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Progressive Democrat State Senator Bridget Valverde (East Greenwich, North Kingstown, South Kingstown, and Narragansett) tweeted last night: Today’s headlines about the Texas abortion ban and SCOTUS’ failure to protect Texans’ reproductive rights turn my stomach. It is a fleeting comfort to think how lucky we are here in Rhode Island that we finally won the…
Approval of Biden has crashed across multiple polls, as Nick Arama reports on RedState: On top of that, the latest Rasmussen numbers found that 52% want Biden to resign over the disaster of the Afghanistan withdrawal, while 39% disagree. But that wasn’t all. An even bigger number agreed with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that Biden deserved…
It’s getting pretty hard to take this stuff: President Joe Biden pointed to the U.S. competition with China as a reason for America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, in a speech on Aug. 31 declaring the end of the 20-year conflict in the war-torn nation. … “It’s about ending an era of major military operations to remake…
This is horrible news to read, from Mike Brest of The Washington Examiner: Veterans placed more than 35,000 calls to the Veterans Crisis Line between Aug. 13 and 29, according to VA data provided to the Washington Examiner, which coincides with the time period in which the U.S. military and coalition forces were embarking on…
Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner just sent out a statement through his official spokesman and including the seal of his office: “Statement from Treasurer Magaziner Calling for Vaccine Requirement for Teachers and School Staff.” “With children across Rhode Island returning to school this week, we must take immediate action to protect them from COVID-19,”…
As we used to say, “no duh.” Gov. Dan McKee’s mandate that all health-care workers be fully vaccinated by Oct. 1 has operators of Rhode Island nursing homes – already enduring staff shortages – worried the requirement may mean hundreds of workers leaving their positions. Fully 75% of the staff are vaccinated (compared with 60% for the state overall), but that’s not good enough for bureaucrats. Note…
Jon Miltimore contrasts the rhetoric with the reality when the UK opened up earlier this summer, writing for the Foundation for Economic Education: CNN described it as a “huge gamble,” while Labour Party leader Keir Starmer criticized the move as “a reckless free-for-all.” Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, said it…
Contrast this news from the American Rifleman: In June, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) published a notice of proposed rulemaking that would make nearly all firearms configured with a pistol stabilizing brace subject to the National Firearms Act, requiring taxation and registration of millions of lawfully acquired firearms. The proposal represents a…
Matt Hadro reports for the Catholic News Agency: The Catholic Medical Association has joined a lawsuit against a Biden administration rule that it says tramples the conscience rights of doctors opposed to gender-transitioning procedures. In May, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice effectively reinstating the “transgender mandate,” requiring doctors to perform…