By Adam Bitely — The transportation plan that passed through Virginia’s General Assembly this past weekend has a major constitutional problem. The plan, heavily supported by Republican Governor Bob McDonnell, was the largest tax increase in Virginia history . The constitutional problem with the bill results from the way that the […]

By Rick Manning — What would you say if a group of employees working the Alzheimer’s ward in a health care facility deliberately switched the name tags on patient’s doors making patient identification difficult and removed dietary instructions from the patient’s room, putting patients at risk? Would […]

By Brad Tidwell- ALG’s FOIA request found two NLRB employees making over $100K for working on nothing but internal union issues. Americans for Limited Government (ALG) has discovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that there are two official time full-time employees of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who make over $100,000 each . These are employees whose […]

By Adam Bitely — When voters went to the polls in November of 2009 in Virginia to choose the next Governor, they decided by a wide margin that Bob McDonnell (R) was the better candidate over Creigh Deeds (D). McDonnell had successfully painted Deeds as […]

By Rick Manning — Five and a half days worth of government spending is all that would be cut if the sequester goes into effect on March 1. Having to eliminate five and a half days of spending is hardly the calamity that is coming out of […]

By Robert Romano — In a move that likely makes grassroots conservatives and tea party members wonder why to bother voting Republican at all, the Virginia General Assembly has approved a budget with little opposition that implements a 3.5 percent wholesale gas tax,  that will rise every year with inflation, and an increase in the sales tax from 5 to […]

By Rick Manning — Nothing gets better press than those who claim to be environmentally friendly.  You have corporations trying to shower you with money to get off your bad guy target list, and foundations can’t shovel enough money in your direction as you crusade to save […]

By Bill Wilson — Everything we will ever need to know about the Obama Administration may come down to a single decision. And that is whether Obama, along with newly sworn in Secretary of State John Kerry, approve the Keystone XL pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the U.S . For, contained in that decision is not just […]

By Marta H. Mossburg — I wonder what Mitt Romney thought when he saw the Dodge Ram commercial during the Super Bowl. It’s the one narrated by the late broadcaster Paul Harvey featuring still shots of farmers that everyone is still talking about because it […]

By Adam Bitely — Obama has successfully rekindled the flames of the minimum wage debate by calling for the federal minimum wage to increase from $7.25 per hour of work to $9.00 per hour of work while indexing the minimum wage to inflation for every […]