Video: Declaration Of Independence
Video from the "John Adams" mini-series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrvpZxMfKaU&feature=player_detailpage
Press Release (10/26/2011): Refund for Tax Day Rallies
On Wednesday, 10/26/2011, Richmond Tea Party issued the following press release. It quickly became a national (story. See here, here, and here for starters.) ---- The Richmond Tea Party along with the rest of the tea party movement is very much about getting back to the basics of our founding documents, particularly the Declaration of [...]
Constitutional Adherence – Rights
Although the Declaration of Independence is not a part of the Constitution, it is nonetheless the foundation upon which the Constitution rests. The Declaration of Independence sets forth the principles that guide our country while the Constitution sets up a system of government that preserves those principles. The Declaration of Independence states that all men [...]
Driving us to taxes
The Hill has reported the following story: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released a report that said taxing people based on how many miles they drive is a possible option for raising new revenues and that these taxes could be used to offset the costs of highway maintenance at a time when federal funds [...]
Henrico Country Library gets it right
Last night I had the privilege of attending the opening of the newly renovated Henrico County Library located north of Parham on Staples Mill Road. I was shocked and you would be too when you walk into the lavish 9 million dollar, 25,000 foot learning palace. Board Supervisor, Dick Glover, the brainchild of this beauty [...]
WE THE PEOPLE are just getting started
It’s been quite a ride so far, hasn’t it? In less than a year and a half since our first Tea Party, the movement has exploded into more protests and rallies, marches, viral videos of passionate town hall appearances, visits to congressional offices, bus trips to Washington D.C. (and other cities across America), online and [...]
The Price of Liberty
Standing with my family this morning for the Memorial Day service at the Virginia War Memorial, I was thinking of a simple poem I read yesterday, "It is the Soldier" by Charles M. Province. How great is the debt we owe our soldiers, from those who first took up arms in 1775 to create a [...]
The Founder’s Vision – Unleashing the Human Spirit
Virginia is blessed with ample, productive farmland; timber; mineral resources, including energy; established deepwater ports and shipbuilding; a centrally located air facility; and a populace that is hard working, fundamentally honest and leans fiscally conservative. What stands in our way? The problem is jamming Virginians into a mold through common national legislation that dictates every [...]
Arizona: Another Inconvenient State
Obama holds court with Felipe Calderón over a joint session of Congress and permits him to berate Arizonans and the Americans who support the law dealing with illegal aliens (and no, they’re not “undocumented workers”).