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  • State Sen. Steve Martin(R- 11th)Facebook & New Media

    We all know that New Media has become all the rage and in recent years has been leveraged by the political community to organize, fundraise and simply to spread the word regarding issues. That said, what many local leaders are learning is that new media platforms like Twitter and Facebook [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:53pm EST

  • 2020: Three Parties- Republican, Democrat & Conservative Party

    If the history of political parties is any indication than it may just be time for the American political landscape to once again expand. There were always offshoots or breakaways within history, but its been quite some time since we have seen it in reality. And no Ross Perot does [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:33pm EST

  • Loupassi, Ware & O'Bannon Retain House Seats & McDonnell Rolls

    Without the turnout numbers from the City coming to pass like last Fall, incumbants M. Loupassi and John O'Bannon win re-election to the House of Delegates. Loupassi's challenger Bill Grogan will likely come in with about 30% and O'Bannon's challenger Tom Shields is estimated to come in with about 40% [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:48pm EST

  • What are We thinking?The beginning of the end of the Free Market?




    First of all, I want to freely admit I am no economist. I am however an avid student of history. Will so many credentialed economists in complete disagreement regarding the state of the current economy and the very nature of the so-called "stimulus" [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:27pm EDT

  • The Real Issue Facing Republicans?

    The real issue before the Virginia GOP is not in reality whether or not Bob McDonnell will win the election in ten days. Its a safe bet that he will. Its the divide within the Party that exists today in large part due to various insiders whom have sought to [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 7:44pm EDT

  • Delegate John O'Bannon Outed on Health-Related Record

    Again, I have not seen such a hotly contested Delegate race and at times full of those campaign grenades often thrown out by staffers or supporters than what is going on currently in the final weeks of the race in the 73rd. Given my district's race is about as boring' [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 7:32pm EDT

  • Call for Del. O'Bannon (R-73) to Put an End to the Lies

    The race in the 73rd is a very good chance of boiling over. The reason for this is the fact that the Republicans believed that the seat in the House of Delegates would be relatively safe in this years election cycle. But that was nine months ago.

    Incumbant, Dr. [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 9:16pm EDT

  • Alter "The Dabbler" Chimes In

    Okay folks after quite a few emails from folks, which of course I would never post on this blog, pointing me in the direction of the blog Virginia"Right" today regarding a post in which he references me directly I do not really feel compelled to answer the laughable babble posted [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 7:30pm EDT

  • Support Another Term for Loupassi!

    This years election is quickly approaching and many canvassing teams will be out in force this weekend around the area. We are beginning to see those signs go up around the corridor along Robious and Huguenot which is a good thing. The larger banner signs for Bob McDonnell are up [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 6:10pm EDT

  • 73rd House District: O'Bannon v. Shields




    The race in the 73rd House District is heating up. There has been some considerable interest in this particular race which pits incumbant Dr. John O'Bannon (R) versus challenger Tom Shields. Its a really interesting matchup because if you get the opportunity to' [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 10:07pm EDT

  • Ask the Chairman (Governor) Kaine- Healthcare

    WRVA 1140 (AM Radio) in Richmond hosted Tim Kaine today for his monthly "Ask the Governor" call in show and by all indication the current healthcare debate is certainly resonating with many in Central Virginia.

    The majority of the questions served Gov. Kaine this morning were in the area [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 4:51pm EDT

  • Shields Proving To Be A Challenger

    73rd House District-

    Eventhough the climate up in Washington these days could hardly be worse for Democrats, that does not neccessarily translate into State Democrat candidates being beaten up at the polls in November.

    Democrat challenger Tom Shields is going toe to toe with the Republican incumbant [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 8:06pm EDT

  • Chesterfield County NAACP (24th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet)

    Anyone who was out and about this Holiday Weekend day and past by the Holiday Inn in the Koger Center in Chesterfield County probably noticed hundreds of campaign banners and signs alongside the roads in and around the hotel that almost resembled a polling station.

    The Chesterfield County Branch [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 9:41pm EDT

  • 73rd House Seat: Shields Making Headway






    With all of the attention being played on national policies like Healthcare these days, little covergae is being given to various local races throughout the Commonwealth this Fall. One of the more interesting races is right here [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 7:45pm EDT

  • UPDATE: Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) WRVA

    If Sen. Mark Warner set out today to absolutely confuse and baffle even his own supporters throughout Central Virginia, its fair to say he succeeded. After being virtually silent for weeks regarding such issues as Cap & Trade and the Healthcare debate, the traditionally pro-business, free market supporter Warner seemed [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 5:11pm EDT

  • Warner,Webb, Scott duck invite by WRVA; offer no Town Halls

    In an effort to get the issues on the healthcare debate out there and to bring about greater accessibility that those little town hall meetings do not seem to be offering, WRVA 1140 and the Doc Thompson show invited Warner, Webb, and Scott whom have no scheduled town hall meeting [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 5:06pm EDT

  • Baseball in Chesterfield? Why not?




