Do you know what the schools are asking your kids?
by Donna Douma
I have a very strong and open relationship with my children, but even I missed what exactly is going on in our schools with regard to surveys.
I don’t believe that parents have been adequately informed about surveys our [...]
Although Charlottesville’s Daily Progress has refused to acknowledge several recent news stories broken on The Schilling Show (and The Schilling Show blog), parent company Media General apparently has no such reservation.
When Progress writer, Brian McNeill, neglected to mention Jim McKelvey’s candidacy in a story referencing the “six” GOP [...]
By a vote of 19 in favor and 13 against, Virginia’s 5th District Republican Committee has chosen to select their 2010 Congressional candidate via a state-run primary election.
This decision likely will be controversial as six of the seven announced GOP 5th District candidates recently issued a joint statement requesting [...]
A story that was broken on The Schilling Show blog has again made national news.
On July 17, 2009 police were called to Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville, Virginia office in order to disperse an orderly protest rally sponsored by the Jefferson Area Tea Party.
As [...]
Hot on the heels of protesters being declared “persona non grata” at Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville office, “Pandering Tom” Perriello has sent a blatantly debasing mailer to Virginia’s 5th District constituents—one that is dripping with irony in light of recent events surrounding police-enforced [...]
Buying votes with taxpayer money is nothing new in machine politics, but in Charlottesville, central party Democrats have raised political bribery to an art form.
Here, for your listening pleasure, is an exclusive, special production of The Schilling Show: The Ballad of Norrishood and Szakos.
The song chronicles [...]
Daily Progress managing editor (and noted blog critic), McGregor McCance, has resorted to online censorship in order to shield from criticism the faltering newspaper’s marginal reputation.
Progress “news” writer Brian McNeill, often biased and inaccurate in his reporting penned a story for the November 20, 2009 edition [...]
In what has become a time-honored tradition at the Charlottesville, Virginia office of Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello, police were dispatched (this time in advance) to disband a scheduled citizen demonstration there.
The Charlottesville Police Department, after consultation with Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney and “machine” Democrat [...]
General contractor, James K. McKelvey, has joined a crowded field of GOP contenders trying to unseat one-term Democrat Congressman, Tom Perriello, in Virginia’s 5th district.
McKelvey’s campaign will focus on term limits, energy independence, and tax reform.
James McKelvey will announce his intentions and discuss his campaign for Congress on the [...]
The Americans for Prosperity (AFP) “Hands Off My Health Care” tour stopped at soon-to-be-former Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville office this morning to lead a protest against socialized medicine.
In the aftermath of Perriello’s YES vote on nationalized health care, outraged citizens and voters of Virginia’s [...]
The Jefferson Area Tea Party will be holding a “Purge Perriello” protest rally at the Charlottesville office of Congressman Tom Perriello, 313 2nd Street SE (see map below). To find the office, follow the “green” line from the Water Street Parking garage, around the corner [...]
Congressman Tom Perriello, a highly skilled and silver-tongued snake-oil salesman is stuck in a healthcare moment, and he can’t get out of it.
After nearly a year of attempting to bamboozle all of the people, all of the time, the clock is running out on Tom’s [...]
Following is the complete text of Peter Van der linde’s November 2, 2009 memorandum to Charlottesville City Council, refuting charges made by the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority in their lawsuit against Van der linde Recycling:
MEMORANDUM #1
TO: CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: PETER VAN DER LINDE
SUBJECT: FACTS SURROUNDING RSWA’S SUIT AGAINST PETER VAN [...]
We, the undersigned, hereby urge Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) board members, Supervisor Ken Boyd (representing Albemarle County) and Councilor David Brown (representing Charlottesville City) to instruct the RSWA to immediately drop its lawsuit against Van der linde Recycling.
We find the lawsuit to be unfounded in fact, unjustifiable in its [...]
In a flagrant and unequivocal election-day violation of the code of Virginia, Albemarle County Board of Supervisors Chairman, David Slutzky’s campaign has illegally placed “Slutzky for Supervisor” signs in the public right-of-way along Route 29 North in order to assist his re-election effort.
