Virginia News Stand: April 30, 2009

April 30, 2009 | 2 comments

We are back with the News Stand sooner than we thought, here at the close of business for April, where we learn, from the Wall Street Journal, that despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent since 1971, high school test… Read more>

Adult Stem Cells Win And The Debate Is Dead: Dr. Oz Says So!

April 29, 2009 | 7 comments

Perhaps an unfortunate choice of words, but that’s what he said. Now, excuse me if this video is a couple weeks old but, believe it or not, I’m not exactly an Oprah viewer, nor had I ever heard of Dr.… Read more>

Virginia News Stand: April 29, 2009

April 29, 2009 | 2 comments

Looks like the the governor got a little jealous of his boss in Washington and issued his own threat assessment, which demonized several groups, as did the federal manifesto. A college professor often told us, “Never generalize. It’ll get… Read more>

Threat Assessment

April 29, 2009 | 1 comment

Yet another government agency, this time the Virginia State Police, has issued a terrorism assessment report that includes concerns over Christian conservatives. You remember that earlier this month the U.S. Department of Secret Police Homeland Security issued a report… Read more>

Virginia Renewal Project’s Pastors’ Policy Briefing: Rediscover God In America, Encourage Your Pastor To Attend

April 28, 2009 | 12 comments

The Family Foundation and Pastors For Family Values invite pastors from across the Commonwealth to the Virginia Renewal Project’s upcoming Pastors’ Policy Briefing, June 4 – 5, in Norfolk. This Rediscovering God in America briefing is vital for pastors throughout… Read more>

Virginia News Stand: April 28, 2009

April 28, 2009 | No comments

The Washington Post today picks up on something we wrote about quite extensively last week — namely, former Delegate Brian Moran’s all out adoption of the homosexual lobby’s agenda in his bid for the Democrat gubernatorial  nomination. It may workRead more>

Georgetown Outdoing Notre Dame In Church Scandals To Please Obama, Biden

April 27, 2009 | 2 comments

It only figured that with his boss about to accept, controversially, an honorary doctorate from Notre Dame (more on that in a future post), Joe Biden would step back into his bishop’s role to preach to all of us that, ”You know there is… Read more>

Virginia News Stand: April 27, 2009

April 27, 2009 | No comments

It’s a somewhat light day at the News Stand. One item of note is that a challenger has emerged against the incumbent in the 15th House district, according to the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record. Why mention only “incumbent”? Because that’s all the DNR did,… Read more>

Virginia News Stand: April 24, 2009

April 24, 2009 | No comments

Yesterday we were late, today we’re early. Here’s your News Stand, where we findthe Democrat candidates for governor tripping all over themselves trying to outbid each other on education spending. They all want to spend more. Of course. Teachers salaries, pre-K, it’s… Read more>

Payday Lender Closes Virginia Operations

April 24, 2009 | 1 comment

As we posted in yesterday’s News Stand, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that one of the largest payday lending groups, Check ‘n Go, is closing up shop and leaving Virginia. While we would normally frown on the loss of business in our… Read more>