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  • How the Taliban is winning in Winchester, Virginia

    One of terrorism’s goals is to change the way people operate by making the public fear common, everyday things. But who ever dreamed they would make the police scared of eggs? Police shut down Winchester’s downtown mall for almost two hours in order to summon bomb experts when an egg was [...]
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    Fetched: November 25, 2009, 4:01pm EST

  • Assumptions, assumptions and more assumptions

    A 1990 study of winter births claimed compulsory school laws improved test scores, increased later earnings, improved health and lengthened life. It was nonsense, based on assumptions that weren’t true and never investigated. Children born in the winter months already have a few strikes against them. Study after study has shown [...]
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    Fetched: September 27, 2009, 5:01pm EDT

  • Trickle Down ‘Waternomics’

    Unpolluted pure water costs money. In this case, the costs of Washington DC’s water are being shifted from District residents onto Virginians in the Shenandoah Valley. Yet the District water authority is failing to act responsibly, wasting the water through disrepair and negligence of the infrastructure. [...]
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    Fetched: September 24, 2009, 8:12am EDT

  • Building worlds

    What I do. 3-D visualization. A short film to knock your socks off, a slightly strange story about people who do good things for the right reasons. Click picture to watch, opens in new windowWorld Builder is also on Youtube regular and Hi-Def This nine-minute piece took one day of filming and [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • So it IS a suicide pact after all

    . . . in which Congress does nothing while Washington bureaucrats do everything they can think of to cripple American farm production. October 18, 2006: EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson says the preamble to the air rules makes it clear that farm-dust is not the main concern, and the focus is on [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Cause and effect

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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Putting the Cub Scouts in jail

    Remember where civil forfeitures took us? Corrupt cops pulling over ‘rich looking’ out-of-state cars, to simply confiscate cash —or even the car itself— from their drivers. Our senators think the idea was so good, they’re extending it to our national forests. For a recap: “Civil asset forfeiture has allowed police to view [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Softly. Sweetly. Push them under the bus

    Virginia’s second-largest payday lender, Check ‘n Go, is evaluating its presence in the state after new laws went into effect that restricted its lending. The self-righteous opponents of payday lending will doubtless be celebrating, ignoring the reduced options now available to Virginia citizens with poor credit. One of Virginia’s biggest payday [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Partisan Road Funding

    Virginia needs another way of directing our road maintenance. Once again, the Governor’s appointees are making the rounds, threatening loss of services without ‘needed’ additional funds. In this latest, CTB member James Davis is driving the “mo money” choo-choo train. Again. When first anointed in 2005, Dr. James A. Davis made the [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Showdown at Verona*

    As some folks in Augusta County gather steam for their phony “tax revolt”, Alton Foley outlines the same points I posted earlier: reassessments do not increase taxes. That’s a simple nonpartisan fact, but the politics in Augusta County are hilarious. One single, solitary leftist has peeled off a large following [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Virginia’s loss

    From down in Norfolk, Vivian Paige reports that [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • The worship of false gods

    While researching another subject, I ran across an organization that is amazing – for its deception. Calling itself the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) they claim to be our state’s ‘oldest faith-based advocacy group’. It is a throwback to the pre-Revolutionary age when the Church of England was [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Patrick, saving the world

    Sometime around 400 AD a teenager in Britain was kidnapped by raiders and sold into slavery. There he stayed as a shepherd, until about 6 years later he escaped and arrived back home. Fearing other attacks and kidnapping, his father sent him to the Continent for his education, where he [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Disappointing ignorance

    Following a massive turnout at the Augusta County government center, it’s easy to see the decline and fall of traditional conservatism in the Shenandoah Valley. The throng that showed up to protest reassessments were protesting the free market, objecting to nonexistent tax increases. [Video and live-blog can be found at [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Tattoos or a coathanger

    People are breaking in, stealing stuff, and assaulting each other; while the Front Royal police are concentrating on charging a local man for ‘illegal tattooing’. Some weeks ago Jeffrey Gilliom plead guilty and got a 30-day suspended jail sentence and $250 fine for illegally tattooing a 16-year-old girl. He was [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Appalling ignorance

    In Florida, Sen. Larcenia Bullard took objection to the term ‘animal husbandry’ in a discussion of a bill outlawing unmentionable acts with animals. Rich’s legislation would target only those who derived or helped others derive ‘’sexual gratification” from an animal, specifying that conventional dog-judging contests and animal-husbandry practices are permissible. That last [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • The iron trap of prejudice

    My neighbors believe some not-very-provable things. It isn’t harmful, and none of the other neighbors publicly criticize them for it. But some beliefs draw out meanness and spite from others. One of those just snagged the Below The Beltway blog. It went like this: 1) Calling himself ‘The Searcher’, Derek Chatwood of [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Squeezing more Mexicans into immigrating

    Yet again, we see American policies helping to raise the heat under a boiling pot. Mexico is rife with corruption, and now violence right on the border rises to unprecedented levels. In the current situation, a city of 1.5 million people on the US border is erupting into armed conflict. The [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Not so intelligent transportation systems