Virginia Code, section 33.1-373 states:
Any person [...]
In a highly unethical move on the eve of a City Council election, the Charlottesville Democrat “machine” (including Charlottesville City Council and City Government) are using the taxpayer-funded Charlottesville City Communications Department to assist Democrat Dave Norris (and by association, his Democrat running mate, [...]
Bradley Rees, the initial Republican challenger to enter the Virginia 5th District Congressional race to unseat Democrat Tom Perriello, will announce this evening that he is exiting the field of Republican candidates.
Rees, frustrated with insider GOP political maneuvers, may choose to reenter the race as a 3rd party candidate. [...]
Hot on the heels of bald-faced lie #1 in which she publicly “promised” to “never attack Rob Bell personally” and then promptly violated that commitment, Democrat Cynthia Neff is at it again. This latest aspersion appears in the pages of the 10/28/09 Daily Progress.
Neff, who [...]
Thinking of voting for Democrat Kristin Szakos (aka the Moat Monster), in Charlottesville’s November 3, 2009 City Council election?
Well, think again, that is, if temperance and civility in governance matter to you. Like her red-headed comrade, Dave Norris, Szakos has a thin veneer [...]
On 10/13/09 Cynthia Neff and Rob Bell, candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates 58th District Seat, appeared jointly on The Schilling Show to discuss issues and their respective campaigns.
Near the end of the program, a caller asked the candidates if they would promise to refrain from negative campaigning (audio [...]
In the latest case of local zoning enforcement insanity, Mark Graham, Director of Albemarle County’s Department of Community Development, Amelia McCully, Albemarle County Zoning Administrator, and Sally Thomas, Albemarle County Board of Supervisors member, all acknowledge the existence of an illegal windmill in [...]
An Open Letter to Congressman Perriello
by Hank Martin
Dear Congressman Perriello,
There seems to be some confusion on your part, as well as the leaders in your party, as to why there is such passion, emotion and stalwart opposition to the currently proposed changes to what is being called The Health [...]
There are many responsibilities that accompany the position of Charlottesville Mayor; primary among them is courtesy in response to citizen concerns.
Mayor David Norris publicly portrays himself as a “nice guy,” but those on the receiving end of his vitriol can testify that things [...]
Loving intolerance
by Marnie Deaton
In this day and age, it’s often difficult for Christians to speak out about other people’s actions. Our culture’s current love of tolerance causes some Christians to so fear being offensive that we avoid speaking out at all. However, Christians live under a different moral code [...]
The Rivanna Solid Waste Authority’s (RSWA) ongoing attempts to crush private-sector competitor, Van der linde Recycling, get curiouser and curiouser by the moment. And all ventures to obtain clarification of the Authority’s ambitions leave us feeling as though we are “among [...]
America, “land of the free,” as we know it, is now on the path to ideological and physical destruction, thanks in part to “enlightened” government schools like Charlottesville High School, where “Coexist” is the new-school “mantra” and students are subjected daily to cultural moral-equivalency indoctrination.
Initially [...]
We can’t claim the origination of this slogan (that happened on the Hook blog), but the execution is all ours. By popular demand, you can now fight back against the corrupt Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) by showing your disdain for overbearing, manipulative and anti-competitive government.
If you’re sick [...]
Can America avoid being a nation judged?
by Hank Martin
Our nation is intensely divided. We can see how caustic the discord is, because of the closeness of the votes in the latest presidential election. In the words of the Apostle Peter, in 2 Peter 1:10 “make our calling an election [...]
Of all the things that Americans could be doing to commemorate the September 11, 2001 radical-Islamic-inspired attacks on the citizens of United States, what might come to mind:
Petitioning God for the healing and restoration of America (2 Chronicles 7:14) Teaching your children about the evil perpetrated [...]Ridge-Cherry’s non-mystery history
by Antoinette W. Roades
At 6:30 pm on Wednesday, 9 September, Charlottesville Planning Commission and City Council will hold a joint public hearing to consider rezoning 2.875 acres at the intersection of Ridge Street and Cherry Avenue to Planned Unit Development (PUD) for a project that features an [...]
