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FDA claims your stem cells are drugs and they can regulate them.

3 February, 2012 (08:50) | 2012 Elections, Medicine, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

The Centeno-Schultz Clinic in Colorado (www.centenoschultz.com) has come up with a procedure wherein they treat patients’ severe joint pain with a non-surgical injection of the patients’ own stem cells into the affected area. The process, simply put, involves drawing the patient’s own blood, centrifuging it and extracting the stem cells that we all produce, and [...]

Mason-Dixon poll shows VA Senate race a dead heat

28 January, 2012 (07:59) | 2012 Elections, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

Lovettsville Lady over at Virginia Virtucon reports that the latest poll from Mason-Dixon is showing Virginians evenly split on the matter of the upcoming Senate race. Mason-Dixon’s latest polling shows the Virginia Senate race between George Allen and Tim Kaine dead even with both candidates getting 46% of the vote and 8% of voters undecided. [...]

The letter to the VA House Militia, Police, and Public Safety Subcommittee #1 I sent tonite.

25 January, 2012 (20:13) | 2nd Amendment, Law, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

The following is the letter I sent to the Militia, Police, and Public Safety Subcommittee tonite on several bills they are considering tomorrow, 26 Jan 2012. The list of this committee’s members’ emails is here.   Greetings Delegates Wright, Gilbert, Webert, Farris, and Lewis, I know your schedule is very busy so I will keep [...]

Time for copyright laws to be revised, clarified?

22 January, 2012 (14:09) | Economy, Entertainment, Human Interest, Law, Medicine, Politics, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

Picture yourself as an author, producing an article for a magazine or even a book for publication. In order to make your point or get the particulars of a scene across, you make use of prose from a literary work literally decades old, a work that’s firmly in the public domain. You send the article [...]

Obama’s Keystone decision a mistake on so many levels

21 January, 2012 (09:49) | 2012 Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

One of the news stories this week was President Obama’s decision on whether to have his administration grant a permit for a private company to proceed with building the Keystone XL pipeline, a pipe that would run from the Canadian border to US refineries on the Gulf Coast. Obama denied the permit. That’s a quick [...]

Rathergate 2.0 – the media’s desperate attempt to do ANYTHING to smear Republican candidates, Gingrich specifically.

20 January, 2012 (21:28) | 2012 Elections, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

Back in the 2004 elections the Rathergate episode definitively demonstrated that the mainstream media, Fox News excluded, had turned into little more than the propaganda arm of the Democrats and the Left in general. In what remains quite clear to many Americans as a deliberate action, CBS News and specifically Dan Rather accepted at face [...]

Mark Wahlberg on what’s important

16 January, 2012 (23:55) | Entertainment, Human Interest, Politics, Religion | By: ricjames

This is a great vid. Thanks to Tina Korbe at HotAir for bringing it to my attention!

Federal Judge rules 2nd Amendment does not apply outside your home.

16 January, 2012 (15:44) | 2nd Amendment, Law, Politics | By: ricjames

Nope, not kidding. Via Alphecca, we have this story: The Second Amendment Foundation and Association of  New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs will appeal a federal judge’s ruling Friday  that “the Second Amendment does not include a general right to carry handguns outside the home.” Federal Judge William H. Walls, a Clinton appointee, dismissed a [...]

Huntsman dropping out of the race, expected to announce support for Romney

16 January, 2012 (09:07) | 2012 Elections, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

I’ve been expecting this since the failure by the Huntsman campaign to even attempt to get on the ballot in Virginia: Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is expected to withdraw his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and throw his support to Mitt Romney, Fox News learned Sunday. Huntsman is set to announce his withdrawal [...]

John Whitbeck Running For VA 10th District GOP Chair, Receives Endorsement of Delegate Randy Minchew

15 January, 2012 (17:15) | 2012 Elections, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

I mentioned on Friday that the current Chairman of the GOP’s VA 10th District Committee, Howie Lind, would not seek re-election this year. In his announcement, he reported that he had asked John Whitbeck to run for the seat and that Whitbeck had agreed to do so. Today I got an e-mail from the Whitbeck [...]