World of (Agnor) Hurt: President Obama, same-sex marriage promoted by Albemarle County Elementary School?

In today’s highly charged political environment, government schools theoretically should be bastions of political non-partisanship. In Albemarle County, as in most Virginia school divisions, there are policies in place to prevent political indoctrination of students. Yet once again, Albemarle County’s enacted guidelines have failed to assuage concerned parents and protect vulnerable children from blatant political [...]

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Worldly: Albemarle County teacher deletes “God” lyric from “We Are The World”

Within weeks of a national scandal at Stall Brook Elementary School in Bellingham, Massachusetts—where an overzealous government school official removed “God” from Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”—a local teacher has performed her own secular exorcism on another popular song. For an upcoming 4th and 5th grade performance at Albemarle County’s Broadus Wood Elementary School [...]

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Cats and the cradle: Norris pleads relief for sore felines, ignores barbaric institutional infanticide

Charlottesville City Councilor Dave Norris boldly has raised his voice in opposition to procedural testing on cats being conducted at the University of Virginia. Norris, a pro-abortion Democrat, joined about 25 protesters at an April 12 rally on University Grounds to call for an end to feline intubation. This procedure allows medical residents to practice [...]

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Righteous red pen report: Cutting $13M from Charlottesville City’s bloated budget

Despite ongoing annual proclamations that Charlottesville City Government is cash starved, a cursory analysis of the city’s proposed 2012-13 Operating & Capital Budget shows that nothing could be further from the truth. This year, Charlottesville City Hall is “swimming in cash”—as it has been for the last decade and beyond, running up cumulative surpluses in [...]

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Fraud, misfeasance and cover-up: Special Prosecutor investigates Charlottesville spokesman Barrick

The City of Charlottesville spends a lot of money—well north of $140 million in its most recent annual budget. The vast majority of the city’s revenues come in the form of taxes paid by its citizens who have little choice but to remit excessively the hard-earned fruits of their labor to a profligate-spending government. The [...]

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Clubbed: The tyrannical, botanical, Democrat politics of McIntire Park

While the press for a botanical takeover of McIntire Park has gone full court, an important underlying component of the process has gone unreported in Charlottesville’s mainstream media: coercive Democrat politics. Charlottesville Democrats in 2004 attempted to oust golf from the park through a series of meetings, plans, and maneuverings led by then-mayor Maurice Cox, [...]

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World of (Agnor) Hurt: President Obama, same-sex marriage promoted by Albemarle County Elementary School?

World of (Agnor) Hurt: President Obama, same-sex marriage promoted by Albemarle County Elementary School?

In today’s highly charged political environment, government schools theoretically should be bastions of political non-partisanship. In Albemarle County, as in most Virginia school divisions, there are policies in place to prevent political indoctrination of students. Yet once again, Albemarle County’s enacted guidelines have failed to assuage concerned parents and protect vulnerable children from blatant political [...]

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Guest editorial: The unforgiving minute

Guest editorial: The unforgiving minute

The Unforgiving Minute By Hank Martin I judge the two preeminent interviews that Rob has completed as of late, to be the ones with Michael Del Rosso and Jim Patterson. In both, the guests made it more than copiously clear, that in the face of America’s current narcissism, where we seem totally captivated with either [...]

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Guest editorial: Charlottesville City Council’s plan to give away 20 percent of Oakwood Cemetery

Guest editorial: Charlottesville City Council’s plan to give away 20 percent of Oakwood Cemetery

(Note: This is an open letter to Charlottesville City Council from guest editorialist Antoinette W. Roades) To: Members of Charlottesville City Council From: Antoinette W. Roades Date: 1 May 2012 Re: Your plan to give away 20 percent of Oakwood Cemetery Given City practice over the last few years, what you are poised to do [...]

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Bad MoJo: Library of Virginia slaps Maurice Jones over Barrick cover-up scandal

Bad MoJo: Library of Virginia slaps Maurice Jones over Barrick cover-up scandal

In the wake of a recent Schilling Show exposé into institutional corruption within Charlottesville City Hall, a new problem has emerged for Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones. Immediately upon the release of investigative findings implicating (now former) Charlottesville Communications Director, Ric Barrick, in a public bid-rigging and cover-up scandal, Barrick resigned his $95,000 per year [...]

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Guest editorial: An open letter to Albemarle County and Charlottesville City Planning Commissions

Guest editorial: An open letter to Albemarle County and Charlottesville City Planning Commissions

Guest editorial: An open letter to Albemarle County and Charlottesville City Planning Commissions By Charles Battig, MD With both an engineering and medical background, my views are science and validated-results based.  They are more oriented with F. A. Hayek and “The Fatal Conceit,” than with American Planning Association dogma. None of my comments are intended [...]

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Judy, Judy, Judy: Mueller leaving Charlottesville Public Works?

Judy, Judy, Judy: Mueller leaving Charlottesville Public Works?

Sources deep within the bowels of City Hall have revealed the pending retirement of long-time Charlottesville Public Works director, Judith Mueller. A former assistant director of public works in Virginia Beach, Mueller assumed her Charlottesville position in 1985. Mrs. Mueller’s rumored replacement is Lance Stewart, Charlottesville City’s current Facilities Maintenance Manager. You heard it first [...]

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Big time: Schilling Show “We Are The World” exclusive makes Drudge Report

Big time: Schilling Show “We Are The World” exclusive makes Drudge Report

The story of an Albemarle County teacher removing “God” from a popular song has landed Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling, on the front page of the Internet’s premier news source, DrudgeReport.com. Subsequent to Drudge running the news, Schilling’s account of government-school deity-redaction also was featured on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze and Todd Starnes’ Fox News [...]

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Worldly: Albemarle County teacher deletes “God” lyric from “We Are The World”

Worldly: Albemarle County teacher deletes “God” lyric from “We Are The World”

Within weeks of a national scandal at Stall Brook Elementary School in Bellingham, Massachusetts—where an overzealous government school official removed “God” from Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”—a local teacher has performed her own secular exorcism on another popular song. For an upcoming 4th and 5th grade performance at Albemarle County’s Broadus Wood Elementary School [...]

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Our Titanic Government: Rob Schilling speaks at Tea Party rally

Our Titanic Government: Rob Schilling speaks at Tea Party rally

Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling, delivers searing remarks at the  Jefferson Area Tea Party Tax Day Rally, held April 16, 2012 on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. In his comments, entitled, “Our Titanic Government,” Schilling references the arrogance and ignorance surrounding America’s impending financial doom. Kristin Szakos, Dennis Rooker, David Toscano, Dave Norris, and Tom Perriello are [...]

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Cats and the cradle: Norris pleads relief for sore felines, ignores barbaric institutional infanticide

Cats and the cradle: Norris pleads relief for sore felines, ignores barbaric institutional infanticide

Charlottesville City Councilor Dave Norris boldly has raised his voice in opposition to procedural testing on cats being conducted at the University of Virginia. Norris, a pro-abortion Democrat, joined about 25 protesters at an April 12 rally on University Grounds to call for an end to feline intubation. This procedure allows medical residents to practice [...]

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