On the morning of September 1, 2009, Organizing for America (an offshoot of the Democratic National Committee and President Barack Obama) held a pro-Government-run Health Care rally in the parking lot outside of Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville, Virginia office.
The gathering was attended by approximately [...]
After ending last year mired in national controversy, Albemarle County Schools may have begun this academic year on equally rocky footing.
Last week, the division issued information packets to parents during the annual back-to-school “open house” event. The assortment of documents contained usual and predictable items: general school [...]
Multiple inquiries to the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA), Charlottesville City, and Albemarle County yielded some interesting information about how much the public is paying to fund the McIntire Recycling Center’s operation: no one, at any of the entities knows!
In what appears to be a case verging on [...]
No, you can not
by Charles Battig, MD
In six short months, the inspiring campaign motto “Yes We Can” has been replaced by a pervasive “No, You Can Not!” attitude. How disappointed must be those who voted for believable change and a fresh start for our nation.
No, You Can Not: point [...]
Today’s Daily Progress recounts the unusual dual candidacy of 22-year-old Andrew Williams, Charlottesville’s first black independent candidate for City Council in decades. Although Williams’ name will not appear on the ballot (due to an unanticipated, last-minute lack of valid signatures), a sharp and sincere [...]
Plan B and the Morning After pills—The truth behind the UVA Health System’s lies
by Sean Cannan
It’s time to get real about the Morning After Pills. It’s time to get the facts straight. It’s time to start protecting the health of women and their children, and cut through all the [...]
A proliferation of “Paul Best for Sheriff” signs has begun to mass, particularly in Charlottesville’s Greenbrier neighborhood. The surprise, early success of Best’s independent candidacy has Charlottesville Democrats scrambling to shore up support for Democrat Sheriff candidate, James E. Brown, III.
“Best” signs are [...]
Laurence Verga, real estate investor and self-described conservative Republican announced today on The Schilling Show that he will seek the Republican nomination for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District.
Verga is the third candidate for which The Schilling Show (or The Schilling Show blog) has been the exclusive venue of primary proclamation.
If [...]
Feda Morton, of Fluvanna County, has thrown her hat into the ever expanding ring of GOP candidates vying to topple one-term incumbent Tom Perriello in the 2010 election for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District.
Morton first announced her intentions on the Friday, August 7th edition of The Schilling Show.
Greene County resident, Roger [...]
Forget the ol’ 97: The new Danville trainwreck
by Michael Ernette
Much has been made of the July 18th Rural Tour event put on by the US Department of Agriculture in Blairs, Virginia. Throughout the blogosphere, the coverage has been even handed and fair with few exceptions. The events that took [...]
Are you feeling shut out by the one-on-one format of the “Tom in your Town” town hall meetings?
Would you like to spend some quality time with Congressman Perriello in an intimate public setting?
Are you not bothered by the presence of Charlottesville City Councilors?
Then we have just the [...]
This has not been a good week for Congressman Tom Perriello. After nearly being bamboozled into voting “NO” on Cap and Trade legislation by forged letters sent to his Congressional office, now another phony letter has surfaced.
This time, someone has attempted to falsify Tom Perriello’s letterhead in a correspondence [...]
“Pandering Tom” Perriello is wasting no time capitalizing on the July 31, 2009 Daily Progress story: Forged letters to congressman anger local groups. The article chronicles letters sent to the Congressman’s office on NAACP and Creciendo Juntos letterhead — letters which subsequently were [...]
It is serious business when a political candidate asks you for your vote. In doing so, someone is requesting of you to entrust them with the keys to your future, in essence.
In order to serve constituents in these perilous times, candidates must have fortitude and backbone. [...]
Leading factors contributing to the increased cost of health care (download .pdf version)
by Gary D. Helmbrecht, M.D.
Annual spending on health care increased from $75 billion in 1970 to $2.0 trillion in 2005, and is estimated to reach $4 trillion in 2015. As a share of the economy, health [...]
