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The Emperor’s New Clothes

By |2024-07-17T08:27:12-04:00July 15th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Featured, Politics|

by Deborah Giffin, VATP Treasurer If you are not familiar with this particular Hans Christian Andersen fable, it involves a vain Emperor who is hoodwinked by a couple of scam artists who promise to provide the most incredible vestments to the Emperor. The cloth they create has magical powers; it is rendered invisible to fools and to those who are unworthy of their position. Of course, there is no cloth; the scammers engage in a show of creating invisible (non-existent) [...]

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The Movies, Politics, and Character

By |2024-06-30T15:11:57-04:00June 18th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Featured|

by Deborah Giffin, VATP Chair of Direct Legislative Action (DLA) After the hubbub of the primary elections are past, you might want to take a break and chill out and watch some movies. This article is a recommendation of outstanding movies to watch or re-watch if you have seen them in the past. For the younger folks, watching black and white movies on Turner Classic Movies is an introduction to movies they have never seen. For us older folks, [...]

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Advocacy as Fashion

By |2024-05-14T19:14:16-04:00May 14th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Featured, Government, Politics|

by Deborah Giffin, VATP Chair of Direct Legislative Action (DLA) Have you ever gone back and looked at high school and/or college pictures of yourself? Do you notice how you look just like all your friends? Were you a hippie? Were you "goth?" Were you straight edge? Were you a skater? Identity while young is very tribal; you seek to find others who affirm you and with whom you find common ground. Chances are you are not the same person [...]

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It’s still the economy, stupid!

By |2024-05-17T17:28:43-04:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Economy, Featured, Government, Politics, Taxes|

IT’S STILL THE ECONOMY, STUPID! by Deborah Giffin, VATP Chair of Direct Legislative Action (DLA) April 15, 2009 was the day for rallies in about 750 locations across the country. Since that day, the Tea Party movement has been active in many areas. At first, gatherings of like-minded folks rallied around the “Taxed Enough Already!” ideology. Large gatherings such as the 9.12 March on Washington energized a fellowship of mostly white, middle-class conservatives. As the movement matured it has [...]

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Bankrupting Virginia—The reality of Democrat rule

By |2024-02-13T20:14:03-05:00February 13th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Government, Legislative, Politics|

A review of bills that are passing through the House and Senate shows that both houses are keen on spending your money in support of Big Government goals. If you thought years ago that you were Taxed Enough Already, the combined impact of the large-ticket bills currently under consideration will make your head explode. Each of the following bills individually is a big spending bill, but when combined with other bills, it creates a multiplier that boosts the overall spending [...]

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VAMFA Overview of Virginia’s Management of the COVID crisis

By |2022-09-26T09:55:59-04:00September 13th, 2022|Categories: Blog, Featured, Healthcare, News, Politics|Tags: , |

The Virginia Medical Freedom Alliance (VAMFA) is sponsoring an open and uncensored public forum on October 1, 2022 about the public health system’s management of COVID in Virginia. Virginia government health officials have repeatedly declined requests from VAMFA to present the results of their COVID public health policies and treatments to date and have an open dialogue with Virginia doctors and medical scientists about alternative COVID prevention and treatment approaches. Thousands have died from COVID as a result of being [...]

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Open Letter to Virginia Health Commissioner from Virginia Medical Freedom Alliance

By |2022-07-24T23:47:54-04:00July 19th, 2022|Categories: Blog, Featured, Government, Healthcare, News, Politics, Press Release|

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Smile, you are under surveillance!

By |2022-04-18T17:52:34-04:00April 18th, 2022|Categories: Blog, News|

Why does the Post Office have a program that tracks social media? We hear that they also scan the envelope of every piece of mail and maintain that information. Is there a super computer anywhere that can aggregate this information to identify patterns that could be a threat???? What the US Post office says in its statement: The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the primary law enforcement, crime prevention, and security arm of the U.S. Postal Service. As such, [...]

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WARSAW prisoner INFO

By |2022-01-17T12:14:49-05:00January 17th, 2022|Categories: Blog, News, Politics|

Information on a lot of the Jan 6th political prisoners here https://www.patriotfreedomproject.com/connect-with-a-1/6er Below is information on the SEVEN Jan 6th political prisoners being held in Warsaw that we are aware of currently. Please be in prayer for these men and their families. Albuquerque Head, father of 3 girls ages 9, 2, 1. Sole breadwinner for the family. Court date postponed until Jan 22nd. Wife and mother of his children is afraid they will not be able to keep their home [...]

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