Virginia Right!

I was invited by Senator Bell’s campaign to attend the Chesterfield Nottobenamed/Reagan Dinner.  It was a nice presentation with a great speech from Jim Kuhn, who worked for my hero from 1976 through the end of his second term (I am surprised I did not mob him like a rock star!) who wrote this book:  [...]

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It looks like the heroes of my youth are fading off into the sunset.  But the ideas of Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher will endure forever. I could hardly improve upon the thousands of columns on the late PM but I honoured Baroness Thatcher by listening to this speech which could [...]

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Following the State of the Union address by Barack Obama tonight, US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) will deliver the Republican response. Below are excerpts from the speech he is set to deliver: “This opportunity – to make it to the middle class or beyond no matter where you start out in life – it isn’t bestowed on us [...]

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  The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. What happens when you finally decide enough is enough? This week’s winner, Virginia Right! looks at that question in this week’s winning entry, .Boehner and Cantor’s ‘War on Conservatives’ Causes Exodus of Conservatives [...]

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Another Virginia Congressman has turned his back on the Conservatives who put him into office. Congressman Scott Rigell is now the latest to justify expanding government through tax increases. And he has even adopted the Progressive’s “code word” for tax hikes calling them “revenue enhancements” to blur the truth. Rigell’s approach is to take away deductions [...]

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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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In an editorial today, The Wall Street Journal editors takes a top Senate Democrat to task for a speech staking out a position that would sink tax reform efforts. They write, “The polls say voters want more bipartisanship, and one possibility in 2013 is tax reform that trades lower rates for fewer loopholes. Well, so much for that. [...]

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It seems that Obama is now lifting speeches from fellow failed president Jimmy Carter. Keep in mind as you watch this video that Tim Kaine supports Obama 100%. (Kaine even resembles Jimmy Carter a bit, don’t you think?) This short video shows Carter and Obama giving the same speech. Stunning. Absolutely stunning. And keep in mind that [...]

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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: What grade would you give Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech? The Noisy Room: Many will disagree, but I give Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech an [...]

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USA Today writes, “In USA TODAY/Gallup Poll nationwide and in the 12 top battleground states, most voters say the situation for them and their families hasn’t improved over the past four years, the first time that has happened since Ronald Reagan famously posed the question in his debate with President Carter in 1980 — a contest [...]

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The small Caribbean nation of Grenada, liberated from a Communist coup by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, won their first Olympic medal in history today!  James Kirani won GOLD in the 400 meter run!  Here, for the benefit of NBC and my readers is the national anthem of Grenada! We’ll play it in this home [...]

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Last night was a pretty big night for Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. He won the Illinois Primary by a pretty good margin. It seems that Republicans are coming to grips with a Mitt Romney candidacy. Many are still reluctant to “settle” for a New England Moderate. Not that Romney is light years better than [...]

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The news for Mitt Romney is getting worse by the day. Rick Santorum has opened up a double digit lead over rival Mitt Romney in Gallup’s latest daily tracking poll. The survey finds Santorum with support from 36 percent of registered Republicans nationally, topping Romney at 26 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) follows [...]

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There is a very thoughtful article right here in the UK Independent from Yasman Alibhai-Brown on the idea of a “centre” at Oxford University named after former PM Margaret Thatcher.  Alibhai-Brown feels that it would debase the university for it to take the money to do the center named after Baroness Thatcher: An academic centre [...]

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Today, December 26, 2011 is the 20th anniversary of the greatest miracle of the century:  The dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.  The USSR was truly, as Ronald Reagan once put it, the evil empire.  The dissolution of this tyrannical state was truly a miracle from God.  There is no other response from [...]

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If you are familiar with Georgia State politics, then you know the name Tom Murphy. Murphy served as Speaker of the House of Representatives in Georgia for 28 years, from 1974 to 2002. He was described often as the most powerful man in Georgia. His time as Speaker saw five governors come and go – [...]

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I wrote on this some time ago:  How Newt Gingrich is actually resident of Virginia.  When he set up his campaign, Georgia is his base of operations but he is legally a resident of Virginia.This ought to cause some soul searching among Virginia GOPers.  But it begs the question: Who might be Speaker Gingrich’s running [...]

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It’s great:  A statue was unveiled in Warsaw – by none other than former Polish President Lech Walesa!   Who? Certainly not Leonid Brezhnev (nor Chancellor Merkel, either!) was honored!  It was former President Ronald W. Reagan! Here’s the article with a great photograph!  I can’t wait to see it! “What happened seemed impossible or [...]

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The Super Committee has failed. The Democrats one and only goal here is to make Republicans go for a tax increase. Again. And they plan to use this “compromise” to win in 2012. Again. So what do you do when the answer to the question “Are you better off now than you were four years [...]

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