Today, a second federal judge in as many months ruled Obamacare unconstitutional (see Avik Roy at The Apothecary blog at Forbes.com). That’s two lawsuits involving 27 states against the federal government’s healthcare takeover and two rulings that it is unconsitutional.

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Tomorrow at noon, the full Senate is scheduled to take up two bills on the floor that would undermine marriage in Virginia and, we believe, may violate Virginia’s Marriage Amendment.

Please contact your senator now and urge him or her to vote… Read more>

Tomorrow morning, a Senate Rules sub-committee will vote on two important reforms that will bring greater transparency — and thus, less government — to the Commonwealth’s budget and spending practices.

Senator Ralph Smith (R-22, Botetourt) is the patron of SB… Read more>

Nothing adequately can explain the pace of the General Assembly. Especially the short session. More goes on that we can — and would love to — report. It is no exaggeration to say that we could employ an entire… Read more>

Things couldn’t be stranger than fiction anywhere outside of Hollywood than on Shockoe Hill, where Mr. Jefferson’s capitol sits. Today, in the House Privileges and Elections Committee, members debated for about 20 minutes if the word “that” should be amended… Read more>

The Senate Education and Health Committee yesterday reported to the floor SB 967, legislation cleverly designed by Planned Parenthood that attacks abstinence centered education programs. The vote was 11-4 with Republican Senator Fred Quayle (R-13, Suffolk)… Read more>

Sometimes General Assembly session is tough — and lonely. Certainly, you can feel beat up by the world.

This afternoon, in the House Rules Sub-committee on Studies (yes, there is such a thing), which had a loooooong, drawn out… Read more>

Tomorrow morning, the House Privileges and Elections Committee will consider a number of important constitutional amendments. Please contact committee members at the link above and encourage a vote for all three resolutions.

One, HJ 615, patroned by Delegate Bill… Read more>

Today, the Senate General Laws Committee considered two bills that are high priorities of the homosexual lobby in Virginia. One, SB 747, would add sexual orientation to the state’s hiring policy of non-discrimination. In an 8-7,… Read more>

In a bit of breaking news, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to an expedited hearing of the federal government’s appeal of Virginia’s legal challenge to the federal health care law. Here’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s news release:

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