Blood from a Stone
The RTD recently ran a series of articles about the status of the state employee pension system in Virginia. I thought the attempts at reassurance were very humorous, right along with the justification for the high salaries. Public employees: Your futures are being stolen by this crisis, just like everyone else’s. There is no future [...]
2011 Constitution Day Jubilee – Fredericksburg, Virginia
September 17, 2011, 3-7 PM Get Tickets Join in the celebration of the 224th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, our nation’s founding document. Throughout the history of the American people, there is no document more important as a guarantor of our liberty than the United States Constitution. WHERE: Patriot Park Amphitheater, 5710 [...]
S&P Downgrades U.S. Sovereign Debt
From Bloomberg: S&P Cuts U.S. Rating for First Time on Deficit Reduction Pact The U.S. had its AAA credit rating downgraded for the first time by Standard & Poor’s, which slammed the nation’s political process and said lawmakers failed to cut spending enough to reduce record deficits. “The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal [...]
Advancing the cause of liberty in Virginia
From a commentary in today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch written by our own Joe Guarino: We the People can gather in Virginia because, just over 220 years ago, a group of men we Americans call the Founders established a form of government whereby the People are in charge and grant certain limited responsibilities to a subset of [...]
Open to Everyone: College Course on Conservative Philosophy–This Summer
We want to inform our readers about a class that is being taught in the continuing education school at the University of Richmond. This is quite a pleasant, surprising find and RTP wants to support this type of curriculum since it is so rare to find! Information on the University of Richmond Summer School Course: [...]
Hampton Roads Tea Party Board Endorses Ben Loyola
Karen Hurd from the Hampton Roads Tea Party released the following statement about the race in Virginia’s 2nd district. The Hampton Roads Tea Party was created to fight back an overreaching, corrupt, and obese government – at all levels. The Tea Party movement, including the Hampton Roads Tea Party holds both the Republicans and the [...]
The National Government Challenges Virginia’s Health Care Freedom Act
It’s on: President Barack Obama’s administration on Monday asked a federal judge in Virginia to dismiss the state’s lawsuit alleging Congress overstepped its constitutional bounds with the new health care reform law. We’ll follow what happens and keep you informed as this issue moves through the courts. For now, I don’t have much to say [...]
The Founder’s Vision – Unleashing the Human Spirit
Virginia is blessed with ample, productive farmland; timber; mineral resources, including energy; established deepwater ports and shipbuilding; a centrally located air facility; and a populace that is hard working, fundamentally honest and leans fiscally conservative. What stands in our way? The problem is jamming Virginians into a mold through common national legislation that dictates every [...]
Virginia Attorney General joins 12 others to sue over health care
Virginia’s attorney general joined the chorus with 12 other attorney generals across our nation to state that they believe the Ben Nelson bribe is unconstitutional. They are threatening to sue over this provision of the health care bill. “We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed,” South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other [...]
