Our Virginia

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Join Our Campaign | Make a Contribution       Friend:   We have been talking a lot during this campaign about each candidate's record and history. For some, that is of great importance; for others, less so. But one's vision for the future is always important. It's time to talk more about our vision for Virginia, which is wholly consistent with my record. I see... A Virginia that always honors and protects our 2nd Amendment rights as essential to the assurance of all other liberty for its citizens. A Virginia where availability of employment provides ample choices for jobs by removing Virginia's corporate income tax, making Virginia's ports the destination choice for those vessels using the newly widened Panama Canal; with jobs to receive, process, refine, manufacture, and redistribute the incoming cargo. The removal of this tax would also attract businesses from across state lines and provide ample motivation and resources for existing business to expand. A Virginia that has removed its own regulatory barriers and successfully pushed back against federal barriers to offshore oil and gas exploration and production, and construction of new coal fired power generation plants, etc. Virginia can once again prosper through its natural resources, including our coalfields. A Virginia that does not cooperate in placing federal storm water runoff burdens on our families and businesses. It's water - let it run off. A strong Virginia will also resist federal prohibitions and limitations on our fisheries that are not even at risk. A Virginia that allows education to reap the benefits of market forces, and allows the full benefit of supply and demand in healthcare.  A Virginia where its citizens are freed from the bondage of government dependence and empowered to prosperity.  And a Virginia where its students have the opportunity to prosper without unmanageable college costs and debt, and where we remove the stigma associated with technical and professional education. A Virginia where all its citizens can exercise the free expression of their faith without fear of legal threats. A Virginia where every profession does not long for the stamp of state approval and the regulation that comes with it. A Virginia where personal property rights are valued, assured, and protected. Where homes can be built without being seen as a financial burden to a community, but rather as the valuable places where jobs go home to sleep A Virginia that always honors our veterans and their families for their sacrifice and service.   A Virginia where government understands its own growth should not out-pace the strength of its economy. Virginia can become a state where taxes do not penalize production and job creation; instead using a fair tax that draws from consumption, no matter the source of income. A Virginia where our life-sustaining water, food, and energy sources are secured without dependence on foreign sources. Where government allows ideas to rise and fall on their own merit, without tax subsidy. A Virginia with so much opportunity and prosperity, protection of life, our liberty and our property, that it would consume more time to read than you would want to dedicate today. I see a Virginia Republican Party Convention that will want to nominate a candidate for Lieutenant Governor that has a solid, conservative legislative record that they can count on as evidence of his future conduct and vision. Hopefully, we share this same vision. If you want to see our Virginia continue to grow, expand, and always be the best place to raise a family and do business, let us know of your support.  Thank you for the privilege of service. God bless you. Steve Martin

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Common Core Educational Standards When Tuesday May 14, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Add to Calendar   Where Sherwood Regional Library 2501 Sherwood Hall Ln Meeting Room Alexandria, VA 22306 Driving Directions Greetings! Common Core and Longitudinal Data Systems - Bark or Bite in Virginia? The alarm has been sounded about the federal Common Core education standards and Longitudinal Data System (LDS) for public school students. It is said that Common Core: *       Forces nation-wide curricula, instructional materials and tests on public schools *       Hinders state lawmakers - even Governors - from changing content standards in their own schools *       Places undue emphasis on group learning and teams *       Will accelerate the 'dumbing down' of America and leave students unprepared for college *       Will entrap private schools as the SAT college entrance exam is aligned with Common Core *       Is being sold on the false pretense of aiding America's "international competitiveness" *       Is being pushed by a crony capitalist web of familiar Progressive education groups (including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), educational testing companies, and information systems contractors, and *       Violates the Elementary & Secondary Education Act It is argued that the Longitudinal Data System: *       Gives the federal government access to over 400 data points collected on each student, including disciplinary records, healthcare information, family income, party affiliation, and religion *       Abolishes parental consent in allowing the release of student data *       Constitutes an unlawful 'Big Brother' national student database , and *       Violates the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Common Core and LDS will end local control of public schools and allow the federal government to track everyone from pre-school to the workforce, turning them into robots to serve their government masters in a centrally planned global economy.  Or will they?  What's the situation in Virginia? Will recent federal LDS regulations override the state's excellent existing privacy protections for student data? And what does it mean that the Virginia Department of Education formerly said it wanted to mesh Common Core with our own Standards of Learning, but now wants to make sure that Common Core does not LOWER our standards? Jane Hogan will be with us to help us sort this all out.  Jane is an assiduous researcher in education issues who has made presentations to Tea Parties and other groups around the state. She is an international relations graduate from Stanford who formerly held teaching certificates in California, Georgia, and Tennessee. She also worked in IT and is the grandmother of 15.  Jane wants decent public education available for her own family and the entire country.   Please join us!  Click on the link below to register. -ATP Executive Committee   Meeting Room Sherwood Regional Library 2501 Sherwood Hall Ln  Alexandria, Virginia 22306 6:30pm  - 9pm (program starts at 7pm)     Register Now!

