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While the City of Charlotte was spending $22.7 MILLION in local and state funds to land the global headquarters of Chiquita Brands International and more than 400 jobs, (See: Chiquita brands choose Charlotte) Virginia Beach Council critters have been sho...
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John P. Kuchta Jr.VNS ColumnistLet’s suppose that the City of Virginia Beach was actually called City of VB, Inc. The mayor was called the CEO and the VB City Council would be called the Board of Directors.Let’s suppose that you had $10 million to i...
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by Bruce Deitrick PriceVNS Contributing ColumnistA big issue: Virginia is one of the hold-out states. Gov. McDonnell is constantly attacked by the media, in particular, my hometown paper, the Virginian-Pilot. Until recently, each American state was an edu...
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After being caught attempting to illegally establish a City Parking Authority, without even consulting the city attorney, Mayor Will Sessoms has backed down. In fact after the proposal was made public, the City Atty. Mark Stiles wrote the mayor and counci...
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by John Galt
VNS Contributing Columnist
A bare majority of the city council is preparing to approve what is nothing more than a massive municipal PONZI scheme - a fraud on the taxpayers of the city of Virginia Beach - to benefit favored developer A...
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Let's Kill 2 Birds with One Stone.
Here's a way to create 50+ jobs INSTANTLY and perform a public service all in one fell swoop.Begin erecting a 12 rope gibbets on the Capitol Lawn, in plain view of the 12 criminals on the "Super Committee". If we ...
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by Phil Van Cleave, presidentVirginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL)Operation Campus Safety at Virginia Tech (VT) was a big success for VCDL! … A BAD DAY FOR THE ANTI-SELF-DEFENSE LOBBYThe media credited us with having 5 times the number of people a...
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Based on scientific and medical advances in the past few decades, there is little doubt that the Roe v. Wade decision would be overturned today given the opportunity, and the Pro-Choice lobby knows it. If there is any question on that, search out commenta...
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by Robert K. DeanVNS Contributing WriterThe Virginia Beach City Council which had expected to form a citywide Parking Authority with condemnation powers, an attempted circumvention of eminent domain laws, has been told by its top legal adviser that such a...
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Bob O’Connor, VNS’ Municipal Blogger, must be crazy to challenge the city council’s logic of sticking citizens with a garbage fee, due to budget needs, while planning to give MILLION$$$ to a private friendly developer to build a convention center ho...
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by John P. Kuchta Jr.VNS ColumnistI’ll say one thing about Obama; he’s either cocky enough or dumb enough not to know that he won’t make much ground against the Chinese by putting 2,500 US Marines in Australia.Obama should be guided through a short ...
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CHESAPEAKE - - E. W. Jackson will be guest speaker at the Saturday breakfast meeting of the Chesapeake Taxpayer Alliance tomorrow.Lawyer and preacher, Jackson will discuss his vision of his 2012 bid for a U.S. Senate seat.The breakfast is held in Zino’s...
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by Robert K. Dean
VNS Contributing ColumnistTaxpayer DANGER ALERT! Can you trust the government? In Virginia Beach, can you trust the Virginia Beach City Council and City Manager Jim Spore and his staff to honor the wishes of Virginia...
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by Larry Henry
Author of Plato’s Cave and VNS contributing columnist Part 2: The Shadow Party & Horowitz Poe America is under attack. Its institutions and values are under daily assault. But the principals involved are not foreign invaders. They...
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by John P. Kuchta Jr.VNS Columnist
I laughed out loud when I saw US Senator Mark Warner's picture over the story titled "Congress must be bold" in the latest edition of Virginia Business. My own contacts with Senator Warner prove that he is anything ...
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by Phil Van Cleave, Virginia Citizens Defense LeagueLiberty University (LU) has just changed their firearms policies to be more in line with the University's name. Not perfect by any means but most definitely a whole lot better!The timing is interesting...
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by Ken White
President, Virignia Taxpayers Association
“Grassroots dissatisfaction with other GOP establishment candidates is now so great, and deliberate censorship of Ron Paul’s top popularity polls by the powers-that-be is so effective, that the ...
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by Larry HenryVNS contributor & Author of Plato’s Cave Part One of a Two Part Series ( The Shadow Party - Horowitz & Poe ) WW2 was a catastrophe for Western Europe, China, Russia, and SE Asia. England was holding on by a thread while...
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byJohn P. Kuchta Jr.VNS Columnist
I go crazy if I try to sit down and actually watch those Republicrat nominee “debates.”The mainstream media representatives keep asking the same predictable questions and avoiding the candidates who want to give hard...
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By John GaltWhat began as a great experience in individual liberty and responsibility is slowly morphing into a land of handouts for sissies and enablers.On a daily basis, we see and hear news about another special interest group wanting more and more han...