The Schilling Show is disappointed to report that former 5th District Congressman, Virgil Goode, will not be running to recapture his seat in 2010, according to this statement from the Goode Campaign:
Statement by Virgil Goode, Jr.
FOR RELEASE on July 27, 2009
I sincerely appreciate the privilege accorded to me by [...]
A question of faith
by “Tim the Teacher” (full name withheld at author’s request)
Do not question your faith! Right? Is this not what all religious leaders preach to their followers? Have you ever considered why this is so? Today I am asking you, for just a few minutes, to examine [...]
More than sixty concerned United States citizens and residents of Virginia’s 5th Congressional District gathered in the parking lot immediately outside Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville office today. Organized by Bill Hay and the Jefferson Area Tea Party, the rally’s purpose was to allow attendees [...]
The Jefferson Area Tea Party will be holding a health care rally at the Charlottesville office of Congressman Tom Perriello, 313 2nd Street SE (see map below). To find the office, follow the “green” line from the Water Street Parking garage, around the corner to Tom’s office.
The rally will commence [...]
Our Fifth District Congressman, Tom Perriello, has been lavish in his use of “Federal” funds in order to “buy” votes for the 2010 election. The Daily Progress, in particular has published numerous and glowing puff pieces on Tom’s taxpayer-bankrolled open wallet.
Since his [...]
Recently, we reviewed the saga of highly personal and potentially inflammatory Albemarle High School student journals being disposed of openly in a school dumpster.
This blatant breach of student privacy prompted many still unanswered questions:
Does Albemarle County have a privacy policy regarding student writings?
Was there a policy breach in [...]
Over 125 angry United States citizens rallied outside of Virginia Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville office today, in protest of Perriello’s “yes” vote on the anti-American Cap and Trade bill (H.R. 2454). The convocation was initiated by Bill Hay, of the Jefferson Area [...]
He actually did it; he cast a “yes” vote on H.R. 2454 . Enjoy your thirty pieces of silver, Tom…
Here is Tom Perriello’s statement regarding his support of the anti-American, Waxman Markey (energy tax) legislation:
Today we declare America’s energy independence and provide a blueprint [...]
A caller to Congressman Tom Perriello’s office, inquiring about the Congressman’s position on Cap & Trade (Waxman Markey) legislation, was told this morning, by the Congressman’s staff person that Tom is “leaning toward” voting for this discriminatory, costly, job killing, and fraudulent bill.
Is Tom Perriello’s [...]
In a recent photo essay, The Schilling Show blog chronicled apparent waste of valuable, taxpayer-funded resources (books, overhead slides, instructional materials, etc.) by Albemarle High School staff, teachers and/or administrators, as these items, many of them in perfectly usable condition, were disposed of wholesale into a Van [...]
Guest Editorial: The Corner mosaic proposal and Charlottesville’s “negligent” BAR
by: John Pappas
For the past four years Charlottesville and the University of Virginia have become my home. Forever, the lessons and experiences that this place has afforded me will remain cherished memories. It is through a desire to contribute [...]
These photographs, taken at 6:15 PM on Sunday, June 7, by a concerned citizen and Schilling Show listener show a dumpster loaded with discarded books and other instructional materials (overhead transparencies, etc.) at Albemarle High School, apparently destined for Van der Linde Recycling.
While the pictures speak for themselves, [...]
What a thrill it was to to be invited as a guest speaker at Charlottesville’s April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Party.
What an honor it was to stand before 1500 or so Constitution-minded individuals, gathered together in the name of Liberty, here in Charlottesville, a bastion [...]
WINA’S ROB SCHILLING TO APPEAR ON FOX NEWS CHANNEL’S
FOX & FRIENDS TELEVISION PROGRAM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, June 2, 2009 - Radio personality and former Charlottesville City Councilor, Rob Schilling, host of AM 1070 WINA’s The Schilling Show will be a guest tomorrow on Fox News Channel’s nationwide morning [...]