    Too many people place dependence on technology. Gadgets certainly help make our world better, but common sense sometimes get misplaced in the presence of gizmos. In this instance, so-called intelligent signs are warning us “Caution! Zombies Ahead!“. Yeah, in the razzle-dazzle of having programmable signs, some people forgot that anybody can [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Stuck on stupid, fake conservatives stick it to the people

    There are a number of right-wing blogs crowing about a ‘tax revolt’ in Augusta County where a committee is starting recall efforts to remove five Augusta County supervisors who voted to not repeal the 2009 property reassessments. Steve Bright, Jim Harner, and Elwood Hilderand are setting out to collect 10% [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Digital sense adds up to dollars

    Want to save a few bucks? A couple of posts at CatHouse Chat reminded me of how much money the Commonwealth could be —and should be— saving, and how rotten and slow Microsoft’s Vista® is. When my old computer died, I was astonished that the new computer took four minutes to [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • McNamara - a reason we lost Vietnam

    When the former Secretary of Defense died at age 93, the MSM had canned obituaries, short bios, and eulogies ready to roll. But here are —previously unpublished— examples about who Robert S. McNamara really was and why we lost the Vietnam conflict. For those who believe we didn’t lose, Secretary [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • To my parents. Easter 2009

    As this Easter dawns, the sun will have first passed over American soldiers fighting terrorists in a foreign land, and over an American ship held by pirates. These are the same problems at America’s founding, when a young nation first struggled to make its way in the world. Terrorism, cultural vandalism, [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Lefty extremism in defense of restrictions

    Congratulations to Congresscritturs Cantor, Forbes, and Goodlatte on their votes for everyday Virginians and against letting our national forests get trashed. Of course the leftist hypocrites presented this vote in the opposite light, it’s a hallmark of partisan politics. The vote was over placing federal lands —large areas of national forests [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • “Do as I say, not as …”

    Interesting juxtaposition; while the President of the United States lectures Africans on what makes good government, the leader of his own political party closes public restrooms for ‘not enough tax’ . . . while [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Politicizing the Court

    The Sotomayor nomination process shows the politicing effect on our nomination process. [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Give us this day . . .

    Norman Borlaug, food crop agronomist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and father of the ‘Green Revolution’, has died. Borlaug’s legacy includes billions of lives saved from starvation. His remarkable efforts fed millions of less fortunate worldwide and continue to inspire everyone concerned with hunger and malnutrition. [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • BrownBailout.com and Conservatives for Rent

    The story is heating up about the American Conservative Union (ACU) switching course in a dispute between FedEx and UPS . . . after FedEx declined an offer to ‘donate’ $2 or $3 million to the ACU in order to launch a grassroots campaign. At the heart is a lobbying [...]
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    Fetched: September 13, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • BrownBailout.com and Conservatives for Rent

    The story is heating up about the American Conservative Union (ACU) switching course in a dispute between FedEx and UPS . . . after FedEx declined an offer to ‘donate’ $2 or $3 million to the ACU in order to launch a grassroots campaign. At the heart is a lobbying [...]
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    Fetched: July 17, 2009, 8:03pm EDT

  • “Do as I say, not as …”

    Interesting juxtaposition; while the President of the United States lectures Africans on what makes good government, the leader of his own political party closes public restrooms for ‘not enough tax’ . . . while [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: July 15, 2009, 2:03pm EDT

  • Politicizing the Court

    The Sotomayor nomination process shows the politicing effect on our nomination process. [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: July 15, 2009, 12:42pm EDT

  • McNamara - a reason we lost Vietnam

    When the former Secretary of Defense died at age 93, the MSM had canned obituaries, short bios, and eulogies ready to roll. But here are —previously unpublished— examples about who Robert S. McNamara really was and why we lost the Vietnam conflict. For those who believe we didn’t lose, Secretary [...]
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    Fetched: July 13, 2009, 3:36am EDT

  • The Line

    45 years ago today. One death, much loss. There were other deaths, other losses.  Many of them. Yet this was different “Please don’t let them back where you are sell me down the river with talk of despair and defeat. Talk instead of steadfastness, loyalty and of victory —for we must [...]
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    Fetched: April 20, 2009, 10:15pm EDT

  • To my parents. Easter 2009

    As this Easter dawns, the sun will have first passed over American soldiers fighting terrorists in a foreign land, and over an American ship held by pirates. These are the same problems at America’s founding, when a young nation first struggled to make its way in the world. Terrorism, cultural vandalism, [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: April 12, 2009, 4:08am EDT

  • Lefty extremism in defense of restrictions

    Congratulations to Congresscritturs Cantor, Forbes, and Goodlatte on their votes for everyday Virginians and against letting our national forests get trashed. Of course the leftist hypocrites presented this vote in the opposite light, it’s a hallmark of partisan politics. The vote was over placing federal lands —large areas of national forests [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: April 02, 2009, 5:43pm EDT

