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Elton Wade is now famous! His outrageous salary of $41.25 per hour for his school crossing guard job was discussed today on 1140 AM Radio by Leland Conway. Hanover citizens are livid that this type of thing is being allowed to happen. We covered this story a couple of weeks ago here Why Is Hanover [...]

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I was stunned by the abdication (called resignation) of Pope Benedict XVI.  I have admired Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger for many years.  He did a super job as Pope John Paul II’s defender of Catholic doctrine.  In light of John Paul’s emphasis on defending and advancing the central doctrines of the Church (I am not Catholic [...]

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House Republicans finally came up with a good idea. If Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats continue to avoid their duty and pass a budget, the House wants to dock their pay. In other words, if you don’t do your job, you don’t get paid. That’s pretty darn hard to defend to the American Public. [...]

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This is graphic proof that Unions are nothing more than thugs and they should be completely banned from American soil. These lazy union thugs are sapping the dollars from American cities, schools and businesses producing inferior and in Michigan, where the thuggery is happening this moment, the Union Teachers are doing such a wonderful job [...]

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  This is the most disturbing report I have seen since Obama took office. And believe me, there have been many! The sudden and unexpected drop in the unemployment numbers to 7.8% have economists scratching their heads. Especially when you consider that for every job “created”, the Obama Administration removes 10 from the workforce. According [...]

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Tim Kaine has learned a lot from President Obama. Just like Obama is using the Navy Seals that killed Osama Bin Laden for his own political gain and wants credit for doing nothing more than convince Valerie Jarrett to let him order the raid on the Terrorist’s compound, it seems Tim Kaine now wants credit [...]

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Bahrain also won their first medal:  MaryanYusuf Jamal won bronze in the women’s 1500 meters! (technically they won four years ago but their 2008 winner was stripped for doping!) Then there’s Bahrain, which technically joined the first-timers club in Beijing four years ago, only to have its bronze-medal winner, runner Rashid Ramzi, stripped of his [...]

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Exactly how many times can the Obama Administration / Campaign tell us not to read too much into the jobs numbers? Well, 30 times so far. The Mitt Romney campaign has done a wonderful job documenting how many times this has occurred. But I wouldn’t call it a broken record. More like a broken teleprompter. From Obama [...]

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Businesses are afraid to invest, afraid to hire and afraid to expand. The ones that have survived have “downsized” to the point that they are profitable. Could they grow? Hire more people? Perhaps. In some cases, absolutely. But they don’t. Because they are afraid. Between the EPA attacks, union attacks, and threats to soak anyone [...]

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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli leads Lt. Governor Bill Bolling 51% to 15% in a brand new poll. Wow! That’s a pretty stunning number. According to CNN: Cuccinelli, who will face Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling in 2013, led his rival 51%-15%, the Quinnipiac University survey indicated. Cuccinelli’s popularity among Virginia GOP voters was also reflected [...]

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I heard that one of the Hanover School Board members is retiring after 36 years.  It sounds like, based on this editorial, that Sue Watson was dedicated and we should deliver a hearty thanks for a job well done.  I am not in Ms. Watson’s district so I cannot apply for it.  BUT, some thoughts [...]

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The anti-business Obama Administration is seeing it’s policies damage the jobs market. After fudging the math by removing large numbers of out of work people from the count, the fuzzy math is proving to be too much to hide the dire condition of the US economy. The figures for May 2012 were just released and [...]

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President Obama just finished a press conference where he took a few questions dealing with the Supreme Court case and some of his more or less threatening comments from yesterday towards the Supreme Court. And he appeared to be walking back some of his inflammatory rhetoric and was forced to qualify his statement that overturning [...]

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I have been playing catch up on several fronts and have yet to find the time to put down a few thoughts on a gathering last week at the US Capitol put together by Virginia Congressman Robert Hurt. I have met Congressman Hurt once or twice before, but only briefly. And I believe the first [...]

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Senator Donald McEachin is leading the charge to hold Virginia’s budget hostage in hopes of getting back some of the power voters took away in November. This is not about funding this or funding that. It’s about McEachin getting a bigger office and having more power, plain and simple. There is not a dimes worth [...]

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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli raised some eyebrows with the announcement that he would run for Governor in 2013. Most in Virginia Republican circles were familiar with the “deal” made between then Attorney General Bob McDonnell and then (and still) Lt. Governor Bill Bolling. Or most had at least heard the rumor. In order to [...]

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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. [...]

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As I explained last month, there are two ways to get the unemployment rate down. And since the Obama Administration is well aware that a jobless rate of 8% or more historically spells doom for a second term, he is doing what he can to lower that number. The best way to shrink the number [...]

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Ok. I’m not going back to Outback Steak House any time soon. This is absolutely absurd. Fired for wearing a Gadsden Bracelet? Restaurants aren’t doing so great right now. But I guess Outback can afford to lose TEA Party Patriots. CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (CBS) — A Crystal Lake waitress says she lost her job because [...]

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