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Daily Policy Digest for April 29, 2013

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April 29, 2013 House Republicans Working to Craft ObamaCare Alternative Because the third-party payment system isolates patients from actually paying the bills they incur, doctors do not compete on the basis of price, says John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis... WASHINGTON EXAMINER Widowhood Leads to Higher Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenses Upon widowhood, average monthly out-of-pocket medical spending rises by $34.25 and out-of-pocket nursing home expenditures increase by $24.11 per month... JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS Health Exchanges Could Lack Competition The American Medical Association estimates that a single insurance company held 50 percent or more of the market in nearly 70 percent of local markets nationwide, meaning many state insurance exchanges will lack competition... STATELINE Revisiting the High Tax Rates of the 1950s While the top tax bracket faced a marginal tax rate of 91 percent in the 1950s, less than one-tenth of one percent of Americans paid this rate... MANHATTAN INSTITUTE Danes Overhaul Generous Welfare State Only 47 percent of Denmark's total population worked in 2012 and many of those who did worked short hours with all the perks, including an unofficial $20 an hour minimum wage... NEW YORK TIMES NCPA Blogs John Goodman's Health Policy Blog The premier right-of-center health policy blog on the Internet. Bob McTeer's Economic Policy Blog Expert insights into economic growth and monetary policy. Retirement and Taxes: Reforms that Make "Cents" Retirement reforms based on common sense. Energy and Environment: Clearing the Air Expert analysis on energy and environment issues. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn YouTube Flickr This email was sent by: NCPA 12770 Coit Road, Suite 800, Dallas TX 75251-1339 Call us at 972.386.6272 We respect your right to privacy - view our policy. Support our work with your donation of $25 or more.

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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. The Editors' Top Picks DHS Spokesman Waffles Over Huge Ammo Purchases Homeland Security Department's lack of forthrightness to explain its need for hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition was exposed at a hearing Thursday. Citing ObamaCare, Maryland's Largest Insurer Seeks 25-percent Rate Hike Because ObamaCare will force it to cover many people with expensive conditions, Maryland's largest insurer is proposing a 25-percent rate increase for individuals in 2014. Video Shows Link Between SPLC and Attack on Family Group A video posted by the Family Research Council shows a clear connection between the Southern Poverty Law Center and Floyd Corkins' violent attack on the pro-family FRC. Britain Sentences Bomb Plotters Who Had "Blessing of Al-Qaeda" Irfan Naseer, the leader of a terrorist suicide bomb plot in Britain, was sentenced to life imprisonment on April 26. The Republican Civil War The war within the Republican Party between the old-guard establishment neoconservatives and the upstart constitutionalist/libertarian-leaning rebels is raging, and the liberty movement is gaining on the establishment. Abortionist's House of Horrors: Gosnell's Unindicted Media Accomplices The corporate press, the networks and mainstream pundits share blame in abortionist Kermit Gosnell's crimes for their censorship of this horrendous story.  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2013 The New American Magazine, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for The New American newsletter on our site (www.thenewamerican.com). Our mailing address is: The New American Magazine 770 N. Westhill Blvd. Appleton, WI 54914 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

