The Issues

Energy Freedom

Plant Seeds Go to Court

Planting 2016 has begun.  A lawsuit brought on January 6, 2016, in a U. S. district court in California has the potential of impacting seeds you plant. The Center for Food...

Jefferson Forum
March 30, 2016

More Climate Change Silliness

European scientists from Chalmers University of Technology Sweden suggest consumers should stop eating so much beef and dairy and limit climate change. The new study concludes eating beef and dairy products create...

Gary Baise
March 16, 2016

Counties Attack EPA’s TMDL Regulations

Counties in Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia have filed a friend of the court brief (Amicus Curiae) in the TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) case between the American Farm Bureau Federation...

Jefferson Forum
March 2, 2016

Remember the Climate

Military triumphs and catastrophes have often hinged on how well (or luckily) armies and navies employed, avoided or benefited from weather and other natural events. Severe storms helped the British...

Jefferson Forum
March 2, 2016

EPA is Power Hungry

On February 11, National Review declared “Obama’s power-mad agency claims jurisdiction over land and water use almost everywhere in the United States.” Articles have been written recently regarding whether the U.S....

Jefferson Forum
February 17, 2016

Climate Frequently Changes

Dangerous manmade global cooling, global warming, climate change and extreme weather claims continue to justify what has become a $1.5-trillion-per-year industry: tens of billions spent annually on one-sided research and...

Jefferson Forum
February 3, 2016

EPA Accused of WOTUS Propaganda Violation

“At issue here is whether EPA violated publicity or propaganda and anti-lobbying provisions…” regarding appropriations from Congress (GAO letter December 14, 2015, to U.S. Senator James M. Inhofe.) The U.S. Government...

Mike Thompson
January 20, 2016

Mad Max Coming to an Electric Grid Near You?

Two years ago Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of the Bowman Avenue Dam, a small structure used for flood control in Rye, N.Y., about 20 miles from New York...

Jefferson Forum
December 30, 2015

Climate Treaty will Harm U.S. Future

The recent Paris climate talks became frenzied, as delegates desperately tried to salvage an agreement beyond empty promises to do something sometime about what President Obama insists is the gravest...

Jefferson Forum
December 16, 2015

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Economic Freedom

Lower taxes and fewer regulations

Education Freedom

More choices for Virginia families

Energy Freedom

Reliable, affordable energy

Worker Freedom

Protecting Virginia’s right-to-work tradition

These are the building blocks of a more competitive and prosperous Virginia.