Tax Pig: Loudoun County should reject the Metro Tax

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  June 5th at 03:21 AM  | 

Here in northern Virginia, there’s a huge local political issue right now. WMATA and MWAA, the DC-area transit and airport authorities want to extend the DC Metro train system out to Dulles Airport. That’s fine. It’s their prerogative. The problem is that the Beltway people want to make the people of Loudoun County pay for it. That’s the problem, and that’s why a pig was | Read More »

Occupiers lose Battle of Wardman Park

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  February 10th at 07:00 PM  | 

The basic premise of the Occupations, including Occupy DC, is that they, the “99%”, are not being heard in elections, so they must impose themselves on spaces where they are not welcome in order to force their message out. It’s a strategy reminiscent of George Lincoln Rockwell’s Phase One for the American Nazi Party, and I expect it to be just as ineffective at achieving | Read More »

Putting to bed that whole racial profiling deal

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  April 29th at 12:02 AM  | 

The absolutely worst argument I keep hearing against Arizona’s law banning illegal aliens, is that somehow it was going to be racist in its implementation. A bunch of ignorant folk seem to have this idea about those of us in the southwest who oppose illegal immigration, that we see brown-skinned folk and think illegal! I’ve been dismissing this idea since I first ran into it, | Read More »