What is on your mind today? – Friday Front Porch! Where the reader becomes the blogger. Use this thread to talk about anything, complain about something, send kudos to someone, or simply share gossip. Have a good weekend!
The political website Politico has picked up on the sniping taking place in the First District race for the Republican nomination to challenge either Democrat Alan Mollohan or Mike Oliverio.
It’s hard to keep track of the negative attacks from day to day, but the tone of this race has turned pretty nasty.
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The unions just could not resist. It took all of a few weeks before a variety of union organizations decided to use the mine disaster at the Upper Big Branch Mine for political gain and to advance their political agenda. The teacher’s unions are among those trying to gain politically from the death of 29 West Virginia coal miners.
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Obama knew when he was campaigning that his promise of no tax increases on anyone making under $250,000 was a calculated, blatant lie. He unveiled the first broken promise on taxes when he signed legislation to raise cigarette taxes. Of course, he had the political cover because it was a tax against an unpopular minority even though most smokers make less that $250,000.
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West Virginians are looking for leadership. Not Democrat leadership but, rather, leadership in the truest sense of the word. For too long, our state has struggled under one party control. Election after election rewarded not deeds but promises.
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From the Washington Prowler at the American Spectator blog…
The irony of President Barack Obama visiting Beckley, West Virginia, Sunday to read a eulogy at the memorial service for those who died in the Upper Big Branch Mine accident, has not been lost on some White House aides.
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Yesterday, as President Obama and Vice President Biden attended the memorial service in Beckley for 29 miners that perished in the Upper Big Branch Mine, the Washington Post featured a story about the coal problem that President Obama faces in West Virginia.
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Sadly and unfortunately, President Obama simply could not represent the expression of sympathy of the American people on Sunday without turning to a starkly political tone. Rather than honor the lives of our couragious miners, the President engaged in political opportunism in a way that is deeply troubling.
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President Obama and Vice President Biden will both attend tomorrow’s memorial service for the 29 miners who died at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County.
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From the Wheeling newspaper this morning…
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What is on your mind today? – Friday Front Porch! Where the reader becomes the blogger. Use this thread to talk about anything, complain about something, send kudos to someone, or simply share gossip. Have a good weekend!
Today, all your hybrid driving co-workers who want to fit in with the Starbucks/Seattle’s Best crowd will be celebrating Earth Day. You know these people. They love the Charleston Gazette, they hate coal and coal-fired electricity, are probably sporting a “Friends of the Mountains” bumper sticker on their Prius.
I encourage you to resist joining the anti-freedom and anti-liberty festivities today. In fact, you should counter their efforts by allowing your over-sized luxurious SUV to idle in the driveway before heading out today.
This date, April 22nd, is Earth Day. It’s also the birth date of Vladimir Lenin, a follower of Karl Marx and promulgator of Marxism-Leninism. Marx, of course, is the guy who invented communism. Enjoy your freedom. Do not celebrate Earth Day. Denounce it.
This is unacceptable. It’s no wonder traditional donors to the Republican National Committee are holding back their dollars. I would recommend that all Republicans hold back their contributions until Michael Steele is replaced as Chairman of the Republican Party.
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The State of West Virginia is preparing to spend $3.5 million to restore and renovate Holly Grove Mansion, the home which sits beside the Governor’s Mansion in the Capitol Complex in Charleston.
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Congressman Mollohan has begun airing a campaign commercial that attacks state Sen. Mike Oliverio, his opponent in the May 11 Democratic primary, for his ties to a conservative-leaning organization of state legislators.
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