Good President, Bad President

So we are less than a week into President Obama’s administration and already he’s made several controversial actions. First, the bad news.  Several days ago, the president reversed a long-standing Bush policy on refusing funding to international groups who either perform or promote abortions.  This decision is terrible for several reasons.  From a limited government [...]

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A Comment About Comments

Good evening everyone. I am delighted that so many of you take the opportunity to express yourself and your thoughts on my blog.  However, as stated on my very first post, I wrote, “Feel free to comment however you see fit, though I do ask for you to keep any personal attacks or profanity at [...]

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Inaugurating Racism

So I didn’t watch yesterday’s inauguration.  Then again…I’ve never watched an inauguration.  Why break a trend?  Personally I feel that fancy inaugurations are a waste of both time and money and this one was slated to be more lavish than any prior.  However, my cousin was not so lucky as he was compelled by his [...]

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A Compelling Voice in the Lee/Jackson Day Debate

As Lee/Jackson Day approached this year, a number of my fellow bloggers wrote passionately about the subject.  Some even wrote petitions in an attempt to either scrap or preserve the celebration in the commonwealth.  Although I didn’t write a post on my page concerning the topic, I did offer some brief thoughts.  As both Robert [...]

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Final Reflections on President Bush

I’m sure you know that, as a conservative Republican, I have been extremely disappointed with the Bush Presidency.  Not only has he failed to reduce the size and scope of the federal government, he instead vastly increased it.  Unfortunately many Republicans, although privately critical of Bush, still continued to enthusiastically support him publicly.  Both fiscal [...]

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Booze Money

Unlike many other states in the Union, Virginia tightly regulates the sale of certain alcoholic beverages through state-run ABC stores.  Compare this attitude to California, where one can purchase vodka, whiskey, and similar products in the local grocery stores.  Of course, that is one of the results of federalism…each state can decide their own alcohol [...]

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Rally Against the Real ID

Just a short update here folks.  In case you haven’t heard, next week legislators and conservative activists from across the state will be gathering at the capital in an attempt to halt Virginia implementation of the federally mandated Real ID program.  Several other states have rejected this plan and it is high time Virginia does [...]

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If At First You Don’t Secede

If you have spent anytime at all in the western part of Virginia, you’ll find that monuments dedicated to U.S. Civil War are just about everywhere.  For example, there are historical markers, statues, even an occasional flag or two.  Generally, a lot of people who are native to the Shenandoah Valley are quite suspicious of [...]

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