A short story from December 2001 is once again (or still) relevant, in the wake of the Boston Marathon terrorist bombing.
Anchor Rising has joined the Ocean State Current for a joint venture combining their content at the same online location.
Justin responds to a Providence Journal article that he finds indistinguishable from what an official government communications team might have produced.
The father of Governor Chafee’s preferred “three Ts” strategy for economic development is beginning to see the limitations and damages of it. A strategy of freedom first would better serve the people of Rhode Island.
An article not about what it’s about; sequester demagoguery; softening kids for “effort shock”; and the rise of grassroots fascism.
Extremely thin ridership on the Wickford Junction train points to the same conclusion as everything else in Rhode Island: Government needs to let the economy happen.
Economic freedom as the best approach to economic development; what Rhode Island chooses to penalize; the root cause of education decline.
Taxing sweet drinks; collectively bargained legislation; equal pay for unequal merit; Projo promotes the economy; civil rights from heroism to handouts.
The American Spectator is introducing Chafee to its readers, but Rhode Islanders are all too familiar with his brand of independence.
Progressives and unions want to make a high tax burden “more fair” by making it even higher. Justin thinks the better answer would be eliminating the “least fair” tax, the sales tax.
Congressman Cicilline’s hiring of a laid-off Providence Journal employee raises questions about the media’s role in civics.
Libertarians and moderates should beware that the relatively rapid move to change the definition of marriage could provide a template for issues on which they agree with social conservatives.
Government control of Americans’ lives brings to mind Daffy Duck’s quest for found wealth.
Perspective from on high; the empathetic view from my soap box; cover-up as economic development; what happens when that which can’t go on forever doesn’t.
Feeling hopeful, RI?; “top priority” is shown, not stated; RI gets fatherless children first; surviving sans regulation; surviving sans net income; and surviving sans a documented framework for working together.
A joint interview with RI’s three most powerful politicians highlights the error in their shared vision.
A bout of pre-New Year’s philosophizing raises the possibility that the political Right doesn’t require “rebranding” so much as reaffirmation of principle.
Government’s corrupt pension handling; the discount rate scam; fighting off the zoning inspector; government peeking doesn’t count as privacy invasion.
Explaining Rhode Island’s decline in four brief sections: legal process, the economy, the media, and fashionable graft.
The lesson of current events and history; what the 2nd Amendment means; what that means for change; government control and healthcare insecurity; government control and economic stagnation; a couple positive notes.
Two narratives on the economy; a health exchange story the media is missing; government as pretend leader; powerful teachers’ unions (plus Ted Nesi’s Rolodex)
To the chagrin of progressives, unionists, and the RI media, state comparisons show more growth in right-to-work states; little wonder Obama is cancelling IRS taxpayer migration studies.
A family’s Christmas display shows that the push for removing Christianity from the public sphere in the name of tolerance and separation of church and state is getting to a dangerous point for freedom.
Harmful tweaks to ObamaCare point the way to less and less freedom (and less and less prosperity).
What subsidizes green?; what the unions want the pension law to say; First Family Holiday Fame; America, the Special.
Critical thinking sexism in Providence schools; a masculine career in disability; indoctrination; gambling on the law; an earnest pun.
Evading the progressive ideology snatchers; under surveillance; the not-employed young; and growing up, one way or another.
National results and local controversies point to the problems that have eroded Americans’ sense and taste for self governance.
Changing unions’ privatization strategy; the government spending ratchet; the government spending racket; and the trap of dependency.
Threats to the economy (cliffs and debts); RI lagging again (yawn); dependors and dependees; Social Security a problem; and a civil right to the war zone frat party.