All Entries in the "Politics" Category
Host turns guest: Schilling analyzes GOP Primary results for national radio audience
Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling goes “national” in an appearance on America’s Radio News Network’s “The Drive Home,” a news-talk network syndicated to 275 stations nationwide. Hosts Steve Ray and Rachel Crowson seek Rob’s analysis of the recent GOP Primary results including Mitt Romney’s viability, the Ron Paul campaign, Newt Gingrich’s second place finishes, and [...]
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, [...]
Guest editorial: Rules are replacing responsibility in government
Rules are replacing responsibility in government by Jim Stern Man has always lived under sets of rules. From the Ten Commandments to the legal code, sporting competitions to board games, in physics and in tax forms, there are rules everywhere guiding our lives. Deciphering the rules creates knowledge. Early man saw that fire burns, fire [...]
Breaking news: Carole Thorpe leaving Tea Party post
Carole Thorpe, chair of the Jefferson Area Tea Party will be leaving her post this month after two years at the helm of the influential government watchdog group. After assuming the reigns of the organization from previous chair, Bill Hay, Thorpe has led the local Tea Party in claiming several major political victories, including the [...]
Andrew Breitbart interview on The Schilling Show
On May 5, 2011, Andrew Breitbart joined Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling, to discuss Breitbart’s new book, Righteous Indignation. Rob and Andrew shared conversation on their mutual admiration of Dennis Prager, the seminal Los Angeles punk band X, and growing up in Southern California in the 1970s and 1980s. Andrew Breitbart, a hero of constitutional [...]
Summer in the city: TJPDC employee overheats on climate change skeptics’ free speech
Hot on the heels of Delegate David Toscano’s outrageous attempt to silence global warming “skeptics” through a suggested denial of constitutionally protected speech comes another insidious, government-sponsored onslaught on the First Amendment. This time, the proposed restriction emanates from Summer Frederick, Planning Manager at Charlottesville’s Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC). Frederick, apparently not satisfied [...]
Breaking news: Corey Stewart running for Virginia Lt. Governor
On yesterday’s edition of The Schilling Show, Corey Stewart, Chair of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors stated that he will be seeking the office of Virginia Lt. Governor in 2013, with a formal announcement to follow shortly. Stewart, a Republican, is best known for groundbreaking illegal immigration reform in Prince William County and [...]
No-go: Huja nixes Human Rights Commission unless government included under purview
Charlottesville, Virginia, a bastion of left-wing University elites, has a serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem. Charlottesville, Virginia, a political stronghold of Marxist-leaning Democrat elected officials, has a serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem. Charlottesville, Virginia, home to a concentration of socially evolved progressives (e.g. pro “marriage rights” and abortion on-demand), has a serious white-on-black racial discrimination [...]
Fat cats: Charlottesville City Government’s outrageous salary games
It was with great fanfare that Charlottesville’s $95,000+ per year spokesman, Ric Barrick, announced the selection of Chris J. Engel as city’s new Director of Economic Development (DED) in a January 12 news release: The City of Charlottesville is proud to announce the appointment of Chris J. Engel as the next Economic Development Director for [...]
Turn-votes: “Conservative” Albemarle County School Board members shun Buyaki, support Koleszar, McKeel for Chair and Vice Chair
In an amazing display of institutional protectionism, the seven-member Albemarle County School Board (ACSB) voted to prohibit conservative reformer, Jason Buyaki, from assuming a board leadership position. At the ACSB January 12 organizational meeting, politically left-leaning member Eric Strucko—recently a champion of process and corruption reform—nominated Buyaki for chair. Establishment darling, Diantha McKeel, then nominated [...]
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