Carrie Wigal

This year, I’m starting a new tradition with my family. We have fields of yellow buttercups on our property and our family is going to go out and pick baskets full to take with us to our local cemetery. And we are going to decorate the graves of those who died for our freedom.

Fluvanna County has had problems of over-crowding in the elementary and middle schools for several years now. The band-aid solutions have been to install trailers on the two campuses, but these were only meant to be temporary. Well, another school year has gone by and still no reasonable solution has been provided by the School [...]

I just signed a petition supporting an emergency suspension of California’s outrageous court ruling that sanctioned homosexual marriage. Here’s a Press Release that was issued last week concerning this emergency suspension: Press Release May 16, 2008 Liberty Counsel Will Ask California Court To Stay Opinion Until Californians Vote On Marriage San Francisco, CA – Liberty [...]

A Letter to the Editor of the Fluvanna Review, published May 15, 2008, written by Supervisor Gene Ott, upon hearing comments made by Mr. William McCullin at the May 7th Board of Supervisors meeting…more millions at stake… As one of your elected Board of Supervisors (BOS), I am responsible to be a good steward of [...]

A ruling was made yesterday on an appeal to overturn Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion again. Evidently, because the doctor performing a legal abortion might be held accountable for accidentally performing a partial-birth abortion, this was enough to sway two out of three judges to overturn the VA partial-birth abortion ban. At first I found [...]

“…McDonald’s is now financing attacks on marriage and the family as a new Corporate Partner of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC).” [SOURCE] McDonald’s is supposed to be a family-friendly restaurant, or so I thought. Why would they partner with an organization that is known to fund anti-marriage and family issues? The [...]

The following ruling was made on May 15, 2008: “San Francisco — The California Supreme Court today held that the California legislative and initiative measures limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples violate the state constitutional rights of same-sex couples and may not be used to preclude same-sex couples from marrying.” [SOURCE] David Anderson brought this ruling [...]

Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend a Barbecue put on by the Fluvanna Taxpayers Association and was able to meet with several of our elected officials. I chatted for a little bit with our State Senator Frank Ruff. Being a delegate to the Congressional District Convention last month for the first time, we [...]

According to the U.S. News, Huckabee Tops McCain’s Veep List: “Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and defeated contender for the GOP presidential nomination, is currently at the top of John McCain’s short list for a running mate. At least that’s the word from a top McCain fundraiser and longtime Republican moneyman who has [...]

Guest Post by Ty Wigal Where is the conservative voice? What is going on America? Why is this country clearly on the course for disaster? Moral disaster. Financial disaster. Political disaster? Conservative values are the glue that has held our country together for 23 decades. The very freedom and prosperity we still enjoy in America [...]