 



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Townhall Daily - April 28 - Hugh Hewitt, Derek Hunter, John Ransom, Doug Giles, Debra J. Saunders and More

Oh My: More People Collecting Food Stamps in the United States Than Living in Spain , Surprise: Stoners at Weed Convention Are Utterly Clueless, Holder: Come to Think of it, Amnesty is a Civil Right,

A big change is about to catch Republicans by surprise A Maryland financial journalist says a scandal brewing in DC will soon catch most Republicans by surprise, and will radically alter the political system and the entire nation. Get the full story here…
Hugh Hewitt: A Maginot Line of TSA Screeners and Watch Lists That Are Not Watched: The Need for Either or Both a Select Committee and a Special Commission Derek Hunter: Creating Monsters: Terrorism, Welfare and "Celebrating Diversity" John Ransom: Liberals Suck at Math and Eyeballs Doug Giles: Jihad On Our Tax Dollars? Screw That. Debra J. Saunders: Will Boston Probe Falter Like Benghazi? Bruce Bialosky: Now Obama Wants Your Pension A big change is about to catch Republicans by surprise A Maryland financial journalist says a scandal brewing in DC will soon catch most Republicans by surprise, and will radically alter the political system and the entire nation. Get the full story here… Paul Jacob: Thirty-Three Billion Balloons in a Strange Land Harry R. Jackson, Jr.: Putting Government on the Right Diet! Daniel J. Mitchell: It's Always the Right Time to Mock Politicians Steve Chapman: Knives on a Plane? Not Quite Kevin McCullough: Barack Hussein Gosnell Political Calculations: A Closer Look at a Weird Day in the Markets Bob Beauprez: All that Ammo Mark Baisley: Endangered: The Constitution Part 6 Stephen DeMaura: The Marketplace Fairness Act Will Support Small Businesses Night Watch: NKorea to Escalate Charles Boustany: Reject CLASS 2.0 and Address Medicaid's Looming LTC Crisis Michael Youssef: President Obama's Tin Ear Toward the Persecuted Christians Marita Noon: Fisker: Free to Make Flashy Cars in Finland Mark W. Hendrickson: Happy Birthday to a Great President Mike Shedlock: Is Capitalism Killing Our Morals and Economy?		Oh My: More People Collecting Food Stamps in the United States Than Living in Spain Daniel Doherty Surprise: Stoners at Weed Convention Are Utterly Clueless Daniel Doherty Holder: Come to Think of it, Amnesty is a Civil Right Guy Benson Iceland returns center-right parties to power AP News Gunmen surround Libya Foreign Ministry AP News Gunmen surround Libya Foreign Ministry AP News Gunmen surround Libya Foreign Ministry AP News Gunmen surround Libya Foreign Ministry AP News Bangladesh owner is at nexus of politics, business AP News Fire destroys Danish museum, artifacts saved AP News Reports: Cops shot outside Italian premier office AP News Gunmen surround Libyan foreign ministry to push demands Reuters News Analysis: Israeli credibility on line over Iran nuclear challenge Reuters News Reports: At least 1 police officer shot and wounded outside Italian premier's office AP News Iraq pulls Jazeera, other TV licenses amid unrest AP News Collapsed building owner arrested on India border AP News Gunshots fired near Italy prime minister's office, injuries Reuters News Mirren, Rylance up for London's Olivier awards AP News Glick: Time to Confront Obama O'Reilly: Droning On Hawkins: 7 Things Every Moderate Muslim Should Believe Ransom: When What Happens in Benghazi Travels to Boston Greenberg: The Trainwreck Called Obamacare Payne: Soros Knows It Rains the Other Way Goodman: Guns, Bombs and Government Hewitt: A Maginot Line of TSA Screeners and Watch Lists That Are Not Watched Sowell: Immigration Gambles Driessen: Opposed to Drilling, Fracking, Keystone…and Exports
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