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When Hanover Supervisor Elton Wade opened his mouth and declared he was appointing Norm Sulser to the Hanover School Board as a reward for helping him (Wade) get elected (again) to the BOS, a righteous firestorm erupted. This smacks of corruption and good ole boy politics that the citizens oh Hanover County have come to […]

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My blogging hero, William Lloyd Garrison, once said, “John Brown has told us the time.”  I would say to paraphrase that phrase for our time, that “Cyprus has told us the time.”  It is time for us to control spending and debt or someday this will happen to us. UKIP leader Nigel Farage was quoted […]

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One of my favorite TV shows was one that only lasted a summer was Mister Sterling, with Josh Brolin as a newly appointed US Senator (the son of a politician played superbly by Josh Brolin) who has his own agenda:  Do what he thinks is right.  Here‘s more info about it.  (I could not find […]

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I have to blog for God and you, my readers and the readers of Virginia Right, will hear more about how we must turn back to God instead of trusting in politics and politicians.  Our origins as a nation were through and by the work of God and the Founders knew it.  Many of them […]

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Insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results. And by that definition Republicans have suffered from insanity for the past two election cycles. John McCain was a horribly liberal candidate and Barack Obama handed him his head on a platter by being the bold colors to McCain’s pastel shades of Liberalism. […]

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Most of Tim Kaine’s money comes from out of state groups and individuals while the majority of George Allen’s donations have been from in state sources. Election filings show that 55% of Tim Kaine’s money is from outside Virginia while Allen has only taken in 34% from out of Virginia sources.   while he was […]

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These two articles found on Real Clear Politics show the threat to the US that the European Union is. The first article makes a eloquent plea that the euro will survive but maybe not the EU.  This is great news for liberty and the United States. Though it is not too late to save the […]

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Here is a blog entry I found about a local MP candidate for the Pirate Party in Greece, Petros (Peter) Papageorgiou.  A few highlights: My first childhood contact with the concept of Pirates, was through the story of Peter Pan and Captain Hook. Due to my name being Peter, I fantasized more about becoming the […]

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Led by Joachim PAUL, the Pirate Party, the somewhat libertarian German Pirate Party won 7.6% of the vote in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s California! The Pirates were dancing in the streets in a graffiti-smeared neighborhood near the central station as hundreds of the party’s young, laptop-toting followers crowded into a local disco called Zakk to dance […]

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“The bridge back to me supporting Radkte has been burned, blown up and nuked to the stone age. I would vote for her in a primary if she was the only candidate against Allen, but that is how much I loathe an Allen candidacy.” ~ Chip Tarbutton comment on Sara for America blog It is […]

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A local government official in North West England who was the Tory leader in that region has defected to UKIP!  David Potts had withering criticism for his former leader, PM David Cameron: “I believe David Cameron is a spineless prime minister, and I deeply regret having supported his bid for the party leadership.” “UKIP is […]

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Developments in the impending EU vote: PM Cameron moved it up to Monday, October 24: The stage therefore seemed set for the following drama: the debate would be rushed forward to Monday, in order both to thwart voter pressure on MPs to vote against the Government and to allow Cameron and William Hague to be […]

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First and foremost, the plan proposed by House Speaker John Boehner was a real stinker even before the CBO came out with their analysis showing Boehner’s numbers were wrong. Instead of the promised #1.2 Trillion (over 10 years) cuts, the CBO said just over $800 Billion (or $80 Billion a year). But either way, most […]

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National Review did not have too much nice to say about Cong. Ron Paul in the 2007-08 primary season.  i was very upset at the increasingly neo-con tone of my old tome I would go and read in the Wright State library when I got the chance!   (I read Human Events, too!)  But this from […]

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Timo Soini, the leader of the anti-EU True Finn Party that nearly came in first in the recent elections in his country last month, wrote a guest column in the Wall Street Journal.  He is the kind of politician Europe needs (How ’bout that summer camp for EU politicos?  Sounds like a winner…) He calls […]

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The Watcher asked members of the Watcher of Weasels for their predictions on the election results for Tuesday’s midterm elections. How many seats will be gained (or lost) by Republicans in the House? Senate? Most surprising upset. Highest ranking politician to lose power. A sentence or two with overall observations. The participants were: Rhymes with […]

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My favorite Democrat (officeholder), Rep. Heath Shuler, is moving toward a run for Speaker of the House. “If there is no viable alternative, I will be running for speaker of the House,” Shuler said during a radio debate with Republican Jeff Miller, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported. My first comment is:  Let’s make sure he’s running […]

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The Council has Spoken 100310 The Watcher on Oct 03 2010 at 9:00 am | Filed under: The Council Has Spoken! It’s far from the best known of his songs, but I just came across this video of Harry Chapin’s W*O*L*D last night. In his “Greatest Stories Live” album, Chapin introduced this with a quip […]

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What do you get when you mix a radically pro-choice politician with Catholic doctrine that teaches that life is sacred, and a reporter who’s not afraid to ask a tough question? A whole bunch of awesome .

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