“The House of Representatives remains the most democratic part of the national constitutional system.” The American people reconfirmed on Nov. 6 that they are content with divided government. While President Obama had an impressive electoral victory and the Democrats picked up seats…
Month: December 2012
Virginia Seeks To Check “Card Check”
The Virginia General Assembly is not set to begin until January 9 but already the wheels are starting to turn. The Senate’s Privileges and Elections Committee recently passed a bill that calls for amending the state’s constitution to guarantee voter…
DOMA Hits The Supreme Court
I don’t know whether to be excited or depressed. The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear two cases on same sex marriage. One is Hollingsworth v. Perry, which asks the question of whether the Fourteenth Amendment of…
Agenda 21: The Trojan Horse
We’ve know for years that the federal government was hell-bent on removing any local control and input from average American citizens concerning what you can do with your own land, private property, local schools, and local infrastructures from bridges to meeting…
Benghazi: Conspiracy To Bring Down The U.S.
“We’re playing with fire, and to expect no consequences is ridiculous. The path that Obama continues to take, without any objection from congress or others in the U.S., will lead us on a path to self destruction. Perhaps the ultimate…
18th Annual Redistribution of Wealth Conference Is Over!
Ms. Christiana Figueres, chief secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, told a press conference in Doha that the 18th Conference of the States Parties will bring about “a complete economic transformation of the world.” Her idea of transformation…
Islamist Secret Roots of American Schools: The “Gulen Movement”
It is a commonplace saying, but one that most of us ignore: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This applies in spades to a proposal under active consideration by the school board in Virginia’s Loudoun…
Privacy – What Privacy!?!?
Libertycrier – Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations, according to documents obtained by a news outlet. The systems…
Safety Is Not The Abortion Industries Top Priority
Twelve years ago the Clinton Administration arrogantly pushed through approval of RU486, the so-called “abortion pill” using a procedure intended to speed approval of new medicines for terminally ill patients. Following Clinton’s election, the FDA urged RU486 manufacturer Rouessel Uclaf…
The Chickens Have It!
There is more than one way to kill the fossil fuel industry. In payback to his environmental activist voters, the Obama administration has initiated a plan to declare the lesser prairie chicken a threatened species, citing its imperiled habitat—which just happens…
Class Warfare On Steroids
Obama’s main goal in the fiscal cliff negotiations is to impose a class-warfare tax hike, presumably thinking this will give the government more money to spend. But, recent evidence from the United Kingdom suggests that he won’t get nearly as…
America Was Based on Freedom
A Passion For Liberty By Tibor R. Machan So few grasp this that it’s embarrassing. The political purpose of America, as made pretty clear by the Founders and the Declaration of Independence, was to secure for the people a country…
Dang Maw, Ain’t Dat Fox Nus On The Piture Box?
According to an article by Charlie Martin at PJ Tatler, a recently released 4 year study shows that Americans who obtain their news from Fox News channel have an average IQ of 80, which represents a 20 point deficit when compared…
Virginia Governor’s Race Producing Some Sour Grapes?
On the eve of the Republican party’s annual glad-handing post-election social, The Advance, Lt. Governor Bill Bolling told a reporter that “There aren’t enough Republicans in Virginia to elect anybody to anything,” while explaining his decision to withdraw from the GOP…
The GOP Must Stop The Capitulation Carousel
Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute says that the backdoor negotiations on solving the fiscal cliff and reducing the deficit are irksome because our fiscal problem is excessive government spending. Red ink is merely a symptom of that underlying problem. Politicians…