    If you live in Chesterfield, the idea behind "regionalism" in the last few years has met with resistance by the masses throughout the greater Richmond area. Its no wonder given the complete inability for the City of Richmond to release itself from the [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 5:46pm EDT

  • Ukrops Supermarkets Selling Company?

    The rumors have circulated for weeks within the grocery industry concerning the potential sale of Ukrops Supermarkets to Ruddick Corporations wholly owned subsiderary Harris-Teeter. The there has not been an "official" confirmation of the sale, rumors circulated when Harris-Teeter evidently applied for the required ABC permits for 29 stores in [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2009, 4:53pm EDT

  • What Does the Recent Proffer Deabte Tell Us?

    Well, the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors took another stab at the Cash Proffer debate last week. I have been awaiting many of the members, including I-Daniel Gecker of Midlothian to deliver on some of his campaign rhetoric from 2007 when he launch attack after attack against incumbant R-Don Sowder [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 4:55pm EDT

  • Rolling The Dice Twice Not In The Cards

    I have to tell you, I am looking forward to this matchup between (D) Creigh Deeds and (R) Bob McDonnell in large part because it will give us a real sense of the future of the Commonwealth. Sure there will be debate after debate and pundit after pundit telling us [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 12:14pm EDT

  • The End for Chesterfield Dodge

    As painful as it is, the end of Chesterfield Dodge has come. I have been a loyal Dodge customer for years and though I do not have any ill will towards Chrysler per say, I think the new management is inept. The idea that clsoing 25% of the dealerships who [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 1:41pm EDT

  • Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors--Is the Future Still Bright?

    Look, I have made clear my issues with the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors over the course of the last few years. Many insiders have not been all too happy with some of the issues addressed here at Alter of Freedom. I will have to admit though, at least the [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2009, 11:37am EDT

  • Interesting New Minority Population Data Released

    Some interesting growth patterns within Virginia's population data on the heels of the current housing issues that continues to hit certain areas within the Commonwealth.

    In Chesterfield County, over the last eight years the Hispanic community has grown 135% to represent 5.9% (18,000 residents)of the overall population estimated at' [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2009, 8:51pm EDT

  • Affordable Housing? Chesterfield?

    I have been a long time resident of Chesterfield. In being such, I have experienced the pains of living in a condo after college, than trying to find a townhouse and than ultimately trying to find a first home in a County where it appears as though the powers that [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2009, 8:13pm EDT

  • Robious Road Community Coalition

    The launch of the Robious Road Community Coalition will begin next month and Alter of Freedom and The Contemporary Conservative I have been informed will be featured Chesterfield County blogs in the network.

    It is my undertanding that RRCC will have its very on social media networking site for [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2009, 8:04pm EDT

  • Blackwater Worldwide: Another Corporate Victim of Propaganda

    I make no bones of my support for the former Blackwater Worldwide or that of the sixty of so private consulting service companies involved in the Middle East over the course of the last six years. The services and expertise that these firms provide is something that our military establishment [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2009, 8:03pm EDT

  • You May Know a RINO; but How About a VINO?

    Lately I have been baffled by the actions of our leaders in Washington as well as Richmond for that matter. I have been thinking as of late that many of these leaders seem to be completely out of touch with the people, but frankly also Virginia history.

    I remember [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 8:17pm EDT

  • 160 Families Face Obama's Empty Campaign Promises

    Well, it did not take long for Virginia which along with California have significant exposure to the defense industry as well as the active armed forces to experience yet another broken promise from the Obama administration.

    Not only in the coming months will Virginians be deploying to the other [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2009, 12:24pm EDT

  • Obama and the Rise of Network Marketing

    If you followed the media coverage surrounding the Obama Campaign in 2008, you may be very familiar with alot of the innovations that were engaged by the campaign as a means of building and fueling the movement.

    Early in the Primary, the Obama Campaign engaged Social Media as a [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 9:33pm EST

  • Keith Olbermann: Man of the Past

    Keith Olbermann is either the modern version of the lonely traveler given his career path of being affiliated with every network from CNN, ESPN(ABC), FOX and now of course MSNBC or simply has a knack for rubbing folks he works with the wrong way. I suspect given his platitudes its [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 8:37pm EST

  • Your Government at Work?

    Politics aside, the manner in which our government is performing during this crisis is a travesty. Washington has forgotten about the People. Calling for transparency is not the same thing as demanding transparency.

    The Bush administration was highly criticized, and rightfully so at times, for its disregard for the [...]
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    Posted: February 13, 2009, 12:58pm EST

  • Shameful Time in American History

    The promise delivered in November and joys of progress from a social perspective has faded amidst the reality of Congressional politics and a clash of economic theories.

    Its shameful. There is no other word to describe the situation in Washington. Those of us who are children of those of [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 3:29pm EST

  • How Sen. Mark Warner is making the case for McDonnell

    While President Barack Obama is learning very quickly there is a big difference between campaigning and leading, other newly elected Virginia officials are getting their own reality check of accountability.

