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When I saw this commercial, I didn’t think about buying an Audi. I thought this was a great illustration of the environmental left’s ideal society. It had everything our current adminstration could hope for:
100% government surveillance of citizens
Punishment of those making choices distasteful to government
Picking and choosing the winners and losers
Yup. Implementation of Big Brother under the guise of saving the world.
How many years until we see “Green Police” on our streets?
I prefer a free market to regulations, but until we can free the market from previous regulation, sometimes new regulations are required to provide balance. Senate Bill 622 is such an example. Because I am a dentist, I know, and am affected by, this particular abuse intimately, but the principle applies to health insurance across the board, so I will explain the problem from my own Point-of-View. But if the insurance companies get away with this in dental insurance, you can expect it to become a more widespread problem. Read the rest of this entry »
Tidewater Libertarian Chair, Robert Dean, addressing summit of small govt. & liberty organizations
On Saturday, February 6th, the Tidewater Libertarian Party hosted a Summit for other organizations that focus on small government, fiscal restraint, and individual liberties. The purpose is to network and synergistically pool resources to reach common objectives.
The following groups were represented:
HR 9-12
GOOOH
Tax Payer Alliances from at least 3 cities
The Constitution Party
The Tidewater Libertarian Party
Hampton Roads Tea Party
The New Republic Patriots
(other groups also had a representative and will be added later)
Candidates running for office, current and past office holders also were present. Most of them spoke to the gathering. The last crowd size number I recieved was at 125 people. Fairly tight for our usual meeting place, Atlanta Bread Company on Phoneix Dr. in Virginia Beach.
Happy Birthday President Reagan. Thank you for standing as a fine example and allowing us to be unapologetically proud to be Americans again.
Yea, some of my Democrat pals…….and some Libertarian ones even, won’t appreciate Reagan’s time in office as I do. It isn’t just the fact that Ronald Reagan and I both share February 6th for our birthdays. I do see him as the finest president in my lifetime and a great conservative.
For those Reagan fans out there, I’d encourage you to watch some of his fine speeches on youtube or other places. It will bring back memories, reinforce what you remember to be true, and bring back some of those proud moments of the past.
Those that don’t like Reagan, well…….this post isn’t for you. I’m proud to share my birthday with him, so we can just leave it at that.
Ken Cuccinelli, you are truly awesome! Already, you do Virginia and America proud! Between catching the Melendez loophole and this, Cuccinelli is just several steps above other elected officials. Also, a big thank you to everyone in the Va. GA that are making this step for freedom possible. – Britt Howard
In just a few months, we will experience a great economic miracle as jobs become plentiful, the stock market regains much of its lost value and homes start selling again. The press will tell us of the magic of the Obama recovery and the proof of the wisdom of Keynesian Economics. And it will happen just in time for the November elections.
Kids this weekend were shut off from a tradition I enjoyed for so many years growing up in Va. Beach.
Kids shut out of local tradition!
Closed – No kids sliding on Mt. Trashmore!!
Sliding or just rolling down a snowy Mt. Trashmore made for memories. Memories our children won’t share. The city has plenty of employees to man the blockades to make sure the citizens that paid for Mt. Trashmore park, can’t use it. Read the rest of this entry »
So the Supreme Court upholds corporations’ First Amendment right to free speech. They have ruled corporations are free to do what they wish with the corporation’s money, even contribute to political campaigns and candidates.
This has outraged many of our good statist/liberal friends who feel corporations should be restricted in their ability to contribute to the political arena. Now, I don’t like the idea of big corporations pouring money into political campaigns, but the restrictions our statist/liberal friends wish:
1) won’t matter/work
2) doesn’t address (as usual) the root cause of the problem
The liberal/statist/progressive faith in government never ceases to amaze me.
When they broach a subject they don’t understand, the immediate assumption is “without government, we’d all be screwed.”
So today I was being lectured by a self-proclaimed “progressive” on how free-markets and libertarianism can not work. In a ballsy moved, he went for the industry I work and love and he has no experience in, building contracting. The premise, without government building regulations and codes, no building would be fit to live and work in. All the greedy contractors would skimp and there would be no way limit to the amount of money they could make. I love the ignorance. But why such faith that government is needed to ensure quality? Why is government needed to limit the profits of contractors?
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government . " - Thomas Jefferson
"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." (Unknown Source)
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves" - Edward R. Murrow
"Beer is proof that God exists and that he wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin
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