Lefty loves Tom Perriello: McNeill, too, slants the news
Words are powerful.
Words can be used to clarify; words can be used to obfuscate.
When perusing the daily newspaper, one should not need to parse. Sadly, when Brian “Lefty” McNeill is at the pen, every printed word must be run through an objectivity strainer, and the spaces between the lines, as well, must be weighed for [...]
Bigmouth strikes again: Perriello lackey caught dissing Clark on live web stream
In an extremely embarrassing case of “loose lips” syndrome, an unknown female staffer—apparently in the employ of Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello—launched into a post-event screed, including a profanity-laced evaluation of independent Jeff Clark’s performance in the Senior Statesmen of Virginia debate, held in Charlottesville today.
While the anti-Clark invective was not itself recorded by The Schilling [...]
Bird brained: “Chicken Tom” Perriello ducks debate with Jeff Clark
Tom Perriello is a man well known for personal and public hypocrisy.
He claims to be “Catholic,” yet he supports abortion “rights.”
He claims to be fiscally frugal, yet he votes in favor of ObamaCare and for the massive energy tax known as Cap and Trade.
He claims to “represent” the people of Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, yet [...]
Thorpe speaks: Perriello taken to the woodshed
On Monday, August 2, 2010, Congressman Tom Perriello was given a long overdue whupping, not by his mother, but by Carole Thorpe, chair of the Jefferson Area Tea Party.
At the evening press conference, Ms. Thorpe along with Alex Cortes of DefundIt.org and Dr. Gary Helmbrecht took turns taking Perriello to task for breaking his “abortion [...]
Guest editorial: Libertarian vs. Progressive, Rule of Law, and The Slippery Slope
Libertarian vs. Progressive, Rule of Law, and The Slippery Slope
by Jeff Van Wickler
When you and I talk about politics we’re talking about the small stuff. Whether we should build a new county firehouse, or lower taxes on business to keep companies within our state, or on a national scale, whether we should pull out of [...]
Tolerance, Charlottesville style: Obama Democrats shun Republican roommates
Democrat: the party of tolerance and inclusion? Think again.
Charlottesville is well known as a Democrat machine town. You don’t spit into the wind and don’t mess around with central party Democrats—that is if you want to do business here.
But, “Republicans need not apply” is a phrase that now goes beyond Charlottesville City Hall and its [...]
Guest editorial: Convicting social justice
Convicting Social Justice
by Josh Lambert
As a graduate of the University of Virginia, I have spent the past three years of my life listening to professors and students sing the praises of a concept I am sure we are all familiar with: Social Justice. Intellectual after intellectual has told me that the pursuit of Social Justice [...]
Fleeced by the Barbour 2: Charlottesville’s commercial real estate assessment racket
Previously, we documented Charlottesville’s outrageous residential over-assessments wherein scores of City property owners have been paying dramatically higher real estate taxes than they should be—thanks to a partially corrupt, partially inept assessment operation, headed by Roosevelt Barbour (in collusion with the Charlottesville City Manager’s office).
But today’s announcement of the Charlottesville Ice Park’s completed sale should [...]
Let them eat cake: Perriello health care plan to starve constituents?
Virginia’s 5th District Congressman, Democrat Tom Perriello, is a silver-tongued snake oil salesman if ever there was one. He could sell ice to an Eskimo. He could even sell socialized medicine to a district largely comprised of capitalists. And that he did.
The delusory pitch was based on Perriello’s promise that his vote in favor of [...]
Jawing with Jay: Rob Schilling interviewed on religion, politics and faith
Charlottesville, Virginia, where “Democrat” is the religion and government is the “church”—a likely place for a frank discussion of faith’s intersection with politics?
That depends on who’s talking. In this case Rob Schilling is invited to examine the hot-button topic on CBS 19’s weekly series, Jay James on Faith.
In this brief segment, which originally aired on [...]
