Columns
Obama cements his legacy
The founders of our country purposefully designed the three branches of government with the intention of using the system of checks and balances to keep ...
Robert Hurt, Author at Farmville
Columns
Obama’s final executive overreach
President Obama’s tenure in office will long be remembered for his administration’s aggressive attempts to expand executive power at the expense of the legislature, the ...
by Robert Hurt, Tuesday, November 29, 2016 2:26 pm
Columns
ACA more costly than ever
The Obama administration recently confirmed the Affordable Care Act continues to break a signature promise: that the law would reduce the cost of health care ...
by Robert Hurt, Thursday, November 3, 2016 12:50 pm
Guest Columns
Agriculture important to Virginia
Recently, I had the privilege of joining the Pittsylvania County Farm Bureau for its annual meeting. Each fall, local farm bureaus gather farmers across Virginia ...
by Robert Hurt, Tuesday, October 25, 2016 2:17 pm
Columns
Reining in ‘unchecked’ authority
The Dodd-Frank Act created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) with the intention of overseeing consumer protection in the financial sector, taking over from other ...
by Robert Hurt, Thursday, October 20, 2016 11:31 am
Columns
Stop insurance company bailouts
The negative consequences of the president’s health care law continue to manifest themselves with new and different problems emerging at every turn. The law has not ...
by Robert Hurt, Thursday, October 6, 2016 3:02 pm
Columns
Easing Main Street’s burdens
This week, the U.S. House acted in an effort to alleviate burdens standing in the way of Main Street businesses’ access to capital. As I ...
by Robert Hurt, Thursday, September 15, 2016 12:02 pm
Columns
Highlighting his tour across the Fifth District
As we continued our tour of the Fifth District last week, making dozens of visits in Gretna, Chat-ham, Danville, Ridgeway, Martinsville, Arrington, Lovingston, Palmyra, Charlottesville, ...
by Robert Hurt, Tuesday, September 6, 2016 2:52 pm
Columns
Appeasement makes the world more dangerous
News and developments both at home and abroad this week gave us further evidence demonstrating a foreign and national security policy based on appeasement and ...