Virginia Right!

It happens every year!  The First Thursday in May – this year May 2 – the National Day of Prayer is proclaimed by Congress. There is a local Mechanicsville event at the Historic Polegreen Church at 530 pm.  It started because the Hanover Church of the Nazarene was looking for a site for their NDP [...]

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I am blogging today from the beautiful Big Stone Gap area and the mountains are majestic and the fight for liberty here is awesome.  There is a wonderful effort to honor the founding of country (and bluegrass) music in Southwest Virginia.  The Crooked Road is a tourism initiative to help visitors to appreciate the efforts [...]

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Speaking on the Senate floor this morning, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell again made the case that now is the time for Congress to tackle our out-of-control federal spending. “A few weeks ago, President Obama reportedly said that America doesn’t have a spending problem. Well, he’s wrong. This is completely at odds with what independent experts tell [...]

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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always [...]

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In the following polls, I have graphed the skew – shown in green – and the Obama lead – shown in purple for all of the polls averaged at Real Clear Politics as of this morning. Rasmussen is showing a 1 point Romney lead for their final tally, but they have yet to post the [...]

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Rasmussen has just released a poll of Virginia Voters and Romney now leads Obama in this swing state by 3 points, 50% to 47%. The poll of 750 likely voters was taken on October 18, 2012 and reflects both presidential debates to date as well as the VP debate. One significant finding in this poll is that [...]

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One has to snicker at all of the feminists who believe that with government’s help, they are strong. Hear them roar? Me neither. We hear the Mainstream Media talk about the Gender Gap problem facing Mitt Romney because more women tend to favor Barack Obama. And while that was true in 2008, this year it [...]

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We already know that the NBA blog and presumedly the players do not like the proposed Stern 23 and under rule for Olympic Basketball. And while it is not a complete victory, as William Wilberforce would say (he endorsed a neutral bill that had the tendency to eliminate 80% of the British slave trade), it [...]

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The misnamed Paycheck Fairness Act (I call it the Your Co-Worker Finds Out Your Salary Act) is touted as the answer to alleged pay disparity.  There are significant questions on that statistic – hey, just like global warming! – but why not, it’s good for you! Here is an article in the Nation that admits:  [...]

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 Tough Sales Job Despite President Obama’s Taxpayer Financed PR Campaigns, Americans Think He ‘Made Things Worse’   SEN. MITCH McCONNELL: “The President needs to face facts. Americans don’t want him spending their hard-earned money trying to spin policies they don’t like.” (Sen. Mitch McConnell, Floor Remarks, 5/23/12)   NBC/WSJ Survey: President Has ‘Made Things Worse’ Q: “For each [...]

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Honestly, the last time I saw such a budget disaster, our last Democratic Governor Tim Kaine was behind it. Governor McDonnell and the Republicans had such a royal mess to clean up that we all knew it would not be easy. In fact, if you recall, the last budget Tim Kaine tossed out to the [...]

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  The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 5/22/2011 are out! Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most Improved Blog is On the Right in Virginia improving 53% over last week. That equates to 13 spots in the standings (from #61 to #48) for the winner’s [...]

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 5/15/2011 are out! The news this week is that Ben Tribbit’s Not Larry Sabato was replaced at the #3 slot (overall) by Bart Hinkle’s Barticles. Tribbet’s blog falls to #4. Barticles has been climbing of late and Not Larry Sabato has been in a gradual decline for some time, [...]

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On Friday, Senate Democrats released their spending proposal for the rest of the current fiscal year, offering only $6.5 billion in cuts from the current unsustainable spending levels. Combined with the $4 billion in cuts President Obama signed into law last week, that means Democrats are apparently offering only $10.5 billion in total cuts. The [...]

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Senate News Briefing: ABC News reports, “The Senate today passed a stop-gap spending bill to avert a government shutdown at week’s end and buy lawmakers two more weeks to reach a long-term funding deal . . . . The Senate voted 91-9 to pass the two-week extension that would cut $4 billion in funding. The [...]

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Here are this week’s Virginia Political Blog Rankings. One change you will note is the addition of a “Weekly Trend” column. This is a comparison of an individual blog’s trend from the previous week. It is only a measure of the blog’s rise or fall compared to itself. So, two blogs may very well switch [...]

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Looks like Tom Perriello, Democrate incumbent, is going to try to use President Obama to help close the gap in the VA 5th CD race. Robert Hurt, the Republican Candidate, is has been leading in the polls for some time though the lead has narrowed in recent weeks. Perriello’s Campaign announced today that President Obama [...]

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How quickly things change. Just over a week ago, we wrote: As of today, August 22, 2010 Republicans could pick up a maximum of 12 seats in the US Senate giving them a total of 53 seats. And not one seat more. Well, we also said: With two and a half months remaining before election [...]

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And then there was one. Scott Rigell is the projected winner in the Second Congressional District with 39% and the closest to that total is Loyola with 25%. With 63% of Precincts reporting, Scott Rigell should easily hold this lead. In the 11th Congressional District race, Keith Fimian leads 58% to 42% for Patrick Herrity [...]

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