The League of Women Voters and the Richmond First Club are sponsoring a debate tonight between the 7th congressional district candidates Floyd Bayne (I) and Rick Waugh (D). Incumbent Republican Eric Cantor declined to participate. The debate is scheduled for 7:00 – 9:00pm at the Tuckahoe branch of the Henrico County Public Library located at [...]
An eminent physicist recently resigned from the American Physical Society (APS), the professional association of physicists and one of the world’s leading scientific organizations, charging the body with supporting the man-made global warming “fraud” in order to make money at the expense of scientific truth and integrity. His resignation letter reinforces the view that man-made [...]
Tony Blankley, one of the most astute political commentators, published a column on Sept. 29 titled “Tea Party Has Elites on the Run.” He believes that the Tea Party, by stressing virtues that the elites disdain, has started an "inexorable" movement that will restore power to the middle class. His argument: The elites (aka the [...]
Virginia requires that voter registration forms be submitted 22 days prior to the Nov. 2nd mid-term election. That’s October 11th, fellow Virginians, and we must be ready. True, our voices and questions have proven impossible to ignore these past few years, despite an onslaught of efforts to silence us and to suppress our message. Our [...]
A favorite trick of the ruling class is to sneak laws that benefit them at the expense of the public into legislation that has nothing to do with the sneaky new law. One such law regulates how citizens can buy and sell gold. It removes restrictions on government power while restricting the freedom of the [...]
Let's take a look at our vocabulary. On the one hand we have the word “Czar”...one of Obama's buzzwords. That word implies a government job (in Obama's camp) that has great powers but few if anyone to report to. Who are these people and what for? The word "Czar," in other parts of the world indicates among other [...]
Dr. Victor Davis Hanson said in his Sept.23 column that the U.S. is retrogressing into a “nation of peasants.” Hanson, who until recently was a professor of classics at Stanford, works three jobs: Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford, columnist, and working farmer. In his column, “A Nation of Peasants?” Hanson said: Traditional [...]
Bloomberg is reporting another high-level defection from the Obama Administration: Emanuel Likely to Leave Before November for Chicago Mayor Race Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, is likely to leave the White House before the November congressional elections to run for mayor of Chicago, people familiar with the matter [...]
It depends who you ask. If you ask the GOP leadership, "we're all the Tea Party..." Read about it here. To excerpt: House Republican leader John Boehner says: "There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the Tea Party activists believe in." Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele says: "If I [...]
The lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, Sept. 13, was titled “Sebelius Has a List: Political thuggery from HHS.” In slightly abridged form, it reads: ….The White House was always going to blame insurance companies for any cost increases, even when its own policies cause them. Witness Kathleen Sebelius's Thursday letter to [...]
...will you trust the word of the U.S. Joint Forces Command? File available for download from this site. Changing conditions in the global economy could likewise have important implications for global security also, including a decreased ability of the United States to allocate resources for defense purposes, less purchasing power for available dollars, and shifting [...]
Caroline Glick was born in America and immigrated to Israel, where she is now Deputy Managing Editor and columnist for the Jerusalem Post. This week, she wrote a long column, picked up by Townhall.com, about the importance of the Jewish creed to Israel. She began her piece with an insightful introduction about the importance of [...]