    Last November, Virginians across this great Commonwealth went to the polls and filled the ranks of the Democrat majority [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2009, 11:07am EST

  • "Blue Dog" Dinner Meeting Invitation

    I first want to thank those that were kind enough and thoughtful enough to invite me to a get together of some "blue dog" Democrats from Chesterfield County, Virginia last night. For those of you who thought that Democrats were dead and buried in Chesterfield might be interested to know [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 1:10pm EST

  • Chesterfield County School Board Budget: A Tough Reality

    If any of you had the opportunity to listen to CCPS Superintendent Dr. Marcus J. Newsome make his presentation at the Chesterfield Communicators Network Meeting you would be alarmed and just how deep the potential shortfall to the school budget could be in the coming year.

    Of course, much [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2009, 11:08am EST

  • Another New Paradigm: Change

    I think after the long, long 2008 everyone is looking for a little bit of change in 2009. I think we all could do with a nice dose of order and confidence. We all should have the opportunity to reach some level of confidence in our government. Sure many of [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2009, 8:01pm EST

  • Smoking Ban back Again

    For the love. Do we once again have to waste our time focusing our attention on a smoking ban. Apparently so. It would seem to me that on the grand scheme of things this issue is one that frankly out to sit the next session out---thats right, lets focus our [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 12:11pm EST

  • What is it with Democrat Governors Exactly?

    With the recent news that Gov. Tim Kaine will now take the position at the DNC that he once said would not be an option, Virginians are faced with its own version of a lame duck Executive. This really isn't any more lame than would have been expected given this' [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 12:31am EST

  • The Reality of Culture

    It never ceases to amaze me how our present at times simply is a mirror image of our past. As a history nut, I confess to love the old stuff and all the characters and their times, but for a country that continually professes its "progress" on the cultural front [...]
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    Posted: January 05, 2009, 12:52pm EST

  • Loseritis: The Hangover Continues

    No I am not talking about the fact that the New York Jets, Tampa Bay Bucs and my beloved Denver Broncos all blew it in the last four weeks of the NFL season and all will be sitting it out in the land of "hangover" with a time for some [...]
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    Posted: December 29, 2008, 10:38am EST

  • There Comes a Time

    There comes a time in every Republic where the torch must be passed. Many, including myself, thought that after the election that such a torch had been passed after virtually two decades of the so-called recent first families (Bush/Clinton) of American history with the historic election of President-elect Obama.

    [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2008, 10:56am EST

  • Chesterfield County: A Northern Virginia Future?

    We all are in agreement that Chesterfield County is growing rapidly, even despite the economic slowdown, and our local government faces some real tough challenges before it. Like, the Commonwealth of Virginia, Chesterfield County will likely experience budget shortfalls. The Chesterfield School Board has already alluded to such shortfalls that [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2008, 4:33pm EST

  • Veterans Day 2008

    On this day, November 11, 2008 on want to thank each and every member of the current Armed Forces and all those who have served this great nation. I especially would like to thank those families in the course of our nations history who have lost loved ones serving the [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2008, 4:55pm EST

  • Jeff Frederick and Future of the State GOP

    Less than twenty-four hours after the ballots had been cast and Barack Obama had secured the White House, the implosion of the McCain campaign from inside the ranks points to a problematic future for the Republican Party nationally. The perception of this implosion has been shaped every single night on [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2008, 6:42pm EST

  • Chesterfield County: Historic Voting Pattern

    With the election behind us but still fresh in our minds it is important to note that while Chesterfield County has voted Republican in every Presidential election since Ronald Reagan in 1980, the Democrat Party has increased in minority position at the polls in every election since Reagan's victory.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2008, 4:45pm EST

  • Republicrats Deliver Virginia to Obama


    As many of us know, officially we do not register affiliated with any Party in the Commonwealth of Virginia thus technically we are all "independents" in one form or another, but in reality most Virginians are what can be referred to as Republicrats.

    Many of us these days [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 10:52am EST

  • "Spreading the Candy Around": A Child's Reality

    While manning the home front this evening and attending to the hundreds of trick or treaters, I could not help but recall a cartoon over at The Contemporary Conservative posted about Halloween earlier this week.

    As my own childeren returned from trick or treating throughout the subdivision, I informed [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2008, 11:39pm EDT

  • Virginia Lottery: A Future for the Private Sector?Delegate David Poisson (D)

    I must say that I have to give Delegate David Poisson (D) representing the 32nd District up in Loudoun County for finally doing some thinking out of the box regarding State policy. Poisson has recommended taking a hard look at the Virginia Lottery system and determining whether it would be [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 9:46am EDT

  • Chesterfield County: A "Sign" of the Future

    Many of you have emailed me about the yesterdays piece in the Times-Dispatch regarding the issue of electronic signs and bulletin boards being approved by the County. The Board of Supervisors will hear two cases regarding signs in Midlothian District:

    1. 08SN0224- Heritage Signs for a sign at 1231 [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2008, 3:56pm EDT

  • Maryland Volunteers Calling Virginians for Obama

    Okay I get it. Barack Obama is leading John Mccain by eight points in the Commonwealth. But if Obama's ground game is so solide here in my beloved Virginia, why on earth are people from Maryland calling Virginians on behave of the Obama campaign.

    I got one of these' [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2008, 1:46pm EDT
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