By Kurt Feigel News & Opinion Here are the results for the straw poll that was taken at the Lynchburg Tea Party Debate on 2/27/2010: Jim McKelvey is the leader with Robert Hurt trailing behind him. It was a good night and a good time for the 5th district to see what these candidates were [...]
States to Fed: Don’t Tread on Us!
Posted by The MaryHunter at February 24, 2010 6:15 AM As if President Obama and the Democrat-run Congress didn’t already have enough to worry about from Republicans having broken their once-famous “filibuster-proof” Senate majority, there’s this little matter of the Tenth Amendment as well. Virginia and a number of other states have already taken up [...]
Democrats Target Independents in VA
The battle over independent voters looks to be a hard fought one this November: Democrats Target Independents in Colorado and Virginia The New York Times Kate Phillips February 21, 2010 @ 10:18 AM http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/democrats-target-independents-in-colorado-and-virginia/?pagemode=print Democrats are ramping up their efforts to woo those fickle independent voters, beginning by deploying volunteers from the considerable Obama campaign [...]
Hungry for Truth
Macy’s lately has taken to displaying in many of its stores a poster
claiming that the number of Americans at risk of hunger is one in eight.
That’s 12.5 percent of the population.
Some Republicans “Get It”, Some Don’t
by Austin Hill “I spent the weekend in Vancouver. As always, the Olympics were inspiring. But in case you didn’t hear the late-breaking news, the gold medal in the downhill was taken away from American Lindsey Vonn. It was determined that President Obama is going downhill faster than she is…” So began former Massachusetts Governor [...]
“Missing Bush?” Why Republican Revisionism Won’t Sell
Written by Howard Rich Friday, 19 February 2010 08:01 As America loudly repudiates the leftist agenda of President Barack Obama and his Congressional allies, a group of partisan GOP opportunists is busy promoting a theory of “Republican revisionism.” What does this theory hold? Namely, that the GOP wasn’t “all that bad” — and certainly not [...]
Perriello’s Stimulus – Fail
Over a year ago Congressman Tom Perriello joined the rest of the Democrats in Washington to cast his ill-considered vote for President Obama’s pork-laden $800 billion “stimulus” bill. We were told that such massive spending had to be passed right away to keep unemployment below 8%. Critics of the bill noted that only 12% of [...]
Memo to GOP: “Remember the Alamo!”
This past week I had an interesting exchange with a loyal GOP grassroots conservative from VA5. He had been reading about the threatened “TEA Party Takeover of the local GOP” units here and across the nation. He was telling me that we, the TEA Party folks, were wrong about this. He was telling me that [...]
