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  • Best Campaign T-Shirt Award to Commonwealth's Atty. Harvey Bryant

    Created: Saturday, 31 October 2009 16:07 Author: Editor
    VIRGINIA BEACH - - Harvey Bryant showed up at the GOP's Saturday morning breakfast wearing the lastest in campaign fashion - a humerous, eye catching T-shirt.  On the front, it read: "Friends of Harvey Bryant for Commonwealth's Attorney.' On the back th...

  • VNS endorses the following candidates for office Tuesday

    Created: Saturday, 31 October 2009 15:53 Author: Editor
    While the Republicans locally and in Virginia are not the type of Republicans I grew up with in Tennessee, in the Tuesday election they are far better than what the Democrats are offering as alternatives. Mascarading as Republicans the way Virginians do, ...

  • Revenue Neutral? Is that a Virginia Beach oxymoron for taxpayer ripoff?

    Created: Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:05 Author: Editor
    Revenue Neutral?  Revenue?  That's one thing.  Neutral?  That's another?  Together?  Or other words for a tax hike?   What in the hell does that mean?Bob O'Connor says it depends on who is using the phrase.To the mayor and council, revenue neutral ...

  • Good Investment? There are no good govt. investments

    Created: Thursday, 29 October 2009 10:49 Author: Edward W. Clark Jr.
    Dear Editor, Virginia’s Fifth District Representative Tom Perriello likes to tout the so-called economic stimulus plan he voted for as a good investment. However, the latest numbers coming out of Washington give lie to that claim.   Even if you buy t...

  • GOP must be kicked out of office for tax 'n spend policies

    Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:09 Author: Ben Krause
    Editor:   Wally Erb's put-put must be bleeding carbon dioxide into his little driving compartment.  Instead of castigating the VBTA for endorsing other than Republicrats, a case can be made to vote for "None of the above", or vote for Democrats.  Ron...

  • VBTA endorsements a sham and personal vendetta

    Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:07 Author: Anonymous
    Editor:   I could not agree more with Wally Erb.  When I read the VNS account of the endorsement of Bobby Mathieson and John Bell - both Democrats - by the Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance, I wondered what the hell is this?  I go to the VBTA  meetin...

  • VBTA resorts to revenge, not logic, in political endorsements

    Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 09:16 Author: Editor
    The Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance recently announced it was endorsing only 2 candidates in the Nov. 3 race:  Democrat incumbent Bobby Mathieson and Democrat sheriff candidate John Bell.   Wally Erb contends their endorsements were made on 'revenge'...

  • Non-profit answers hard questions about public policy

    Created: Monday, 26 October 2009 10:09 Author: Virginia Eagle Forum
    Arlington, VA - - Today, Virginia Eagle Forum, a conservative non-profit group, announced the launch of their new state speakers bureau. This educational speakers group will also make its top members available for media interviews.“We are thrilled to of...

  • Candidates asked to support government transparency

    Created: Monday, 26 October 2009 09:51 Author: Michael Thompson
    The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, the state's leading non-partisan foundation focused at improving state and local government, released the results of a survey today on Government Transparency taken by candidates running in this fall's ele...

  • Through smoke and mirrors, Americans are urged to choose socialism!

    Created: Monday, 26 October 2009 09:31 Author: Larry Henry
    I wonder what Jesus was thinking that fateful day 2,009 years ago when Pontius Pilate stood Him before the crowd and said, “Choose!”  The crowd chose Barabas, a thief  and a murderer. So ended the brief career of the greatest human being that ever l...

  • Swine flu: Real or hoax dreamed up by government?

    Created: Monday, 26 October 2009 07:59 Author: Kenneth White
    I got on C-SPAN's Washington Journal TV program Sunday morning, Oct. 25 about 7:10 a.m. as the second caller in, heard by millions.  The theme topic for that segment was President Obama's decision not to go to the climate change conference in Copenhagen ...

  • Sen. Norment raking in money at your expense?

    Created: Sunday, 25 October 2009 10:07 Author: Editor
    State Sen. Tommy Norment, one of the ultimate GOP insiders, is proof politics can pay off - in more ways than one. He's in the money at the expense of the citizens!He's dragging in $160,000 a year from W&M and now it has been learned that he got himse...

  • Your real estate tax future isn't rosey!

    Created: Sunday, 25 October 2009 09:15 Author: Editor
    Think taxes are high now?  You ain't seen nothing yet!  The years of plenty (of tax monies) that allowed your City Council to engage in reckless spending to benefit their special interest developer friends is coming home to roost.Well Bunky!  You have ...

  • Blogs and Politics: Erb takes on dirty Demo, RINO politicios

    Created: Sunday, 25 October 2009 08:59 Author: Editor
    Political food fight heats up dealing with liars, cheats, and theives?  If they aren't now, they may be! Wally Erb takes defeated RINO State Sen. Marty Williams to task for bitterness in 'endorsing' Democrat Creigh Deeds.Williams was soundly defeated in...

  • Fannie Med? Another federal financial fraud on the public?

    Created: Sunday, 25 October 2009 08:31 Author: Steven Horwitz
    Imagine an industry in which members of Congress and others believe that private markets can’t supply the good at a price the public can afford.  Imagine further that Congress believes that everyone has a “right” to this good.  Imagine even furthe...

  • VBTA in surprise move endorses 2 Democrats

    Created: Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:51 Author: Editor
    VIRGINIA BEACH - - In an unexpected move, the board of the Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance Wednesday night endorsed Democrat incumbent Del. Bobby Mathieson and Democrat newcomer, Police Capt. John Bell for Sheriff in the upcoming November election.Mathie...

  • Navy expert to discuss VB's future with and without the Navy

    Created: Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:31 Author: Editor
    VIRGINIA BEACH - - Rear Adm. Fred Metz, USN Ret., and Pentagon insider, will tell the Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance (VBTA) Saturday that city may lose valuable economic Navy resources if its policies don't change.Metz will point out that Florida is fig...

  • Top conservative tax expert to speak at Beach Town Hall

    Created: Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:12 Author: Editor
    VIRGINIA BEACH - - President of Americans for Tax Reform and NRA board member here to address Virginia Beach residents at town hall meeting Friday night. Everyone is  invited to a complimentary reception to hear Grover Norquist who will be appearing at t...

  • Obama coming to Norfolk to try to boost Deeds flagging campaign

    Created: Wednesday, 21 October 2009 09:52 Author: Editor
    Exclusive to Virginia News Source   NORFOLK - - In the final throes of a hard fought scramble to save Democrat party face in the upcoming November gubernatorial election, Creigh Deeds is bringing in  his big gun:  President Barack Obama on Tuesday fo...

  • Should one bad apple in state's bucket spoil whole bunch?

    Created: Monday, 19 October 2009 16:56 Author: Leonard C. Gilroy
    Could the high-profile kerfuffle over the state's contract to consolidate and manage the state's information technology (IT) infrastructure diminish the state's appetite for outsourcing and public-private partnerships (PPPs)? That's a question suggested i...