Ferrum student Jessica Goode grabbed her 2 friends and headed to the outdoors for some quiet time and to clear her head. They were looking for turtles for a biology assignment. She never came back. Another young person killed while away at college!
Local resident Jason D. Cloutier [...]
Mike Huckabee has always seemed like a decent sort. His politics are too conservative for someone like me but I have always respected his sincerity and his decency. He also plays a mean guitar.
While promoting his book, ‘A Simple Christmas,’ he took the time to speak out against his fellow [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, November 20.So what if Sarah Palin didn’t write this book? Even God used earthly scribes to write the Bible
No, I’m not kidding:
I couldn't agree more with this.This does not bode well for the prospects of H.R. 1207 in the Senate:
A growing effort in the House to require periodic audits of the Federal Reserve is little more than “great PR,” one Republican senator stressed Friday.
Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Alan Grayson’s (D-Fla.) effort to subject much [...]
Interesting piece from the Huffington Post on what they call the next economic calamity:
While the overall U.S. financial system is showing signs of stability, [...]
For some time, those from the Universal Church Of Global Warming, led by their prophet Al Gore, have been lecturing us on the imminent dangers from man-made global warming. It would appear that their house of cards is tumbling down yet again.
Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent British [...]
The national debt belongs to both parties. But at least the Democrats don’t go on Fox News day after day proclaiming how fiscally conservative they are, and organize tea parties to rant about deficits, without ever putting forward any plan for reducing them. Nor do they pretend that they have [...]
Let me start out by saying that I cannot stand Hillary Clinton. But the Dems would have been much better off strategically if they had picked Hillary to be their nominee. There was no way any GOP candidate was going to win that election with GWB hanging around their necks. [...]
Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, spoke to Reason.tv recently about her new book:
My review of Burns’ biography can be found here.
And, yes Sarah Palin did support the TARP bailout.
These people walk among us, and they vote.
More bad poll numbers for the White House:
PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Daily tracking results [...]
From Roz Helderman at the Washington Post:Gov. Tim Kaine's office reports that it has now received a copy of a letter from Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, indicating that he will resign from the state Senate on Jan. 12, in preparation for his inauguration as state attorney general Jan. 16.In a word, wow:
Senator John McCain’s future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters in Arizona finds the longtime incumbent in a virtual tie with potential challenger J.D. Hayworth. McCain earns 45% [...]
It’s been noted before that there’s very little about the Pledge of Allegiance that is compatible with the values of individual liberty that the United States was founded on:
Allegiance is a state of loyalty or devotion. A declaration of allegiance is not something to be taken lightly. It is [...]
Peter Schiff recently spoke to Students For Liberty chapter at Harvard University, here’s the entire ten-part, approximately 90 minute, speech:
Based on these tweets, I'm baffled.A few weeks ago, I posted this video showing Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff’s Deputy Adam Stoddard clearly and blatantly stealing documents from the file of a defense attorney:
Well, the Judge held a hearing in the matter and Stoddard got read the riot act:
A Maricopa County judge on Tuesday [...]
Once again, Austin Haynes is raising money for a good cause in his quest to be sort of a one-man United Way for the City of Manassas. He’s raised money for a number of charitable causes over the years with 24 hour swims and other tests of endurance and perseverance [...]
It would seem that the honeymoon is ending:
Washington (CNN) - Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting, according to a new national poll.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the [...]
I don't have any Lady Gaga songs on my iPod, but the visual image of Christopher Walken and Cartman singing with her is pretty damn funny. [...]
Some provocative words from the former Senator from Tennessee:
Former Sen. Fred Thompson today intensified his party’s criticism of President Obama’s long deliberation over policy in Afghanistan, announcing that Obama’s delay signals that “the war has been lost” and that nothing the president now does will “make any difference.”
“It really [...]
Rand Paul, who’s running for Senate in Kentucky, has come out with a very hard-line stand on the issue of trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda members:
BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the [...]
Doug Hoffman is now mathematically eliminated from any possibility of overtaking Bill Owens in the final vote count:
It’s now mathematically impossible for Doug Hoffman to take the lead in the New York special election, with his deficit now larger than the number of outstanding ballots left to be counted.
Hoffman [...]
Ayn Rand died twenty seven years ago, and yet her novels and ideas remain as widely distributed, controversial, and inspiring today as they were when they were first written. Both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged continue [...]
You folks knew this was coming. The media is aglow with Palin-o-phobia. Some of it is funny. Some pathetic. Some fair. Some not fair. On the other hand, if you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch,
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / [...]Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19."Let's face it: government is not working like it should for regular people and our small businesses. We are in the midst of a serious economic downturn and we need to focus on creating jobs, helping regular people and small businesses, and growing our economy," Marsden said in [...]
I know its veeeeery early to talk about this, but VPAP just updated their website with a fascinating look at statewide vote breakdowns based on both delegate and senate districts. The common theme among close districts that are represented by Democrats is that they are coming home. Many went for [...]
After beating back efforts to weaken it substantially, H.R. 1207, the bill first proposed by Congressman Ron Paul to authorize a General Accounting Office audit of the Federal Reserve System, has passed a crucial House committee vote:
WASHINGTON — In a display of populist anger toward the Federal Reserve, [...]
Following up on earlier reports that he had decided to drop out of the New York Governor’s race, it now sounds like Rudy Giuliani has other political ambitions:
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided against running for governor, but is strongly considering running for U.S. Senate instead, sources told [...]
Courtesy of #acornfacts, I bet you never knew that...Outside of her husband Frank O’Connor, and possibly even to a greater extent than he, there were no two people closer to Ayn Rand than Barbara and Nathaniel Branden.
Here they are, in separate interviews, discussing Rand, her ideas, and the movement they were a part of:
Barbara Branden:
Nathaniel Branden:
For me the [...]
Well, actually, there are some changes and some continuity, at least according to this report by Anita Kumar.Despite what a lot of politicos think, Levar Stoney, former executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia, will not be returning to the party following his stint as political director [...] 
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