Arthur G. Purves

We can slash the deficit without cutting a program.

It is warming. It is not a crisis, but Democrats will still raise gas prices. (more ...)

Much chronic disease, including mental illness, is caused by ultra-processed food and by the old federal "high-carb, lean-meat, low-fat" food pyramid, which RFK Jr. has corrected. The old pyramid was a prescription for diabetes ... more which now appears in children. Big Med has no financial incentive to cure us; rather it makes money by having us take pills and undergo medical procedures. If you have high blood pressure, the doctor should say, "Let's find what's causing your high blood pressure." Instead, the doctor prescribes pills you must take for the rest of your life, which do not cure the disease, and may have bad side effects. Prevent and reverse chronic disease by eating "real food", as our grandparents did. Eat around the edge of the grocery store: full-fat dairy, eggs, red meat, bread without additives (e.g., Trader Joe's Tuscan Pane), fruits, and vegetables. Avoid anything in a box or a bag with a bar code! Avoid anything with the unstable "seed oils" (canola, soybean, sunflower, safflower, ...). You cannot eat most of what's in the grocery store, except maybe at Aldi's, which is removing 44 chemicals from its private-label foods. Whole Foods bans 300+ additives. The above is not medical advice. It is "food for thought"! A lot comes from YouTube. Be skeptical. Everybody is different. I'm a retired computer programmer with no medical credentials, except I'm 77, taking no prescriptions, and feel great.

If Democrats win, gas prices will go up again and so will inflation, to combat a global warming crisis for which they have no evidence. Virginia Democrats indexed the state gasoline tax to inflation, so gasoline taxes increase every July 1st. They also force Dominion Energy to buy "carbon credits" from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Inititative (RGGI), which will be a new $550 million tax on Virginia consumers. It's only purpose is to drive up the cost of fossil fuel.

California gas prices are the highest in the nation ($5.71 per gallon of regular compared to Virginia's $3.79 as of 6/17/26). What Newsom has done to California and Democrats have done to Virginia is what Democrats will do to the nation if they win Congress.

Competition will improve schools more than money. (more ...)

Reduce the federal deficit without cutting programs by adopting policies intended to reduce demand for government services.

• Preserve the candidate's stated fiscal method without asserting that it will achieve the claimed savings.

Promote eating minimally processed food as a way to prevent or reverse chronic disease.

• Preserve the behavioral objective while treating the health effects as the candidate's claim.

The candidate attributes much chronic disease, including mental illness, to ultra-processed food and prior federal nutrition guidance.

• Present the causal claim explicitly as the candidate's assessment, not established medical fact.

The candidate characterizes high federal spending as a principal cause of inflation and the federal deficit as a fiscal crisis.

• Preserve the candidate's causal and evaluative claims as attributed assessments.

Criticizes Virginia's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and state gas taxes; the source names no federal proposal to end those state policies.

The candidate acknowledges warming but does not characterize it as a climate crisis.

• Preserve the candidate's explicit assessment without presenting it as scientific consensus.

Claims mail-in ballots increase fraud risk; the source does not propose a specific voting-rule change.

Require screening of immigrants before they enter the United States.

• Preserve the explicit pre-entry screening mechanism without broadening the covered group.

The candidate identifies poverty and mental illness as root causes of gun violence.

• Preserve the causal claim as the candidate's assessment.

Address school quality and nutrition as part of an effort to reduce gun violence.

• Preserve the candidate's stated causal pathway without claiming proven effectiveness.

Believes human life begins at conception.

• Preserve the candidate's explicit moral belief.

Keep abortion legal in cases necessary to save the pregnant patient's life while opposing it in most other circumstances.

• Preserve the stated exception and broader opposition in neutral language.

The candidate argues that failures in reading and arithmetic instruction cause public schools to perpetuate poverty.

• Preserve the causal claim as the candidate's assessment.

Favors school districts issuing vouchers to students who leave public schools after at least one year, with increases conditioned on returning for another public-school year; no federal mechanism is stated.

Favors displaying or teaching the Ten Commandments in public schools; the source identifies no congressional mechanism.

Promote family self-sufficiency to reduce reliance on government programs.

• Preserve the candidate's stated governing direction without inventing a benefit rule.

Favors removing Family Life Education from local public-school curricula; the source identifies no congressional action.

Favors local schools focusing on reading, mathematics, and history he describes as accurate and patriotic; the source identifies no congressional action.

Believes religious institutions, rather than public schools, should provide family-life instruction; the source identifies no congressional action.

Favors local schools prioritizing mathematics, reading, vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and writing as preparation for work; the source identifies no congressional action.

Favors competition among public, private, and home-school options over higher spending as a school-improvement approach; the source identifies no federal program.