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  • Perriello’s honesty deficit: Where's the real truth?

    Editor: Congressman Tom Perriello said recently that he and the Democratic Party “are the truth-tellers of Southside politics.”  He must think we’re stupid.  The facts about Obamacare are proof that his truth-telling claim is in itself less than ...
  • Contract with the feds

    VIRGINIA BEACH - - Is this a common sense approach to the federal government crisis, or is our blogger Bob O'Connor smoking some of that funny stuff?  If he's on something exotic, it certainly is a different from the liberal 'dope' the politicians and bu...
  • Is Rep. Nye running scared? Trying to censor media?

    VIRGINIA BEACH - - Is Democrat 2nd District Rep. Glenn Nye really running scared?  Based on circumstances encountered at Saturday's Democrat breakfast something was askew.His staff asked the Susan Mariner, Democrat chairwoman, to prohibit the media from ...
  • Nye rallies troops at Democrat breakfast Saturday

    VIRGINIA BEACH - -  2nd District Congressman Glenn Nye was guest speaker at Saturday's Virginia Beach Democrat breakfast , but not without a minor dust up.And he did nothing, but rally the troops and dodged all substantiative issues such as gays in the m...
  • Taking State Parks off the State's Books, Part II

    By Leonard C. Gilroy Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy My last column (see "Taking State Parks Off the State's Books") explored the concept of long-term concessions with private recreation management firms for the operation and maintenance ...
  • Race to Nowhere

    by Christian BraunlichVice President, Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public PolicyLate last month, Governor Bob McDonnell pulled Virginia out of the federal “Race to the Top” funding competition.It should not have been surprising.Virginia’s Round 1 ...
  • Israel - a Tenuous Peace - at best!

    They say they only want to live in peace, but it appears the world always turns against them in one way or another.They have to be self-reliant in defending their disputed homeland, on constant alert.Read our Middle East Blogger's take on the continuing s...
  • In council race: Who gets what? How much? And from whom?

    What will your candidates for council say?  How will they react when faced with questions about their desire to serve the taxpayers?VNS municipal blogger Bob O'Conner is asking the questions.  Questions of all candidates, incumbents and challengers and ...
  • Build Israeli-type border fence to keep aliens out

    Editor:I don't know about you; but, for my money, a fence that copies the Israeli method of border fence building is more cost effective and a whole lot less "Big Brother."  Israel builds a double fence with a "no-go" sand lot in between the sandwich end...
  • 6 council members vote special interest instead of citizen interest!

    Editor:   Beach District Councilman John Uhrin used Enron accounting to justify hotel and parking garage vote and reward campaign contributors.Keeping true to their form of developers first, citizens second, last night's City Council's vote for the swe...
  • Taxpayer groups asks council to vote citizens' interest in swap deal

    VIRGINIA BEACH - - The Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance (VBTA) has asked city council to reject proposed parking garage parking space swap with beachfront developers Bruce Thompson and Edmund C. Ruffin. (See story above.) The John Moss, chairman of VBTA, ...
  • Taxpayer groups asks council to vote citizens' interest in swap deal

    VIRGINIA BEACH - - The Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance (VBTA) has asked city council to reject proposed parking garage parking space swap with beachfront developers Bruce Thompson and Edmund C. Ruffin. (See story above.) The John Moss, chairman of VBTA, ...
  • An incredible tale of tangled and questionable intrigue & influence vs. the public interest

    VIRGINIA BEACH  - - Who will the Virginia Beach City Council support?  The citizens of Virginia Beach or two developers convicted of crimes and are represented by one of the mayor's campaign managers and fundraisers? By a 6-5 Vote the council voted...
  • TLP calls ODU's use of eminent domain abuse of power

    by Robert DeanChairman, Tidewater Libertarian PartyThe Tidewater Libertarian Party (TLP) at its meeting on Saturday, June 19, 2010 took a vote on the issue of eminent domain and its abuse by the City of Norfolk's Redevelopment and Housing Authority (NRHA)...
  • A Normal Life versus Just Life

    By: Elizabeth de Medici - Rocky Mountain G.R.I.T.S. (girl raised in the south)I, like many others, have had my up’s and down’s, in and out’s, and everything in between trying to find and looking for that "normal" life. I am now in my 51st year and h...
  • Rep. Perriello can't seem to get on side of his constitutents

    Dear Editor: What’s Perriello got against freedom of speech—fear, maybe? Congressman Tom Perriello doesn’t think much of the Constitution’s free speech guarantees.  He’s supporting the DISCLOSE Act, which is designed to stymie the political sp...
  • Crime? Or Hate Crime?

    Editor:Let me get this straight............ The Obama Department of Justice felt that the beating of a black man by SEIU thugs outside of a Tea Party in St. Louis while they called him the "N" word was not only NOT a hate crime, the beating only qualified...
  • Norfolk tax dollars used to bail out racial fest

    NORFOLK - - In one of the most flagrant abuses of political power for special interest benefits, the Norfolk council took citizens' tax monies and bailed the incompetent operators of Afr'Am Fest.The fest, started 27 years ago is a pseudo event preying on ...
  • Norfok Council gives blacks pass on racist festival faux paus

    NORFOLK - - Norfolk City Council Wednesday perpetuated the dependent 'slave mentality' on the community's black population.Because the promoters of Afr'am -  a contrived 27 YO event displaying black behavior in a music and arts setting at Town Park - ign...
  • 3 friends and a runaway golf cart: FORE!

    By Elizabeth de MediciRocky Mountain G.R.I.T.S. (Girl Raised in the South)Ty Pennington once said, "Life’s a roller coaster, and you never know when it’s going to take a turn." Of course the same could be said for horses, cattle, or even golf carts.Th...