http://www.vlrc.org The Virginia Land Rights Coalition is a private, non-political, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to provide information to Americans about the protection, ownership and wise use of private property and natural resources, and the core principles of our American Constitutional Republic. en-us Copyright (c) The Virginia Land Rights Coalition Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400 Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400 600 Nomenclature and in particular, catchy phrases and slogans, are integral to the institution and leadership of political action and violence as well as simplifying or condensing the rationale for such action into neat and all encompassing phraseology. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/181.html Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/181.html The thoughts and actions of unhealthy people government and corporate leaders bent on hanging a National Animal Identification System (NAIS) yoke on America s neck are dominated by id . With each passing day, their intent to exploit agriculture becomes more apparent. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/182.html Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/182.html In the wake of my essay Leaving the Left , many readers have asked me to elaborate what precipitated my political departure. Did it happen pretty much all at once, or were there several stages of recognition? A decisive shift took place nearly three decades before I penned my recent essay. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/183.html Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/183.html On property rights issues, conservative US Senator George Allen is turning himself into a disaster. People at the ground level the grass roots from across Virginia are expressing surprise and anger with the duplicity coming from the George Allen camp. I have been hearing from staunch Republicans who know Mr. Allen and have worked with him in years past. Betrayal and dishonesty are the words many of them are using. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/184.html Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/184.html Journey Through Hallowed Ground is a National Park Service scheme, run by a "socially-conscious" aristocracy, designed to radically transform a million acres of Virginia's heartland and to impose the "appropriate" quality of life on people of the Piedmont. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/178.html Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/178.html No one, of course, has taken the worshipping of Abraham Lincoln to greater extremes than the Republican Party and some of its affiliated foundations and think tanks. The Republican Party has long sought to give its political agenda moral authority by reminding us all that it is, after all, The Party of Lincoln. That is certainly true but, unfortunately, the Republican Party and some of its associated think tanks have apparently found it necessary to do what they once accused the Soviet Union of doing: rewriting history in order to enhance its prestige and power. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/179.html Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/179.html Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. My name is Peyton Knight, and I am Director of Environmental and Regulatory Affairs for The National Center for Public Policy Research, located in Washington, D.C. The National Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education foundation founded in 1982, dedicated to providing free market solutions to today s public policy problems. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/180.html Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/180.html As a result of media scrutiny and various ongoing congressional investigations, the use of easements to achieve conservation goals is under the microscope. In my view, this scrutiny is well deserved, because conservation easements present a number of serious problems. Conservation easements become especially problematic when they are not used as a scattershot approach to achieve isolated conservation goals, as was the case until very recently, but rather are understood as the dominant paradigm for conducting land conservation and management generally, as is increasingly the case today. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/176.html Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/176.html Recurrent and widespread dissatisfaction with government management of natural resources is extensively shared among ranchers as well as environmentalists, recreationists, oil and gas developers, loggers, and farmers alike. Despite considerable differences in perspective, all recognize that natural resources are administered in an inefficient and/or inequitable manner. But with the complexity of natural resource systems, understanding has been limited, creating a fertile breeding ground for popular fallacies and myths over the formulation of environmental policy. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/172.html Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/172.html Few concepts have been more important for human survival, yet maligned as unjust by intellectuals, as the concept of private property rights. Since at least the time of Aristotle, the superiority of private property over collective ownership in generating incentives to use scarce resources effectively has been recognized. It was a core idea of the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers such as David Hume and Adam Smith, as well as the American Revolutionaries such as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/174.html Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.vlrc.org/articles/174.html