Virginia Right!

This is a great article from the Humble Libertarian (he got it from here) on states against Agenda 21: The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to ban UN Agenda 21 polices. This legislation will prevent local, county and state governments from adopting the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) programs. ICLEI is a [...]

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‘It’s disappointing and, I can assure you, highly frustrating to see what happens here in Washington: More spending and debt and kicking tough decisions down the road… Despite every warning sign imaginable, we have no solutions from this Administration or Democratic leadership in the Senate. The President punts on almost every tough decision.’     [...]

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The local officials who question or sneer at the idea that ICLEI is some sort of UN plot to take away our sovereignty need to read this from the ICLEI website: ICLEI holds up the flag for Local Governments at UNEP Governing Council February 24, 2011 At the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC26/GMEF), [...]

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Indeed it has…the votes have been cast, the sacred runes read and this week’s Watcher’s Council results are history. Many of the entries this week focused on the ongoing controversy between the public employee unions and financially strapped state governments, but as I think most of us know, this is really a part of the [...]

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Attorney General Cuccinelli announces he will seek expedited review of Virginia health care lawsuit in the Supreme Court RICHMOND (February 3, 2011) – Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced today that Virginia will file a petition to ask the United States Supreme Court to take Virginia’s health care lawsuit now, as opposed to waiting for [...]

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called members of the House of Representatives back to Washington from their districts today to pass what the Democrat leadership considers a priority—a $26 billion bailout for teachers unions and spendthrift state governments. This is, of course, on top of recent spending on bailouts, the massive, unpopular health care bill, unemployment [...]

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The cynicism of Democrats and the Obama administration grows ever more audacious with each new proposal they take advantage of a crisis to push. It’s well known that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel subscribes to a philosophy of what he once described as, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” To that end, the White House is using the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico to push their job-killing carbon cap-and-trade legislation. But Senate Democrats have their own cynical legislative proposal this week, which uses the oil spill as an excuses to raise taxes to expand the oil spill clean-up trust fund, but then raids the fund to instead pay for other spending, like state Medicaid bailouts.

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Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling today sent a strongly worded letter to Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner expressing outrage over special concessions given to certain states to obtain support for federal healthcare legislation from their Senators and asking them to oppose this legislation, which Bolling called “misguided.”

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