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Editor: You did a fine job in your article reporting on the housing sector woes; but, I'll offer the following warning: You ain't seen nothing (really bad) yet!This economy is in the hands of (treasonous) madmen who use the media to broadcast that the e...
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Dear Editor: Along with Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Property, information is an Inalienable Right that governments have no right to monopolize. Tyrants can expand power cheaper with propaganda than with bullets. Limit and twist information people get...
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Editor:Simply Obamacare Violates Art. 1, § 8, 9th 10th & 14th amendment of the USC. The individual mandates are not the only the only problems with the health law. Its draconian Medicaid mandates on states also exceed Congress's spending power and ab...
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Could this really mean "Sailors take warning?"
If so, not good. This was sunrise Tuesday back over the Lynnhaven facing east from Kings Grant. They sky was ablaze with color at 7 a.m., looking as though there was fire in the east, but alas it w...
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Dear Editor:Merry Christmas to all!Christmas is a time of giving, and also of new beginnings, to re-evaluate who we are and where we are going. No one today can be blind to the war being fought over Christmas especially, be...
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by Joseph J. McGrenra, CFCM(December 26, 2010) - - As a very young child, my mother noticed what she thought could have been a problem with me. Although, no one else saw any indications, she insisted on having it checked, which led to be being operated on...
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Editor:In her piece in the December 24, 2010 issue of the Virginian-Pilot, Carolyn McPherson, Executive Director of Light Rail Now Inc. fails to make a compelling case in her support for light rail, and here's why.She begins by talking about revenue short...
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Editor:Nice piece of investigative journalism. Sessoms says he is disappointed and disgusted with the situation. Jim Wood says he has zero confidence in the agency. It appears they both had their chances to clean up the corruption but failed miserably. Se...
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Editor:Well, it looks like "the fringe" that wants to fundamentally change things from the right is spot-on! I always thought that some of the things that I heard about what is happening in America was pretty far out there. The truth is, most of the spe...
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VIRGINIA BEACH (Dec. 23, 2010) - - The culture of secrecy and paranoia at Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) goes back at least to 1997, when MIchael Townes, poised to become executive director of the merging of the southside Tidewater Transportation District an...
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Editor:Fear of Norfolk's race baiting industry allowed that industry to put forward and maintain second rate affirmative action appointees like City Mgr. Regina Williams and fired X-HRT executive director Michael Townes.The "race-baiting" industry is an e...
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Editor:
I'm tired of Eric Holder's DoJ ignoring that their own FBI-generated wiretaps and sworn, FBI agent testimony in the Holy Land Foundation terror case. Yep, a federal judge, Jorge Solis, listened to the wiretaps and testimony and ruled that th...
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December 16, 2010 - - Virginia is taking the lead in shortsea shipping, activities taking trucks and barges more efficiently around the state.Joseph Keefe, in an article following last week’s Shipping Operations Coopertie Program (SOCP) meeting, talked ...
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Want an aircraft carrier of your own? Cheap? You can buy the HMS Invincible on Jan. 5. The carrier is on the market by the British Ministry of Defense The Brits had cut a deal in February 1982 to sell the Invincible to the Aussies.Before the deal wa...
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EDITOR:
Ernie Pyle was the best known newspaper correspondent of World War Two. Half the world knew his name. They knew he was up there on the front lines with the infantry, the tankers, and the artillery crews.
People back home wrote letters to his...
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Dear Editor: An Open Letter to Congressman-Elect Robert S. HurtDear Mr. Hurt: Congratulations! As a member of the 2011 Freshmen Republican class, short term you must apply a tourniquet to spending, cut taxes, end Obamacare and cut off unspent funds for ev...
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RICHMOND (Dec. 13, 2010) - - Federal District Judge Henry E. Hudson in a far-reaching decision declared one of the main parts of ObamaCare unconstitutional - a major blow to the Obama Administration.Hudson agreed with VA Atty. General Ken Cuccinelli tha...
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VIRGINIA BEACH (December 13, 2010) - - Modeled after Gov. Bob McDonnell’s Government Reform and Restructuring Commission, Councilman Bobby Dyer is calling on the council to establish a similar local organization.Dyer a couple years ago was involved in...
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(December 12, 2010) - - All of us heard about the terrible wildfire that hit Israel recently. 43 people were killed, 17,000 citizens forced out of their homes and a huge swath - more than 4 million trees were lost.Our Mid-East Blogger, Irene, because of...
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by Irwin BerentFew things in government are plain. I mean truly plain. Plain almost to the point of dullness. Plain, no frills, no extras. The Joe Friday kind of plain: just the facts. So the "Plain" in the Plain Writing Act of 2010, signed into l...