City Politics, Country Politics

Debate around the Internet is beginning to make the city-suburb divide look like a festering battle along ideological lines.

Things We Read Today (31), Thursday

On the politics (and policy) of exit polls, social issues, statism, and hugging.

Things We Read Today (30), Monday

Pre-election restlessness; race, politics, and advancement; differing job estimates without optimism; situational social issue calculus; old media as the election’s big loser.

Things We Read Today (29), Weekend

Campaign finance serving incumbents; too common common political wisdom, locally; not hating the opposition; fearing the “common core.”

Things We Read Today (28), Thursday

Mainstream reporters chat; the unknown cost of economic development; improving higher education by dumbing it down; a lawless society.

Things We Read Today (27), Wednesday

Campaign finance & incumbents; where the buck stops for the bad economy; Obama follows Chafee on a Commerce Czar; and the storm should be a warning.

Things We Read Today (26), Wednesday

Mainly on government’s bad incentives: bad housing spending in Providence, unlearnable spending lessons for the governor, stimulus corruption, and Medicaid reform.

Government Debt and the Danger of Historical Growth

Ted Nesi’s suggestion of government borrowing now based on the inevitability of borrowing later is indicative of a deeper problem within a culture accustomed to economic growth.

Things We Read Today (25), Friday

Observing the VP debate from within; flight from a failing region; surprising beneficiaries of a government bailout; a fable.

Projo Tilt on RIVotes.org

Providence Journal reporter Philip Marcelo’s article on RIVotes is misleading.

RI Governor Gives Nation a Preview of Obama’s Public Welfare Project

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.

Things We Read Today (24), Thursday

West Warwick for all; the essence of education reform; declines in people births; declines in business births; the easy street to dependency.

Things We Read Today (23), Wednesday

Controlling prices across a continent; a look back at erroneous polls; Matthews in the echo chamber; excuse #2 for Benghazi.

Things We Read Today (22), Tuesday

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.

Roger Slocum: Storm of User Fees and Taxes in Newport

Roger Slocum argues that Newport’s costs associated with handling water and making improvements not be pushed through as user fees.

Things We Read Today (21), Weekend

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.

U.S. Grant and the Left-Right Lines

The question of President U.S. Grant’s liberality touches on the muddled thinking of modern progressives.

Tiverton Toll Meeting Shows Rhode Islanders Have to Stop Fighting Fire with Paper

Tiverton STOP-the-tolls meeting showed the battle as community spirit versus regional politics, with locals misunderstanding the operation of the Rhode Island system of government.

Things We Read Today (20), Wednesday

Mainly on media culpability and the economy: RIPEC’s unquestioned report; skewed polls; the president’s reportorial zombies; and the reluctance to invest in the economy.

Things We Read Today (19), Tuesday

Believing the political worst of priests; spinning bad SAT results; the skill of being trainable; the strange market valuation in Unionland.

Things We Read Today (18), Monday

Many faces of big government: standardized tests; interest group buy-offs; government as marketing practice; and the United States of Panem.

Things We Read Today (17), Weekend

Returning RI to its natural state; RI as a playground for the rich; the gimmick of QE; the gimmick of digital records; killing coal/economy; when “Mostly False” means true.

Things We Read Today (16), Friday

The narrative of the candidates; death panels and pension boards; the endgame of government debt; an enemies list.

Things We Read Today (15), Thursday

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.

Things We Read Today (14), Wednesday

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.

Things We Read Today (13), Tuesday

Days off from retirement in Cranston; the conspiracy of low interest rates; sympathy with the Satanic Verses; the gas mandate; and the weaponized media.

Things We Read Today (12), Monday

Chafee shows his bond cards, Chicago exposes a metric discord, Rhode Island misses the skills-gap/business-cost lesson, QE3 misses the inflation nebula, and college majors miss the mark.

Mike Stenhouse: Can “Make It Happen” Make It Happen Without Public Policy Reform?

RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity CEO Mike Stenhouse notes the successes and failures of “Make It Happen RI,” with concern that the latter will prove to dominate.

Intolerance and Lost Freedom in the U.S.A.

The executive branch of the United States government seems to be distancing itself from the nation’s philosophically founding documents.

Things We Read Today (11), Friday

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.

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