03.04.2013

Bob McDonnell prays for tax increase

This photo shows Bob McDonnell sitting in his office with his staff as he receives word that the transportation plan that he supported, which included the largest tax increase in Virginia’s history, had passed. Notice how he is praying for the tax increase to occur. […]

03.04.2013

The U.S. Senate should reject Gina McCarthy’s nomination to head the EPA

The U.S. Senate should reject Obama nominee, Gina McCarthy, for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. McCarthy has been embroiled in scandal after scandal which can only indicate either pure managerial incompetence or a complicity in the failure to perform her most basic duties. One […]

03.04.2013

Rove beware: UK uprising a warning to Republicans across the pond

By Bill Wilson — “If you kick your core voters hard enough, Mr. Cameron, they might kick back.” That was former Conservative Party chairman and Margaret Thatcher cabinet minister Norman Tebbit’s take on the very poor showing by the Tories in a Feb. 28 special election for the Eastleigh of Hampshire seat in the British House of Commons , behind the UK Independence Party and Liberal Democrat candidates. Tories in the United Kingdom were shocked when their candidate […]

03.04.2013

The campaign against free and fair elections

By Marta H. Mossburg — The elections are only a few months behind us, but Democrats are already busy working to ensure citizens and non-citizens, the dead, felons and those registered in two or more states can cast a ballot in the next political contests. […]

02.28.2013

Bob McDonnell’s tax hike is unconstitutional

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 […]

02.28.2013

Supreme Court may decide if endangering patients is protected union activity

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 […]

02.28.2013

NLRB Pays Two Employees $100K Each to Work for the Union

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 […]

02.27.2013

Bob McDonnell lied to voters

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 […]

02.26.2013

Sequester Made Easy?

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 […]

02.25.2013

Republicans raise taxes in Virginia in return for… expanding Medicaid?

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 […]

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