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Both the Weekly Standard (which I do not fully trust) and the Wall Street Journal (which I trust more) have called for a biometric ID card for ALL US workers to prove they have legal status.  Here’s the Weekly Standard’s quoting the WSJ: The Journal writes that “at least five of the eight senators writing [...]

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Talk Show host Mark Levin rips Bob McDonnell a new one over his mega tax increase and Medicaid expansion. Even the Wall Street Journal said that the name of McDonnell comes up from time to time as a Presidential Candidate in 2016 – “well, that (tax increase) erases that”. Well said, Mark! Listen:

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The Wall Street Journal has this intriguing report about the so-called Bigelow Snub:  That the director of the movie Zero Dark Thirty,  Kathryn Bigelow, was the victim of (ready now?  It’s shocking!) right wing politics!  That the Academy caved to right-wing criticism surrounding this movie and refused to nominate the director (the film was nominated [...]

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Are you old enough to remember Dodge Ball? It was a wonderful little “sport” that we used to play in Gym Class, usually when it was too wet or too cold to go outside. It was a fun activity could entertain the whole class indoors at the same time. The coach would divide the class [...]

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New Study: ‘Only 49% Of Graduates From The Classes Of 2009 To 2011 Had Found A Full-Time Job Within A Year Of Finishing School’   University Research: Grads ‘May Never Catch Up’   “In a study to be released Thursday, the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University found that recent graduates [...]

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Floyd Mays, a local businessman and a Henrico Resident has released a Youtude video in response to the Occupy Richmond and Occupy Wall Street: He makes an excellent point, “We don’t have to occupy Richmond, but we do have to get involved”.

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Part I Preface: Apparently, some Virginia Right! readers on the right are confused by the video and writeup of my visit to Kanawha Plaza and my characterization of what I actually found to be true. The article was intended to be true investigative journalism. As such, I reported exactly what I found and attempted to [...]

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Despite President Obama’s Repeated Promises That His Health ‘Law Will Lower Premiums,’ Families And Employers Are Paying More   ‘Increase In Family Premiums’ ‘Tied To Provisions Of The Federal Health Care Overhaul’   “The health-insurance premiums paid by employers rose sharply this year, with the average annual cost of family coverage passing the $15,000 mark [...]

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Labor Union Report suggests: Union bosses have been engaging in class warfare for so long now that it’s become standard for the media to echo the meme without challenge. An example of such mainstream Marxism is in today’s Bloomberg piece entitled ‘Runaway CEO Pay’ Could Support 102,000 U.S. Jobs, AFL-CIO Says. Bloomberg’s piece relies heavily [...]

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It’s now been almost two years since President Obama announced on his second day in office that “Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.” But this policy was announced hastily, and as Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell pointed out a year ago, “[President Obama] didn’t provide any details about how the [...]

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I have read this article by the Richmond Libertarian Examiner, Igor Prohorov, on Cong. Paul. It is well written example of good solid editorial writing. Paul is slated to become the chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve.  Now, there are soundings that GOP leaders are being “asked” to prevent that event [...]

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On Wednesday, President Obama was in Iowa to again attempt to sell his policies, particularly his unpopular health care law. In a backyard discussion, a woman expressed her concerns to the President about his health care bill. Obama assured her, “[T]here’s nothing in the bill that says you have to change the health insurance that [...]

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Several months ago, President Obama said: If everybody here turned off your CNN, your Fox, just turn off the TV, MSNBC, blogs, and just go talk to folks out there, instead of being in this echo chamber where the topic is constantly politics. The topic is politics. It is much more difficult to get a [...]

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Gallup writes today, “Americans of all political persuasions say the economy and jobs are the most important problems facing the country today. These concerns easily outpace all others, thus providing politicians seeking office in this fall’s midterm elections with clear marching orders from their constituents: Fix the economy. . . . In the Aug. 5-8 [...]

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For Over A Year The White House Has Told Unemployed Americans “The Worst May Be Behind Us,” & That Their Economic Plan Will “Literally Drop-Kicks Us Out Of This Recession” SEC. GEITHNER: “Welcome To The Recovery … A Review Of Recent Data On The American Economy Shows That We Are On A Path Back To [...]

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Yesterday, the Senate passed the severely flawed Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill. Though the Obama administration has long promoted the bill as a signature agenda item, it’s clearly lost its luster politically and with the general public. It’s not hard to see why. Speaking on the floor prior to the vote yesterday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch [...]

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RAHM EMANUEL: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” (“In Crisis, Opportunity For Obama,” The Wall Street Journal, 11/21/08)

PRESIDENT OBAMA: “We are experiencing an unprecedented [perhaps] economic crisis that has to be dealt with and dealt with rapidly.” (“Obama Sees Stimulus Package By Mid-February,” MSNBC, 1/23/09)

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The jobs numbers for May are horrible any way you look at them. The 431,000 jobs created included 411,000 temporary census jobs. There were only 20,000 private sector jobs created for the entire month.

President Obama is running around trying to tell people the economy is “getting stronger every day.”

Today Wall Street called his bluff. The DOW fell 323 points to close at 9,932 – below the psychological bottom line of 10,000.

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All signs are pointing to a big drop in the Stock Market today. Experts had expected a drop in the weekly unemployment filing figures by around 4,000. Instead, a large rise of 25,000 new claims sent futures down sharply as hopes for a recovery in progress dimmed.

Combined with a weakening Euro, which is sending fears of a double dip recession overseas, this could be a bad day on Wall Street.

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