Is the Tea Party the GOP? Is the GOP the Tea Party?

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 [...]

By |2010-09-17T23:20:45-04:00September 17th, 2010|Constitution, Elections, Tea Party, Uncategorized|2 Comments

An Amendment to Strengthen Our States

From the Wall Street Journal:  In its next session beginning in January, the legislature of Virginia will consider proposing a constitutional "Repeal Amendment." The Repeal Amendment would give two-thirds of the states the power to repeal any federal law or regulation. Its text is simple: "Any provision of law or regulation of the United States [...]

By |2010-09-16T15:38:14-04:00September 16th, 2010|Constitution|0 Comments

Update on the Surveillance State

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 [...]

By |2010-09-07T10:35:48-04:00September 7th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments

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

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 [...]

By |2010-08-30T22:18:14-04:00August 30th, 2010|Constitution, Economy, Elections, Taxes, Tea Party, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Video Interview: Dismantling of America

Humanevents.com recently posted a three-part video interview of Dr. Thomas Sowell about his book, "Dismantling of America."  We blogged earlier this week about Sowell's series of columns on the same topic.  The links to the interviews: Part One, Part Three (Part Two and Part Three are the same), Part Four.  Each part is a little [...]

By |2010-08-24T16:43:34-04:00August 24th, 2010|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Dismantling of America

Last week, Thomas Sowell, a leading conservative intellectual, published a four-part series of columns titled “Dismantling of America,” distributed by Creators Syndicate.  The first of these is here; each column has links to the other three. Following are excerpts from each of his "Dismantling of America" columns, as published by Townhall.com: Part I-- The Constitution [...]

By |2010-08-22T19:39:11-04:00August 22nd, 2010|Uncategorized|1 Comment

Tea Party: It’s Not Just Taxes, It’s The Constitution

The NPR put together a very fair and balanced radio story on the tea party movement, covering specifically the Manassas Tea Party. It emphasizes that the tea party isn't just about fiscal responsibility, but the importance of our focus on the Constitution as well. The Tea Parties started as an anti-big government, anti-tax movement — T-E-A [...]

By |2010-07-14T22:57:27-04:00July 15th, 2010|Constitution|3 Comments

Republicans don’t like the Tea Party – and they shouldn’t

Dan Riehl has two posts on his blog about elected Republicans’ generally negative view of the Tea Party  movement. In the first, he discusses how the soon-to-be-retired-against-his-will Congressman Bob Inglis believes the majority of his fellow Republicans agree with him that we are a conservative movement that preys on people’s fears and won’t last. In [...]

By |2010-07-14T18:23:59-04:00July 14th, 2010|Tea Party|5 Comments

The Promise of July 4th

This Independence Day was uniquely inspiring for me. It included food on the grill, American flags flying, laughing kids and brilliant fireworks to end the day. While enjoying the holiday weekend, I took time to focus inwardly on the more meaningful aspects of the day. For me, the 4th is really a special mix of [...]

By |2010-07-14T12:09:57-04:00July 14th, 2010|Uncategorized|2 Comments

Goochland Tea Party Meeting July 15th

Thanks to everyone who attended the first Goochland Tea Party "Grass Roots" meeting that was held at the Goochland Library on June 8th. Your attendance demonstrated that you care about the future of your community and how government affects the American way of life for you, your loved ones, and your neighbors. We invite you [...]

By |2010-07-22T15:52:35-04:00July 5th, 2010|Tea Party|3 Comments

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