Virginia Right!

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole [...]

Read the full story

Bleacher Report has this article on Guatemala’s first Olympic medal:  Silver in the 20 km Walk. Barrondo received a call of congratulations from Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina, who informed Barrondo that Guatemalans took to the streets to cheer his win. Now that Barrondo is a star in his country, he used his platform to [...]

Read the full story

This activist, Robert Kecseg, in Irving, TX had the right idea!  He went to staff first, was calm, did not call people names, mentioned the political aims of ICLEI, made the point is that a city council cannot be joined with a organization like ICLEI with a narrow political agenda. Kecseg cited the quote about [...]

Read the full story

Here’s the video from the Ron Paul rally in Champaign, IL. It was estimated that 5,000 cheered Ron Paul’s message of liberty and personal responsibility. Paul spoke for about an hour before an estimated 5,000 people, many of them chanting, “President Paul, President Paul,” Wednesday night at Huff Hall on the University of Illinois campus. [...]

Read the full story

If you are a Virginia Right! reader, you are also most likely a Bearing Drift reader as well. BD does a wonderful job covering Virginia Politics. What you may not know is that these guys, led by my friend J.R. Hoeft, are also doing print media as well as radio. And all this costs money. [...]

Read the full story

The band played “God Bless the USA” – the Lee Greenwood standard – and everyone in the crowd, estimated at over 5,000 and growing. The band followed this up with “God Bless America” and the crowd again rose to their feet. The hopes and dreams of taking back our country are alive and well at [...]

Read the full story

Virginia is poised to send a message to the White House and the Obama Administration. Your Change is not welcomed in the Commonwealth. New Jersey and New York are trying to send the same message. Despite the fact that the White House is trying to spin the losses as no big deal, Democrats will do well to pay close attention if they expect to retain their seats in D.C.

Read the full story