PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Nicole Solas, a frequent guest on The Current’s In The Dugout with Mike Stenhouse video podcast, was one of America’s first parental rights advocates to gain national attention after she was sued by her town’s teachers union for asking too many questions about the curricula at her child’s school in South Kingstown. *** […]
written by Connor Boyack, head of the Libertas Institute in Utah and author of The Tuttle Twins Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Freedom v. Equality “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsyn’s deep understanding of the […]
Originally published as:” NEW STUDIES SUGGEST ‘GLOBAL WARMING’ IS MOSTLY AN URBAN PHENOMENON SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 on Electroverse.info by CAP ALLON A new PEER REVIWED study by 37 researchers from 18 countries has come to the conclusion that the global temperature record has been contaminated by urban warming biases. It also suggests that the most recent […]
The remaining members of the RI Fisherman’s Advisory Board (FAB) – after years of attempting to work with government officials in the approval process for offshore wind projects that must conform to federal guidelines and that would not harm the Ocean State’s vital fishing industry – yesterday threw up their arms in frustration and abruptly […]
Washington DC Democrats are making a power play to permanently increase their numbers in the US Senate … and both Rhode Island Senators, Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, support the unlawful move to turn the Constitutionally defined federal district into a state. With over 700,000 registered voters in DC, and with recent history showing a […]
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: The narratives advancing global warming & climate change alarmism are quickly falling apart and are being exposed for their non-scientific conclusions and radical policy prescriptions. Yet Rhode Island lawmakers continue to push and pass legislation that does little-to-nothing to decrease carbon emissions, while imposing massive economic costs on residents as well as severe […]
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Public and private employee unions along with their Left-leaning allies and elected officials in Rhode Island, for years, have been seeking to punish success by raising taxes on wealthy residents. Why? So the state can spend more money on projects that benefit unions and big-government spenders. Oh, and, of course, in echoing their […]
EDITOR’S NOTE (Mike Stenhouse): One of the greatest privileges of my life was growing up in the Edgewood section of Cranston and getting to know, admire, compete against, and learn from three of the greatest sports and academic families in Rhode Island’s prolific history: the Bennett family, the Cavanagh family, and the Harrington family – […]
On this installment of Sten Reacts, Sten discusses the Smithfield Little League. We’re bringing you the best news and views in the Ocean State. You don’t want to miss it.
State Representative Stephen Casey, long heralded as a pro-life Democrat and who voted against RI’s landmark pro-abortion legislation in 2019, unable to withstand the pressure from the Left and the debate stage, suddenly reversed course at a recent debate and declared he supported a woman’s “right to choose”, even to the point of stating that […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Maui wildfires are proof that carbon zealotry can kill. Rhode Island has undertaken many of the same unachievable, economically destructive, and dangerous policies. By Betsy McCaughey Zero carbon zealotry can be dangerous to your health. In fact, in the hands of government officials, it can kill. Ask the grieving families of Maui, […]
RI House GOP Leader MIKE CHIPPENDALE (R-Foster): “For this entire century, the integrity of our elections has been questioned –since the ‘hanging chads’ of 2000. In 2016 it was ‘the Republicans and Russians,’ and in 2020 it was ‘the Democrats and the Election Equipment Industry.’ This single issue has been used to sow unbridgeable division […]
It is your patriotic duty to vote. Why not vote strategically? Why not fully make your voice count? Why not cross-over, vote early, and have your vote count twice? Early voting is underway for the primaries to replace David Cicilline in the US House of Representatives. Citizens have no greater muscle in our democracy than […]
The Ocean State Current has learned that Dr. Stephen Skoly has today filed an appeal in the US First Circuit Court, less than one month after Rhode Island’s Federal District Court Judge, Mary McElroy, issued a “bench ruling” granting the motion by the attorneys for the state to dismiss Skoly’s vaccine mandate lawsuit on the […]
On Wednesday morning, via a mass email, former President Donald Trump responded to his latest indictment, this time from a Georgia prosecutor. The entire, unedited message reads as follows … “Friend, Justice and the rule of law are officially DEAD in America. A left-wing prosecutor – with such extreme anti-Trump bias that EVEN CNN questioned […]
