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Barbara Hollingsworth

Feds should investigate former Winchester prosecutor

When former Virginia commonwealth's attorney Paul H. Thomson was arrested January 11 by federal agents in Winchester on drug, witness and evidence tampering charges, the lid flew off of the tightly sealed Pandora's box containing cases he had won. The U.S. Read More

Cuccinelli asks Supreme Court for expedited review

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says he will file a petition today asking the Supreme Court to consider Virginia’s health care lawsuit, Commonwealth v. Sebelius, now instead of allowing it to go through the usual appellate process. Cuccinelli cited the court’s Rule 11, which provides for immediate review ìupon a showing that the case is of such imperative public importance as to justify deviation from normal appellate practice and to require immediate determination inî the Supreme Court. Read More

Cuccinelli asks Supreme Court for expedited review

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says he will file a petition today asking the Supreme Court to consider Virginia’s health care lawsuit, Commonwealth v. Sebelius, now instead of allowing it to go through the usual appellate process. Cuccinelli cited the court’s Rule 11, which provides for immediate review ìupon a showing that the case is of such imperative public importance as to justify deviation from normal appellate practice and to require immediate determination inî the Supreme Court. Read More

Pilots are fighting back after losing jobs for dubious reasons

Shortly after Continental Airlines pilot Newton Dickson complained about the same lack of training and pilot fatigue that led to the fiery crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 in Buffalo, N.Y., he was referred to Dr. Michael Berry, now head of the Federal Aviation Administration’s medical certification office, who diagnosed him with epilepsy and medically grounded him. Read More

IBM exec offers to save $900 billion in health care costs, but Obama turned him down

The CEO of IBM offered the Obama administration a free software program that would have cut Medicare and Medicaid fraud by almost a trillion dollars, but he was turned down – twice. Read More

South Dakotans push for a new individual mandate: Buy a gun

Five state legislators in South Dakota have introduced a bill that would require all state residents over the age of 21 to purchase a firearm that is “suitable to their temperament, physical capacity, and preference…[and]  sufficient to provide for their ordinary self-defense.” Read More

All profits are taxed equally, but some are more equal than others

With the highest corporate tax rate in the world, American companies are already at a major disadvantage when they try to compete with foreign competitors. But thanks to loopholes inserted into the tax code by members of Congress in hock to corporate lobbyists, the profits of at least one big American firm is being taxed at a rate ten times the rate .     Read More

Hugo Chavez eggs on 'squatters'

Wearing red T-shirts from Hugo Chavez’ socialist party, and encouraged by the Venezuelan strongman himself, organized “squatters” seized 20 “unused” private properties in a suburb of Caracas in an attempt to keep angry slum dwellers from turning against him as the middle class is already doing. Read More

Obama re-nominates radical union lawyer

If President Obama is going all centrist and bipartisan, why did he re-nominate radical union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, especially after his first nomination was blocked by Republicans and even a few Democrats in the Senate last year? Read More

Boehner revives D.C. voucher program

Republican Speaker John Boehner’s revival of the popular school voucher program in D.C. he championed as House Minority Leader is good news for advocates celebrating the first annual National School Choice Week.   Read More

Virginia House passes Repeal Amendment

Virginia’s House of Delegates kicked off a nationwide effort to pass a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would restore federalism by permitting the repeal of any federal law or regulation by vote of two-thirds of state legislatures.    Read More

Renewable energy costs consumers a bundle

Electricity prices in the 29 states with renewable electricity mandates are nearly 40 percent higher, a new study by the Institute for Energy Research  found.    Read More

Renewable energy costs consumers a bundle

Electricity prices in the 29 states with renewable electricity mandates are nearly 40 percent higher, a new study by the Institute for Energy Research  found.    Read More

Note to Geithner: It’s buy low, not sell low

Remember how President Obama promised taxpayers that the government would recover most or all of the billion it handed General Motors during the 2008 $85 billion auto industry bailout?   Read More
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