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 [...]

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James Biden to get $100 Million PLUS. This is huge! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BonstXkqLxk#!   Read the full story here. “How was it that HillStone, a newcomer in the business of home building, landed a massive and potentially lucrative contract to build 100,000 homes in war-torn Iraq?   Richter didn’t mince words. It really helps, he said, to have [...]

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Immediately after the debate ended, each campaign declared victory. The surrogates for President Obama and Governor Romney paraded past the network and cable cameras and radio mics and began their spin job. And every word was predictable – from both sides. At this point, some 8 hours after the debate ended, the campaigns are still spinning [...]

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The first Presidential debate left voters scratching their heads. Mitt Romney was not the monster that the Obama folks had painted him to be. Actually, he was a pretty nice guy and didn’t seem out of touch and “in it for the rich people of the country”. What was even more stunning was the fact [...]

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As a Navy Veteran it is not hard to understand why my fellow Vets would back George Allen. Allen is the Veteran’s candidate of choice because he is right on so many issues facing Veterans today. But mostly, because the looming Defense cuts will decimate our military if they are allowed to go into effect. Veterans know [...]

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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 [...]

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Now that I have survived another DNC, primarily by not watching any of it, I have wondered what to do about the liberty movement. One of the great things about liberty is that we all have opinions and they all count!  There’s no place for incivility.  Leave that for the Establishment pols. But Doug Wead [...]

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The Romney-Ryan campaign has seen a major uptck in the number of visitors since Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan as his Vice President. But that is not the only number that have seen big upticks.       Tomorrow marks a week since Mitt Romney announced his choice of Congressman Paul Ryan to [...]

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By most measures, Paul Ryan is a great pick for Mitt Romney’s VP running mate. There are few in Washington that truly comprehend the US Budget and none of them are elected. This pick will give the Romney Campaign an opportunity to sidestep the distractions from the Obama Campaign and keep the message focused on [...]

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the employment numbers for March today, but news reports suggest they’re disappointing. The Wall Street Journal writes, “U.S. job growth slowed in March, and the labor force shrank, signaling that the economy could be losing momentum. Jobs outside of agriculture grew by 120,000 last month—half the number that the [...]

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President Obama and the Democrats have been spreading falsehoods about supposed Oil “subsidies”. The truth is, Bog Oil Companies do not receive subsidies. A subsidy is a government payment, usually for doing nothing. Like welfare or payments not to grow crops. Oil companies simply get tax deductions like every other business. Not subsidies. Only in [...]

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ABC News has a must-read story today on the results of the Obama administration’s green energy financing program, titled, “Green Firms Get Fed Cash, Give Execs Bonuses, Fail.”   ABC reports, “President Obama’s Department of Energy helped finance several green energy companies that later fell into bankruptcy — but not before the firms doled out [...]

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Senate Democrats Block ‘Important’ Part Of President’s Plan, Another ‘Narrowly Targeted Exercise In 2012 Politics’   Senate Democrats Reject ‘Important’ Part Of The President’s Stimulus Bill. (S. 726, Roll Call Vote #178, Cloture Motion Rejected 57-43: R 47-0, D 10-41, I 0-2, 10/20/11)   JAY CARNEY: ‘They’re All Important, They’re All Of Equal Value’ Q: [...]

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According to the AP, President Obama will travel to Texas today to push his $447 billion stimulus bill and Politico reports that Vice President Joe Biden will similarly be stumping for the bill in Florida.   And yet Senate Democrats continue to show little interest in the president’s bill. This week, Senate Majority Leader Harry [...]

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This from the Daily Caller: Vice President Joe Biden told Florida radio station WLRN on Thursday that voters should hold President Barack Obama, not former President George W. Bush, accountable for the poor state of America’s economy. Conservative PAC American Crossroads circulated the startling statement Thursday afternoon, expecting it will take Democratic campaign strategists by surprise. [...]

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My heroes for the week are Ryan Rhodes, a founder of the Iowa Tea Party and his unnamed friend, when they confronted President Obama about the alleged statement by Vice President Biden that tea party activists were “terrorists”.  Here’s the article from Real Clear Politics: President Obama got into a heated back and forth with [...]

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Doug Ross has an interesting post that expresses just what I was thinking: The Master Chief reminds us that the dumbest vice president in American history likely played a role in the tragedy that saw 31 special operators killed, 25 of whom served in the ultra top-secret SEAL Team Six. …It is believed that many [...]

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Over the weekend, liberal columnist Frank Rich wrote a long piece for New York Magazine, calling on President Obama to implement more policies that could make the economy worse: more taxes and ever more government spending. Unfortunately, Rich may not have to worry, since Democrats seem determined to push more of these failed policies on [...]

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As President Obama finally engaged in talks about addressing this country’s massive debt and deficits in connection with the White House’s request to raise the debt ceiling, Democrats seemed to double down on their insistence on tax hikes. As CNN Money put it in a headline this morning, “Debt ceiling talks turn to taxes – [...]

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