Funny how August, supposedly the slowest of all months for news, can gobsmack you in the face with a flying hammer full of headlines, and on a Friday of all things. In fact, there is a fair amount of state news … Read more>

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the Obamacare bill becoming the Obamacare law, as President Barack Obama added his signature to the legislation. It also marks the one year anniversary of Virginia’s lawsuit contesting the bill’s constitutionality (and defending the … Read more>

Thought this would be fun to share. Here’s the Fox News crew setting up for Greta Van Susteran’s interview with Governor Bob McDonnell last Monday regarding the federal court decision declaring Obamacare unconstitutional. The interview appeared later that night on Van … Read more>

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli just sent this e-mail to supporters:

As I told you earlier today, Virginia won the first round of the constitutional fight over the federal health care law. I also told you I’d get back to you

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Annotations & Elucidations

A Goode Two-Pary Man

Former U.S. Representative Virgil Goode not only shocked the political world yesterday, he confused it as well, saying he joined the Constitution Party, but will remain a Republican. A new twist on political double … Read more>

Just two days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a 5-4 decision to uphold the display of a Cross on a World War I Mojave Desert memorial on what had been public property (once a national park, the land now is owned … Read more>

As we’ve been researching the legislative voting records of Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds in preparation for media interviews, we came across something rather interesting. In 1998, then Delegate Deeds voted in favor of HB 1154, a ban on partial … Read more>

If you think ceding your freedom to choose your doctor to the government is bad, or forcing medical professionals to perform services contrary to their religious beliefs (such as abortion) is reprehensible, or eliminating employees’ rights to a secret ballot in … Read more>

The Special Tax Session of the General Assembly resumes tomorrow and anything can happen. Some capitol insiders are predicting the session could end by the end of the day, with nothing done. That would be good.

Some think the House … Read more>

Virginia Catholic Conference Executive Director Jeff Caruso issued the following statement in reaction to the 2-1 decision to strike down Virginia’s partial-birth abortion ban by a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals:

I cannot imagine that protecting the gruesome

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