Over the years, we have received numerous complaints about liberal Charlottesville City and Albemarle County teachers indoctrinating captive government school students in violation of the respective divisions’ policies.
However, as students and their parents with minority political viewpoints are fearful of classroom and administrative retribution for reporting such infractions, hard [...]
As a follow-up to our popular “bumper music brought to life” post, here’s another long-lost gem from The Schilling Show video vaults.
In this clip, Rob, and his band, The Johnsons, nail the Three Dog Night classic, Mama Told Me (Not to Come). Dig those 3-part harmonies!
This was the [...]
After the story broke here on The Schilling Show blog last week, and later was picked up by The Hook and NBC 29, Charlottesville City has relented on its discriminatory two-tiered pricing policy for pool passes.
The City’s policy, as originally confirmed by Ric Barrick, previously prohibited [...]
The City's New Seal
With abhorrently astronomical drop out rates, a phlegmatic school board, and dangerously derelict disciplinary policies, it’s no wonder that many thinking taxpayers abandon the sinking ship that is the Charlottesville City Schools.
The City of Charlottesville hates' [...]
Well, Charlottesville’s real City Council election—the Democrat primary—is over. Councilor Julian Taliaferro, the “show” horse in a three-way race, must now spend his final months of council “service” riding off into the Charlottesville sunset under a cloud of Party-inflicted humiliation.
Difficult as it may [...]
Julian Taliaferro’s on a nostalgia kick, or so it seems from the joint postcard his (and Mike Baird’s) campaigns sent to hundreds of Charlottesville residents recently.
In this mailing, the Chief is shown standing with (a prominently pictured) Dave Norris in front of their 2006 “Say Yes to Charlottesville” yard sign. [...]
Sound the sirens! Dispatch the Dalmations! Julian Taliaferro, the empty fire suit in city hall, has committed a three-alarm rip-off. Believe it or not, the Chief has shanghaied Rob Schilling’s 2002 and 2006 Charlottesville City Council campaign slogan, “Common Sense Leadership,” and is now brandishing it on his own [...]
The Charlottesville Central Party Democrats have a serious race-relations problem.
They readily acknowledge that fact in their September 25, 2007 “Proposal for a Diversity Initiative,” in which they state:
In the 1960s, 70s and 80s the City Democratic Party included a number of African-Americans who were actively involved in the [...]
Green Is The New Black
by Dr. Charles Battig
Much has been written by those searching for economic lessons learned or not learned from the 1930s depression years. I look at those years and see a political and historical template for the crafting of energy policies as proposed by the Obama [...]
The proprietors of cvilledems.org, web site for the Charlottesville Democratic Committee, once again appear to be playing intra-party favorites.
Last time around, mention of Chief Taliaferro’s campaign was absent from the Dem’s site nearly a week after his announcement to seek re-election. That is, until The Schilling Show blog called [...]
In Charlottesville’s long lineage of inept elected representation, has there ever been a more obvious “placeholder” on City Council than Julian Taliaferro? (Well, maybe Tom “wake me when the meeting’s over” Vandever, but that’s another story…)
Aside from advocating for the destruction and political takeover (at great taxpayer [...]
In an April 9, 2009 appearance on The Schilling Show to discuss his recent book, The Obama Revolution, regional field director for the Obama campaign and Democratic Party of Virginia minion, Alan Kennedy-Shaffer, stepped into a deep abyss.
The self-proclaimed “Christian” and “Presbyterian” was asked about God’s position on [...]
The Fall Of America Has Come
by Tim Griffith
For over 100 years the American people have been subjected to an uninterrupted program of “pseudo-education.” This program has resulted in a public that believes itself able to comprehend most things presented to it to by the various media. The public is [...]
At high noon, on Wednesday, April 1, our regular programming was unexpectedly interrupted when the Charlottesville Department of Disinformation (a long-time nemesis of The Schilling Show) briefly commandeered the WINA studios to institute more balanced programming.
Although it made for an ugly scene, The Schilling Show posse (Rob, Leon, Jay, [...]
