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I have written several times about the restoration of the Appellate Defender’s office in Virginia.  The Indigent Defense Commission had to abolish the office due to budget cuts. Now you can do something about it!  Email your senator if you are in his or her district (especially the Republicans!) or can if a Virginia voter, [...]

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Here’s the word from the chairman of the Alabama GOP in a Montgomery blog: Governor Bentley also signed Senate Bill 477, sponsored by Senator Gerald Dial of Lineville. This bill, that would bar the state from taking over private property without due process, is intended to shelter Alabamians from the United Nations Agenda 21, a sustainable development [...]

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Finally, VICTORY!  An anti-Agenda 21 bill has PASSED a state legislature:  Senate Bill 477 bans any state involvement in Agenda 21 programs that infringe on personal property rights and also bans any Alabama municipality from joining ICLEI (although ICLEI is not mentioned by name). Here’s the text and confirmation that it passed! Earlier in the [...]

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While bills banning ICLEI have been introduced in several states, the best effort was quietly done in Arizona.  The Senate and a House committee have voted to prevent the state and all its political subdivisions from implementing the Rio Declaration (That’s where Agenda 21 comes from!) and it bans ICLEI in Arizona!  It passed the [...]

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The Tennessee anti-ICLEI bill was withdrawn by its sponsor and the anti-smart growth bill defeated in committee, according to the Tennessean: Womick took House Bill 3571 off notice Wednesday, meaning it will not be considered again this year. That bill would ban local governments and other entities from taking part in programs with ICLEI or [...]

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VIRGINIA CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE and VIRGINIA CHRISTIAN ACTION and NO EXCUSE MINISTRY PAC And VIRGINIA COALITION FOR LIFE Press Release   Sad. Call it the Mitt Romney effect. We could have used Governor McDonnell’s help. Unfortunately, he was too busy to fight for life.

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The TEA Party movement is the most important political phenomenon of my lifetime. Arguable since the country was founded. The movement itself is far more important than any individual, the sum of it’s parts being exponentially greater than the individual pieces. The left has endeavored to rip the movement apart with lies, spin and half-truths. [...]

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On Tuesday, President Barack Obama tried to keep the pressure on Congress to consider his nearly $450 billion jobs bill, saying it had been two weeks since he sent the bill to Capitol Hill “and now I want it back.” “I want it back, passed, so I can sign this bill and start putting people [...]

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… as soon as tomorrow! The momentum is really picking up to stop this law.  The Republican controlled house passed H.R. 2. just a few weeks into the 112th congress.  Yesterday, Federal Judge Roger Vinson became the second federal judge to rule Obamacare as unconstitutional.   In the U.S. Senate, Sen Jim DeMint was able to [...]

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55 Democrats Vote For A “Ponzi Scheme.” Thune Amendment #3640: “REPEAL OF THE CLASS ACT. Title VIII of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the amendments made by that title are repealed.” (Thune Amendment #3640, Roll Call Vote #77, Motion To Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Failed 43-55: R 40-0; D 2-54; I 1-1, 3/24/10)

“Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) Called The CLASS Act ‘A Ponzi Scheme Of The First Order, The Kind Of Thing That Bernie Madoff Would Have Been Proud Of,’ And He Vowed To Block Its Inclusion In The Senate Bill.” (Proposed Long-Term Insurance Program Raises Questions,” The Washington Post, 10/27/09)

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54 Democrats Voted To Keep The Special Deals In Health Reconciliation Bill. (McCain Amendment #3570, Roll Call Vote #65, Motion To Table Agreed To 54-43: R 0-40; D 52-3; I 2-0, 3/24/10)

ROCKY TOP VOTE SWAP

Full Medicaid Disproportionate Share Payment (DSH) For Tennessee. “EXTENSION OF DSH ALLOTMENT.—Section 1923(f)(6)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396r-4(f)(6)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(v) ALLOTMENT FOR 2D, 3RD, AND 4TH QUARTERS OF FISCAL YEAR 2012 AND FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013.—Notwithstanding the table set forth in paragraph (2): ‘‘(I) 2D, 3RD, AND 4TH QUARTERS OF FISCAL YEAR 2012.—In the case of a State that has a DSH allotment of $0 for the 2d, 3rd, and 4th quarters of fiscal year 2012, the DSH allotment shall be $47,200,000 for such quarters. ‘‘(II) FISCAL YEAR 2013.—In the case of a State that has a DSH allotment of $0 for fiscal year 2013, the DSH allotment shall be $53,100,000 for such fiscal year.’’” (“Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute To H.R. 4872,” 3/18/2010, P. 67)

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FACT CHECK: Deficit Reduction

CBO Has Said That Long Term Projections Are “Not Meaningful” While Democrats Have Already Blown Through Their Most Optimistic Savings In Health Bill

REP. JOHN BOCCIERI (D-OH): “I Will Be Voting Yes For The Bill. Yes I Got A Deficit Reduction Of $1.2 Trillion In The Second Ten Years And $138 Billion In The First Ten Years.” (Rep. Boccieri, Press Conference, 3/19/10)

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‘Taking a bill that House Democrats are too embarrassed to vote on, adding more than $150 billion in new taxes and slashing $60 billion more from our seniors’ Medicare and keeping sweetheart deals may make some Washington Democrats ‘giddy,’ but it’s not reform’

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From the Washington Post:

A spokesman for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) said this afternoon that Virginia will file suit against the federal government if the Democratic health care reform bill is approved by the U.S. Congress.

Cuccinelli has long said he was examining the legal issues and suggested he would likely file suit. Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for the office, said this afternoon that a lawsuit is now a definite. Gottstein would provide no details of the legal rationale for such a suit, indicating the process is “still being worked out.”

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My, my how quickly things change for Democrats. In December, Louise Slaughter, the same one that is helping Nancy Pelosi shred the Constitution faster than Fawn Hall shredded Ollie North’s documents, penned an op-ed column for CNN.

Slaughter wrote:

The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago.

Even though the House version is far from perfect, it at least represents a step toward our goal of giving 36 million Americans decent health coverage.

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The Virginia Right! News Hound surfs the ‘net to take the pulse of the world every day. The links published below are opinions and takes on the news that we find interesting. This feature is designed to save you the time of sifting through dozens of websites.

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Looks like a game changer, folks. The Democrat’s plan to cheat health care reform through the House is in jeopardy.

Democrats efforts to beg the American people to go along with their legislation failed.

Democrats efforts to borrow more money to pass the legislation have failed.

Democrats efforts to steal money from Medicare to pay for the expensive reform legislation failed.

Democrats efforts to bribe lawmakers into votes have failed.

And now, it looks like the Democrats efforts to cheat the bill through will also come up short.

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The Virginia Right! News Hound surfs the ‘net to take the pulse of the world every day. The links published below are opinions and takes on the news that we find interesting. This feature is designed to save you the time of sifting through dozens of websites.

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The Virginia Right! News Hound surfs the ‘net to take the pulse of the world every day. The links published below are opinions and takes on the news that we find interesting. This feature is designed to save you the time of sifting through dozens of websites.

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