Virgil Goode represented Virginia's 5th Congressional District from 1997 until 2009. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ When Barack Obama campaigned for president, he claimed "I am running to tell the lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over. They have not funded my campaign. They won't work in my White... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2012/01/21/la_razas_lobbyist_in_the_white_house 7a81514d-b15c-4314-b5f3-d69425d35d63 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT While most Americans celebrated Labor Day as a nice occasion to enjoy the end of summer with friends and family, Union bosses and Democratic politicians used the occasion to attack Republicans and Tea Party... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2011/09/07/immigration_is_still_a_jobs_issue 0d4a1afd-2ebe-4011-a949-46ed40213789 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:05:00 GMT Tucked in between dramatic stock market drops on Thursday and Monday, there was a little bit of seemingly good economic news on Friday morning. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the private sector added... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2011/08/09/job_creation_and_immigration 09405b73-f0ff-47ba-be78-6b7e623eb2ee Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:50:00 GMT One of the most tired clichés of the immigration debate is that "immigrants do the jobs Americans won't do." With 16 million Americans out of work, this justification for not enforcing our immigration laws rings... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2011/08/02/states_rights_key_to_immigration_control 46b3cadb-8c4e-4518-9ef2-38cf78eca66a Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:01:00 GMT On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 19-11 to pass Rep. Bob Goodlatte's (R-VA) SAFE Act to abolish the Diversity Visa Lottery. The bill will now go before the full House. Most Americans do not even... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2011/07/21/americans_lose_in_the_visa_lottery e5ad5497-10de-4980-80e8-e95937e701eb Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:01:00 GMT The Democrats are going nuts over Sharron Angle's latest anti-illegal immigration ad, "The Wave." Senator Robert Menendez (R-NJ) called the ad "racist" and "despicable" because it tries to "portray all Latinos in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2010/10/30/who's_really_dividing_the_country d9ce53d8-25d0-4891-afe3-3b0cfb39c33b Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:01:00 GMT Although the Senate is in recess, both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate introduced immigration bills in October to set the stage for debate on the issue through the election, the lame duck session, and the 112th... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2010/10/18/real_comprehensive_immigration_reform 03f36e74-b888-402e-8747-cb7d061134b4 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:06:34 GMT Two recent strings of racial attacks-one black on white in Des Moines Iowa, the other black on Hispanic in Staten Island, New York-elicited very different reactions from both law enforcement and the mainstream media. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2010/09/13/more_hate_crime_hypocrisy fa51b79a-efca-4313-aa75-94dc172e5bcc Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:30:00 GMT At the very end of his State of the Union address, President Obama said, "we should continue the work of fixing our broken immigration system -- to secure our borders and enforce our laws, and ensure that everyone who p http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2010/02/01/obama's_amnesty_footnote 34eaed2d-26d3-49ec-9bd7-648fd0404163 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT When Barack Obama completely ignored the problem of uncontrolled immigration during his Jobs Summit, my former colleague Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) issued the following statement that was signed by 21 conservative... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2009/12/11/time_for_an_immigration_moratorium b74ba43b-a2bc-4468-8129-53726625e47e Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Like virtually every issue that faces the nation, our healthcare problem is greatly exacerbated by mass immigration-both legal and illegal. A total of 43% of non-citizens lack health insurance, compared to just 12.7%... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/VirgilGoode/2009/09/14/legal_immigrants_and_anchor_babies_weigh_down_obamacare 46da68da-986f-404b-8566-f36bba64825f Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT