Virginia Right!

Every week on Monday morning , the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: How Would You Solve The Problem Of Illegal Immigration? Simply Jews: Building a few pyramids in Texas and/or Arizona? The Noisy Room: Priority one is [...]

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Welfare is supposed to be there to give recipients the basic needs support and enough to get by until they can get back on their feet. Unfortunately, that is no longer true. Liberals have been enriching welfare so much fo so long that if you fall on hard times and need a little help to [...]

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An editorial in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star calls Democrat Tim Kaine out for his “head in the sand” blind following of all things Obama. Honestly, listening to Kaine’s speech you would think America had a $16 Trillion Surplus instead of debt. It seems even the mostly left leaning Lance-Star has trouble swallowing Kaine’s revisionism. As for [...]

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Every week on Monday morning , the Council and invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: What steps would you take to revitalize America’s economy? The Independent Sentinel: We need to restore confidence in our government and limiting its reach will go [...]

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My friend Doug Ross has a great post up. Barack Obama has discovered a new presidential power – making laws by presidential decree. Just like the Kings used to do, or Dictators still do today. Obama enacts amnesty, bypassing Congress, and the Democrats and the Mainstream Media go along with him. Ok. So I guess [...]

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During the 2008 election campaign, Candidate Barack Obama was fond of using the analogy that George Bush “drove the car in a ditch” to pertray an image that Bush had carelessly and perhaps recklessly caused the financial crisis in which America found itself. Here we are nearly four years later and the economy has yet [...]

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‘His latest stimulus bill is so flawed that Senate Democrats have rejected it… It’s nothing but a rehash of the same failed ideas he’s already tried, combined with a huge tax increase.  This is a cynical political ploy that’s designed not to create jobs for struggling Americans, but to save the President’s own job.’   [...]

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It’s been 5 days! I have been looking for the little white trucks with the Obama logo in my ‘hood ever since Hurricane Irene hit last Saturday. I lost my lights in the afternoon and my water soon after. Then Senator Obama was quick to criticize President George W. Bush for his slow response after [...]

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Ba-Zillionaire Warren Buffett just became the latest darling of the left wing “Progressive” Class Warfare Specialists when he said that America needs to stop “coddling” the wealthy. He said that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. And somehow the left sees this as proof positive that their “soak the rich” scheme has [...]

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With summer drawing to an end, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the August employment numbers today, showing that the jobless situation is little changed from June and in some aspects is worse. According to BLS, 54,000 jobs were lost in August, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.6%. Sadly, 14.9 million Americans remain [...]

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Thursday August 12, 2010 Roundup: New!!! Virginia Blog Roundup – Old Dominion Blogs – now online and FREE! Read all the Virginia Blogs in one place. The Virginia Right! News Hound surfs the ‘net to take the pulse of the world every day. The links published below are opinions and takes on the news that [...]

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What is the price for opposing Barack Obama on Healthcare and Immigration? Virginia found out on Monday. In a move straight out of Chicago Style Politics, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va would be closed down. Calling this a cost cutting measure, Gates admitted that thousands of Virginians [...]

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Just three days after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner declared in a New York Times op-ed, “Welcome to the Recovery,” The Wall Street Journal reports on another dismal monthly employment report: “The U.S. economy shed more jobs than expected in July while the unemployment rate held steady at 9.5%, a further sign the economic recovery may [...]

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SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH McCONNELL (R-KY): “Europe’s in the midst of what German Chancellor Angela Merkel describes as an existential crisis, all brought about by governments that spent money they didn’t have. Americans are watching this crisis play out, and they see Democrats doing the same thing here day after day after day.” (Sen. Mitch McConnell, Floor Remarks, 5/26/10)

“The U.S. National Debt Hit $13 Trillion Today, A Stratospheric Number With Looming Implications For Every Citizen.” (“National Debt Clock — Tracking the Red,” Fox News, 5/26/10)

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Charles Payne – Keynote speaker

This black man from Harlem has never fealt more welcome than right her.

I see a crowd of people that love their country with all their heart.

When I look into this crowd, I see thousands that have escaped the apathy of the masses. God blessed me with a brain and an indomitable spirit and a brain and I am not going to let a politician take that away.

Anti-capitalists always find their greatest opportunity when things are bad. They blame Wall Street, but they have a different agenda. Obama came in intending to take over banks.

Through Czars, Executive Orders the White House plans to take over the economy.

Jim Bunning was vilified for demanding we pay for unemployment payments.

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