Day: September 11, 2013

Every year I put up a piece about the 9-11 attack on our country. I like to make sure I stoke that rage at least once a year. Complacency isn’t a good thing and every September 11th I just become enraged. This year, 12 years later, is no different.

How dare they!!

Feel free to share your thoughts. Some of our readers have some very personal stories. While I wish for healing for everyone, I also hope that each of us alive that day will serve as a living testimony to American survival and grit. The terrorist did not win. Not even close.

In the continuing saga of the “gift that just keeps on giving,” Virginians are again fleeced by the greedy behavior of Governor Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.  Now another law firm has billed the State of Virginia, and thus the people, for another $100,000 in legal fees surrounding the fired chef from the governor’s mansion.

Firing former executive mansion chef Todd Schneider was probably one of the most costly political decisions in Virginia history.  Schneider has been accused and charged with stealing food from the executive mansion.  Schneider maintains that he was directed to take food in exchange for services he performed at various private parties and catered functions hosted  by the Governor.  Schneider revealed just how far the blur between public and private services extended.  The entire Jonnie Williams/McDonnell/Cuccinelli  scandal has  come to the forefront and has tainted the entire McDonnell administration.

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