Per a media release distributed today by Joshua Mello, the Cranston father whose life was forever altered following a string of events based on an inappropriate, if not illegal, school administrator action … Mello continues to seek to expose what he calls a “web of injustices”. The Ocean State Current has extensively covered the Mello […]
Shared from Fabulous Lovers of Weird Everything WHY DO DOGS LIVE LESS THAN HUMANS? Here’s the surprising answer of a 6 year old child. Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached […]
In a media release issued this morning, a local election integrity group, Rhode Island Fair Elections & Education, called on the RI Board of Elections to remove Democrat candidate for Congress District 1 Sabina Matos from this September’s primary ballot in accordance with the law. In the release, the fair elections group claims that with […]
In the Ocean State, the new RI Democrat Socialists of America chapter announced this week that they are pushing for a $25 per hour state minimum wage. In Washington, DC, the national Democrat Socialists of America, are proposing a $17 federal minimum wage, per a proposal from its leader, Bernie Sanders. In both of these […]
From the Instagram post of Benny Johnson, widely regarded as the “Godfather of the Conservative Internet”. No woke Barbie movie garbage in the Johnson household. Instead of letting Hollywood or iPads raise my kids — I choose to be a present father. The world God created is better than any movie or video game. Go […]
In a ruling that completely stunned Dr. Stephen Skoly and his attorneys, Federal Court Judge, Mary McElroy, issued a “bench ruling” granting the motion by the attorneys for the state to dismiss Skoly’s vaccine mandate lawsuit on the basis that it was moot.
The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity, the state’s only pro-freedom think-tank, publicly endorsed the ‘STUDENT Act‘, a package of proposed reforms to the National Education Association’s (NEA) unique status as the only federally chartered labor union. The Act would prohibit the NEA from engaging in electoral politics and lobbying, among other provisions. The NEA, […]
Updated July 18, 2023 The Supreme Court of Rhode Island ruled this morning that the local Richmond Town Charter carried more weight than State Law and the Chariho Act), as both laws were judged to be conflicting in nature. By virtue of the SCORI ruling, the plaintiff, Jess Purcell, the prior election’s next highest vote […]
As part of our Election Waves coverage, The Ocean State Current invites all qualifying candidates for the open US House seat in Rhode Island’s first Congressional District to appear as guest on its popular video podcast, In The Dugout with Mike Stenhouse.
by Travis Rowley as published on his Good Men Podcast Democrats Say: No Social Contagion Whatsoever People familiar with Brown University already know that its campus earned a reputation for radical liberalism many-many years ago. One delightful college memoir from 20 years ago (Out of Ivy!) explained: “With the waning of the civil rights movement, […]
Originally published on FoxBusiness.com , July 13, 2023 by Kristen Altus, as … Rhode Island ‘horror’ bill a ‘test run’ for more Democrat-led states, experts warn Rhode Island to charge freelance, independent workers a $50 annual fee to retain status One Democrat-led state has passed a law that adds costly registration fees and privacy concerns […]
The founding of America – and its revolutionary concepts about human equality, self-reliance, and of a representative republic with limited government – was not just based upon a trust in the Almighty and an historical examination of monarchies and tyrannical regimes. Indeed, just as important as these, the Founders’ vision for America also was based […]
As reported in many news outlets, I strongly considered a run to replace David Cicilline in the US Congress, but I have decided to keep my gunpowder dry for future use in my home district. My priority and focus at this time continues to be my pending Federal Court case regarding the State of Rhode […]
Modified from the original Declaration of Independence to reflect current and specific issues relevant to the people of Rhode Island, with as little alteration to the original text, spelling, and themes. R.I. Declaration of Independence IN Virtual CONGRESS, JULY 4, 2023 The unanimous Declaration of the People of the thirty-nine cities and towns of Rhode Island When […]
Originally published by Stephen Dinan in the Washington Times, June 29, 2023 Black justices battle over meaning of equality in affirmative action case Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday offered a majestic view of America waiting to be unshackled from the evils of racial discrimination that began with slavery, persisted through segregation and most recently manifested […]