Events are moving faster than most can keep up with. One thing liberty advocates must always be alert for is the dreaded deep cover mole. These are people and organizations who pretend to support you and your cause but who can be counted on to double cross you at critical moments, even if that means [...]
Recall the hullaballoo regarding TSA grope-screening practices, and likely out of concern for customer satisfaction, many airports filed applications to opt-out of using TSA employees, preferring to use private contractors to provide airport security screening. TSA just closed the opt-out program": The Transportation Security Administration has said it won’t allow any more airports to “opt [...]
An interesting piece at Zerohedge this morning discussing the Giffords shooting. I suggest you read the whole thing linked here. It takes a somewhat dim view of the state of politics, public political discourse, and the use of the MSM as a mechanism of control: Legitimate Concerns, Not “Rhetoric”: The primary talking point of the [...]
The Richmond Tea Party is shocked and saddened by the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others attending the congresswoman's event in Arizona today. Our prayers go out to all the victims and their families. We also pray that the law enforcement officials are able to apprehend anyone connected to this tragedy and bring them [...]
Meet with your Virginia General Assembly representatives at a Town Hall session, Jan. 4 in Hanover and Henrico Counties and Jan. 5 in Chesterfield, sponsored by The Virginia Tea Party Patriots Cooperative Legislative Action Committee. Details are below or go to the events calendar. Topics include current legislative issues and the VA 10th Amendment Revolution Freedom Bills 2011. [...]
January 1, 2011 TO: Richmond Tea Party Volunteers and Supporters: FROM: Richmond Tea Party Board of Directors As we prepare to kick off a new and exciting 2011, we want to inform you of a transition within the RTP leadership. As you probably are already aware, our President, Jamie Radtke, has filed papers to run [...]
As I write this, I’m inspired by an unusual rock that sits on the desk beside my computer. It’s unusual in two ways. One, it looks like a chunk of wood, with clear layers formed by tree rings, and in fact it’s from a petrified tropical tree. Two, the tree grew near the south pole [...]
Here's Walter Williams, writing on LewRockwell.com: "My initial assumption is that we each own ourselves. I am my private property and you are yours. If we accept the notion that people own themselves, then it's easy to discover what forms of conduct are moral and immoral. Immoral acts are those that violate self-ownership. Murder, rape, [...]
NationalJournal brings us more evidence for why the Tea Party must be ever-vigilant: Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion to the federal budget. According to a [...]
It’s December. One election down, but a lot of work and a watershed election coming. So the question is: what are we, collectively and individually, going to do? Actually do. Have you thought about how much time you will devote to specific tasks, and how you will measure results? I have not. The other day [...]
In an astonishing interview published in German last week but little noticed outside the conservative blogosphere, a leader of the UN climate change group admitted "[W]e redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy....One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do [...]
John Stossel, the Fox Business News commentator, devoted his Creators Syndicate column the day before Thanksgiving to a little known story about how the Pilgrims tried socialism and learned a lesson still useful today: Long before the failure of modern socialism, the earliest European settlers gave us a dramatic demonstration of the fatal flaws of [...]
