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Archives for January 2009
Defrauding And Abusing The American Worker
14 January 2009 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics, Crime | 13 Comments
Twenty-two people, including foreign nationals from Eastern Europe were recently indicted for their part in a massive immigration fraud scheme according to WAVY.com, showing that illegal immigration is not only a phenomenon involving Central America, but alluding to significant national security concerns. Our broken borders and weak controls on identification documents make possible all sorts […]
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Kaine’s Prison Plan Should Be Handcuffed
14 January 2009 | Virginia Politics | 8 Comments
Guest post by Sanford D. Horn
So Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is interested in letting a few “good” prisoners out of the gray bar hotel 90 days early as a cost-cutting measure claiming they are “non-violent offenders who have been model inmates” and were due for a 30 day early dismissal, according to an article […]
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Mother Arrested In Death of Child
13 January 2009 | Crime, Prince William County | 15 Comments
Fox News is reporting a new development in the case of the 13 year old developmentally disabled girl who was missing and later found dead miles from her home. Her mother has been arrested. The MJM has more.
How utterly depressing.
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Open Thread
12 January 2009 | Uncategorized | 73 Comments
It has been a while since we had one of these, so here goes..
Will Schools Be Able to “Opt Out” of Math Investigations?
12 January 2009 | Prince William County | 49 Comments
County School Board Chairman Milt Johns put a fascinating item on the agenda of the School Board’s meeting for January 21st. It’s a discussion about whether schools should be able to “opt in” to provide “traditional” math instruction to elementary students instead of the controversial TERC “Math Investigations” program. If you’re a parent that is […]
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Needing (A Better) Real ID
12 January 2009 | National Politics, Virginia Politics, Crime | 25 Comments
A recent article in the Washington Post demonstrates the problem that our currently lax methods of ensuring the validity of identification documents makes easily possible. In this case, a Virginia “Korean mafia” syndicate manufactured fake identification documents to facilitate the presence of illegal aliens that were used to help the syndicate engage in black market […]
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Terry McAuliffe Visits Manassas
10 January 2009 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics | 32 Comments
Former Clinton advisor Terry McAuliffe wants to buy his way into the Governor’s office despite never having held elected office before, and came down to Manassas today in order to make his case to local voters. My first impression of his candidacy falls pretty flat, based on what his vision for the state seems to […]
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The Fiscal Implosion Of Manassas Park
8 January 2009 | Manassas Park | 19 Comments
In order to offset a 38% drop in tax revenues in the next fiscal year, the residential tax rate in Manassas Park would have to rise from $1.24 to $2.00 per $100 of assessed value. Years of fiscal mismanagement and bad policy in the Park, abetted by indifference from the electorate crashing down on city […]
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The Impact Of Corrupt Governments
7 January 2009 | National Politics, Illegal Aliens | 86 Comments
Jim Patrick notes that there’s a lot we can achieve by looking at some of the larger issues that are driving illegal aliens to come here. Although the left constantly harps on various international policies that the United States pursues as the supposed reason why foreign nationals feel compelled to unlawfully flood across our borders, […]
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Hargrove Promotes Term Limits In Virginia
7 January 2009 | Virginia House | 19 Comments
Looking through the bills that have been pre-filed for this year’s General Assembly session is this curious one from Henrico Delegate Frank Hargrove. HB 1755 “Death penalty; abolished for all Class 1 felonies committed on or after July 1, 2009.” would abolish the death penalty in Virginia. That’s pretty strange coming from a “conservative” who […]
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Stealing A Getaway Truck: How A Day Laborer Says Thanks
6 January 2009 | Crime, Prince William County | 19 Comments
First, there’s the story of the arrest of a guy and his girlfriend for armed bank robbery and stealing a truck.
Police charged Wilson, 31, of 8805 Portner Lane near Manassas, and his girlfriend, 29-year-old Melissa Martin, of 8247 Humphrey Lane near Manassas, with attempting to rob a Dairy Queen restaurant at knifepoint Friday, and then […]
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The American Nightmare
5 January 2009 | Illegal Aliens, Prince William County | 32 Comments
The Wall Street Journal touched on the wave of foreclosures in Prince William County showing that much of why we ended up with this mess has to do with ethnic-based identity politics, corruption, abuse and illegal immigration. So many in the real estate industry conspired to prey on Latino immigrants — legal and illegal — […]
Circus Maximus
3 January 2009 | Virginia Politics | 46 Comments
Although Virginia Republicans have long-ago settled on Virginia’s Attorney General Bob McDonnell as their candidate for Governor, Democrats are engaging in a sitcom style battle to figure out who is supposed to capitalize on what they think is a shift in the electorate and follow Tim “I promise not to raise your taxes” Kaine. It […]
It Must Be A Slow Newsday…
2 January 2009 | Illegal Aliens, Prince William County | 132 Comments
You can tell it’s a slow news day when the Post runs an article on the Hysterical Housewives of Haymarket about six weeks after the article was written. Oh well, I guess having some stories sitting on the shelf for days such as this is what newspapers are all about.
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Identity Politics Slammed
2 January 2009 | National Politics, Prince William County | 15 Comments
The online edition of the Manassas News & Messenger allows readers to post comments in response to articles, and often is a source of amusement as a group of area residents will frequently trade charges and insults regarding the subject of a story. The reader commentary frequently demonstrates a need for some degree of adult […]
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Top Ten BVBL Posts of 2008
1 January 2009 | Blogs | 5 Comments
This was quite a year for BVBL, setting a few records for daily bandwidth usage and blowing past the previous record for page views. Here’s a look back at the most-read posts for 2008, showing a few highs, but mostly the lows of 2008:
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