About two weeks ago, DoD Buzz ran a commentary by the Heritage Foundation that promoted the notion that the START talks would only increase the United States' vulnerability to a Russian nuclear weapons strike, and that the only sane solution was to [...]
Ed Morrisey’s: Obamateurism of the Day
Barack Obama tried getting some sales mileage for his ObamaCare bill by using the story of Natoma, an Ohio woman battling cancer. Unfortunately, Obama oversold the story by attempting to make the insurers and providers the bad guys [...]
The Virginia Right! News Hound surfs the ‘net to take the pulse of the world every day. The links published below are opinions and takes on the news that we find interesting. This feature is designed to save you the time of sifting through dozens of [...]
Taking a break from all-health care, all the time, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (VA), sat down yesterday with Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar to discuss Virginia’s offshore energy exploration and request that the Commonwealth remain included in the Minerals Management Service (MMS) Draft Proposed 5-Year [...]
Later today we should know what the Congressional Budget Office thinks regarding the overall cost of the health care bill, and Stephen Spruiell of the National Review doesn’t have a whole lot of confidence that those numbers will even be acknowledged by House Democrats. Spruiell [...]

In an era when teachers are being forced to pay for school supplies out of their own pockets, why does Wicomico County Board of Education superintendent John Fredericksen seem to think that the taxpayers should foot the bill for taking county executive Rick Pollitt out to [...]
A Civil War Within the Self
E. Stanley Jones
Romans 7:7-25
What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the [...]
When the rape statistics are worse in the military than they are in the general public.
The number of sexual assaults reported in the U.S. military rose 11 percent last year, the Defense Department said Tuesday, but Pentagon officials conceded that they still don't know how common sexual assaults are [...]
March 17, 2010
The Honorable Patrick Leahy
Chairman
United States Senate
Judiciary Committee
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable John Cornyn
Ranking Member
United States Senate
Judiciary Committee
152 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senators Leahy and Cornyn:
The undersigned organizations write in support [...]
“F*** you, I ain’t leaving, and you can’t make me f***ing leave.” Needless to say, he left the party.
Our friends over at Star News (WGSR) did a little investigation after some Eden (NC) residents were taking about a disturbance at Eden’s City Hall last Friday night.
Eden rents [...]
Friends,
The time is now. We’ve reached a pivotal moment in the fight against a government takeover of health care and we need your help.
On Sunday, the White House said “this is the week” Democrats plan to ignore the will of the American people and ram their government takeover of health [...]
The statists are fond of saying that ours is a “living, breathing Constitution,” which can be interpreted according to the prevailing winds of politics. But when words have no fixed meaning, then they have no meaning at all. Let us consider a Constitution that guarantees citizens ”freedom of speech, of the [...]
I wrote last week that I supported tentatively some sort of expansion of the NCAA basketball tourney so that the regular season and tournament winners from each conference go to ensure each conference gets its best team overall in the NCAAs.
Here’s one proposed 96 team bracket. Perhaps some early [...]

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During moments like this, I believe it’s important to remember why we have worked so hard for so long. That’s why I spoke to the country Monday at a gathering in Ohio and said it plainly: I’m here for Natoma.
Natoma Canfield is like most of us: [...]
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has written to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stating, “Should you employ the deem and pass tactic, you expose any act which may pass to yet another constitutional challenge.”
Full text of letter at The Corner at National [...]
Doctors have already started to refuse to take the paltry pittance from the Federal Government, and now the Drug Stores are cutting off the elderly in preparation for the changes in payments and losses that pharmacies will when the Health Care “Reform” is shoved down America’s throats.
This means that Walgreens [...]
Smokey the Bear lost a friend....
I received this in the mail this past Saturday:
So when I read a report from Dan Riehl that ol' Gerry has slammed the door in his constituents' faces yet again, I laughed.
You see, this "open door" policy of Gerry's has been in place since almost day one, [...]
I have a new column up at Pajama’s Media about the political implications of the health care reform battle.
Let the litigation begin:
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.
Similar legislation [...]
"Read the Bill" is continuing into Wednesday evening as volunteers from around Virginia read the 2,409-page health care bill out loud for what is now estimated to take 60 continuous hours. Listen in at www.RPV.org/ReadTheBill.
