life Church on Atlee rd WHY: To Launch the “What is the Coolridge Project?” FOR: To give Conservatives and even stronger voice and bigger platform ***: Doc will be promoting the MTP on his show, TheBlaze.com on Thursday from [...]
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16 May 2013
This Bloomberg op-ed piece shows that there is a glimmer of hope for the UK to leave the EU. Usually, what happens in these “Europe” referenda, we have the business community (especially the banks), rock stars, community leaders, supermodels probably too, and of course the Tweedledee and Tweedledum political parties all united to support whatever [...]
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15 May 2013
The stellar German magazine Der Spiegel (The Mirror and yes it is a masculine noun!) reports the Alternative for Germany is not going away – and that is bad news for Chancellor Merkel and her governing coalition! For months, the CDU and the FDP have sought to ignore the Alternative for Germany in the hopes [...]
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15 May 2013
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that City Council is questioning a $800,000 cost overrun on the Redskins deal! The price tag for the Washington Redskins training camp and attached park area has pushed about $800,000 past the original $10 million appropriation from Richmond, prompting questions from City Council members over whether the Richmond Economic Development Authority, [...]
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15 May 2013
Alachua County, FL, the home of the University of Florida, has gotten out of ICLEI, according to this report by the Gainesville TP: Apparently County Commissioner Susan Baird is a friendly voice (wonder if she was audited?): Dearest Friends of the County and the world, My greatest wish (among so many others…) is for the [...]
15 May 2013
Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole [...]
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15 May 2013
The scandal involving IRS discrimination against conservative groups is growing. In one case LifeNews has profiled, a pro-life group was told it had to promote abortion. Now, the Thomas More Society is speaking out about blatant bias by the supposedly apolitical tax-collection agency. The pro-life legal group informed LifeNews today that cases it handled support [...]
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15 May 2013
A spokesperson for the Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that it has received two complaints alleging that Corey Stewart, a candidate for the Republican Party’s nomination for Lieutenant Governor, violated Virginia election law. Breitbart News reported on Friday that Stewart admitted that he was “connected to” the mysterious Virginians [...]
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15 May 2013
My fellow blogger Sandy Sanders and I discussed possibly endorsing a candidate for Lt. Governor and while we had the same candidates in mind for our top choices, we were not in agreement on a single candidate. In the Attorney General race we had a split decision I endorsed Mark Obenshain and Sandy endorsed Rob [...]
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14 May 2013
Here I am again!
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14 May 2013
Forbes has this great article about how young people from all over America want to come to the University of Alabama: As a high school senior from Woodbury, Long Island, some 30 miles east of New York City, Daniel Machover’s top choice for a college might strike some as curious: the University of Alabama. A [...]
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13 May 2013
I get these articles from time to time (along with 30 million other people!) from Tom DeWeese. I am legitimately concerned about smart meters and this article is disturbing. Some aspects of this I have heard elsewhere. The VA law to allow conscientious objection to smart meters failed in committee. The Growing Threat of Smart [...]
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13 May 2013
The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up! But before we get to that,I and my fellow Council members want to wish the mothers amongst you an absolutely wonderful Mother’s Day. Is there any bond like that of a child and their [...]
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