Pre-election restlessness; race, politics, and advancement; differing job estimates without optimism; situational social issue calculus; old media as the election’s big loser.
Johnston mayoral candidate Peter Filippi presents the Ocean State Current with copies of the mailings that have been send to his home. Filippi is convinced that is opponent, Joseph Polisena, the incumbent Democratic mayor, is at least partly responsible. Polisena denies the allegations.
Now that they are up for re-election, Democratic Majority Leader Nicholas Mattiello and his close ally Sen. Hanna Gallo, also a Democrat, are posturing as forceful advocates for neighborhood safety in Cranston.
Observing the VP debate from within; flight from a failing region; surprising beneficiaries of a government bailout; a fable.
RI Governor Lincoln Chafee’s claim to independence at the Democrat National Convention doesn’t jibe with his lunge toward President Obama’s larger welfare intention with health benefit exchanges.
West Warwick for all; the essence of education reform; declines in people births; declines in business births; the easy street to dependency.
Economic development options, from all-government to government-dominated; the heartless-to-caring axis in politics; Southern New Englanders’ “independence”; solidarity between Romney and his garbage man; the media coup d’etat.
Bob Plain’s petit four of class warfare; CA’s bid for more pension fund dollars; a martial metaphor for regionalization; a downturn for the never-recovered; Coulter v. View mention of RI.
The question of President U.S. Grant’s liberality touches on the muddled thinking of modern progressives.
Believing the political worst of priests; spinning bad SAT results; the skill of being trainable; the strange market valuation in Unionland.
A 1998 recording of then-Illinois-state-senator Barack Obama expressing belief in “redistribution” may be more noteworthy for the evidence that it provides for the motivation behind “dependency portals.”
Issuing bonds to harm the housing market; disavowing movies in Pakistan and tearing down banners in Cranston; the Constitution as ours to protect; the quick failure of QE3; and Catholic social teaching as the bridge for the conservative-libertarian divide.
Mitt Romney has found himself under fire for referencing the number of Americans who he says are dependent on government. Rhode Island’s health benefits exchange is arguably a pathway toward even larger dependency.
Why freedom demands father-daughter dances; the U.S., less free; PolitiFact gets a Half Fair rating for its Doherty correction; and the mainstream media cashes in some of its few remaining credibility chips for the presidential incumbent.
Video from Romney’s April 11 town hall in Warwick, RI, shows that there’s not much surprising about the “secret” video purporting to show him disregarding government-dependent Americans.
The executive branch of the United States government seems to be distancing itself from the nation’s philosophically founding documents.
Being right about district 1 messaging; PolitiFact prepares for the election; what’s a charter; being right about quantitative easing, First Amendment; and Bob Dylan says what he means.
September 11, global change, evolution, economics, 17th amendment, gold standard, and a boughten electorate… all to a purpose.
The topics of hope and hopelessness pervaded this weekend’s readings, from absurd labor rules in schools, to the likely outcome of Make It Happen, to Spencer Dickinson’s insider view, and then to Sandra Fluke.
Today’s short takes address misleading labeling at the DNC, misleading fact-checking, fading national competitiveness, and the September 10 mentality.
Tuesday’s quick(ish) hits find a theme in partisanship and government spending.
Justin rustles up some quick hit-posts from his daily reading list.
Clint Eastwood’s speech to the Republican National Convention set the easy chair of the “messaging elite” rocking.
Justin ponders whether the killer in Aurora, Colorado, may have marked a new era of nihilism, in which the very loss of self becomes a scientific certainty.
Responding to disagreement, Justin expounds on the problem with “dependency portals.”
Compartmentalizing society, with business tasked with maximizing profit and government tasked with picking up the pieces, is another example of how big finance is distorting both the economy and the government, in Justin’s view.
Video and an off-stage anecdote from Justin’s appearance on 10 News Conference with Bob Plain, hosted by Jim Taricani.
In almost presidential election cycle, partisans on both sides claim that the public is about to vote “in the most important election of their lifetime.” This time around, it may actually be true. Our own Justin Katz has pieced together some documentation from the Urban Institute and The Center for Law and Social Policy that demonstrate how Rhode […]
The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity has created a page to trace the development of Rhode Island’s “dependency portal.”
A neighborhood attack on two robbers wasn’t street justice; it was crime prevention. And it ought to raise questions about the wisdom of disarming the public.