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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:Whom would your choice be for Person of the Year? The Independent Sentinel: This is an easy one for me. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was [...]

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This is a dark day for the American people, the Constitution, and the rule of law.  This is a dark day for American liberty. This decision goes against the very principle that America has a federal government of limited powers; a principle that the Founding Fathers clearly wrote into the Constitution, the supreme law of [...]

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Today come to the National Day of Prayer at 530 and then afterwards head over to the Mechanicsville Tea Party to hear John Taylor of the Virginia Policy Institute speak on the Battle for the Soul of America:  The philosophy of the Founding Fathers v. progressivism.  Sounds like a great speech and I am sorry [...]

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— REMINDER — Mechanicsville TEA Party Meeting April 19, 2012, 7:00 pm   The Mechanicsville TEA party presents   Reagan George Virginia Voters Alliance   Remember ACORN?  Learn what you can do to help  STOP them & others like them!    www.virginiavotersalliance.com      The Mechanicsville TEA Party meets the 1st and 3rd Thursday  of [...]

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Virginia Right! will have a booth at the Richmond TEA Party’s “Celebrate Liberty” event this Saturday April 14, 2012 from Noon to 8 PM. We will be located just outside of the main Exhibition Hall and we will be doing a video – you are welcome to be a part of the shoot! Stop by [...]

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I read the schedule for Camp Constitution for 2011 that just concluded late last week.  Here it is – highlights include: Sunday School and Church on Sunday July 9 MONEY and PREAMBLE at 630 pm that evening along with the rights of jurors AMERICAN FEDERALISM at 745 pm ONE NATION UNDER GOD at 9 am [...]

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When people ask what do Republicans believe in one should need point no further than the Republican Creed for an answer. The problem is, which creed do you refer to? There are at least four! Two are pretty good, the third marginal and the forth should be named the RINO Creed (Republican in Name Only). [...]

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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 [...]

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I know many groups and individuals I otherwise respect are skipping this year’s version of CPAC due to one of the participating oirganizations being a gay Republican group, GOProud.  I do not adhere to the agenda of the gay activists.  But it’s got to be true that a gay Republican is closer to my positions [...]

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The Tea Party-endorsed candidate running for GOP chair in New Hampshire was elected by 23 votes at the state convention.  Jack Kimball had this to say in victory: “You all know that we are in a war, and we are going to win it. We are going to pull ourselves back from the brink, we’re [...]

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How cool would that be? Would Liberals brain’s explode, or what? First and foremost, you must understand what is behind the proposed change in the Filibuster rules Dirty Harry Reid is about to introduce (or a Reid surrogate). It is all about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or Darth Vader Ginsburg as she is known in the [...]

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Dear Defender of Liberty, Today, a federal judge in Richmond ruled the individual mandate of the federal health care law UNCONSTITUTIONAL! In other words – we won! This won’t be the final round, as this will ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court, but today is a critical milestone in the protection of the Constitution. [...]

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Yesterday, we examined the details of the Health Care plan that Candidate Floyd Bayne of the Independent Green Party plans to implement, if elected. Since then, Baynes supporters have attacked me personally, and not on the issues on our Facebook page. Some claim that this is not Floyd Bayne’s plan, but that of his adviser, [...]

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Trying to find an answer to the Tea Party phenomenon must really be a nightmare for Barack Obama and the Democrats. Every time they attack the Tea Party, the movement grows by leaps and bounds. They have found that attempting to brand the majority of Americans as extremists is not a smart tactic. But they [...]

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The Grand Old New Party has emerged from the ashes of the Bush years and is poised to explode in a November tsunami that will reshape the face of American politics and the country itself. The Republican party will make major gains due to the irresponsible and failed policies of the Obama Administration, of that [...]

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An article in the Richmond Examiner nails the Tea Party phenomenon spot on.

Karyn McDermott interviewed Jamie Radtke about the future (and current status) of the Tea Party:

From the Examiner:

The Tea Party movement is “mainstream” says Richmond Tea Party’s Jamie Radtke
Richmond Tea Party President dispels ‘far right-wing’ myth
Were the Founding Fathers right-wing, is our Constitution? Asks Richmond Tea Party President
Polls show Americans reject Government control, believe country on wrong track

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President Obama took Air Force One, at taxpayer’s expense, to Miami for a Democratic Party Fundraiser and said that the Tea Party folks ought to be thanking him.

I agree wholeheartedly.

If it were not for the sudden and overt acceleration of our indebtedness to foreign countries by the Obama Administration, we might have continued in our apathy allowing the stealthy destruction of America’s finances to continue as it has for decades.

If it were not for the massive and unprecedented power grab by the Obama Administration in snatching up banks, student loans, health care, the auto industry and just about everything in sight, we may not have thought about how large the government had grown while we were not paying attention.

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At the Powhatan Taxpayer’s Alliance Tea Party last Saturday, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli opined that the large number of recent earthquakes around the world might be the result of the Founding Fathers turning over in their graves at the left’s assault on our Constitution.

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U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (MN-06), along with several Republican colleagues, formally unveiled and signed today the Declaration of Health Care Independence at the U.S. Capitol.

“The Declaration of Health Care Independence is a commitment to protect the rights of the American people to make their own health care decisions, reduce bureaucratic red-tape, decrease intergenerational debt, and includes 10 common-sense principles that must be included in future health care reforms,” said Bachmann. “This is not a bill, but rather a roadmap of the rules going forward.

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