  • Stuck on stupid, fake conservatives stick it to the people

    There are a number of right-wing blogs crowing about a ‘tax revolt’ in Augusta County where a committee is starting recall efforts to remove five Augusta County supervisors who voted to not repeal the 2009 property reassessments. Steve Bright, Jim Harner, and Elwood Hilderand are setting out to collect 10% [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 25, 2009, 4:18pm EDT

  • Digital sense adds up to dollars

    Want to save a few bucks? A couple of posts at CatHouse Chat reminded me of how much money the Commonwealth could be —and should be— saving, and how rotten and slow Microsoft’s Vista® is. When my old computer died, I was astonished that the new computer took four minutes to [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 24, 2009, 10:18am EDT

  • The iron trap of prejudice

    My neighbors believe some not-very-provable things. It isn’t harmful, and none of the other neighbors publicly criticize them for it. But some beliefs draw out meanness and spite from others. One of those just snagged the Below The Beltway blog. It went like this: 1) Calling himself ‘The Searcher’, Derek Chatwood of [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 23, 2009, 5:18am EDT

  • Squeezing more Mexicans into immigrating

    Yet again, we see American policies helping to raise the heat under a boiling pot. Mexico is rife with corruption, and now violence right on the border rises to unprecedented levels. In the current situation, a city of 1.5 million people on the US border is erupting into armed conflict. The [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 21, 2009, 4:14pm EDT

  • Not so intelligent transportation systems

    Too many people place dependence on technology. Gadgets certainly help make our world better, but common sense sometimes get misplaced in the presence of gizmos. In this instance, so-called intelligent signs are warning us “Caution! Zombies Ahead!“. Yeah, in the razzle-dazzle of having programmable signs, some people forgot that anybody can [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 21, 2009, 8:45am EDT

  • Tattoos or a coathanger

    People are breaking in, stealing stuff, and assaulting each other; while the Front Royal police are concentrating on charging a local man for ‘illegal tattooing’. Some weeks ago Jeffrey Gilliom plead guilty and got a 30-day suspended jail sentence and $250 fine for illegally tattooing a 16-year-old girl. He was [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 20, 2009, 8:46am EDT

  • Appalling ignorance

    In Florida, Sen. Larcenia Bullard took objection to the term ‘animal husbandry’ in a discussion of a bill outlawing unmentionable acts with animals. Rich’s legislation would target only those who derived or helped others derive ‘’sexual gratification” from an animal, specifying that conventional dog-judging contests and animal-husbandry practices are permissible. That last [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 19, 2009, 9:16am EDT

  • Disappointing ignorance

    Following a massive turnout at the Augusta County government center, it’s easy to see the decline and fall of traditional conservatism in the Shenandoah Valley. The throng that showed up to protest reassessments were protesting the free market, objecting to nonexistent tax increases. [Video and live-blog can be found at [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 19, 2009, 8:14am EDT

  • The worship of false gods

    While researching another subject, I ran across an organization that is amazing – for its deception. Calling itself the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) they claim to be our state’s ‘oldest faith-based advocacy group’. It is a throwback to the pre-Revolutionary age when the Church of England was [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 17, 2009, 4:42pm EDT

  • Patrick, saving the world

    Sometime around 400 AD a teenager in Britain was kidnapped by raiders and sold into slavery. There he stayed as a shepherd, until about 6 years later he escaped and arrived back home. Fearing other attacks and kidnapping, his father sent him to the Continent for his education, where he [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 17, 2009, 9:08am EDT

  • Softly. Sweetly. Push them under the bus

    Virginia’s second-largest payday lender, Check ‘n Go, is evaluating its presence in the state after new laws went into effect that restricted its lending. The self-righteous opponents of payday lending will doubtless be celebrating, ignoring the reduced options now available to Virginia citizens with poor credit. One of Virginia’s biggest payday [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 16, 2009, 7:37am EDT

  • Partisan Road Funding

    Virginia needs another way of directing our road maintenance. Once again, the Governor’s appointees are making the rounds, threatening loss of services without ‘needed’ additional funds. In this latest, CTB member James Davis is driving the “mo money” choo-choo train. Again. When first anointed in 2005, Dr. James A. Davis made the [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 14, 2009, 4:45pm EDT

  • Showdown at Verona*

    As some folks in Augusta County gather steam for their phony “tax revolt”, Alton Foley outlines the same points I posted earlier: reassessments do not increase taxes. That’s a simple nonpartisan fact, but the politics in Augusta County are hilarious. One single, solitary leftist has peeled off a large following [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 11, 2009, 3:15pm EDT

  • Virginia’s loss

    From down in Norfolk, Vivian Paige reports that [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 06, 2009, 3:15pm EST

  • Building worlds

    What I do. 3-D visualization. A short film to knock your socks off, a slightly strange story about people who do good things for the right reasons. Click picture to watch, opens in new windowWorld Builder is also on Youtube regular and Hi-Def This nine-minute piece took one day of filming and [...]
     | Rate | Archive
    Fetched: March 05, 2009, 12:15pm EST
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