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I have it on fairly good authority that the Governor’s office keeps up with this and other political blogs so let’s use that for this purpose:  I encourage Governor McDonnell to sign the HB1160.  Send a message.  Virginia will not cooperate with unconstitutional indefinite detention without legal counsel.  I believe Governor McDonnell will do the […]

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Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)

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You may have noticed the black banner atop the Virginia Right! Logo in the header section of this blog. Today, the internet has gone on strike. Millions of websites have either gone dark like Wikipedia or have added protest banners and links like we have at Virginia Right! SOPA and it’s bastard sibling in the […]

About Tom White

Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 8/14/2011 are out! Several blogs (finally) took our advice and registered for Technorati and moved up quite a bit in the rankings as a result. This week’s Most Improved Virginia Political Blog Award goes to The Green Miles which rose 432% compared to the previous week and this translated […]

About Tom White

Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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Did you see this? Our friends over at Bearing Drift have been named the best state-based political blog in Virginia. The Fix – a Washington Post political “hangout” polled the political faithful and came out with the top political blogs in each state. J.R. Hoeft has always done an amazing job tracking and reporting the […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/3/2011 are out! Apologies for the tardiness of this week’s rankings. The “snapshot” was taken on Sunday as usual, but I was out of state for the 4th of July Holiday and was unable to find the time to post. But there are some significant changed in the rankings! […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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Introducing Blog Ranking 2.0! Since January Virginia Right! has compiled a weekly ranking of the top political blogs in Virginia. This was just the first version, and as I wrote at the time. Shortly after I started, I began working on the next version, a far more complicated endeavor that took some time. I had […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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As most of you know, I have been compiling a weekly ranking of the political blogs in Virginia since the first of the year. But I began doing research to try to come up with a fair and accurate way of doing a ranking several months before I began doing the rankings. One of the […]

About Tom White

Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 6/12/2011 are out! Bearing Drift maintains the first place spot by a slim margin as All Politics is Local (Vivian Paige) climbs back up to number two, moving ahead of Virginia Right! Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most […]

About Tom White

Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 6/5/2011 are out! Vivian Page’s All Politics is Local has been the #1 ranked blog since these rankings began the first of the year (2011). This week, All Politics is Local drops two spots to #3 as Bearing Drift moves up a spot into first place. Several blogs moved […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 5/29/2011 are out! Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most Improved Blog is On the Right in Virginia improving 221% over last week. This is the second week in a row! I manually checked the figures and they are […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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  The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 5/22/2011 are out! Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most Improved Blog is On the Right in Virginia improving 53% over last week. That equates to 13 spots in the standings (from #61 to #48) for the winner’s […]

About Tom White

Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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  Update: Tim Donner responded and I posted a new write up on his response. Please take time to visit here and read it. The Republican contenders for the US Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Jim Webb are many. The seat’s previous occupant George Allen is considered the front runner by most. Other candidates […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 5/15/2011 are out! The news this week is that Ben Tribbit’s Not Larry Sabato was replaced at the #3 slot (overall) by Bart Hinkle’s Barticles. Tribbet’s blog falls to #4. Barticles has been climbing of late and Not Larry Sabato has been in a gradual decline for some time, […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 5/8/2011 are out! Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most Improved Blog is The American Civil War improving 102% over last week! That equates to 16 spots in the standings (from #71 to #55) for the winner’s spot! This […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 5/1/2011 are out! Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most Improved Blog is Disrupt the Narrative improving 79% over last week! That equates to 4 spots in the standings (from #13 to #9) for the winner’s spot! It should […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 4/24/2011 are out! Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most Improved Blog is The Lee Brother’s Blog improving 424% over last week! That equates to 10 spots in the standings (from #72 to #62) for the winner’s spot! (I […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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Here are this week’s Virginia Political Blog Rankings. Note the added column (after Trend) which shows last week’s standings vs. other Virginia Political Blogs. Please note that the up or down trend refers to the score for each blog this week vs. last week. As such, it is a measure of how the blog did […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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Virginia Blog Rankings for 1/9/2011 Last Sunday we began a weekly blog ranking feature to try to put a measuring stick on Virginia’s Political Blogs. As discussed last week, this is a rather wide open task. As the Editor of one of the blogs, I also want to make sure that the rating system (me) […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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It would appear so. HB 1604 introduced by Delegate Dave Albo (R-Fairfax) seeks to tax out of state businesses that perform services outside of the state for Virginians “if the taxpayer has exploited the market provided by the Commonwealth to the extent that any benefit or use of such sale is to a person or […]

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Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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