With midterm elections less than two months away, President Obama has announced plans for at least $50 billion in new government spending on the nation's transportation infrastructure. The administration and its supporters won’t call it a second stimulus plan, but most others agree that’s exactly what it is. A Rasmussen Reports survey finds that 55% [...]
Ok, folks. Watch this video from Obama's "Organizing for America" team and then tell us why you aren't going to help us this Saturday do some door knocking in Congressional District VA9 against Rick Boucher. Time to put your words into action. Free bus trip to VA9. Contact us for a free ride to help [...]
Maryland is rolling out license-plate scanners mounted on police patrol cars. The vehicle-mounted scanners are said to each be capable of scanning 5,000 plates in an eight-hour shift. The data will be transmitted in real time to a central database for analysis. The database will also record each event "by registering their GPS locations when [...]
The Richmond Tea Party leadership has released the following call to action. ---- Want to make a difference in Virginia politics? Itching to do something about the mid-term elections? Here's your chance! The Richmond Tea Party wants to answer a call for help from the tea parties in the 9th District (southwest Virginia) and from [...]
For an excellent analysis of Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor event, check out chicagoboyz.net. Here’s an excerpt: Beck is building solidarity and cultural confidence in America, its Constitution, its military heritage, its freedom. This is a vision that is despised by the people who have long held the commanding heights of the culture. But is obviously [...]
If you were unable to attend or watch the historic Restoring Honor rally in DC this past Saturday, you can watch the entire event at CSPAN.org.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”--Edmund Burke, a founder of modern conservatism. Many of us ally with the Tea Party because we want to do something, if only to show up at rallies and add our presence to the force of their message. I discovered another [...]
Now that the GREAT EVENT is over we have to ask ourselves, “What did we go to Washington to see?” Read the Rest at: The History of the Future: http://drrobertowens.com/2010/08/30/restoring-honor-8-28-10/
Top Ten Reasons Why Congress Hates the Tea Party & Patriot groups (and why you should register for the Oct. 8-9 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention at www.vateapartyconvention.com): 10. Most Tea Party & Patriot group supporters actually work for a living, and it’s human nature not to like people who are so very different from [...]
For those of you who were able to attend this historic event, please post comments of your experience here.
Original article in German, translation by babelfish, with some mild editorializing by yours truly to make it easier to read: As answer of the citizens on the Durchpeit Lisbon contract a non-partisan platform started a country wide referendum for the withdrawal of Austria from the European Union. It goes primarily around the political freedom of [...]
Here's my latest in the ongoing series about the advancing surveillance state. This just in from The New American, originally reported in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer: On August 18, the Cleveland City Council announced that it had approved a $2.5 million budget request for the high-tech carts for 25,000 customers. The recycling carts will contain a [...]
